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Jimmi starts to become frustrated with the concern people are showing him, in the penultimate visit of the week to Doctors. He asks Vivien for extra work, while George is alarmed to hear him blaming Eva for what happened. When he goes to the campus, Ruth finds him scrubbing his hands. Alarmed, she calls Michelle, who explains he has obsessive compulsive disorder.
Melody, meanwhile, visits Clarissa, a patient who has a lung disease and who has missed her last two appointments. She likes to hoard things and, when Melody suggests the junk isn't helping her illness, Clarissa throws her out. But, when she is threatened with eviction, Clarissa claims she can't be evicted on medical grounds and Melody is drawn into the dispute.
The team are worried about Jimmi and have a chat about him later in the bar, and also start talking about Nick. Feeling left out, Ruth and Mike start talking and, as Ruth notices Michelle watching her and Mike apparently flirting, she encourages him more.
Jimmi is played by Adrian Lewis Morgan, Vivien by Anita Carey, George by Stirling Gallacher, Ruth by Selina Chilton, Michelle by Donnaleigh Bailey, Melody by Elizabeth Bower, and Mike by James Carlton. Clarissa is played by special guest star Deborah Grant.
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Zainab is finding it hard to be honest with herself and those around her, in tonight's visit to Albert Square, and Phil admits to Suzy that it's time he and Ben left the Vic.
Max, meanwhile, is growing angrier and more frustrated with Tanya and Jack when he realises he's been lied to.
Zainab is played by Nina Wadia, Phil by Steve McFadden, Suzy by Maggie O'Neill, Ben by Charlie Jones, Max by Jake Wood, Tanya by Jo Joyner and Jack by Jake Wood.
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What now looks like a gay-bashing becomes more complex when Nikki calls Harry back to the lab, as the latest story in the medical drama series concludes. She has extracted from Yitshok's body skin cells belonging to his attacker which show evidence of gaucher syndrome – a rare genetic disease prominent in some Jewish groups – but McKenzie reacts badly to her suggestion that the killer could be Jewish.
Then another body is found. It's Chaim.
Harry is convinced that the two deaths are linked and, when Noach's own son, Binyomin, is arrested for assaulting a young Pole, Toni, Harry makes an extraordinary discovery. During routine DNA tests, he discovers that Binyomin's DNA matches that of Yitshok's killer. McKenzie protests that there is no motive, and that a Hasidic killer is almost unimaginable, but Harry insists that the science doesn't lie.
But Harry makes a terrible discovery. The DNA of the killer also matches Toni, the Pole. Harry must have contaminated the evidence somehow but it's too late – Binyomin has been arrested, terribly damaging the police's relationship with the community. McKenzie demands Harry be taken off the case, but Nikki sticks by him. Retesting all the DNA, she and Harry realise their mistake. The original DNA samples showed Toni and Binyomin's DNA to be identical, but they now find a tiny difference – which could only be explained if Toni and Binyomin were brothers, from a small gene pool.
Further work reveals that Toni's real name is Ari, and he's Noach's eldest son. A deeply troubled boy, he had struggled with his sexuality and was exiled by his father, finding a home with a group of Polish labourers. Their anti-Semitism chimed with his own mixed feelings about his community, which had forced him to repress his sexuality. When the group attacked Yitshok, and Yitshok had recognised Ari, he joined in the attack...
Nikki is played by Emilia Fox, Harry by Tom Ward, DI McKenzie by Conor Mullan, Noach by Ron Cook, Binyomin by Augustus Prew and Toni by Chris New.
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With the final looming there is now everything to play for, as Raymond Blanc decides on a different way to challenge the remaining couples in tonight's penultimate episode of The Restaurant.
Raymond invites the chefs into his own kitchen and personally puts them through a detailed cooking regime that will strip them of their bravado and act as a telling reminder of their limits. The front-of-house people, meanwhile, are handed over to pernickety inspector David Moore to brave his exacting standards of service in his own Michelin-starred restaurants. When the couples finally stagger back to their own restaurants they find no-nonsense businesswoman Sarah Willingham, probing their business skills. It is the exam from hell.
After that, the couples each have to put into practice what they have learned for some of the most discerning palates and fastidious managers in the restaurant trade. It should be a breeze after weeks of running their busy restaurants and taking part in the tough weekly challenges, but Raymond has raised the bar even higher. One couple isn't going to make it.
Raymond's decision is a tough one. To have come this far only to have their restaurant closed is hard to accept, but only two couples can go forward to fight it out for the opportunity of a lifetime and join Raymond in a new restaurant business venture.
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People Ep 4/6
Thursday 23 October
9.30-10.00pm BBC TWO
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Simon dresses his neon-lit, queens-themed window display in Barneys and places a tiny crown on the head of a Posh Spice doll, as the television memoir based on the life story of Simon Doonan continues.
Back in Reading in 1997, Simon assumes his obsession with Posh Spice is a secret until a birthday wish for a doll is inadvertently broadcast on the school tannoy system.
Determined to cheer their son up, Debbie seeks a cut-price version from her hairdresser, Tameka Empson. Meanwhile, Andy takes Simon for a spot of football to try to "butch him up" a bit, and he becomes surprisingly good at it.
Beautiful People is written by Jonathan Harvey (Gimme Gimme Gimme) and based on the best-selling book of the same name it tells the wild childhood memoirs of Simon Doonan, now creative director of New York's Barneys. This series explores Simon's teenage memories of his desire to live amongst the "beautiful people" from the perspective of his New York department store window.
The music in tonight's episode includes a specially recorded duet by Dannii and Kylie Minogue, who perform Abba's The Winner Takes It All.
Beautiful People stars Samuel Barnett as older Simon, 13-year-old Luke Ward-Wilkinson as young Simon Doonan, Olivia Colman as Debbie Doonan, Aidan McArdle as Andy Doonan, Meera Syal as Aunty Hayley and Layton Williams as Kylie.
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