Between a rock and a hard place

Between a rock and a hard place
Between a rock and a hard place

Doctors Sam and Dylan are forced to confront their failed marriage this week while stuck in an underground cave rescuing Connie Fisher! The West End star makes a guest appearance as Amanda, a critically injured dog-lover, who becomes trapped in a subterranean cave. Dave, a fellow dog walker hears her screams, but he's dragged into the cavern with Amanda when he attempts to help. Luckily Dave has a phone signal, so he calls the emergency services, while Amanda lies badly injured. Mercifully, it's not too long before action-hero medic Sam (Charlotte Salter) abseils into the subterranean cave. The ex-army medic is assessing the casualties when, without warning, the cave roof collapses and Dave is crushed under a boulder... Working together Dylan and Sam manage to save Amanda, but Dave dies before they can get him to hospital. At the end of the shift Sam calls her solicitor to begin divorce proceedings. Life's too short to be trapped in a hopeless relationship...

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.