Jay discovers the truth about Billy

Nick is taped to a chair in the barrel store and Phil has left Billy to deal with him. Nick taunts Billy and Billy snaps and grabs a knife, but Nick just laughs at him. Phil is furious when Billy confesses that he let Nick go and calls him a coward and Billy makes a decision and heads off to find Jay and tell him the truth about Jase's death. Jay is devastated when Billy reveals that he lied to him about the night Jase died and that Nick has been blackmailing him. A furious Jay hunts for Nick, but Dawn and Phil intercept him and Jay breaks down on Dawn. Billy considers doing a runner, but after a row with Phil he decides to confront Nick instead. Dotty opens the door and lies that Nick needed the money to stop her going into a children's home and a gullible Billy believes her. Chelsea's plan for a romantic evening with Theo is dashed when she's lumbered with babysitting Jordan. Theo helps Jordan with his homework and she's impressed with Theo's patience. Chelsea gets dressed up in a St Trinian's outfit to get Theo's attention and suggest that he should consider becoming a teacher! Also, Stacey is still missing...

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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.