Rainie puts the moves on Jack

Max worries about Jack, but can't get him to open up. Jack heads to the Vic and gets drunk and aggressive. Jack's next stop is the club and Rainie invites herself to sit next to him. Rainie sticks to orange juice, but after a run-in with Phil she turns to alcohol. Max sees Rainie with Jack and warns her off. Rainie is defiant and she and Jack end up in a passionate clinch. Ian and Jane are at war and Ian divides the house in half with tape and insists Jane sticks to 'her' half. Jane 'accidentally' pours milk in Ian's lap. Later, Jane takes money from the cafe till when Ian blocks her access to the joint account then sells Ian's watch to Billy and changes the locks on the house. Ian is forlorn as he realises his marriage is really over. Abi catches Max checking the flight arrival times for Tanya's plane and realises he's still got feelings for her. Abi tells Max that Tanya is happy with Greg. Later, Max lies to Vanessa he's just worried about Jack when she comments he's been distant. Vanessa takes Max out to cheer him up, but his eyes wander across the Square to Tanya, who has just returned with Greg.

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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.