Brendan kisses Lynsey!

Brendan wants to do his best for Declan. So keen to make Lynsey a surrogate mum for his son, and stifling his own feelings for men, Brendan stuns Lynsey by kissing her. A heartbroken Sinead is touched as Bart declares his love for her. She finally thinks that they can be a proper couple without Jason interfering. But when Bart admits Jason is still important to him and always will be, Sinead rejects him for good. Amy struggles to shake her guilt over sleeping with Dodger, as Lee puts all his efforts into his latest project... fire-walking! Also; Tony returns from travelling and Cindy's shocked by his new, laidback outlook on life - the old, uptight Tony is gone, but it's clear he can't contain his real personality for long.

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.