Michelle and Ruth try to sort things out

Michelle and Ruth try to sort things out
Michelle and Ruth try to sort things out (Image credit: BBC)

Jimmi insists on helping Michelle, who's in bed with a broken ankle after he accidently hit her in his car. Feeling guilty about the incident with Cherry, Michelle confesses to Julia that she gave the patient the wrong injection. Michelle won't accept help for her problems, but Jimmi has a brainwave and, when Michelle is discharged, Jimmi persuades her to go to his place. When Jimmi rages at Michelle for continuing to blame everyone else for her problems, Michelle breaks down and tells him how hard it's been coping with what Ruth did, how angry it made her feel, how frightened she is, and admits she's been using alcohol as a crutch. When Jimmi reveals he's asked Ruth to come over, Michelle is initially furious but agrees to talk. As Jimmi and flatmate Daniel retreat upstairs, Ruth tries to explain to Michelle why she did what she did and how therapy has made her realise how her actions stem from her childhood. But as Ruth breaks down, Michelle can't bring herself to help her. Meanwhile, the boys are coming clean too, with Daniel admitting that he's always been jealous of Jimmi. Downstairs, Michelle tells Ruth that she can't forgive her but admits she can understand Ruth's actions. When Ruth says she hopes they can make a fresh start, an evesdropping Jimmi is relieved that his plan seems to have worked. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk’s new weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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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.