The BEST episodes written by Daniel Brocklehurst
#3 - Episode 1
Exile - Season 1 - Episode 1
With his career and life in ruins, Tom Ronstadt returns to his hometown, where he finds his estranged father now in the grip of Alzheimers. As Tom struggles to adapt to the place he once knew as home, he begins to unravel the mystery from his childhood that drove him away all those years ago.
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#4 - Old Flame
Shameless - Season 3 - Episode 5
On the day that Kev should be happily celebrating his 35th birthday, his mother throws herself from her balcony. To add to his woes, he sees his ex-wife Roxy, who's recently out of prison and far from reformed, at the funeral. Fatherhood has had a positive effect on Lip and Mandy.
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#6 - Episode 10
The Five - Season 1 - Episode 10
In a dramatic final episode, the tangled web of events unravels into a shocking conclusion that will keep viewers guessing until the very end. Mark, Danny, Pru and Slade have each endured their own personal battles as the decades old mystery has unravelled but things come to a head in a thrilling conclusion. One thing’s for sure, the lives of them and their families will never be the same again.
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#7 - Episode 2
In The Dark - Season 1 - Episode 2
Helen and Paul are joined by pathologist friend Phil Hendricks as they become further embroiled in the abduction case. The clock is ticking to find Poppy alive and clear Bates's name, but to Paul's vexation, Helen seems increasingly disturbed by being in Polesford.
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#8 - Episode 8
The Stranger (2020) - Season 1 - Episode 8
A violent confrontation leads to new revelations, and the truth about Corinne's disappearance finally emerges.
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#9 - Episode 7
The Stranger (2020) - Season 1 - Episode 7
With help from an unlikely ally, Adam uncovers a startling secret. Backed into a corner, Katz makes a rash decision.
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#11 - We're Getting Married
Shameless - Season 1 - Episode 3
It's Friday night in The Jockey, and barman Kev says he is getting married to his longtime girlfriend, Veronica, in order to deter the advances of a group of ladies. However, Frank overhears and announces it to the entire pub... including Veronica's mother, Carol Fisher (Marjorie Yates). In a corner, Kev proposes to Veronica, and the pair plan a wedding on the cheap with the help of the Gallaghers, but Kev has failed to tell Veronica that he is already married and turns to Steve and Fiona for help. Even worse, Veronica's arsonist brother, Marty Fisher (Jack Deam), has escaped from prison. Meanwhile, Ian is forced into hiding after turning down the advances of Mandy Maguire (Samantha Siddall) - most popular girl in school and only daughter of the toughest family on the estate - feeling humiliated, she spreads lies and sends her brothers after him. When Lip and Kash are caught in the crossfire, Ian has to decide whether to flee Chatsworth for good or admit the truth about his sexuality.
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#12 - Episode 9
The Five - Season 1 - Episode 9
The nerve-shredding penultimate episode enters a dark world of devastating secrets as the mystery surrounding Jesse takes another earth-shattering turn.Danny and Mark go it alone. But just as they think they're getting close to the truth, Mark discovers some devastating news that makes him question everything.
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#13 - The Garden Competition
Shameless - Season 2 - Episode 3
A garden competition sparks off a feud between Veronica and Carol, and Veronica's bitterness towards her mother alienates her friends and family, even Kev and Fiona. She is pushed further over the edge when she is uninvited to Carol's birthday party, where she overhears a shocking revelation that tears her and Kev apart. Meanwhile, Frank and his friend Tommy turn Sheila's house into a drinking den after The Jockey is closed down while she is away visiting her mother. But Frank accidentally loses one of the twins to an alcoholic transvestite called "Psycho Sally". Elsewhere, Fiona is convinced Steve is having an affair with a woman named Kerry-Anne, but the truth is worse than she could have imagined.
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#14 - Episode 1
In The Dark - Season 1 - Episode 1
As DI Helen Weeks grapples apprehensively with pregnancy, she is compelled to return to her loathed rural home town where two girls have been abducted, and the man arrested is married to Helen's childhood best friend.
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#15 - Episode 4
The Stranger (2020) - Season 1 - Episode 4
The boys make a discovery that sets Adam on Corinne's trail — and dredges up an old secret of his own. Kimberly gives Johanna a lead about Heidi.
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#16 - Episode 5
The Five - Season 1 - Episode 5
Slade’s life is turned upside down when he receives some devastating news. Danny insists that Mark leave the investigation to the police but another murder scene is soon unearthed. Pru starts to question the woman that she has become and looks to Mark for assistance.
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#18 - Welcome to the Family
Shameless - Season 2 - Episode 6
Lip is sleeping with Mandy while she is pretending to be Ian's girlfriend to hide the fact that he is gay. However, after Mandy falls pregnant with Lip's baby, everyone begins to think the child is Ian's, so the Maguire family welcome him into the family with the threat of castration if he and Mandy do not marry. When Ian announces their engagement, the Gallaghers and Maguires throw a party at The Jockey, but a revelation from Lip turns the happy occasion into an evening of chaos and bloodshed. Meanwhile, Frank is left debt-ridden by Cassie Weston (Moya Brady), The Jockey's new landlady. He must come up with a way to pay back his years of free booze. Unfortunately for him, she might have just the solution. But their plan is foiled by a devious Karen. Elsewhere, Sheila cold-turkeys her tablets, leaving her convinced that the twins are monsters, while a late-night encounter with a tearaway teenager brings a new man into Fiona's life.
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#20 - Episode 1
The Stranger (2020) - Season 1 - Episode 1
A stranger approaches Adam Price with a disturbing allegation about his wife, Corinne. Meanwhile, detectives Johanna and Wes take on a bizarre case.
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#23 - Sister, Sister
Shameless - Season 2 - Episode 9
Kev's sister, Kelly (Sally Carman), arrives in Chatsworth on the run from her ex-boyfriend, an aggressive junkie. She is desperate to retrieve her things from his flat, so Kev and Frank decide to step in and help her. However, Veronica soon discovers everything is not what it seems - and Kelly may be hiding a dark addiction herself. Meanwhile, Fiona is suffering from morning sickness, so Craig is planning a surprise trip to Wales to relax. Craig's wife, Sue (Gillian Kearney), is jealous of his new relationship and seeks solace in Marty. But when Sue breaks up with Marty, it leads him on a downward spiral which threatens to land him back in prison, forcing Debbie to take drastic actions. Elsewhere, tragedy strikes for Craig when he discovers his father has died.
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#24 - Liamday
Shameless - Season 3 - Episode 1
When five year-old Liam denounces religion at his RC Primary School and is subject to a home-visit by his teacher and the local priest, sister Debbie has to think fast. But shaving his head and pretending that he is dying of cancer is NOT one of Debbie's better ideas. In fact, by the time the rest of the Gallagher clan realise what's going on and try to set the record straight, the news has leaked out into the wider community and Debbie's lie lands the family in true Gallagher-style catastrophe. Could things get any worse for Debbie?
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#25 - Episode 1
Ten Pound Poms - Season 1 - Episode 1
The Roberts family leave dreary postwar Manchester for a new life down under. But they find that it isn't quite what they've been sold.
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