Howard is charmed by Gina

Howard is charmed by Gina
Howard is charmed by Gina (Image credit: BBC)

Howard turns up at the recruitment stand at a career fair feeling glum. But there, he sees Gina, who's persuasively selling the virtues of a military career to her young audience. Her eyes shine as she speaks about the team spirit of the army experience, the personal goals and challenges and the rich possibilities there are for life after your period of service. It's an amazing sales job and Howard feels that, at last, someone is talking his language. She and Howard get talking and Gina is relentlessly positive. She suggests that they should get together some time to share their experiences. Howard grins, yes, he'd like that. Gina gives him her card. Kevin gets an email from an old uni mate to go and visit him in New York. Kevin asks Howard for the time off and Howard agrees providing he attends a meeting at St Phil's on his behalf. At St Phil's, Kevin finds himself near the ward where his father is. He goes in to see him and, as dad Mo wakes up, Kevin pretends to be a doctor and silently reads his chart before leaving. Will he be able to help his sick father? Also, when Rob is sent to a police safe house to guard two members of a militant anarchist collective he discovers that all is not as it seems.

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.