Rob attacks a desperate Ryan!

Rob attacks a desperate Ryan!
Rob attacks a desperate Ryan!

*Hour-long Episode* Michelle tells Steve that she's worried Ryan might do a flit when Tracy turns up. She's got a job interview so Steve will have to look after Amy. Alone, Ryan grabs Michelle's factory keys. Ryan's searching for petty cash in the factory when Rob arrives and goes on the attack. Michelle arrives to find him semi-conscious. Later, Ryan claims he was only looking for Michelle. Rob angrily claims that Ryan's lying, but Ryan tells the doctor to call the police, he wants to report an assault. If Rob's found guilty he'll go straight back behind bars. Later after he's discharged Ryan finally admits the truth, promising to tell the police the truth to save Rob. Steve decides to move in with Michelle to help her cope. Elsewhere, Owen gives Tina a job looking after the books. Tommy also has good news, he's got a night job at a warehouse in Salford. Paul displays a hideous vase that once belonged to Lesley. Later Eileen invites Sean for dinner, but Sean invents a hot date. Eileen then invites Marcus and Aiden instead. Later Sean arrives home and keeps up the pretence that he's been on a date until Aiden calls his bluff. Sean heads towards Lesley's vase before Eileen can stop him... Also, Karl's smoke alarms are found to be faulty. She confesses to Dev that she's cleared out their bank account.

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.