Big Mac special!

Following his arrest, Big Mac sits in a cell contemplating how he got there... It started when Jessica moved to the Farmead Estate, where Mac lives, following the breakdown of her marriage. They quickly become friendly and Jessica opens up about her marriage problems while Mac reveals he was in the Falklands conflict. One night, while Jessica is visiting Mac's flat, the gang target them and break in. They hold Jessica hostage with a gun and although she begs Mac to help her he flees. Jessica escapes unharmed when the gang run off but is unimpressed with Mac - until he explains he suffers from Post Traumatic Stress disorder. It transpires when Mac was in the Falklands War many of his mates where killed but he walked away unhurt. He's been harbouring guilt ever since and the hostage situation triggered a flashback causing him to react by running away. Later, Mac has another run-in with the gang but, ashamed of his earlier behaviour, this time he stays to protect himself. While defending himself he hurts a boy's wrist and ends up getting arrested. After a night in the cells, Mac's released without charge and he's a changed man. At home he dresses in his army gear and, taking a one-man stand, patrols the streets of Farmead in a bid to keep the estate safe. Yep, Mac's now a vigilante...

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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.