Al uses tough love on an OCD sufferer

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Beth, a chronic OCD sufferer on a mobility scooter, recruits Al on a journey to check on her friend Irene who she believes called her that morning. Al realises the true extent of Beth's OCD and how much it hinders her life.

When they get there Al's amazed to discover she was right - Irene does need her help. He challenges Beth to manage to get home on her own and to his delight he sees a light on in her house later on.

Heston's excited about the symposium but while he's full of confidence, he's dreading Jimmi's speech. However, it's actually Heston's speech that's a disaster. Jimmi decides to ditch his speech and talk openly about living and working with OCD and is a hit with the audience. 

Also, Mandy moves out of Freya's and into a new house of her own.

 

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.