Phil rejects Shirley

Phil rejects Shirley
Phil rejects Shirley (Image credit: BBC)

Shirley ropes Heather into helping her cook a fry-up for Phil after their night together. When Phil finally emerges from the bedroom Shirley kisses him, but Phil freezes. Shirley goes for a shower and Phil makes a hasty exit. Shirley tries to pretend she doesn't care, but it's clear she's hurt. Heather lets slip to Ben and Jay that Phil spent the night with Shirley. Phil is angry when he finds out that Ben knows about them and he swears him to secrecy then drunkenly confronts Heather for telling Ben. Phil tells Heather it's over between him and Shirley. Heather begs a ranting Phil not to break Shirley's heart and locks him in the Arches to sober up. Tamwar is suspicious that Syed is after money when he turns up on the doorstep claiming that he wants to apologise to Masood. Tamwar persuades Syed to keeps his distance for a while and he lends his brother some cash and packs him off to the station. Syed has an encounter with Janine and Tamwar is stunned when he sees Syed heading into her house... Also, Whitney agrees to spend the evening with Todd, but is angry when she finds a condom in his wallet.

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.