A mourning Jordan returns to work
It's a sad day for Holby City's clinical lead Nick Jordan as he attends the funeral of his partner Superintendent Yvonne Rippon. Heavily pregnant Yasmin is among the mourners. And she feels guilty because she's harbouring a terrible secret - her shopkeeper husband Mehmet is responsible for Yvonne's death! After the burial grieving Jordan is enraged when Liam, the former cellmate of Nylon - the teenager accused of a stabling Yvonne - approaches him. Liam has a message for Jordan, but Jordan is so furious he refuses to listen. Broken hearted Jordan decides to return to work in order to take his mind off his grief. But he's shocked when badly beaten Liam is admitted to the emergency department. During Jordan's shift Mehmet is also admitted to the hospital with heart trouble. The shopkeeper is ill with grief and shame over his part in Yvonne's death, but when his wife gives birth he decides to remain silent and put his family before Nylon's freedom. Meanwhile, Jordan visits Nylon in the Young Offender Institute and still believes the youngster is guilty...
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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.
An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.