Phil hits rock bottom

Phil hits rock bottom
Phil hits rock bottom (Image credit: BBC)

Peggy confesses to Phil that she's left Louise with Lisa. Phil demands to know where Lisa is living, but Peggy lies she doesn't know. Social worker Derek visits and Phil steals Lisa's address from him. Phil heads to Lisa's and kicks the door down, but the house is deserted. A devastated Phil returns to the Vic and rips the optics down from the bar and starts to drink heavily. Meanwhile, Carol sees Rainie with a dodgy looking bloke. Rainie hands the man money she's stolen from Carol's purse. Rainie meets up with her drug dealer and buys some rocks of crack. Abi finds the crack hidden in Rainie's coat and Max kicks her out. Rainie sits on Arthur's bench and Phil joins her. Phil discovers Rainie has crack and with nothing left to lose he asks to do some with her. Carol agrees to babysit for Bianca, but is suspicious when Bianca gets dressed up in a sexy outfit. Carol finds the packaging from a brand new sexy underwear set. When Carol finds out that the book club weren't having a meeting she confronts Bianca and asks her what she's been up to. Bianca is angry with Carol for spying on her and says she was having lunch with a friend. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, the 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.