Lola's OK, but Billy's in big trouble

Lola's OK, but Billy's in big trouble
Lola's OK, but Billy's in big trouble

Billy calls an ambulance to tend to Lola. Phil wants his file. Billy is certain Lola only knows about the file because Phil mentioned it. Phil ransacks Billy's flat anyway. Lola and the baby are given the OK and Billy brings Lola home. Billy is arrested for handling stolen goods as someone tipped off the police about Billy and Phil burying dodgy goods in the allotment and Billy's fingerprints are all over them. Derek backs up Carol when she has a go at Shirley for threatening Liam. Derek and Carol have a heart-to-heart and he insists he's a changed man these days. Carol hesitantly agrees to ask Pat to let him move in. Pat refuses. Carol doesn't push it as she senses there's something wrong. Pat confesses that she might lose the house, as she can't keep up the loan repayments. Rose offers Kim, Jean and Denise a tarot reading. Kim is huffy when the cards suggest she's dissatisfied with her life as she's really a homemaker, not a party girl. Rose asks the ladies to think of a question. Rose draws a card that suggests love is on its way. Kim and Jean both insist the card was meant for them! Also, Zainab goes through with marrying Yusef.

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.