Elle risks her career to save Lucas

Elle risks her career to save Lucas
Elle risks her career to save Lucas

Declan loses it when he hears Steph's confession and attacks her car with a baseball bat. But Lucas is even more shocked when Elle announces her plan to name and shame Steph in her story. She justifies her actions by telling him that implicating Steph is the only way to protect his business, but Lucas suggests it's really down to her jealousy of Steph. After a conversation with Paul she lies to her editor to suppress Steph's name from publication. Will her journalistic duplicity land her in hot water? Sunny finds solace through research, but this hits a raw nerve with Zeke, who explodes when he sees what she's doing. Realising he's gone too far, Zeke explains to Sunny that it's a sensitive area for him because it's exactly what he did after his father's death and he ended up blaming himself. Meanwhile, Sunny finds an unexpected ally in Karl. When Zeke comes to apologise, she refuses to hear his explanation and says she doesn't want to be around him, leaving the future of their relationship up in the air. Donna's troubled by the fact that she's the only one who hasn't cried and starts to fear there's something seriously wrong with her. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's new weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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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.