Happy days are here again… almost!

Happy days are here again… almost!
Happy days are here again… almost!

Following Rowan’s confession, Danny is licensed to heal again. But this time the endangered species in desperate need of medical treatment isn’t an animal…it’s Du Plessis. Dup feels guilty because he has forgotten the anniversary of the death of Sarah – Caroline’s daughter, Olivia’s mother and Danny’s late wife. To try to make amends, he takes Olivia to Sarah’s favourite look-out point, only to discover the shelter there is ruined. Then Dup collapses. Caroline forces him to see a doctor, who tells him his heart problem may have worsened. But Dup tells his family he’s fine… He has a secret plan to restore the shelter in memory of Sarah. And Rowan, desperate to get back in everyone’s good books, wants to help him. Meanwhile Sbari, a bull elephant hand-reared by Dup, has reappeared and comes to the house. Turns out the big fella needs a bad tooth taken out. Danny takes care of Sbari and, to repay the treatment, Sbari rescues Dup… Rowan takes Caroline and Olivia to see the restored look-out point and they all find a desperately ill Dup, who has collapsed with a heart attack and suffered a bad fall. Rowan reached him but is badly injured. It’s Sbari who carries his friend back to Leopard’s Den. Before he’s taken away by ambulance, Dup encourages the family to forgive Rowan.

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.