Who will be the new Consultant?

Who will be the new Consultant?
Who will be the new Consultant? (Image credit: BBC)

It's the day of the consultant interviews on Darwin and both Jac and Sahira are keen to impress. Sahira is tested when a patient, Gary, whom she's previously diagnosed with a benign tumour, is readmitted with serious complications. But Sahira ends up getting too involved with the dying patient and his deaf son, putting her chances of impressing Hanssen and landing the job in jeopardy... Meanwhile, Malick deals with a patient who claims he's been stabbed in a botched burglary. But when his wife is brought onto the ward from the emergency department, all is not what it seems and Malick uses cunning rather than aggression to control the situation. Dan books a weekend away in Barcelona as a surprise for a tired Chrissie, but she's not impressed. It's only when Dan speaks to their patient that he uncovers the way to Chrissie's heart.

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.