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Phil and Sharon converse with the urologist. He reminds them of the pros and cons of the operation. Ronnie and Jay wait outside.

Scrabbler hands Angie a disposable tissue from his desk, usually used for axed cast and crew, as she composes herself to spill the beans on what she’s done.

DS Wilder asks dan what he remembers of the day of the attack. Dan stutters that it’s a bit hazy but things are slowly coming back to him, ‘The last thing I remember is walking down Bridge Street. The rest is all a blur’ he weeps.

Carol arrives back from the cemetery but there’s still a frosty atmosphere between the two sisters. She sticks a meal for one in the microwave. Back on the Square, Kim and Gary head towards the B&B with Kim stating that she’s got a business to run.

Shirley calls Mick to come around to the pub as soon as possible. Most punters are irate with the lack of alcohol choices on sale. Priscilla awkwardly stands by while Shirley tells them to go elsewhere. Then, a buxom blonde gets on her last nerve by demanding a ‘Sex on the Beach.’ Shirley snarls at her, ‘You shoulda went to Clacton then.’

Phil is now in his gown and clearly holding back his emotions. Sharon tries to keep strong for him assuring him that it will all be over before he knows it. Phil lets his guard down and states that he’s scared. Sharon, Ronnie and Jay watch on as he’s wheeled him down the dark corridor into the bright room, labelled ‘theatre.’ Sharon grips both their hands as she watches on. Ronnie tells Sharon that Phil’s overcome worse fates than this but Sharon maintains that he’s not as tough as he makes out, ‘He’s never had cancer before Ronnie. He’s about to lose something that makes him a man. You don’t know how anyone will react in a situation like this until they’re placed in it. I see things that you lot don’t….he opens up to me.’ Jay has to leave to get some fresh air as he’s brought back to the night his dad died. A text message comes through from Ben asking to meet up.

Angie tells Scrabbler that she was behind the freshly delivered alcohol going ‘missing’ at the pub, ‘Dean and I wanted to teach her a lesson so I put the plan into action. Dean wanted to burn the place to the ground. He’s unstable. I showed him how to do it in a more sophisticated way. He’s a bright boy, he just needed someone to channel it. I didn’t want him to go back to prison, he’s suffered enough at the hands of that ‘mother’ of his.’ Scrabbler doesn’t understand the problem. ‘I also thought it would help to boost Sharon’s bar and help her to get one of over on that alcoholic wretch….Today I saw her rowing with Shirley and I think Voddy Carter has put two and two together and made five.’ Scrabbler laughs that Sharon is big and bold enough to fight her own battles, ‘As long as she doesn’t come knocking on your door, I wouldn’t care.’ Scrabbler pops open the champers, ‘To Karma.’ ‘Karma’s a b!tch’ Angie cackles.

Dan is apprehensive about saying too much to DS Wilder, afraid that she may have an ulterior motive. DS Wilder tries to get him to open up by sympathising with his husband being jailed on his wedding day and that awful crime being committed on his living room floor. Dan sighs that people probably think he got what’s coming to him, ‘No one is going to open up to you lot. You may as well close the case now.’ DS Wilder hands him her card telling him that if he does remember anything, then he should get in touch, ‘You are on the other side of the investigation now Daniel. We want to find who did this to you.’ Dan is pensive as she exits with her colleague.

Carol is sitting in the living room watching ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Kitty enters with her tail between her legs apologising for what she said earlier, saying it was out of order and it’s no wonder that she has no friends ‘I just want what’s best for my little sister. 1 year and 8 months older, need I remind you. Always mistaken for the younger sister’ she quips. Carol smiles as she thanks her for putting her up, ‘I don’t know what I’d do without you Kitty. My kids have lives of their own and my love life is one disaster after another.’ Kitty begins to cry, ‘My neighbours don’t even talk to me anymore. They’re worse than schoolchildren and all because of that row I had with Mrs. Patel at her Tupperware party. They’d be happier to have a paedophile beside them. I like to keep my blinds closed because the kids harass me. Sometimes I won’t leave the house. I dread the heatwave. Curtain twitcher across the road logs my every move.’ Carol says she should have moved in long ago, ‘It was only me and Emily in our old house and with the bedroom tax, it was costing me a bomb. All my memories of Ron and the kids growing up were there. I didn’t want to let go of that but Emily’s death forced me to.’ Kitty smiles that this is a new start for both of them, ‘We’re not exactly spring chickens. Life begins at 60 innit’ she laughs.

Shirley is on edge upstairs in The Shirley Gutter and is glad to see Mick. Mona is miffed that she’s being treated like a child and worries for her future when her eavesdropping leads her to learning the true extent of Shirley’s financial woes. Shirley informs Mick that she is putting the pub up for auction and selling it to the highest bidder but she wanted to give him first refusal on the place. Mick is knocked over by her thoughtfulness saying that him and L would love to but they can’t afford it, not after buying a place on the Square. He asks if there’s any way he could help but Shirley blankly shakes her head. ‘I’m on me knees Mick. They were right. They were all right. Shirley Carter running a pub. Who was I kidding?’ she sobs uncontrollably into his chest.

Gary sits in the living room and gets chatting to Mrs. Bevis. He uses his charm to get a smile out of her knowing she’s had a tough time of it. ‘What’s your first name? All the time you have been staying here and I don’t think I have ever heard anyone call you by it!’ ‘It’s Hilda and you know what you’re the first person to ask me it.’ Gary asks if the police were bothering her again, stating that he saw them outside the other day. ‘It’s time I was moving on but then I’ll look like the guilty one’ Hilda sighs. Gary laughs that his mum scarpered off after the wake, not a word to anyone but they haven’t been in touch with her as far as he knows, ‘I was the first person they came to of course but they were barking up the wrong tree with me. I realised that revenge isn’t satisfying, I stalked a man who played a part in my dad’s death and you know what, it left me feeling empty inside and I have stopped wasting my life on people like Dan. It’s too short.’ Hilda states to Kim that she’s got a keeper as she heads up to bed. Kim waltzes in and snuggles up beside Gary.

[Closing montage]
Kitty puts a blanket over a sleeping Carol Hanley. Mick stays the night with Shirley as mona sits awake on the floor of the room next door tweeting. Angie and Scrabbler stagger down Bridge Street, bottle in hand. Angie stares at the pub before telling Scrabbler that she’s kipping at his. Sharon hugs Ronnie and Jay as they leave, wanting to be there when Phil gets out of theatre. Mrs. Hilda Bevis rings DS Wilder, ‘I will tell you who attacked Dan if you promise to free my son!’

Mrs. Bevis steals the DUFF DUFF.

COMING TOMORROW:

It’s Friday morning and the Square is bustling with people as everyone goes about their weekday morning routine. Shirley has a sign on the pub door, ‘Closed until further notits. Pub up for auction next week.’ The camera pans inside where Shirley sits on a stool on the left hand side of the bar gulping the remaining alcohol in the establishment. Mona arrives down in her jim-jams, the sweat is out on her by the time she has played ‘dodge the broken glass on the floor.’ Her lips quiver as she sees the state Shirl has got herself into. She sees the notice on the door and tries to read it backwards. ‘You spelt notice wrong Shirl. Even I can spell that. You shoulda let me type it for you’ she utters. Shirley looks at her but doesn’t respond. Mick sneaks out the back door.

