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Daniel and Oliver — played with emotional truth by James Lance and Joshua Silver — are a married couple expecting a baby. Their surrogate is close friend Priya (the glowing Chetna Pandya) who, it turns out, is using two eggs from an anonymous donor, with one fertilised in vitro by Daniel and one by Oliver.
Only one of the two embryos has been implanted but we don’t know which and it's unclear which of the two men is the biological father.
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