While all this was going on, back at Holby, the Archangel Chrissie received a text message instructing her to gather all the other Angels together to go and inform 'the shepherds' of the immanent birth of God's son. She was a little confused by this at first as she didn't know any shepherds but then someone pointed out to her that the cast of Casualty generally turned up in Holby City at Christmas and so she decided that the text message must be referring to them.
And thus, she picked up Mark from Darwin, Jess from Orthopedics and Kyla from AAU and led them in the direction of the Emergency Department stopping only to compliment all three on their gorgeous fairy wings and to tell Mark, not for the first time, to stop claiming that HE was Jesus Christ because appearing in one mini series in 1977 does not the son of God make.
Once they arrived at ED they found Harry and urged him to take his team to visit the new baby and his Virgin Mother. This confused them a little at first because it was the first time any of them had heard the words 'Connie' 'Beauchamp' and 'Virgin' in the same sentence, but once Chrissie had explained the concept of artistic licence they went off dutifully in Josh's ambulance, clutching a bag of grapes, stolen from a patient, and a fluffy sheep purchased from the hospital gift shop. When they'd gone Chrissie turned to the others,
"Ok guys, now it's time to contact the three wise men. I suggest we send emails to their Blackberries. I'm not buggering about going to visit them… the bar's open…"