Jay is jogging around the Square. Having been unable to sleep last night. The dark circles are clearly visible underneath his eyes. Mrs. Bevis approaches as she tries to get to the bottom of Dan’s attack in the hope of freeing her son. ‘You were the lad who rang the ambulance, weren’t you? Did you see anything suspicious? Was he alone when you got there?’ she states in quick succession. Jay politely tells her that he has said everything to the police as he stretches against the railings. Hilda gets frustrated and meanly brings up his involvement in Heather’s murder, ‘I have read all about it. My son is as innocent as you were!’ Jay runs off as more traumatic memories return to the surface for him. He stops at the War Memorial and touches the carving, trying to fight back the tears he tilts his head back towards the sky and stares.

Over at the hospital, a drowsy Phil wakes up from the operation. He is happy to see a familiar face in his fiancé, Sharon. He smiles as she grips his hand tightly, ‘The worst is over Phil.’ The nurse calls round with his painkillers and tells him that he should let them know if they aren’t strong enough, she looks down ‘I’ll be round later to change your urine bag.’ Phil blushes as he thanks her, ‘Sonia doesn’t work this ward does she? I have been tortured enough.’ Sharon laughs that Sonia’s alright but she hasn’t seen her around. Sharon texts everyone to let them know that he’s alright. Back on the Square, Ronnie texts Max to meet her as she watches the finishing touches being put to her newly refurbished gym.

David is on his way to the Minute Mart when he catches Ian reading the sign on the door of the pub, ‘Got your eyes on the place?’ Ian smirks at him saying that he’s always dreamed of owning the most prestigious building on the Square but it needs a lot of work after the mess Shirley Carter has made of the place. ‘Phil’s out of action. Now’s your time to strike’ David states. Ian says that Sharon could be a much bigger threat! Priscilla, Sorcha, Blue and Tracey arrive to find the place closed for business. Tracey is clearly disgruntled having worked there longer than Priscilla has been alive and thumps the door with her fist. Sorcha shouts for her to open up, ‘Some of us don’t abandon our babies and have to work sh!t jobs to provide for them.’

Carol Hanley is taken aback when the police show up on her doorstep wanting to talk about Dan’s attack. DS Wilder enters and is happy to accept the offer of a cup of tea. DS Wilder wastes no time and gets straight down to business. Kitty sighs that the neighbours are going to have a field day with this, ‘They already think I’ve moved my lesbian lover in.’ Wilder asks Carol why she left Walford in such a rush following her daughter’s funeral considering she had just reunited with her long lost daughter and her sons also reside there. Carol states that she needed a fresh start and she had nowhere to stay on the Square. DS Wilder pulls out her phone records which locate her outside the pub taking a phonecall to an unknown number just before the attack is thought to have taken place, ‘This is how we tracked you down……did you order a hitman to kill Dan after he confessed to killing your daughter at her wake?’ Carol is in disbelief that she is being accused of such a thing. Kitty adds her own observations, ‘My sister fights her own battles. Her phone clearly shows that she was nowhere near the scene of the crime.’

Also tonight, J-B stares at the blank stall pitch beside him clearly missing Harlowe. CherryRose is paranoid that everyone is watching her as she eats in the café. Sez walks around scantily clad in her flat hoping that Dean will notice her. O…O eyes a new stall pitch but Keyser jokes that working on the other side of the market is a whole different kettle of fish.

Gary is worried about Janine and calls round to her house to check on her. She’s busy juggling work and Scarlett, answering the door with her phone pressed to her ear and Scarlett’s dinner in the other hand. Gary takes over feeding Scarlett and Janine is grateful for the help. Janine stands in a stressed manner in the living room as Gary brings up his brother. Janine guiltily informs him that she locked him in the attic in a bid to get him off the drugs but he escaped from her just before the attack. ‘Did you follow him?’ Gary quanders with furrowed brow. Janine sits down and rubs her forehead, ‘It all happened so fast. I just wanted to help him.’ Gary comforts her and she smooches him. Gary pulls away as he receives a text from his mum stating that she’s been questioned by the police. Gary cries that ‘Everything’s a mess’ as he grabs his coat and leaves. A moment later there’s a knock on the door but it’s David.

Sorcha lights a cigarette outside the pub as she, Blue and Priscilla sit on the bench. Tracey jumps on Mona when she emerges from the barrel store but mona squeals for her to get off, she has a doctor’s appointment. Shirley shouts out the top window that she has no money to give them. Sorcha asks Priscilla how are they going to pay the rent? Tracey storms off as Blue says she’s going to the restaurant to see if they have any chef vacancies. Mona arrives in the doctor’s surgery and sits beside Harlowe. They get chatting and Mona asks what’s she there for. ‘I hide it well. I look ok…if you can’t see what’s hiding underneath. How about you?’ ‘Ah just woman problems…’ A brick comes flying through the window and startles them.

When Billy and Lola arrive at the hospital to give Sharon a break, she kisses Phil and heads home. She stops by at the fruit stall to get some fresh fruit for Phil when her eyes are drawn to the pub notice. She tries to open the door but it won’t budge. Puzzled, she looks up at the top window. She goes to Dot’s to collect Denny and ends up staying for dinner, Dot insists. Sharon quips that her second mum has been here the whole time and grips her hand. Dot smiles from ear to ear, putting her head down coyly ‘You can’t put a price on love and friendship.’ Back at Billy’s, Jay alternates between push-ups and press-ups as he looks after Lexi.

[This song plays faintly in the background]

Max and Ronnie tear each other’s clothes off in the car lot. Dean watches as Shirley tears her name down from the pub door but their attention is soon drawn to the drama ensuing outside the doctor’s surgery. Lotty rushes out to find Hilda Bevis standing like a statue in the middle of the road, her heart pumping in her chest. Mona and Harlowe follow. ‘You should be ashamed of yourselves. How can you pay this murder defending fiend?’ Hilda spouts. Gary rushes over and tries to take her home, he lifts her phone from the ground and sees messages from DS Wilder, he pockets it. Lotty refuses to take it lying down arguing that Dan is like a son to her and she’ll stick by him no matter what, ‘It doesn’t mean that I condone his actions. You should know. You stood by Bevis.’ Hilda cries that she knew he was innocent ‘My son is languishing in jail for something he didn’t do!’ Gary and Dean hold her back. Gary escorts Hilda back to the B&B as Lotty stares in disbelief unable to believe what’s just happened.

Lotty gets the DUFF DUFF

COMING MONDAY:


DS Enders continues Monday, Wednesday and Friday next week.

Is it awfully bad that I've only just noticed I'm a character in this, 9 months after being introduced? Quality work

Cheers J-B.


It’s Saturday in Albert Square. Sharon walks past the pub and sees a new sign, ‘Closed until further notice.’ She takes a detour to Linda’s and calls in a favour from her friend, ‘Linda, would you like to run Angie’s Den until Phil’s back on his feet?’ Linda is chuffed and almost bites her hand off. ‘Saturday is our busiest night, here’s the keys. Thanks I owe you one.’ Linda gleefully closes the door as Sharon walks back down the steps. Sorcha is sitting outside Max’s wheeling Eddy and calls her over, ‘Any jobs going? Shirley has laid us off and owes us two weeks wages.’ Sharon says she can take her on part-time but it’ll be on a temporary basis. Sorcha hugs her telling her she won’t regret it.

