Love divides all

Love divides all
Love divides all (Image credit: BBC/Matt Squires)

Maddie is mugged on her way to school, and her dad Jez is furious. He decides to hold a self-defence class at the school, but it goes wrong when Tariq manages to show off his skills and tackles Jez to the floor – embarrassing him in front of the class. Mr Byrne tells Jez Tariq must lead the class, but Jez isn’t impressed. Finn decides to befriend Tariq so that he can reveal that he and Trudi are dating. They team up and go on a mission to find the boys who stole Maddie’s phone. Returning to school triumphantly, the boys are new best friends. But they get into an argument, and Finn reveals that he is dating Tariq’s sister Trudi, and Tariq goes wild – chasing Finn and beating him to the ground. Michael Byrne is looking back over the CCTV footage that was taken of him chasing his attacker Wayne from the school gates. Shamed, he takes the DVD recording and puts it in his pocket. But little does he know, Phoenix still has the footage of what happened on his mobile. When the police turn up to question Mr Byrne about what happened, he lies and denies he had anything to do with Wayne being hit by the van.

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.