Maddie struggles with her parents' divorce

Maddie's reeling from her parents' divorce, but refuses to dwell on it, instead rallying her friends for an epic last blow-out in Abersoch. Will's devastated about his continuing estrangement from Dodger and Texas but Dodger softens slightly when Will admits he wanted to write Silas's memoirs to raise money for the family. Ash tries to broker peace between the brothers but to no avail. Also, Brendan withholds his fears about Sampson, but terrified for Cheryl's safety, misguidedly entrusts her care to Walker.

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.