Ben confesses he killed Heather!

Ben confesses he killed Heather!
Ben confesses he killed Heather! (Image credit: Colin Hutton)

Ben locks Phil in the house in an attempt to sober him up, worried he'll drunkenly let slip to someone about the murder. Phil breaks out and heads to the club to steal booze. When Ben tracks him down, Phil lays into him about Heather's murder just as Shirley walks in. A worried Phil tells Shirley he needs a word alone. When Ben sees Phil talking to the police he's sure Phil's going to turn him in. Ben runs to Ian's and reveals he killed Heather! Jay lies he's got hayfever to hide the fact that he's been crying. Cora gives him her antihistamine medicine. Worrying that Jay's sleeping with Abi while he's staying at the house, Max tells Jay he needs to move out. The cocktail of antihistamine and booze spaces Jay out and he mumbles that he 'didn't mean to kill her'. It's not clear how much Abi has heard. Derek talks the Brannings into holding a party to welcome Alice to the family. Derek pops home to pick up some cash, hidden next to his stash of illegal booze. The police turn up and tell a fuming Derek they have a warrant to search the house. Meanwhile, Alice turns up at the Brannings to find them all in the middle of an argument.

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.