Asha has a day from the hell leading to a panic attack following a death, an injured old lady and finally a racist attack on her.
In the Rovers’ backyard, Asha remains in the throes of a panic attack and relives all the stress and horror of her last ambulance shift.
Flashback: We see the full horror of the day Asha has had which has led up to the panic attack; a death, an injured old lady and finally a racist attack on her.
As Asha sits with her eyes closed, struggling to breathe, Gemma approaches and offers words of comfort as a fellow twin. Gemma urges Asha to rejoin Aadi’s leaving party as he’ll be wondering where she’s got to.
Aadi finds Asha sitting on the bench in the backyard and senses that she’s not herself but when Asha starts to open up about her awful day, Dev arrives and she clams up. As Asha heads back into the pub, Aadi’s left concerned and offers to stay if she wants but she brushes her problems off as tiredness.
Asha records a voice note for Aadi telling him how much she’s going to miss him, how she doesn’t think she’ll cope and begging him not to go. As her finger hovers over ‘send’, she breaks down in tears.
Later, feeling downbeat, Asha struggles with her day knowing her brother is about to leave for a new life thousands of miles away. Having said her goodbyes she heads out on her shift with Sienna but things take a sinister turn when she is called to a car accident and as she arrives she recognises the car as Aadi’s.
In the bistro a devastated Asha loses her temper and screams at Brody for arguing with another customer, Sienna does her best to calm her down but tells her that her behaviour is unacceptable and that if she does it again she will have to report her. Having tried but failed to open up to Dev about how she is feeling, a drunken Asha is eventually rescued by a sympathetic Lisa in The Rovers.
Asha finally unburdens herself and tells Lisa about the woman she tried to help who verbally abused her and then assaulted her. Lisa urges her to report the incident to her manager.
Things go from bad to worse when at No.7, a hungover Asha tells Dev she’s called in sick as she’s got a headache. When Dev suggests she’s swinging the lead, Asha snaps at him. She struggles to appear enthusiastic about Summer’s birthday plans.
Sienna finds Asha in the Rovers and quizzes her about the fact she called in sick. Asha admits she lied.
