'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 8 Episode 4

On our last visit to Poplar, struggling mums faced birth defects and the buried grief of losing an infant with the support of their midwives and other medical staff. The full recap, including the transformation of the Nonnatus forecourt into a play beach, can be found here.

In the latest installment of Call the Midwife, we witness the joy of a family reconciliation and the tragedy of a woman driven to a fatal decision. I suggest we ease into this episode with a look at that quirky little date that wasn’t exactly a date, at least not in the eyes of one of the concerned parties.

As has been obvious for some time, Sgt. Woolf fancies Nurse Crane. She, on the other hand, has not be so quick to pick up on his signals. (Or if she has, she’s not eager to encourage his attentions.) Just last week he volunteered to serve as Phyllis’ assistant pack leader as a way of putting himself in increased contact with the object of his affection. Now the sergeant has homed in on Nurse Crane’s interest in photography as an opportunity to invite her to an art show in Soho.