Harry's chaotic email antics!
Mother-and-son relations reach a new low when a row over grades leaves a furious Harry determined to seek revenge on Karen. His method? Wreaking email havoc using Karen's phone. His inflammatory messages to school staff - sent under the guise of his mum - cause a level of fury and paranoia that results in a staffroom revolt. Cesca is particularly paranoid, as one of Harry's mails seems to indicate that Karen knows about her affair with student Jonah. Will this finally put an end to the pair's dangerous fling? And if that weren't enough stress for Karen, she is also contending with the varied demands of Waterloo Road's new business-initiative contest. As the project takes shape, feelings are running high, with Amy and the newly back-to-school Sam battling for authority, while Harry is less than delighted to be paired with the unruly Kyle. Chris has his work cut out as he tries to keep the peace. Elsewhere, it's Tom's first day back since the attack, and his understandable edginess culminates in a violent classroom incident. Here come yet more woes for the school's long-suffering headmistress...
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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.