Sam and Tom kiss

Sam and Tom kiss
Sam and Tom kiss (Image credit: BBC/Simon Ridgeway)

Sam teases colleague Tom about his womanising, but it looks as if she’s not immune to his charms either! The pair work together when Sam’s friend from her martial arts gym, Melanie, is brought in with worrying symptoms. Melanie is ranked second in the country at her sport and has an important fight that night, but Tom wants to keep her in hospital. Tests then reveal that Melanie is pregnant but, when Tom goes to tell her the news, she’s disappeared, and Sam rushes to the fight arena to warn her friend she’s putting her baby in danger. Will she be in time? Later, after a tough day, Tom invites Sam for a drink, which turns into several. The evening ends in a taxi together, with a lingering kiss... Elsewhere tensions between paramedic, Dixie, and desk clerk, Louise, continue to simmer. Cleaner Denise let’s slip to nurse Fletch that her bossy sister Linda was nicknamed ‘Jammy’ when they were growing up!

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.