'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season 11 Episode 6

As we return to Poplar on Call the Midwife, we immediately notice the Nonnatus staff is depleted. As you probably recall, Nurses Franklin and Crane left home at the end of the last episode; Trixie to nurse her ailing godmother in Italy, Phyllis set out on her dream holiday trip around Europe. Nurse Robinson suffered a miscarriage, so she’s been on leave since that tragic event. The specifics of all these comings and goings can be found here.

But as we all know by now, the midwives of Nonnatus keep calm and carry on. That is unless a bird gets in the house, then there’s chaos. While the trapped raven merely unsettles most of the midwives, Sister Monica Joan sees it as an omen that death is near. Despite Sister Julienne’s insistence folklore is not at play, the elder nun is convinced otherwise and goes to Miss Higgins for some spiritualist expertise.

The secretary refers her to a reclusive clairvoyant who lives nearby. MJ shows up unannounced at the flat of Mrs. Dulcie Greenhalgh (Frances Tomelty) in hopes this stranger will be able to reveal the secrets of the beyond. The woman unceremoniously tells the Sister to get lost