Ruth asks Jay out!

Ruth asks Jay out!
Ruth asks Jay out! (Image credit: BBC)

It's a big week for Ruth who has submitted her application for the surgical training post. Under close observation from Sarah Evans, Ruth's nerves begin to show and she gets tongue-tied with her patients. The young doctor is presented with a new problem when Jordan gives her two tickets to the Surgeons Dinner. She asks Jay to accompany her but he turns her down. Jordan writes a letter to his mother explaining his illness. His attempts to confide in Zoe fall flat when Adam interrupts them, so he leaves his letter from the Neurology Department in her pigeonhole. Jessica desperately misses her children Lucas and Amelia and refuses to move in with Adam until they're reunited. She then makes a secret phone call to her mother-in-law Maureen telling her Sean is Harry's father. Jay changes his mind and accompanies Ruth to the dinner. He's a big hit with everyone and introduces himself to Sarah as Dr Faldren! Later, Jay tries to get Ruth to go for more drinks with the other medics but she refuses, despite the spark between them, and goes home alone. Again. Jordan realises Zoe hasn't read his letter, so he removes it from her post box and heads off out for a drink with her...

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.