Is Lydia telling Janine everything?

Is Lydia telling Janine everything?
Is Lydia telling Janine everything? (Image credit: BBC)

Lydia has a doctor's appointment to go to. Janine makes Lydia promise to get the doctor to call her when Lydia is done. After the appointment, it seems that Lydia is hiding just how ill she is. Lydia brushes off Janine when she tries to find out what Yusef said. Janine is worried about her gran, but Lydia insists that she's OK. Roxy bumps into Eddie and invites him over for tea. Roxy hopes things can be patched up between Eddie and Michael. Michael is not impressed to see his dad in the house and Eddie soon leaves. Michael is furious with Roxy for inviting Eddie over. Roxy demands to know what's going on. Michael tells a shocked Roxy that Eddie killed his mother! Phil decides not to go to that evening's support group. Rainie finds Phil at work and asks him to come to the meeting. Phil changes his mind about the meeting. Shirley says she'll stay sober for the evening to support him, but she soon breaks her vow. After the meeting, Rainie tries cosying up to Phil, but he's not having any of it. Phil meets Shirley at the Vic and, disappointed, he realises that she's tipsy.

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.