Charlie runs away!

Charlie runs away!
Charlie runs away!

Nancy is struggling with Darren's nonchalant attitude to Oscar and feels all alone. At Tom's 13th birthday party she's run ragged and accidentally leaves the top off her painkillers. Charlie spies the pills and is about to give them to Oscar when Nancy spots her nephew. When she roars at him, he feels unwanted and runs away, thinking no one cares for him. Alone and scared, he ends up in the woods, but when he loses his footing, he ends up unconscious at the bottom of an embankment. As Mitzeee and Maxine try to keep a heaving Chez Chez under control, Sienna concocts a plan to help the Osbornes, but will her idea backfire? Tony looks back at the sacrifices he's made, and realising that Cindy doesn't have a leg to stand on he gives her a month to get out of his flat, with ground rules attached! Also, Myra is worried when she has some tests done with Dr Browning and 'a shadow' shows up on her x-ray - they'll have to wait for more results to diagnose. However, Myra's under no illusions about what it could be and prepares for the worst.

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.