Karen has competition in the kitchen

Karen has competition in the kitchen
Karen has competition in the kitchen (Image credit: BBC)

Karen is practising for Supachef, but she isn't as good as she'd like to be. To take Imogen's mind off her results she sends her to find her the wild ingredients she needs. Karen takes a batch of cakes to The Mill, but is thrust into a bake-off with Mrs Tembe who has also brought in cakes. It is clear Mrs Tembe has a knack for it whereas Karen doesn't, and she implores Howard not to tell her about the competition. Later, Mrs Tembe confides skilful recipes to Karen under the pretence that Jack has a posh lady-friend to impress. Rob unwittingly reveals that Karen is entering Supachef and Mrs Tembe is upset that Karen kept it from her. With minutes left until the competition deadline, Mrs Tembe makes it her mission to enter. Also, Imogen fears her friend Chris is being pressured into abandoning art school to work for his father. But she's shocked to learn what Chris really wants.

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.