Kissing cousins! Lauren makes a move on Joey

Kissing cousins! Lauren makes a move on Joey
Kissing cousins! Lauren makes a move on Joey (Image credit: BBC/Jack Barnes)

Max offers to let Joey move in when he finds him sleeping in the car lot office. Derek isn't happy, but Max thinks Derek should build bridges. When Derek tries to give Joey his granddad's watch Joey throws it in a pint glass. At the club, Lauren turns up in a drunken state. Joey keeps a close eye and gets rid of some lads hassling her. At the end of the evening, Joey and Lauren head home. Lauren moves in for a kiss and is humiliated when Joey backs off. Sharon refuses to lie for Lola on Lexi's residency order. Defeated, Lola claims that Lexi is better off without her. When Lexi arrives for her visit a heartbroken Lola tells her daughter that her new parents will give her a wonderful life. Just as Phil is about to tell social worker Trish the truth about Sharon, she walks in and introduces herself as Phil's fiancee! Christian lies to Syed that he was the victim of a gay bashing to explain away his bruises. When Syed wants Christian to go to the police, Christian says he'd rather forget all about it. Roxy finds out and urges Christian to report the attack, suspicious that there's something he's not saying.

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.