Elaine, Zara and Daniel go to therapy

Elaine, Zara and Daniel go to therapy
Elaine, Zara and Daniel go to therapy (Image credit: BBC)

Elaine makes an urgent appointment to see her therapist before calling Julia, telling her about the break-up. Meanwhile, Daniel and Zara are enjoying breakfast, but neither is looking forward to their appointment. At clinical psychologist Oliver Clarke's office, earlybird Elaine is waiting anxiously when Daniel and Zara arrive to see him for their Fertility Counselling; it's all a bit awkward. Daniel and Zara think the counselling is a waste of time, but Oliver picks up on issues they haven't discussed, and they leave less happy than when they came. Elaine tells Oliver she's ended her relationship with Ed and that it was the right thing. Oliver asks why she demanded an emergency appointment then? Elaine can't answer and they sit in silence until finally Oliver asks two questions: 'Does she subconsciously choose inappropriate partners - and why?' Elaine is silent. Also, Cherry is concerned about a new mum who's struggling to cope, and who is obsessed with a mysterious elderly lady. 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.