Oliver reveals Penny's shocking secret

Oliver reveals Penny's shocking secret
Oliver reveals Penny's shocking secret (Image credit: BBC)

Siblings Penny and Oliver Valentine come to blows this week, as Oliver’s doctor training is upgraded to F2 level, while Penny remains an F1. When the pair work together on a case, Oliver’s lack of competence comes to the fore and he upsets a patient who happens to be an old friend of Connie’s. Reprimanded for what he thinks is Penny’s mistake, petulant Oliver blurts out Penny’s big secret – that she had an affair with a patient, Scott. The revelation stuns Penny, knowing that implications of this becoming public knowledge could have devastating effects on her career... Elsewhere, Maria finds herself working hard to cover for Donna, whose parenting duties with Mia are getting in the way of her job; Mark starts to consider applying for the CEO position after all.

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.