Gary, Kim, Hilda, Mo Mouse and Paula all sit around the breakfast table. Gary is suspicious of Hilda and gives her a wide berth. Hilda states that she’s so embarrassed about her actions yesterday. Kim quips that people will soon find something else to gossip about like who’s going to buy the pub. Hilda asks if anyone has seen her phone. Mo mouse states that he’ll have a look round the Square today but warns that there’s been some Romanian pickpockets roaming around the market. Paula smiles coyly at Mo as Gary lifts his plate and goes to the kitchen. There he takes Hilda’s phone out of his pocket and looks at it.

Cindy and IanMandy are upstairs in the Beale house, plotting! Cindy states that she knows where Ian hides his money from Denise, ‘I caught him rearranging the floorboards. So one day, when the coast was clear, I lifted them up and found a wad of cash. He has no idea how much is stashed there so he doesn’t miss a stray fifty going missing now again.’ IanMandy is uneasy at the thought of robbing from Ian, ‘Cindy, he’s taken us in and he gives me work in his businesses. I can’t steal from him.’ Cindy states, ‘What he doesn’t know won’t hurt him!’ IanMandy gets a text through from Maurice asking him to go for drinks tonight, Cindy invites herself showing him her fake ID.

Scrabbler is excited for the grand opening of Ronnie’s gym but uncomfortable with the presence of Vaslav and Seb. Vaslav asks Scrabbler if he’s jealous of them but Scrabbler laughs it off. All the Mitchells are out in force minus Phil. Ronnie makes a speech about the new equipment and membership deals that will be available as well as thanking everyone for coming today, ‘I have brought the gym into the 21st century, I hope you all like it.’ She smiles as she sees Max in the crowd. Everyone gets a tour of the place, taking in all the new elements. The camera pans outside to Ben who is looking on from the distance. What does he want?

Also tonight, Skye is busy typing up the third draft of her latest EastEnders script. Dublintvfan watches as the new Pact Coffee Shop comes together. Blue gets a job as a chef in the Wok On Inn. Priscilla is also employed as a waitress as she pursues her studies.

Mona wonders where the pub closure leaves her. Shirley is upstairs sorting through her things playing, ‘I'm A B!tch’ at full volume. Shirley slurs at Mona that she can move back in with Zack but Mona isn’t too keen. Shirley takes a walk to Mick’s to ask about moving in but he says they’re packed to the rafters as it is, ‘I guess I’ll just have to sleep rough then, won’t I?’ Mick retaliates, ‘Don’t get all self-pitying with me. You got yourself into this mess. If I hadn’t come along, you’d have probably have ended up in the gutter much sooner.’ Shirley almost trips down the steps as she makes her exit. Mona is in Zack’s living room and looks down on the mess that is her idol. ‘Lauren, have you that number for the rehab or counsellor you went to?’ Lauren looks at Zack in bewilderment. Zack states that Shirley needs to want help. Mona cries that she feels so helpless.

Hilda is taken aback to find Lotty at her front door. Hilda invites her in for a cuppa, apologising profusely for her actions yesterday. Lotty says that she’s not going to press charges as long as she pays for the broken window. Hilda smiles that she was just looking for somebody to blame. Lotty adds, ‘I should have cleared the air with you. I’m such a mess that I can’t even face my son on Skype. Dan has no one and I have to stand by him!’ Mrs. Bevis says she’ll be moving on soon, ‘I have to get back to my life. Living around here isn’t healthy for me. It plays on my mind constantly.’ Upstairs, Gary texts DS Wilder from the phone stating that he knows that she’s bent and signs it with his name. In the next room, Mo mouse asks Paula out for dinner at the Chinese restaurant.

Lola asks Jay if he’s heard from Ben. Abi watches them suspiciously from afar with news of her own. Sharon is deflated to arrive at the hospital to find that Phil has picked up an infection and will have to stay in for longer than expected. Back on the Square, Jay is eaten with worry at the effect Ben returning will have on everyone and Abi adds to it by telling him that her dad is moving Sorcha and Eddy in.

[ANGIE’S DEN]
Ugly Heart plays in the background.

J-B has his best aftershave and shirt on and is glad to see Harlowe is out. IanMandy is jumpy as Cindy coolly passes the bouncers, Klen tries to avert Lucy’s eyes as he sees Cindy arriving. Maurice plays wingman to J-B as all his other mates have paired off. Zack and Lauren join them but Zack feels awkward and doesn’t drink for Lauren. Maurice is surprised to see Sorcha working there but not as surprised as Lauren is when Sorcha drops the bombshell that she’s moving in with Max. Linda feels at home running the place and even manages to thwart a drug dealer who has evaded the eyes of the bouncers. Klen lambasts IanMandy for taking Cindy with him. Lucy snipes that she’s going to tell Ian, Cindy retorts ‘Do I look like I care?’ Lucy tells Linda that Cindy’s underage and she wouldn’t want Sharon to lose her licence. Cindy is further incensed by the fact that IanMandy stays without her. Klen cries, ‘That’s what the mad cow gets for pushing you down the stairs.’ J-B goes in for the kill after several tequila shots. Harlowe revokes his advances but accepts the offer of a dinner date. They dance the night away together and he shares a Turpin cab home with her.

Vaslav tells Seb that he thinks Scrabbler attacked dan and that’s the reason he’s been acting suspiciously. Seb says that Scrabbler doesn’t strike him as a violent person. Vas adds, ‘He’s been through a lot since he became EP. I wouldn’t be surprised if he finally hit out.’ Sitting on the sofa, Vaslav sees Scrabbler’s phone light up on the table. He can’t resist reading the text message. He is shocked by its contents. ‘I will keep your secret. Lotty x’

Vaslav gets the DUFF DUFF

COMING TOMORROW- NEW DAWN:


DSE producer was asked to describe the Dan attacker reveal in 3 words and said, ‘emotional’, ‘character driven’ and ‘well thought-out.’ He also teased that the episode would be called, ‘All of Me’ but wouldn’t give an episode number just stating that readers wouldn’t have to wait until the finale, ‘Stole The Show.’

It’s early morning in Albert Square. Ben watches from afar as his brother, Ian goes to the Mitchell house. He sees Sharon, still dressed in her navy nightie, kissing him on the cheek before letting him in. The camera pans inside the kitchen where Sharon sticks on the kettle. Ian asks about Phil. Sharon tries to hold it together as she states that he’s going to have to stay in for longer than expected because he’s picked up an infection. ‘Typical. You enter the place with one thing and they give you another’ Ian spouts as Sharon takes two mugs out from the press and throws a tea bag in each. Ian asks her if she’s attending the pub auction today. Sharon shakes her head stating that she’s got enough going on with Phil and the bar. Ian queries if she’d mind him going for it. ‘Ian, I have so many memories in that place. Happy and sad. But that’s all they are. Memories. There’s too many ghosts wandering about up those stairs for me to ever live there again. I just wish Lou, Pauline and Pat were here to see your name above that door. I couldn’t think of anyone better.’ Ian smiles smugly as he quips, ‘Don’t forget my mum.’ Ian says he’s go to dash as Jay arrives in and steals his tea. Back on the Square, Ben breaks the lock on The Arches and lets himself in.

