It's been a tough week in Holby City for Ange Goddard who is still reeling from her recent earth-shattering discovery that colleague Dom Copeland is her biological child.
Carole, Dom's adoptive mum, decides to unexpectedly confront her son with painful and long-buried secrets from his past.
She drops the bombshell on him that he's adopted but leaves out the key detail about Ange.
Worried about Carole's revelations Ange tries to plan her next move, which seems to leave her with one option of leaving altogether and running away from Dom.
Leaving Dom to piece together the facts, he chooses Ange of all people to confide in about what Carole has told him.
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It doesn't take him long to put together the jigsaw puzzle but how will he feel when he figures out the senior surgeon he has been shadowing for weeks is his real mother?
His realisation couldn't come at a worse time - right in the middle of an operation on a patient - as the truth dawns, things get very messy.
Dom feels betrayed by Carole for keeping the truth from him for so long and their relationship crumbles even more when he learns that she actively stopped him from getting to know his birth parents.
She also faces backlash from Ange when she discovers that her attempts at communicating with Dom were thwarted.
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Dom's life is turned upside down and it's the start of a dark road ahead as he spirals towards self-destruct.
The revelations from Carole also have an impact on Dom's marriage to husband Lofty, who as of this week isn't back yet, as Dom chooses to keep the news to himself.
Instead of choosing to confide his partner, who is currently away looking after his grandmother, Dom's secret puts a strain on the pair causing a big breakdown.
Ange struggles to keep the news of Dom from her daughter Chloe, but she's got more pressing matters to worry about.
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Chloe is surprised and immediately wrongfooted when ex-boyfriend Evan (Jack Ryder) unexpectedly turns up on Darwin Ward.
She recently dumped Evan, who claims he is there simply there to care for his sister Phoebe, but there's a feeling he has an ulterior motive.
In the midst of a chaotic shift, Donna is also surprised by Mia’s unexpected appearance – forcing Donna to navigate some sensitive parenting territory.
*Holby City airs Tuesdays at 8pm on BBC One
