Amanda Redman

A tragic case leads Samir and Mari to grow closer still. Tensions run high when Lydia treats best friends with different faiths. Niki gives Bobby the opportunity for independence he so desperately craves but feels the full force of tiger mom Frankie when she discovers what Niki has done. A familiar face returns to Good Karma, but will he find the forgiveness he's looking for?

The happy news that Karishma is awake is offset by her loneliness. Realizing she needs more than medicine to fix her, Samir arranges a little magic. Niki volunteers to help Frankie find her missing son, and when they do, Niki discovers that empathy may be the best medicine, although Frankie's cancer worries require urgent tests. Meanwhile, Lydia learns there's only one answer to Greg's visa issue.

Lydia and Greg's wedding plans are upset by three emergency admissions. Greg wonders if disappearing to help her patients is a ploy and in truth, Lydia has cold feet. Will they tie the knot? Matchmaker Niki decides to intervene with Mari and Samir and is delighted with the positive results. With the power dynamics between Ruby and Gabriel finally addressed, Ruby must decide what she wants.

Ruby lashes out after learning the truth about her father and refuses to talk to Gabriel about it. Back at the hospital, Lydia helps a pregnant woman carrying twins, and Paul brings in a young woman who believes herself to be a goddess.

A heat wave causes problems at the hospital, tying up the staff with multiple cases of heatstroke and dehydration. Ruby makes a home visit to a patient with suspected appendicitis and later performs her first surgical operation, supervised by Gabriel.

After receiving a letter from her uncle, Ruby arranges a mobile clinic that's a five-hour drive away, and Lydia forces Gabriel to accompany her. Lydia attends to a victim of domestic abuse, while Greg tries to help Paul out of his rut by taking him to the Makar Sankranti kite festival.

Ruby and Ram administer a house call to a recalcitrant man who refuses to leave his home, but they disagree on treatment. Furious that Aisha has chosen to stay in Barco, Gabriel decides to come clean to Ruby. Lydia devotes herself to finding Jyoti's attacker.

AJ returns home from medical school to assist at the hospital on his break, while Greg discovers his daughter, Tommy, is hiding a shocking secret. When Lydia sends Ruby to investigate a possible case of dengue fever at a nearby mission village, Ruby decides to bring along one of her patients, who is searching for his long-lost love.

It's Diwali, and revelers cause chaos throughout the town. Lydia tries to help a deaf runaway teenager, while Gabriel and Aisha are thrown together in a festival clinic. To Mari's surprise, Jyoti discharges herself, but is she ready to go home?

Lydia and her team attend to a man who washed up on the beach with amnesia. Ruby visits a local school with the enigmatic Dr. Gabriel Varma, and the hospital races to get antivenom in time to help a man with a snakebite.