Sez looks outside the window and sees Shirley asleep on the waste bags outside their flat. She informs Dean but he’s already seen her, ‘Tell me something I don’t know. Waste of oxygen.’ Sez replies, ‘She’s your mum!’ Sez leaves the flat for some chewing gum and is hounded by Shirley all the way to the shop, ‘Ask Dean if I can kip on the sofa for a couple of nights, will ya? I have nowhere else no go!’ she cries. Sez points her in the direction of the homeless shelter.

J-B is buzzing on the market and Kat quips that she hopes it was a legal high. ‘Love is my drug’ he smiles, ‘I have a date tonight!’ Shirley asks the market traders for some spare change. Kat tells J-B that she’s happy for him before asking him to mind the stall as Shirley falls over and twists her ankle. ‘Those boots will be the death of you’ Kat squeals as she and Winston try to lift Shirl up. J-B notices that IanMandy is very quiet as Sez and the rest of the market watch Shirley being helped into the café. Ian emerges and tells them she’s not going in there, she’ll scare away the customers ‘I dread to think what mess she has left the pub in.’

Masood is on his round and drops off a visiting order for Hilda and a card for Seb. Vaslav tries to read it but it’s in German and he assumes that it’s a belated congratulation on his market inspector post. Vaslav nose is hit by l’eau de body odour and he tells Scrabbler outright to have a wash, there’s no excuses for smelling that bad. Scrabbler states that he’s been snowed under at work and didn’t have a chance to wash after his workout at the new gym. Vas states he should use the showers at the gym, ‘The blokes that I saw there the other day were so fit that I almost took a membership deal.’ Scrabbler rolls his eyes, ‘We’re not all sex obsessed!’ Vas retaliates that maybe he wouldn’t be so tetchy if it hadn’t been so long since he got his leg over. Seb gives Vas the signal that it’s time for work. Scrabbler adds that maybe it’s time that Vas and his owner found a place of their own.

Dan is doing his exercises to strengthen his muscles. The nurses and therapist applaud him as he manages to walk by himself for the first time by a pushing a walker with wheels. Dan asks when he’ll be allowed to leave the neurology ward. The nurses assure him that he’s making great progress but not to get ahead of himself. Dan asks for a mirror as he hasn’t seen himself since he woke from the two week coma. He’s struck by his bald head appearance. When the nurses leave, he has a little cry to himself.

Zack calls in on Toni at the homeless shelter as Mona goes house hunting. Seeing Sorcha and Max moving Sor’s stuff across the Square, Mona asks Max who’ll be renting with Priscilla now. Inside the house, Priscilla is emotional as she wonders the exact same question. Over at the shelter, Zack asks Toni how she is, ‘I haven’t seen you in ages. Where have you been hiding?’ Toni states that she hasn’t passed the market since she gave her mum her things, ‘Los is back on the drink. He’s trying to hide it from us but I know. Sharon even told me that he bought some in her club. We ain’t had sexy times since either.’ Zack tells her to take care of yourself and not to let Paula keep her away from the Square, ‘You know where I am if you need me.’

Gary texts DS Wilder to meet him in Joanna’s Café later. He then treats Kim to a romantic afternoon in; accompanied by strawberries, Prosecco and rose petals. It’s all going swimmingly until he puts on some music to lighten the mood. Kim runs out and Gary is left perplexed. Elsewhere, Ben surprises Jay at The Arches. Jay asks what he thinks he’s playing at. Ben states that he’s come home, ‘Where’s my dad, Jay?’ Jay wipes his face as he breaks the news to Ben that Phil has cancer. Ben says he wants to see him and Jay is forced to fill in the blanks. Ben runs out as Jay shouts after him. Lola and Abi look on.

The Pub auction gets underway with the community centre decorated to make it look like a venue outside the Square. Ian and Denise are in attendance and as bidding gets underway, Ian gets into a contest with a mystery phone bidder. Ian proves no match for them but who is the new owner? Back on the Square, Ben is outside Hev’s old flat. He turns around to see Shirley sipping soup outside the shelter. He ducks as he runs into Mc Klunkeys. Kim explains to Gary that the last time she heard that song was during a Kimba class with Heather and Andrew and hearing it again freaked her out .Priscilla agrees to Mona sharing a house with her as Sorcha spends her last night there.

[This song plays in the background]

Seb tells Vas that it’s his birthday, disappointed that he hasn’t received anything having strongly hinted at it all week. Vas apologises stating that he thought the card from his family was about his new job. Vas promises to make it up to him and leads him upstairs…Ronnie and Max get steamy in the newly concealed gym office while Roxy and Dean get cosy in the salon as they clean up. Sez is coming to meet him when she catches them in a clinch but she doesn’t see Dean running off leaving Roxy standing awkwardly. J-B prepares for his date, whistling along to himself as he puts some wax in his hair.

Ian is shocked to find Ben on his doorstep. Over at the pub, the camera pans around the empty, dark bar. A key turns in the back door and the light switches on in the hallway. Footsteps can be heard as the camera moves back to give us a bird’s eye view of the bar. Two people enter and stand behind the bar with smiles on their faces, taking in the view from the other side.



COMING TOMORROW:

Janine and David pop open the champagne and toast their new business venture. Janine states that she wishes Pat was here and they reminisce about their fond memories of her. Janine insists that Tracey has to stay but the rest needs to be overhauled, ‘This place is a tip. I’m going to call in a cleaning company. I want this place to open tomorrow. The supplier will be here first thing.’ David ponders about decorating downstairs too, ‘I think if you wait until Friday, it will give us a chance to give downstairs a facelift and create a buzz for the re-opening.’ Janine nods in agreement as she looks around the place, ‘Someone’s got to catch Ian’s face too. That’s a must!’

Ian lets Ben into his house. ‘Are you here to see your dad’ Ian enquires. Ben laughs as he asks if there’s any food going begging, ‘Thanks for keeping me up to date on events here bro.’ Lucy gives Ben a hug as she comes down the stairs. ‘Nice to see someone is happy to see me’ he quips. Lucy tells him how she works for David and Max and how amazing it is. Ben jokes that they should get their own place. Ian is rustling up a sandwich in the kitchen, still trying to take everything in. Abi advises Jay to tell the rest of the Mitchells that Ben is back in town, ‘Get there before he does!’

J-B’s mum, Josie, is intrigued by her son’s dapper appearance. She sits perched up like a meerkat, holding her knees and watching his every move. J-B is polishing his shoes in the kitchen and she peeks her head out. ‘Ooh. Has someone got a hot date? Bout time you brought a girl home……**J-B looks at her with a half-smile before continuing to polish thoroughly** It’s not a man, is it? I mean you know it wouldn’t bother me. You can tell me you know. You don’t need to keep secrets from me. I brought you two boys up single-handedly and I’ll always support you whatever.’ His brother, B-J, shouts out that it’s time he came out of the closet ‘You have spent enough time in Narnia.’ J-B laughs out loud, ‘Says the one with the gay name who can’t keep a girl for longer than five minutes. Josie smiles knowingly at them both. J-B states that she’s a stunner from the market and he has decided to snap her up before someone else does. Josie gushes, ‘Ooh. I can’t wait to meet her!’ J-B asks how he looks as he prepares to leave.

