Fletch uncovers secrets and lies!

Fletch uncovers secrets and lies!
Fletch uncovers secrets and lies! (Image credit: BBC/Simon Ridgeway)

When a taxi driver, Harry, falls asleep at the wheel and crashes into a field, paramedics Jeff and Tamzin race to the scene. But when they arrive, they get far more than they bargained... They discover Harry has a heavily pregnant passenger, Georgia, and they’re stuck in a field with an angry bull who’s seeing red! Eventually, they get the distressed pair to hospital where Harry’s teen daughter, Sheena, rushes to her dad’s hospital bedside along with her swimming coach, Tony - Georgia’s husband. Sheena has had a fall in her rush to see her dad, she then ends up needing treatment herself – and not just for her accident. It turns out Sheena is having a relationship with her coach, and he’s led her to believe once the baby is born he’ll leave Georgia. He’s also got honouree, something neither his pregnant wife nor swimming charge are aware of. Elsewhere in the ED, an awkward Tom and Sam face each other after the night before. The both agree to ignore what happened and carry on as before! Meanwhile, Zoe finds herself on an emotional rollercoaster when the father of the boy who died in her care, after a crush at a rock concert some weeks, back turns up at the ED and asks to see her...

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.