Karen tries to entice Rob

Karen tries to entice Rob
Karen tries to entice Rob (Image credit: BBC)

Karen overhears Zara talking about Howard and Sue and it gets her thinking about her own marriage; she tries to ask Rob what he wants to do tonight but he’s having a busy day. She takes it upon herself to prepare a special dinner for the two of them. Zara also catches Karen in the toilets trying on a sexy outfit! An exhausted Rob returns home that evening and all Karen’s efforts have gone to waste as he goes to bed early. Jimmi admits to a guilty-feeling Michelle that the radio station wants him to resume his phone-in show, but he’s reluctant to do it. Coincidentally, Michelle later takes a call for Jimmi from Letherbridge FM and pretends to be Jimmi’s agent to arrange a better deal. Later, however, she worries that Jimmi might not even want to do the show again. Lee Tate takes some photos of school children in a playground and soon finds himself down at the police station. He's put in a cell where Rob has to keep an eye on him. Rob thinks there's more to Lee than meets the eye but PC Andy Woods thinks he's a lost cause. Lee's found hanging, but Rob finds him and manages to save him. Lee later tells Rob a fellow con made him take the pictures for him - and Andy gave him the belt to hang himself with. Rob ensures that Andy is arrested. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk’s new weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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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.