Charlie tries to talk to Joey

Charlie tries to talk to Joey
Charlie tries to talk to Joey (Image credit: five)

Charlie's devastated that Joey's moved out. Ruby engineers a meeting between Charlie and Joey where Charlie bares all, but it's not enough to get Joey to reconsider moving out. Finding Joey has left behind her iPod leads Charlie to discover that Joey is about to go to sea for three months. Charlie makes it to the docks just in time, but Joey still sets sail. Belle is starting to embrace rehab and is taking photos again. When Liam is granted a visit with his son, he asks Belle to take some snaps of them together. Belle is glad to, but is rattled when her old editor offers lots of money for the photos. Annie's entrusted with getting them developed and Belle seemingly resists temptation. Geoff's upset that Claudia is still with Lachie, who hit Geoff and gave him a split lip. His schoolwork also suffers and Bartlett sends him to see the counsellor. He opens up to the counsellor, who says Geoff's been too hard on himself and on Claudia, who earlier came to the school, saying she really has broken up with Lachie. Geoff has bridges to build, not least with Annie who's horrified that he slept with Claudia. *Showing on RTE One, Wednesday May 20* Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, Soap Scoop Get all the latest soap gossip delivered straight to your door. Subscribe to Soaplife magazine today

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.