'Call the Midwife' Recap: Series 5 Episode 4
As the sisters of Nonnatus House prepare for a special service honoring Sister Hildegard, the first of their order to serve in Poplar, it was a week of upheaval. A young man’s dreams are shattered only to be given a second chance. Tears are back full force as Sister Julienne struggles with a tragic birth made even more horrendous by a hospital’s clinical treatment of the newborn. And finally, our love triangle that’s been simmering for weeks -is an amicable resolution at hand? Read on to find out!
Ian Bulmer and Linda Lanyard – Oh the idealism of youth! Young Ian Bulmer (Ted Reilly) has just learned the best news of his life. He’s been accepted to study English at Durham University. His mother Sadie (Hayley Carmichael) is quietly proud. She tells Trixie, who happens to be in her flat to dress a bad burn she got at the paint factory where she works, that Ian is the first on the street to go to university.
Ian finds Tom Hereward to thank him for help getting into what appears to be the vicar’s alma mater. Ian wants a better life than the hard manual labor his parents have had to endure.