Harlowe is extremely nervous for her date as she looks at herself in the mirror from every angle. She has a dress, tights, jacket and heels on. She scratches her wrist and begins to bleed from some sores on her hand. She takes some tissue from her other sleeve and holds it down on her wrist. She kicks the mirror in frustration. Back on the Square, Sez asks Priscilla if she has a room going spare now Sorcha and Eddy are moving out. Mona sits in the living room surrounded by all her things. Priscilla smiles, ‘You’re a lifesaver. What about Dean?’ Sez begins to cry as she sobs that she needs to get away from him.

Mo and Paula are already dining at Ian’s restaurant. Lauren is working but texts Zack about the surprise date she’s overseeing. Zack tells her to keep her eyes and ears opens as he goes to the homeless shelter to see Los. Elsewhere, Toni lies in a bubble bath. Gary waits patiently in Joanna’s Café for DS Wilder. He looks at his watch, sure she’s not going to turn up but as he gets up to leave, he is pleased to see her walk in.

Janine reminds David that she owns three quarters of the place as she asks him who they should employ. ‘I quite like Mick. I think he’s a good barman’ adds Janine. David adds that they’ll have to employ Carol, she’s destined to work behind the bar. Janine almost chokes on her salad, ‘Frumpy Carol? You are going to have to teach her how to smile and buy her a new wardrobe if she’s going to be working behind the bar.’ David snorts as he stuffs his face, ‘I’m not having her working for my brother in that greasy spoon any longer. And she smiles a lot thank you very much. Just not when she’s around you….Bianca and the kids leaving has given her a new lease of life.’ Janine smiles, ‘I suppose I don’t want the barmaids to look better than me. Do I?....I can’t believe I own the Vic or what about The Queen Patricia? Does that have a ring to it?’ David quips, ‘No. It’s got a massive set of dodgy earrings you pilchard. I’ll leave you to dream.’

Ben says that he doesn’t want to live with Sharon, ‘No one can replace my mum.’ IanMandy and Cindy arrive home and are taken aback to find Ben in the living room. They introduce themselves as Ian points, ‘As you can see. I’ve no room. We’re bursting at the seams.’ ‘Just like your shirt’ Lucy quips. Cindy adds that Denise just texted asking if there’s anything they need from the Minute Mart. Lucy fills in a confused Ben. Bobby asks Ben why he killed Heather leading Ian to send him to his room. An awkward silence prevails as Ian tells him that he should stay with Billy for the time being, ‘Get to know your daughter.’ Ben snipes that he knows where he’s not wanted and storms out.

J-B waits nervously in the Wok on Inn for Harlowe to arrive, his feet tapping on the ground. Harlowe soon arrives in and he’s bowled over by her. ‘You look amazing!’ he smiles as he pulls out her seat and offers to take her jacket. She says she’ll keep it on, ‘it’s quite chilly out there. Glad I don’t smoke.’ J-B smiles that he doesn’t smoke either and the conversation and wine soon begins to flow. After the date, they share a kiss under the lamppost which is lighting the street as they wait on their cab. Meanwhile, David tells Ms. Jackson that he has a surprise for her and takes her to the pub exterior. Carol is bowled over.

Scrabbler rings Lotty in his room. He tells her, ‘I can’t do this any longer. I can’t live with myself knowing what I’ve done. I have to come clean!.’ Across the Square, Dean reads the note that Sez left him as she was unable to tell him face to face. Sez and mona prepare their sleeping bags for the night. Over at the homeless shelter, Zack tries to talk to Los but ends up getting roped into helping out. Helping an unhygienic, filthy man is too much for him and he runs home to have a bleach bath.

Paula opens up to Mo mouse about her first husband, ‘He was an alcoholic who used to hit me. I still have nightmares about him. I didn’t leave him cos Toni adored him. He was bearable sober but the drink turned him into a monster. One night, I had to go to hospital. The beating was that bad. I thought he was going to kill me!’ she sobs. Mo grips her hand as Lauren eavesdrops on their conversation. At Joanna’s Café, Gary asks DS Wilder how she sleeps at night ‘You don’t care who you hurt as long as you have someone to pin it on. Which innocent person are you going to put in jail next?’ DS Wilder assures him that he’s got her all wrong, ‘I’m in contact with Hilda because I think she may have been behind the attack. And Bevis wasn’t exactly innocent. He took your sister’s body to the woods and helped bury her. He says he did it and his fingerprints are all over the murder weapon. What do you expect me to do?’

Carol H. opens a text from Janine inviting her to the pub reopening. Kitty asks if it’s him again. Carol retorts, ‘You keep your trap shut Kitty or you will be next in the incinerator!’’ Back on the Square, Abi can see that Jay is being overwhelmed by recent events and asks him if he’s spoken to Sharon. Jay begins to weep causing Abi to fret even more, ‘Jay. What is it?’ Jay, ‘I saw who attacked Dan! It was….’

Jay gets the DUFF DUFF.

COMING TOMORROW ‘GRUDGE’:



DS Enders continues Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

The episode opens with a sweeping shot of the pub as the finishing touches are put to the new downstairs design. Upstairs, Janine is making herself look presentable and attaches her earrings whilst looking in the mirror she’s hung up in the living room. She opens a box she’s managed to take over from her house and takes out a picture of Frank and Pat on their wedding day. She looks at it fondly before heading downstairs, sniffing the beautiful baking smell that is wafting through the air. Over at the car lot, David tells Max and Lucy that they need to go to the pub re-opening for a late lunch. Lucy remarks that her dad is fuming that he didn’t succeed in obtaining it. David smiles to himself while shuffling some files.

Lola is uneasy with Ben’s presence in Billy’s house. She tells her Pops that she’s going to tell Sharon he’s back in the hope he’ll move in there. Billy says that Sharon has enough going on at the moment without adding Ben into the mix, ‘She’s never even met him. He was arrested when she returned and she won’t want him under the same roof as Dennis.’ Lola whines that she doesn’t trust him with Lexi, ‘he’s damaged, messed up, whatever you want to call it. I’m constantly on edge when he’s here.’ Billy states that he can’t turn his back on family. Lola takes Lexi for a walk in a huff as Ben enters the room and starts pouching in the cupboards. Leaving the salon, Lola sees a dishevelled Shirl at The War Memorial and stops to chat to her.

Scrabbler arrives at Max’s door with a present for Eddy. Sorcha is extremely touched. Scrabbler, ‘Call it a moving in present. I was shopping with Angie the other day and I had to take it. You’ll have to send me a pic of him in it.’ Sorcha invites him in to give it to his godson. Scrabbler can’t get over how big he’s got. Abi and Jay lurk moodily in the background. Abi exits and Jay follows. Abi spits that Sorcha is such a slapper, ‘Did you see her flirting with him? He’s gay. It still doesn’t stop her!’ Jay asks Abi if she’ll keep the attacker’s identity under wraps but Abi urges him to go to the police. They stop mid conversation as Sorcha comes out the door and asks them both to be back by 6, she’s preparing a special dinner for the family. Abi smiles before giving Sorcha’s back the death stare.

