Our Girl
Our Girl is the story of East London lass Molly Dawes’ emotional rite-of-passage as a young medic and woman in the British Army’s final deployment of troops to Afghanistan.
Episode 1
Georgie Lane, an experienced army medic joins Captain James and 2 Section on a humanitarian tour to Kenya. She’s promised her fiancé, Jamie, that she’ll be safe and will be home soon to get married.
Episode 2
Georgie is hooded and dragged out of the truck by the Al Shabaab men. Abu, a British convert is particularly terrifying and throws her into a cell with another hostage. It is Kicki. The two women are forced together in this strangest of situations.
Episode 3
Everyone is relieved that Georgie is alive and well. She is desperate to get home to Jamie and her family but needs to give her after-action report and help identify Abu first. Abu fled the compound before her rescue.
Episode 4
Georgie is haunted by Abu. She is dreaming about him and seeing him everywhere. Jamie is very worried about her and approaches Captain James to check whether Georgie is in any danger. James reassures him that the army will protect her.
Episode 5
Georgie is throwing herself into the last minute wedding plans when she’s asked to meet Abu’s mother, Stella. She apologises for her son’s actions. Georgie learns that Abu converted to Islam because he fell in love with Saira, a Muslim girl.
