All hell breaks loose at the Diner siege

All hell breaks loose at the Diner siege
All hell breaks loose at the Diner siege

Alf and Geoff battle the flames as the drunks throw Molotov cocktails at The Diner. Ruby calls the police and Irene looks after Hazem. Leah is in shock. Outside, John tries to calm things down but has little luck. Ruby gets through to the police but everyone is tied up at a major accident elsewhere. In The Diner, another fire breaks out and Geoff burns his arm trying to protect Ruby. Romei and Mink visit Xavier. Mink immediately rubs Gina up the wrong way. Romeo has told Mink about Xavier's money and she takes some to get food from the Diner. Gina is worried that Mink is a bad influence. Miles plays cards with Rabbit, who claims she can see things. She says she has a vision of people hiding under tables, frightened. Miles, not taking it seriously, takes her to The Diner. When they see the flames, Rabbit runs away. Miles helps chase off the rioters by pretending to be a drunk and claiming the police are coming. Miles doesn't tell anyone that Rabbit tipped him off. The police and ambulances arrive. Geoff and Hazem are taken to hospital. Hazem is badly injured and Rachel has to operate on him.

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.