Sharon’s with Phil in the hospital but she’s not getting much conversation out of him. She continues to make small talk and tells him all the pub gossip that’s circulating around the Square. Phil is downbeat and tears up as he tells her that he could be kept in for another week until he finishes the antibiotics he’s receiving through the drip. Sharon grips his hand and assures him that this nightmare will soon be over. Back on the Square, Carol Hanley is back much to Gary’s surprise. She turns up on his doorstep but states that it’s just a visit.

Tracey opens the doors of the pub and a crowd quickly gathers in, admiring the new décor. A new ‘Queen Victoria’ sign has been painted on the outside with an ‘Under New Management’ sign on the window. Sorcha is out for a walk with Eddy and bumps into Zack and Lauren who are on their way to the pub. Sorcha asks them both over for dinner tonight. Lauren looks at Zack, unsure whether she should agree or not. Sorcha assures her that there won’t be any alcohol served. Lauren reluctantly agrees before asking what time does she want her there. Sorcha smiles, ‘5’ and walks away excitedly. Zack asks what number stepmum Sorcha is. Lauren elbows him as they greet Lucy and Klen who are arriving at the same time.

Lola tells Shirley that she was in Roxy’s salon a few minutes ago and Dean is whinging about Sez walking out on him, only leaving a note so there’s a spare room going at his. Shirley cackles, ‘He’d sooner move a rapist or child killer in than have his mum in his flat…..He ‘ates me!’ Lola says she’ll have a word with him as she wonders how Ben has managed to escape her view. Shirley asks Lola how Phil is. Lola fills her in on the infection as they walk down the market. Shirley is melancholy as she sees the buzz about the pub re-opening but her eyes are attracted to the sign stating, ‘First drink free.’

Janine is keeping well-hidden upstairs as gossip gathers as to who the new owner is. Gary isn’t suspicious when his mum takes him to the pub opening for lunch. Ian is on tenterhooks at the bar with Denise trying to lower his blood pressure. Sharon sweeps in beside him, giving a wave to Carol and David who are standing at the other end of the bar. Dot asks Tracey for a medicinal sherry, informing Sharon that her mum is on the premises. There's a gasp and Ian almost gets whiplash as he turns his head towards the bar to see if it’s the new owner but Denise turns him the other way as Lola lifts a fallen Shirley off the floor. Dean looks on in disgust as Tracey rings the bell asking for hush. Silence falls as Janine struts into the bar. The camera pans around the room, Ian’s jaw on the floor.

Ben leaves Billy’s house and goes to The Arches but it’s locked. Ben makes his way to the pub….

Janine smiles as she inserts a dramatic cough before beginning her speech. ‘Thank you everyone for coming out today to the grand re-opening of The Queen Victoria. I think you will agree that this place has lost its way recently but I’m going to restore this place to its former glory. I’ve wanted to own this place for years and I’m pinching myself to be standing here today in front of you all. I think Sharon will agree that it’s a weird feeling…’ **she takes out a picture of Frank and Pat and places it behind the bar** I would like you all to raise a toast to Frank and Pat, who both ran and worked her for many years, my granny Lydia and David *puts arms out towards him in glee* who will be your new landlord. He owns a quarter of the place. **Ian spits in disgust** To Frank, Pat, Lydia and David.’ Janine gleefully approaches Ian, ‘Nice to see you’re still happy to pay for my services Ian. I will stay standing up if that’s ok with you,’ she winks at him as David joins her behind the bar. Ian goes to the little boy’s room as Sharon congratulates Janine and David, wishing them all the best. The place falls quiet once more as Ben walks in. Dean has to hold Shirley back as she goes for him. Dean takes an intoxicated Shirley home.


Sharon leaves through the other door upon seeing Ben and Carol follows her out. Sharon keeps walking as Carol struggles to keep up with her. Carol tugs at Sharon’s black cardy as she turns around in fury, ‘You can show up for a fancy pub opening yet I haven’t seen you since the wake. You disappeared without as much as a word. I have been going through hell. You know my fiancé’s got cancer, his murdering son is back on the scene, I’ve a business to run, a family to look after. All the years you’ve missed and still you can’t be bothered to be there for me. I want nothing more to do with you. I don’t need you in my life!’ Sharon fumes frantically as Carol begs her to hear her out. ‘Sharon, I had nowhere to stay. You’re a busy woman…I didn’t think you’d want me getting in the way.’ Sharon keeps walking and closes the door shut on her. Carol rejects a call on her mobile.

Sorcha is dismayed as no one shows up for the dinner she’s prepared, not even Max. Dean puts a blanket over Shirley as she conks out on the sofa. Janine asks Lucy to run her Property business, ‘David has nothing but praise for you. I hope you don’t hold grudges like your dad.’ Lucy is ecstatic and accepts instantly. Carol H. re-enters and Janine thanks her for coming before asking her to move in and be Scarlett’s nanny. Ms. Hanley is taken aback.


Mess Is Mine plays over the closing montage.

Sorcha leaves the table set with the cold meals and heads up to bed with Eddy. Ben sits crying outside the pub, he walks down the market and stares at Heather’s vacant flat. He walks towards it and sits in the front of the door. He bangs his head against it repeatedly in frustration. The camera pans inside to show dullagj2 squatting. He’s out of it on the (the exact spot where his sister lay dead) floor with a needle lying on the ground and a piece of rope around his arm.

Dullagj2 gets the DUFF DUFF:

COMING TOMORROW ‘DAMAGED’:


Producer dullagj2 has teased that the upcoming burglary will cause tensions to flare between certain families on the Square as the victims point the finger at the wrong person. Viewers will be privy to who carries it out.

He added that the selling of the pub has lead to the creation of many exciting, new dynamics to be explored, ‘As we approach the last ever DS Enders, these characters will be taken in new directions but readers will left to wonder where they’ll end up as nothing is ever plain sailing in Walford….’

A new poster with a razor, blood and a lipstick was also posted today on social network with the caption, ‘Explosive reveals ahead!’

Please feel free to leave your thoughts and opinions on the current stories and characters, positive or negative. 

Since when is scrabbler godfather?

Excellent stuff Dj

Since the christening a couple of series ago. Cheers Sorcha.


Janine watches as her name is put above the door of The Queen Victoria. Ian is talking to Peter at the fruit stall as David Wicks and Carol Jackson arrive around the corner, arm in arm. Janine claps excitedly as David reads the sign displaying the new owners of the pub. Janine looks over at Ian as she catches him glaring, ‘Bet you never thought you’d see the day Ian.’ Carol approaches Ian with David in tow, ‘I’m handing in my notice at the café. Can you call over to the pub later with my wages?’ Ian takes in a deep breath, trying to remain calm and reasonable ‘You’ll have to work your notice Carol. You can’t just leave me high and dry.’ ‘Watch me’ states Carol as she throws the letter at him. Ian looks at David who throws his arms up smugly in the air as if to say that it’s out of his hands.

