The McQueens confront Mercedes

Blood-thirsty Jacqui arrives at the McQueens to take Mercedes to task for snogging Rhys. Jacqui, Carmel and Myra tear a strip off home-wrecker Mercy and for once mild-mannered Carmel truly lets rip. It looks as if it's all over for the McQueens until Mercy reveals a dreadful secret. New business partners Doug and Ste's first day trading ends in disaster. Also, Texas tries to talk to Cheryl about her confused feelings for hot dancer Jodie.

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.