Melody is trapped!

Melody is trapped!
Melody is trapped! (Image credit: BBC)

Melody is anxious about opening her exam results and asks Karen to hold onto the envelope for the time being. Melody treats pregnant woman Kim Longstaff, who has been checked in as an emergency patient by Terry Kent. Melody grows suspicious when she notices track marks on Kim's arm, but Kim denies she's still using drugs. Melody further worries when she realises that Terry has provided a fake name and address for Kim and asks Pc Vicky Hilton to investigate. Meanwhile, Heston tells Melody he knows about the job offer and she's shocked to hear he's written her a glowing reference. Back at Kim's house, the expectant mum is with another pregnant resident, Alicia, when her waters break and while Kim calls for help, Alicia calls Terry to come back. Melody arrives at Kim's house with co-op driver Frank but as she tries to call an ambulance for Kim, Terry shows up, snatches the phone and orders Melody to deliver Kim's baby on the spot. When Alicia starts getting contractions too, Melody urges Terry to let them all go to hospital, saying that Frank will have called for help. But she soon realises that Terry has already dealt with Frank... and that she's trapped. Also, Daniel rushes out to see Cybil Lambert, only to discover she just wanted his company. His annoyance subsides as they enjoy some tea and harmless banter and Daniel is moved when Cybil gives him her late husband's cufflinks as a thank you. But his mood is ruined when Cybil's son Malcolm questions Daniel's motives for being there. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, Soap Scoop

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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.