Love Knows

Mount Eden is simmering, and the episode knows that the worst calls are the ones that look ordinary. For Stevie Neil, a response call stops being ordinary the moment it starts talking to his past. Martin McCann plays a man being quietly ambushed by his own history, and the episode gives him room to squirm without turning it into a lecture. The title sounds romantic. It plays like a warning. The call doesn't give Stevie a choice, which is the episode's point about the job.

Annie, meanwhile, is living with the consequences of that impulsive night out. The aftermath is messier than the decision, as these things always are, and Katherine Devlin makes you feel every awkward step of it. Two officers, two kinds of debt, and neither of them can pay up on shift. The episode doesn't rush either storyline, letting both breathe until they start to press against each other in the station corridors.

Bronagh Taggart wrote it, a welcome new hand on the material, with Lawn and Patterson directing. It aired in late April 2024. Taggart's script gives the two leads the space to act quietly, and both of them take it. Siân Brooke's Grace, Katherine Devlin's Annie, Nathan Braniff's Tommy and Martin McCann's Stevie carry the hour, with Andrea Irvine's Nicola Robinson looming in the institutional background. The wider cast keeps the station humming, but the focus stays tight on the people the call actually touched.

The episode is quietly brutal about how little privacy the job allows. A mistake made on your own time follows you into the shift. And a past you thought you'd buried answers the radio when you least expect it. Nobody gets to leave Mount Eden without their history in the car with them. That's the quiet cruelty of the whole thing, and the episode ends without offering anyone an exit.