Linda and Britney's stranger danger!

Linda and Britney's stranger danger!
Linda and Britney's stranger danger! (Image credit: BBC)

In the first of two-part Casualty special this week, airing on Saturday and Sunday, Linda’s teenage niece, Britney is being her usual troublesome self this week. When she’s suspended from school, Linda is forced to bring her into work with her, but even from the safety of the hospital staff room, the angry young girl manages to get into deep trouble! After wheedling the hospital WiFi code from Lenny, she arranges to meet someone she’s met on an Internet chat room. But the man isn’t the 19-year-old he claims to be, but a manipulative and dangerous predator. Lenny spots Britney getting into the car of a man, who looks much older than a teenager... Meanwhile, Lenny tries to leave unnoticed on his last day, Charlie gets embroiled with a family menaced by loan sharks, and Scarlett’s first meeting with Lloyd’s family is hate at first sight!

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.