Jacqui and Rhys drift further apart...

Jacqui finds a stray dog Terry that lifts her spirits. She also has her first counselling session and confides in Terry that it was hard. Rhys also uses the dog as a confidant, venting about his relationship. It slowly dawns that both Jacqui and Rhys find it easier to communicate with a dog than each other. Brendan tells a gutted Ste that Declan can never know he's gay and as his son will always come first, Ste needs to back off for a while. Ste is devastated but comes up with a plan to keep Brendan close. He offers Brendan two tickets for a holiday to Disney - he's taking Leah and Lucas and wants Brendan and Declan to join them. Lee finds an advertisement for a dream job for Amy, hoping to get back on her good side. She gets an interview for the job and she's over the moon - but she needs to be able to drive. She seeks out Dodger's help, much to Lee's annoyance. Also; Darren's romantic plans are put on hold when Nancy gets a call asking her to come in for an interview.

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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.