Brendan teaches Mitzeee to fight back!
Mitzeee is frantic about the trial. Brendan spots her unease and suggests a method to let out her anger - boxing. Myra tells her where her loyalties lie, leaving Mitzeee more determined to make Mercedes pay... The McQueens prepare for Mercedes' trial. Jim McGinn tells Mercedes not to tell the truth, she'll never get out if she does, while Jacqui reassures Phoebe to do the opposite. Phoebe's led into the court room with all eyes on her, she's puzzled by Jim's method of questioning, unsure what to say. Mitzeee strides into the courtroom confidently and throws Mercedes a smile that means business. But she's appalled when Jim questions whether it could have been Riley who attacked Mercedes and then suggests he also killed Lynsey. Barney turns up at court and Nana McQueen reinforces their deal. She threatens that if he ever tells Carmel about the money, she'll break his legs! Bart is excited at the prospect of fatherhood. Meanwhile, Sinead's university interview gets off to a bad start when the interviewer sees her throwing up. However, her enthusiasm shines through and they offer her a place on the veterinary course. Sinead decides she has to get rid of the baby if she wants any kind of future.
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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.