Frankie and Nancy come to blows!

Frankie and Nancy come to blows!
Frankie and Nancy come to blows!

The Osbornes are horrified when they find Charlie's note and Frankie blames Nancy. Callum has a flash of inspiration when Tom tells him about Charlie losing his football; maybe he's gone back to find it? They find his lifeless body and rush him to hospital. He's fine, but it seems the drama's not over between Frankie and Nancy. At home, Frankie slaps Nancy when she's reminded that Charlie's not her biological grandson. It's awkward when a social worker turns up to talk to the family while they're having a blazing row and it doesn't get any better when Esther and Ruby start fighting. Esther accidentally breaks Ruby's necklace containing Jono's ashes and escapes to Mitzeee's flat. Leanne is alone on New Year's Eve, while Dennis goes on a lad's night out with Rob and Barney. Later, she texts Dennis to join her, so he feigns stomach ache to leave his friends. However, he really does feel sick when he finds out she invited them too!

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.