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The newly arrived Davidson family quickly goes from a bright future to a difficult one as disasters pile on. Sister Monica Joan makes an unlikely friend while undergoing surgery. And Valerie faces down a mother who decries her sexual health classes as filth. 

As Cassie and Sunny continue interviewing people connected to their 39-year-old cold case, they discover that everyone is rewriting their past to conceal crimes or indiscretions: an affair, an assault, a robbery, bribes, torture. But who killed Jimmy?

Fear has gripped Poplar: a Nigerian sailor may have brought smallpox to the borough, but he has disappeared and no one knows where to find him. Lucille helps a mother confront a crippling fear of giving birth, and some familiar faces return. 

When a skeleton shows up in the cellar of an old building, detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan are determined to find out who it is and who murdered them, no matter how old the case is. Their persistence is about to upend some lives that have been settled for decades.

Despite their long marriage, the Ganis face an unusual and difficult domestic situation when a new arrival appears. Fred attempts to convince Sister Monica Joan to accept medical attention for her eyesight. And Trixie continues to struggle with her breakup.

A family learns some terrible news, and Trixie is devastated that she's unable to help them more. Valerie makes a new friend, but she soon shares a difficult secret with dark complications. In lighter news, Fred and Violet throw a beauty pageant!

When a patient suffers a devastating complication, her mother blames Lucille out of racism. Valerie tries to welcome the new nurse to Nonnatus despite the prejudice of the East End. Sister Winifred opens her motherhood class to husbands.

As the record-breaking winter of 1963 continues, Nonnatus House is getting a new midwife, who, despite weather delays and illness, is quickly thrown into the thick of work. Nurse Crane tries to fend off the eviction of a dying old woman and her devoted husband.