Max arranges a date with Tanya

Max arranges a date with Tanya
Max arranges a date with Tanya (Image credit: BBC)

Bradley confesses to Max that he wants to divorce Stacey, but she seems to have gone AWOL. Max has bought tickets to a concert for his secret date with Tanya and he gives Bradley the tickets to cheer him up and encourages him to take Syd out. Max meets Tanya for their date and she's dressed to kill and she moves in for a kiss, but Max tells Tanya he doesn't want it to be just sex - he wants them to get back together. Max has to go to the shop when they realise they don't have any protection and passes a tottering blonde covered in cuts and bruises and is stunned to see it's Stacey... Whitney is feeling down about her mum and failing her exams. Libby plots to cheer her up and she asks Darren to let Whitney spend the day with him at the car lot. Whitney cancels a girlie day in with Bianca to go to the car lot, but Bianca wants to know why Darren is so interested in Whitney! Also, Amira decides not to move in with Syed to keep Zainab sweet; Christian is upset when Lucy forgets his birthday; Minty thinks his luck is in with Manda, but has got the wrong end of the stick.

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.