"The Mad and Pregnant" Condensed Doc Martin S4
- 8 years ago
Last time instead of marrying, Louisa in her wedding dress left Martin with a “See you around". But she seems to have resigned as headmistress and gone to teach in London (Holly? Danny?) to avoid Martin and the later hide her implausible pregnancy. Abandoned by her, Martin seeks to cure his haemophobia and return to surgery in London.
But out of the blue Louisa returns with a 6 months fetus of Martin’s to ‘her’ village where she has no relatives. She won't let Martin help or cruelly even be her doctor again. Instead Joan drives her to Truro hospital for checkups and offers her accommodation. Instead of living with her or Martin, Louisa urges Martin to approve a hypochondriac for a care home so she can rent his house. She distracts Martin with a picture of the fetus and the man falls over the doctor’s bag and breaks his hip. Thus Louisa gets the house. The new headmaster though screened by Martin as a governor implausibly gets a very rare late-onset porphyria. M. asks L. to remain part time at the school and when he tells another governor he won’t vote for an expectant single mother to head the school, she bursts into his house in anger breaking up his research editing for his old friend Dr. Edith (of whom she is insanely jealous) and then slams out. To spite Martin, the other governors choose L. headmistress over other good candidates. Joan shows the school kids the farm but Louisa tells her the school has no money for Joan’s trouble and then is horrible with Joan for confining one brat to stop him kicking her chickens. L. demands Martin attend the boy’s panic attack when he has already taught (S1) her and retells her how breathing into a paper bag calms a panic. She constantly eats sweets and rubs her belly, wears devilish eye shadow, and does not rest and eat well for the baby. The Doc diagnoses a urinary tract infection but then she tells him to shove the medication he prescribed and bought for her (up his ass) until her fever reaches 103 degrees, risking miscarriage. Altogether she calls him a pompous? insensitive chauvinist she never would have married.
Despite all this abuse and torture the Doc can't stop loving Louisa (unlike this writer) and spurns the advances of 3 women such as Mrs. Tishell and especially Edith. He anticipates a crash by Louisa’s taxi as the driver inhaled methyl hydrate making bio-fuel. Martin desperately looks for the taxi, rescuing them both. Louisa finally (but for how long?) accepts his love as their child is born in a nearby pub. Repeating Isobel she roughly pushes and pulls Martin as she labours, a metaphor for her treatment of him in general.
But out of the blue Louisa returns with a 6 months fetus of Martin’s to ‘her’ village where she has no relatives. She won't let Martin help or cruelly even be her doctor again. Instead Joan drives her to Truro hospital for checkups and offers her accommodation. Instead of living with her or Martin, Louisa urges Martin to approve a hypochondriac for a care home so she can rent his house. She distracts Martin with a picture of the fetus and the man falls over the doctor’s bag and breaks his hip. Thus Louisa gets the house. The new headmaster though screened by Martin as a governor implausibly gets a very rare late-onset porphyria. M. asks L. to remain part time at the school and when he tells another governor he won’t vote for an expectant single mother to head the school, she bursts into his house in anger breaking up his research editing for his old friend Dr. Edith (of whom she is insanely jealous) and then slams out. To spite Martin, the other governors choose L. headmistress over other good candidates. Joan shows the school kids the farm but Louisa tells her the school has no money for Joan’s trouble and then is horrible with Joan for confining one brat to stop him kicking her chickens. L. demands Martin attend the boy’s panic attack when he has already taught (S1) her and retells her how breathing into a paper bag calms a panic. She constantly eats sweets and rubs her belly, wears devilish eye shadow, and does not rest and eat well for the baby. The Doc diagnoses a urinary tract infection but then she tells him to shove the medication he prescribed and bought for her (up his ass) until her fever reaches 103 degrees, risking miscarriage. Altogether she calls him a pompous? insensitive chauvinist she never would have married.
Despite all this abuse and torture the Doc can't stop loving Louisa (unlike this writer) and spurns the advances of 3 women such as Mrs. Tishell and especially Edith. He anticipates a crash by Louisa’s taxi as the driver inhaled methyl hydrate making bio-fuel. Martin desperately looks for the taxi, rescuing them both. Louisa finally (but for how long?) accepts his love as their child is born in a nearby pub. Repeating Isobel she roughly pushes and pulls Martin as she labours, a metaphor for her treatment of him in general.