Carol Hanley is round Dot’s to tell Gary about her new job and living arrangements. Dot asks about her wayward son, ‘My Nick will be unrepentant until the last gasp. Do you ever wonder what makes them do the things they do?’ Carol shakes her head, looking at the floor as she drinks her tea. ‘It’s funny you know that you have ended up living where Den and Angie brought up your little girl. Angie had her problems and Den couldn’t keep it in his trousers but she never wanted for anything’ Dot states as she puffs away on a cigarette. ‘I want to be close to my children’ replies Carol. Gary enters with a hangover and is surprised by his mum’s news. Dot laughs, ‘He was eating hash browns the other day and asked if I wanted one. I said my cannabis days are over.’ Carol looks at Gary with utter bemusement.

Lola watches anxiously as Ben plays with Lexi. Lola tells him outright that he needs to talk to Sharon as there’s no room for him here. ‘Getting in the way of your little family, am I?’ Ben snipes as he storms out. Vaslav is on the market complaining to Ian about the rubbish he has to clear up from his chippy every morning. Ian refuses to take responsibility stating they it’s not his fault that it’s popular and he can’t make his customers dispose of their waste, ‘That’s why we have a market sweep.’ Ben storms onto the market, heads straight for Peter and punches him, ‘You’ll never be Lexi’s dad.’ He looks coldly at his brother, Ian, before heading towards the Mitchells. Ian covers the stall, phoning IanMandy to cover Carol’s shift in the café.

Sorcha is still upset about the dinner no show. Max kisses her seductively promising that he’ll make it up to her but Branning dinners have a habit of going wrong. He nurses and plays with Eddy. Eddy giggles as Abi walks into the room. Max tells her she needs to find a job, ‘You’ve been repeating exams for eight years. Time to go out into the real world.’ Abi slams her way around the house. Upstairs, Jay pops a steroid pill.

Shirley thanks Dean for giving her a place to kip over the weekend stating that she doesn’t deserve it. Dean says she can stay as long as she promises to sort herself out and get her life back on track. Shirley promises that she will and is going to ask Ian if he has any jobs going at the café. Dean opens up to her about Roxy, ‘I really like her she’s a fun girl. What do you think of her?’ Shirley states that he could do a lot worse but she’s a Mitchell! Dean cries that they were getting it on last week but he couldn’t go through with it. ‘I’m damaged mum. I’m damaged and I don’t know how to fix myself!’ He sobs into her arms.

Hilda waits for Bevis to emerge from his cell. She’s taken over by emotion as he walks into the visiting room. They share an emotional hug before she asks why he sent her the visiting order. Bevis says he’s heard about her breaking the window of the doctor’s surgery and how she is trying to free him. Hilda wants to know how but he says that it doesn’t matter, ‘Mum, I’m not exactly innocent in all of this. I have to do the time. For my conscience if nothing else. I want you to leave the Square. Leave and get on with your life. The world doesn’t stop just cos I’m in prison. Go home and put this behind you.’ Hilda cries that he’s too hard on himself, ‘That husband of yours…’ Bevis looks at her discerningly, ‘Please mum!’

Also tonight, Pact Coffee open their shop with a special buy one coffee, get a second half price. B-J urges his brother J-B, to come out to his mum, he can’t keep her in the dark forever, ‘I’ll tell her when I want to tell her! I’m still coming to terms with what the doctor said. CherryRose comfort eats as she learns another one of her friends has got engaged. Los pours some vodka into his drink at the homeless shelter.

Shirley is beginning to tear up as she sees the state her son is in. He goes to his bed and lies there, crying, unable to stop. Shirley enters and sits at the foot of the bed. The camera pans out showing them reflected in the mirror. Shirley tells him Ben the murderer is damaged, millionaire Janine and her druggie ex are damaged, not him, not her son. Dean cries that he hasn’t been the same since he left prison, ‘I thought coming back here might help me but it hasn’t. I haven’t had sex since that prossie when I got out. It’s tainted. I get there and I just can’t do it. The memories….nightmares….they don’t go away….it doesn’t go away….all these years and I remember it like last week. A little cute, innocent boy going to prison. I was asking for trouble.’ Shirley weeps that she’s going to get him help, they’re both going to get better, she’ll make sure of it! Dean says he needs some air.

Dean ends up walking into Ben upon leaving the house, ‘Scum like you ain’t welcome around here.’ Ben laughs in his face, ‘Acting the hard man now are ya? Mummy’s boy at heart. Bet you took it like a little b!tch!’ Dean goes for him, Ben doesn’t flinch. Sharon is watching as Jay jogs past. Jay stops at Sharon to ask what’s happening with Ben. Sharon states that he’s staying with her, Ron and Rox for a few nights, Dennis is at Dot’s. Carol H. watches out the top pub window holding Scarlett as Sharon enters the gardens telling Dean to pick on someone his own size and ordering Ben home. Shirley hears the commotion and comes to the door, giving Sharon the death stare. Ben thanks Sharon but tells her that he doesn’t need her to fight his battles.

Janine, Carol J. and David enjoy their day behind the bar. Janine rings the bell calling last orders as Max makes the car lot look romantic for Sorcha with rose petals and candles. Dullagj2 is creeping around the Square looking for his next fix, he stares at the Range Rover before entering the Mitchells garden and breaking in the back door. He searches around for car keys, pouching through Sharon’s handbag on the worktop he pockets some cash. Unsuccessful in finding the keys, he tries to break into the Range Rover but ends up setting off the alarm. A startled Sharon is awoken and looks out the top window to see a hooded figure running through the gardens. She creeps downstairs with her GHD curlers and sees the mess that’s been made in the kitchen. The door lies open, her handbag on the floor with its contents scattered everywhere.

Sharon pulls her best DUFF DUFF face.

COMING THIS WEEKEND #110 ‘BLAME’:

Carol Hanley lives!

I hope you didn't nick Shazza's Rampant Rabbit Mr D.

Haha 0...0.


Sharon is in the kitchen talking to PC Collins as the police dust the crime scene for fingerprints. Ben, Ronnie and Roxy are mulling over last night in the living room in their jim jams and staring at cold tea. Ben is adamant that it is as a result of his altercation with Dean last night, ‘Shirley Carter put him up to this.’ Roxy rubs her eyes stating that she didn’t hear a thing, ‘What if Amy had woken during the night and wandered downstairs?’ A shaken Sharon lets the police out and enters the living room. Sharon states that they have to get an alarm for the house and no one tells Phil about this under any circumstances. Ben says that it can’t be a coincidence that this happens just as he moves back in. Sharon adds that the police think they were after the Range Rover, ‘He only took the money in my purse. Why would it have anything to do with you Ben?’ Ben shakes his head in annoyance and stands up, ‘It was Dean. I hope you told the police about last night’s incident. He’ll think it’s too obvious but this is just the start!’ Ronnie adds further fuel to the fire by stating that it wasn’t so long ago that Dean was blaming Phil for Kevin’s death, Sharon gives her the eyes knowing that Ben doesn’t need any more encouragement. Ben storms out and they follow….

Jay asks Abi if he heard about the burglary at the Mitchells last night but Abi is too busy involving herself in her dad’s latest relationship and making things all about herself. Abi is put out when she sees that Max has paid for an expensive spa day for Sorcha. She looks spitefully as Sorcha walks into the kitchen to get milk for Eddy’s bottle. Sorcha shows Abi the pampering voucher Max gave her last night. Jay pops another pill before leaving for work. On his way, he’s struck by the Mitchells outside Dean’s en masse. Elsewhere, Lola tells Billy that the rent’s going up thanks to their new landlord. Billy asks her if their second name is ‘Patel…..history has a habit of repeating itself around here.’

