Andy's world is collapsing - and so is Alicia's!

Andy's world is collapsing - and so is Alicia's!
Andy's world is collapsing - and so is Alicia's!

*Hour-long episode* Andy's got the weight of the world on his shoulders and, broad as they are, he's struggling. His little girl is sick and he's worried sick about her, but Alicia just wants to know when they're moving to Spain. Trouble is, Andy's still very attached to Emmerdale and his daughter. Which is why he's bitterly disappointed when he finds Cameron treating Sarah to lunch after Debbie told Andy he could. His ugly temper resurfaces and Sarah is scared. But it's Alicia who feels the full force of Andy's anger when he tells her to back off - they're not moving to Spain! Sarah needs more hospital tests and he won't leave her now. But at the hospital Andy feels helpless and all alone as Debbie's comforted by Cameron. Amy's changed her mind, too... Val tells her that she and Pollard love her. That's something Amy's been desperate to hear and she decides to lose her baby to keep Val and Pollard. Zak thinks he's finally got through to Aaron - by giving him a punchbag to use to vent his anger. Aaron thumps it about a bit, too - but it's clear that the days when throwing punches made Aaron feel better are long gone.

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.