Will Newt end it all?

Will Newt end it all?
Will Newt end it all?

Eli tries to talk Newt out of suicide. He realises he can't go through with it when Eli reminds him that he'll break Lauren's heart. Rae understands, but she's still going ahead with the plan. Newt's shocked and with one last departing kiss, Rae heads off... Lauren and Jack are searching the warehouses frantically trying to find Newt when Lauren gets a text message from him saying goodbye. But as he joins Rae on the platform, Lauren and Jack rush in. Newt's confused as the voices mess with his head and Lauren and Jack scream out in horror when Newt jumps and plunges into the dockland water. Frankie's torn between her two boys when she gets a desperate phone call from Newt, but knowing Jack and Lauren are on their way to him, she makes the decision to help Jake. After an awkward conversation with Nancy, alarm bells start ringing for Charlie's safety. Also; Frankie finds Jake and realises his actions were a cry for help but she promises to help him through it. Jake's relieved to have his mum back on side. Frankie realises Jake needs her more than ever and, determined to prove she believes in him, she takes him to see Charlie. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's new weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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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.