Silas takes Mercedes hostage!

Friendless Lynsey cuts a lonely figure in the Village. But Silas has set her a terrifying game. She has until midnight on Halloween to identify his next victim, as Mercedes sits tied up in Silas's evil clutches. If Lynsey works it out, he'll hand himself in, if Lynsey fails another girl dies. Lee admits to Amy that he's given up his New York dream - but can he or Amy live with it? Also, Sinead begins to doubt her feelings for Gaz while Maddie reminds her friend she's onto a good thing, but is Sinead still in love with Bart?

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.