Max stuns Vanessa

Max stuns Vanessa
Max stuns Vanessa (Image credit: BBC)

Vanessa finds a quiet Max and tries to comfort him about Tanya moving on. She plucks up the courage to ask him if he's still in love with Tanya. Max says that there's nothing between them apart from an emotional game of cat and mouse. Max seizes the moment and proposes to a stunned Vanessa... and she accepts! Lydia wakes in the night and tells Janine that she's seen a vision of Janine's mum June. Lydia asks Janine to get some photos from her room. Janine finds Lydia's will and takes a peek. Lydia is leaving all her money to charity. Lydia asks Janine about the will. Janine says she'd much rather have the photos of her mum than the money. Lydia reveals that Frank and Pat stopped her from taking in Janine when June died. They watch the sunrise together and a devastated Janine realises Lydia has died. Kim comes back from partying in the early hours and finds a distracted Mercy in the cafe. Mercy reveals she can't sleep because she's worrying about her immigration hearing. Fatboy discovers that Mercy isn't at home and calls her mobile. Fatboy meets Mercy and Kim in the cafe and tells Mercy they're not giving up without a fight.

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.