Zara helps Karen with her decision

Zara helps Karen with her decision
Zara helps Karen with her decision (Image credit: BBC)

At work, Zara notices Karen needs to talk and invites her to her consulting room. Karen reveals she's decided to terminate her pregnancy. Zara is understanding and offers to arrange counselling as well as the termination itself. Karen fights her emotion and leaves. Later, Zara breaks down in the staff room, Cherry sees and tries to comfort her but Zara firmly tells her 'no'. Worried for Zara, Cherry asks Daniel to talk to her as he knows her the best. Reluctantl, he does so and after he hugs her Zara accidentally lets slip about Karen's termination. Daniel is shocked but swears to secrecy. He later makes an effort with Karen, making her smile, much to Zara's relief. That night, Karen goes home to a worried Jack and Immie. She assures them there is no need to worry anymore as she's having a termination. Meanwhile, security guard Barry is an unlikely hero when Julia has the shopping experience from hell. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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.