Zara fears she's losing the baby...

Zara fears she's losing the baby...
Zara fears she's losing the baby...

Zara comes into The Mill feeling tired, isolated and alone and gives Mrs Tembe short shrift when she complains about Daniel's absence. To cap it all, Zara is sent to support Kevin at the Campus since several of the patients still want to see a different doctor. Zara's back is starting to ache and not long after she arrives at the campus she starts to feel that something is seriously wrong. Kevin finds her bent double in pain on the stairs. She reveals she is pregnant and bleeding so he insists on taking her to the Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit. Zara tells Kevin about her early menopause and the IVF and when she starts to cry he feels a bit daunted, but takes control. As the nurse struggles to find a heartbeat, Daniel calls Zara, who pretends everything's fine. When Zara wipes away tears of joy, she hugs Kevin and thanks him for being there. Meanwhile, as Mrs Tembe raves about Heston's KoKo performance last night, Julia dodges questions about what happened to her, Jimmi and Elaine. Mrs Tembe is horrified to read a less than complementary review of Heston's performance in the local paper and rings the editor to complain. And Jimmi meets a foster family adjusting to life with their newest member and his rabbit.

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.