Elaine can't escape her patient!
Elaine's in her morning anger management group as patient Paterson Harris (guest star Philip Olivier) confesses things have been hard since leaving prison, but he's starting to control his anger. At that moment, Letherbridge is hit by a power cut. As Rob and Jack get the emergency generator up and running, Paterson calls his girlfriend Maria to make amends, unaware she's at The Mill and has bumped into his mother, Ros Harris, having a run-in with Karen. Paterson heads to The Mill to confront Maria, and learns that she's taking their children back to Brazil. Paterson's furious and Elaine arrives in the nick of time and the three of them retreat to her consulting room. When Maria says she's at the end of her tether, believing Paterson can't change his ways, Paterson storms out. As the generator fails and the lights go out, Paterson returns with a can of petrol... and a lighter! Meanwhile, Mrs Tembe leaves Karen in charge of playing host to health and safety inspectors Peter and Anna. When young Jason Fraser arrives at The Mill with badly burned hands, Karen realises his burns are caused by electricity and suspects he may have caused the blackout. But will she tell Rob? Also, Daniel tries to get weary Zara to have phone sex with him, but she's not interested. Later, he treats a female patient who, upon seeing Daniel, wonders if her fiance is really 'the one'.
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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.