Heston tries to open up to Lily

Heston tries to open up to Lily
Heston tries to open up to Lily (Image credit: BBC)

Heston is avoiding Lily, who tells Julia she's just learned Heston was once married. Julia advises Lily to give Heston the chance to explain but when Lily tries to discuss things with Heston, her anxiety spills out. Heston manages to reassure her by saying there's no love lost between he and Christine. Heston agrees to tell her everything but when he starts to open up, vivid memories start flooding back and he clams up but Lily decides she can wait. Cherry realises she must improve her wine knowledge in a bid to impress wine merchant Simon. Later, a dejected Cherry considers giving up on Scott when he's late to pick her up. But she's surprised when he phones in a dreadful state and explains that he had stopped by his mother's grave and lost track of time. Cherry gets a cab to the cemetery with beer in hand to celebrate his mum's life and Scott is touched. Also, Jimmi comes to the aid of a boy who he recognises as a paranoid schizophrenic. 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.