Keith's a pain in the neck!

Keith's a pain in the neck!
Keith's a pain in the neck! (Image credit: BBC)

A patient with a grudge spells trouble for Sam this week! Sam's action-woman ways come back to haunt her, when a familiar face is brought into the ED. In the traumatic aftermath of the chemical explosion earlier this year, former army medic Sam lost her cool with a patient's angry relative, Keith. When he lunged at Dylan, no-nonsense Sam restrained him in a headlock! This week Keith (Ashes to Ashes star Marshall Lancaster) returns to casualty after an ongoing pain in his neck causes him to crash his car, while his new girlfriend, Tanya, is in the passenger seat... While examining Keith, Zoe realises the twinges in his neck may be something more serious and orders some tests - only to discover Keith has a minor fracture in his neck! Meanwhile, Tanya discovers she has Hepatitis C - and she may have passed it onto Keith. Believing his world is falling apart, Keith realises his neck injury was probably caused by Sam's headlock and irrationally blames her for everything that's going wrong. When Tanya then dumps him, Keith focuses his full fury on Sam - he's determined to make her pay for ruining his life by making sure she loses her job! Also this week, Jean Boht - best known as Ma Nellie Boswell in BBC1 sitcom, Bread - guest stars as seemingly sweet old lady, Doris. Doris has Alzheimer's, which causes her to act in unpredictable ways. When a young lad, Thane, doing community service comes to tend to her garden, Doris is convinced he's her dead husband, Jack. Both Thane and Doris later end up in the ED, and Doris's daughter, Sandra, believes Thane is responsible for her mum's injuries. But nurse Lloyd pieces together a very different jigsaw of events.

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.