Ray makes a move on Kim

Ray makes a move on Kim
Ray makes a move on Kim (Image credit: BBC)

Kim tells Denise that she doesn't want Ray - she just wants him to want her! Kim gets dressed to the nines for her shift at the Vic and is unhappy about being put in the kitchen filleting fish. Kim is fuming when she hears Ray flirting with Bianca and in a jealous fit accidentally slices off the tip of Ray's finger! At the hospital, Ray tells Kim that he fancies her and pulls her in for a passionate kiss. Derek tells Alfie he's arranged for him and Billy to steal booze from Trevor the drayman. Alfie feels wrong about it, but he needs the cash. Alfie asks Derek to go with him instead of Billy. When they find Trevor he claims he's been robbed at gunpoint. Alfie meets with Trevor and Billy to share a wad of cash - they've just scammed Derek - who has assumed that Phil is to blame. Mandy tries to talk to Ian about his impotence problem. When she offers him a herbal supplement, Ian is defensive. Ian can't understand why he's so distracted at the moment. After a conversation with Lucy he concludes that he's feeling down about giving the cafe to Phil and he determines to get it back.

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.