Zarif and Nadia need Kevin's help

Zarif and Nadia need Kevin's help
Zarif and Nadia need Kevin's help (Image credit: BBC)

Nadia persuades Kevin to meet her and Zarif. Zarif and Kevin do not hit it off; Zarif clearly disparaging of Kevin's life and Kevin taking an instant dislike to him as a result. Zarif makes reference to how Kevin 'isn't going to help' and Kevin insists on knowing what he means. Nadia reveals that their father is ill and needs bone marrow, neither she nor Zarif are a match... will Kevin help? Kevin is furious this is the only reason they have got into contact with him. He storms out and tells them never to contact him again. Karen's friend cancels on their decoupage class so Jimmi offers to go. Jimmi's handmade Christmas card is a work of art and Karen is suitably jealous. She asks Jimmi to spend Christmas with them, aware it's his first without Cherry. Jimmi thanks her but lies that he's spending it with his sister. Also, Heston is shocked to discover his 'date' has a proposition for him that isn't of a romantic nature!

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.