'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 8, Episode 6

This week on Call the Midwife, the Mother House sends back-up for an ailing Nurse Crane, a Poplar family faces serious illness due to dangerous work conditions and a teenage mother fights to keep her baby. But before we charge ahead, if you need a refresher of episode five's events you can find that here.

There's a lot to cover so let’s begin with the follow-up to last week’s date between Nurse Anderson and her handsome young mechanic. Apparently, Lucille was less than impressed when Cyril took her to an unsuitable West Indian social club where some people were partaking in a bit of weed. Then she learned that not only wasn’t her date a pastor, but he hadn’t been to church much at all since moving to England. She makes it clear to her co-workers she won’t be seeing that deceitful rake again.

Valerie figures out that young Mr. Robinson’s most enthusiastic supporter, Sister Monica Joan, probably fabricated the church portion of his dating CV. The elderly nun admits that she saw he had “the soul of a pastor”, but he never claimed to be one.