Brendan goes all out to impress

Brendan goes all out to impress
Brendan goes all out to impress

Cindy reveals to Brendan that Cheryl stuck up for him and the hopeful Irishman decides to pull out all the stops to get his sister back. Brendan finally bites the bullet and asks Ste and Noah to help him cook Cheryl's favourite meal. She returns home after Warren fails to meet her in the club and knowing how hard it must have been for Brendan to ask for Ste's help, the brother and sister are reunited. Jacqui fumes at Mercedes for her stupidity and demands she tell Riley the whole truth. However, Carl and Mercedes join forces and Carl offers Mercedes cash to give to her sister, certain this will keep her quiet. Jacqui is furious at the bribe and ensures that she wasn't going to say anything in the first place but now this has made things certain. Also; Myra and Theresa struggle with their fast for the homeless. But their hunger is quelled by extreme shopping sprees on their new credit cards. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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.