A quiet life

A quiet life
A quiet life (Image credit: BBC)

An administrative error sets the Emergency Department (ED) team at loggerheads and Mads doubts her decision to get engaged – with disastrous consequences – as the medical drama continues. A young patient with severe abdominal pains is brought into the ED, but an administrative mix-up has fatal consequences when he is transferred to another hospital and the team battle to save him. Adam is furious with Tess for allowing bureaucracy to affect lives. Are they so browbeaten they’re unable to pull together in times of crises? To Lenny’s dismay, Mads reveals that she's engaged. The team go for a drink to celebrate, but the tension between Lenny and Mads is palpable. It looks as if they are set to kiss, but Lenny pulls away at the last second and Mads runs off into a taxi. At first the taxi driver is pleasant, but he soon becomes aggressive; has Mads's impulsiveness placed her in danger?

Patrick McLennan

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.