Brave Bianca cracks

Bianca is struggling with nightmares of her attack at the B&S ball. She's putting on a brave face, but her schoolwork is piling up and April and Irene are concerned that she isn't coping. Bianca doesn't like everyone walking on eggshells around her and has a go at Liam. That night, she wakes up screaming from another nightmare. She isn't coping with what happened to her at all. Liam wants to get his life back to normal, starting by getting a job. But when he asks Gina for some tutoring work, she quickly rejects him because of his history with drugs. And after arguing with Bianca, he doesn't know what to do in life or in love. Xavier and Kelly are happy being young and in love, but when Kelly suggests that her brother Dean should come and stay with them, Xavier isn't keen. He doesn't trust Dean, but John and Gina think he should give Dean another chance. Miles knows that Marilyn is going to press on with her predictions for a relationship with Elijah and decides to tell him. Elijah tells Marilyn that nothing is going to happen between them, and they are just good friends, but Marilyn still thinks things are going to be more romantic.

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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.