'That's great Kat, but who's the father?'

Kat is feeling queasy and Jean is suspicious that she may be pregnant, especially when she turns down a glass of champagne to celebrate Shenice staying. Kat confirms Jean's suspicions and reveals she's apprehensive about another pregnancy. Jean reassures her that Alfie loves her. Kat tells Alfie she has a surprise for him and excitedly reveals she's pregnant. Kat is shocked when Alfie asks her who the father is... Michael gets a young professional boxer Duncan down the gym as motivation to get Tyler to agree to the fight. Michael asks Eddie and the boys for a drink. Michael gives Tyler a boxer's robe with 'Tyler The Rottweiler' emblazoned on the back. Michael brings out a picture of Eddie in his boxing heyday for further motivation. Tyler takes the bait and tells Michael that the fight is on. Tanya has an appointment with her consultant. He reveals that her cancer is small and ideal for surgery. The consultant recommends that if Tanya doesn't need chemotherapy, then she should have a hysterectomy. Tanya confesses that she hasn't told her family yet and he sympathises. Back home, a stressed Tanya rows with Cora when she discovers her and Patrick drinking booze with Lauren and Abi and Cora leaves.

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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.