Jeff fights fire with fire!

This week Jeff finds all his buttons are pushed by neighbourhood thug Karl. After he discovers Karl and his gang forced local man Joe (Michael Starke) to eat dog muck while they filmed it, Jeff goes in search of the heartless thug. He finds Karl dousing Joe's house in petrol, about to set fire to it. Calling his bluff, Jeff covers himself in petrol and threatens to kill them both. The postal paramedic pulls a lighter from his pocket. Jeff flicks the lighter but nothing happens. But it's too late for Karl who he has captured on his camera phone soiling himself... Elsewhere, Lenny is in turmoil, as he can't bring himself to tell his sister he's not a suitable bone marrow donor match. In the end he lies and says he is, knowing he's opened up a whole world of pain for them both. Mads struggles with honouring her culture and fitting in with the gang. Ruth is forced to remove her outing to the races invite, as Andrew Lloyd Webber remains the only name on the sign-up sheet! Also, Lenny breaks doctor-patient confidentiality with potentially disastrous consequences. Joe attempts to kill himself when his ordeal with Karl becomes public knowledge. And Jeff realises how close he came to death.

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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.