Heston meets The Black Widow

Heston meets The Black Widow
Heston meets The Black Widow (Image credit: BBC)

When Cathy Harley turns up at The Mill with husband Derek, who's suffering from headaches and nausea, Karen recognises Cathy as 'Letherbridge's Black Widow' after her previous two husbands died in mysterious circumstances. Heston diagnoses Derek with mild food poisoning put down to Cathy's Chinese soup. As Cathy and Derek return home, Heston listens to Karen's rumours about Cathy's former husbands dying of her poisonous soup. Uneasy, Heston pays Derek a visit at home, where Helen Harley has arrived, convinced her step-mother Cathy is trying to poison her father after the change in his will. Under pressure, Cathy is forced to reveal that her first husband Colin committed suicide and that her second husband Terry died from years of drug abuse to make him a top athlete. When Helen is taken ill with similar symptoms to Derek, Heston finds a gas heater that has been incorrectly fitted and diagnoses them both with carbon monoxide poisoning. Meanwhile, Simon and Cherry arrive at work after a seemingly disastrous holiday with Simon's mother - though Cherry says she'd had a lovely time. But Simon's upset when he overhears Cherry telling Karen the holiday was a nightmare. And after developing a rash from using anti-ageing products, Daniel books into a botox clinic. 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.