Has Paul hurt Lesley?
With Lesley now settled into the care home Eileen and Paul are heading off on holiday. But when Paul gets a call to say Lesley's turned up at their old house he goes to fetch her. Lesley's in a state and worried about missing their flight Paul pushes her, and she falls and hurts her wrist. Jason's gutted as Tina and Tommy break the news to him that they've no longer got the money to buy the flat. When Rick the loan shark bursts into the flat demanding more cash Tommy realises that Terry's up to his neck in it. Later, Tina arranges to meet Tommy and Terry at the bar, but Rick follows her inside. As she comes face to face with the man that pushed her dad to his death Tina screams, and Rick becomes more menacing. When Karl receives a tip from a cab fare he puts it into the Rovers till. But when Stella catches him she jumps to the wrong conclusion. Meanwhile, with Dev and the kids away, Sunita asks Karl if he fancies keeping her company. Also, David says if Audrey has the papers he'll sign the salon back; Kirsty decides to take the job at the factory in a bid to make things right with Tyrone.
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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.