Dean is in the Minute Mart chatting to Denise as he buys some mags for the salon. Shirley answers the door to the Mitchell mob and as they explain themselves, she warns them to do one before she drowns Ben in the bath ‘And this time I’ll succeed’ she snarls. Ben is baying for blood and reminds Roxy that Dean works for her. They are heading to the salon when they spot Dean on the market sweet talking 0…0 who is setting up on her new pitch that used to be home to Pact Coffee. J-B is already at his wits end with a peg on his nose, ‘If only it was my nose that was failing’ he sighs as he sorts through his stock.

Ian is checking out the competition at the Pact Coffee store while Denise chats to Yam Man outside the Minute Mart. Peter is on the fruit stall chatting to his twin, Lucy, who is waiting for Janine to finish with the delivery man. Mick arrives for work with Linda on his arm as Carol H. stares out the window, still taking in her new surroundings. It’s not long before the market is gathered around Dean and Ben who are having a barney on the market. Shirley rushes out, pushing her way through the market extras. Kat asks Winston for some popcorn as Vaslav takes cover from the chaos. Jay tries to hold Ben back as he goes to punch a smug Dean, Roxy is facepalming hoping that her best stylist doesn’t hurt his hand in a punch up with her gay, murdering cousin. Dean laughs in Ben’s face that the police will have a hard job interviewing all his enemies, ‘It wasn’t me. I didn’t even know there was a burglary.’ Shirley reminds Sharon that her druggie brother was going door to door collecting for Phil’s cancer, maybe she should look a bit closer to home. Sharon hits her an almighty slap as the crowd gasps and Janine claps. Ronnie takes Sharon home as Jay and Ben head off towards The Arches. Roxy tells Dean that she still expects to see him at the salon this morning.

Ian is getting the lowdown on the scrap from Lucy whilst keeping an eye on Yam Man who is flirting with Denise. Yam Man tells her he’ll bring something from the morning glory family with him next time, ‘Do you like sweet potato?’ Ian warns Dean to keep his hands of his brother and it doesn’t go unnoticed by Denise who isn’t impressed with him. Bystander Mick states it must be hard for Shirley having to put up with her friend’s murderer back on the Square when she’s just lost the pub. Linda tells Mick that Sharon is her friend and she looked really shook up, ‘I just want to check she’s alright. Don’t tell Shirley. Will ya? You know what she’s like!’ Janine sticks the knife into Shirley metaphorically by asking her to come in and collect a bag of rubbish she left behind, ‘I suspect your brother’s dog will be looking for its toys’ Shirley smirks that they’re not dog toys as she passes 0…0 who is selling fish cakes, ‘Here Shirl. SHIRLEY. You look like a woman who enjoys a fish cake!’ Dean gives Shirley some money for cigarettes as they look at the Beales whispering about them.

Dean asks Lucy if she’s ok, ‘If looks could kill.’ Lucy states that he did time too, ‘Who are you to be casting judgements?’ Dean approaches them at the fruit stall with Shirley behind him while Denise slowly moves closer. ‘I didn’t kill an innocent woman with a young child’ Dean spits back in disgust. Shirley tells him not to waste his energy on them. Dean unleashes on Lucy stating that he wouldn’t have gone to prison if it wasn’t for the Beales and Lucy cavorting with Craig Dixon. Ian laughs. ‘Just like your mother. Always looking for someone else to blame. It was your dad that found the tape.’ Dean tries to hide his anger as Shirley takes him away. David is waltzing into the pub and Dean questions if they’re related. David replies, ‘No, I’m a Beale.’ The camera pans inside the Beale house to reveal IanMandy and Cindy in bed with each other as they both pull a sickie….

Also tonight, TheRedHood stares down at the spot Dan was attacked with a solemn look. Hilda informs Mo, Paula, Gary and Kim at breakfast that today will be her last day on the Square, she’s leaving. They are sad to see her go but they understand her decision and wave her off in a black cab.

Mona tells Sez that Shirley hasn’t been in contact since she moved out of the pub and Sez replies that either has Dean, ‘I need to stop with these obsessions. This is a chance for me to move on and get my life back. This is a chance for us to cut all strings.’ Mona weeps that she needs to start putting herself first and stop fretting about her idol who only cares about herself. On the Square, Priscilla blanks Sorcha when they pass each other, letting on that she didn’t see her. Denise summons Ian to the Minute Mart storeroom to talk about what she witnessed. She reminds him of when they got together in this very room and how he doesn’t show that side she loves enough. They end up rowing over Dean and the Yam Man as Denise admits to Shabnam that she doesn’t know if her future lies with Ian.

Sharon is grateful to Linda for calling round. Linda states that she doesn’t know how she’s coping, what with Phil’s cancer and his murdering son’s return. Sharon asks about the bar stating that she doesn’t know what she would do without her. Meanwhile, Abi calls to The Arches to vent further about Max but Jay drops a bombshell on her, he’s moving back in with Sharon because she doesn’t feel safe after the burglary. Abi leaves in a huff and he rings his supplier looking for more pills.

Abi steals the DUFF DUFF as she overhears the phonecall.

COMING NEXT #111 SHAME:

Abi sits at the kitchen table in her dressing gown with big, black circles under her eyes. Sorcha is putting Eddy’s bottles in the steriliser and notices her weary appearance. ‘You not get much sleep last night either?’ Sorcha yawns as she tries to strike up a conversation with her stepdaughter. She enquires if it’s because of Jay moving out but Abi remains quiet, scratches the back of her head and looks at the floor. Sorcha sticks the kettle on and sits down beside her, ‘I know it must be hard for you with all these women coming in and out of your father’s life all the time. I’m not trying to replace your mum but if you ever need someone to talk to, I’m here and I won’t tell it to Max. As long as you haven’t killed anyone. *laughs* Sometimes it’s nice to have a woman to talk to. I’m sure you have friends too but.’ Max walks in and the room falls quiet. Max states that he’s off early to strike up a new car deal. Sorcha gives him a peck on the cheek before he leaves. When he does, Sorcha walks back into the kitchen and Abi blurts out that she thinks Jay’s doing drugs…

Sharon is making some of Denny’s favourite sandwiches as Jay pops into the kitchen. He asks how she slept last night. Sharon says she woke with every little noise, ‘The police said that they’re unlikely to come back but it doesn’t stop your mind going into overdrive. What if they had come upstairs?’ Sharon looks quizzical as she sees Jay mixing up a shake. ‘You’re fine the way you are Jay and I’m sure Abi agrees’ she smiles as pops Denny’s stuff into one of his lunch bags and heads to Dot’s. Carol H. is on her way over and meets her coming out. ‘I haven’t got time to chat Carol’ she blankly states as she rushes by her. She watches Sharon hug Dot and enter her home. Denny can be heard shouting ‘Mum!’ in an ecstatic voice as the door closes.

IanMandy tells Cindy that he wants to tell everyone about their relationship. Lucy is sleeping in with Bobby, ‘I’m sure she’s heard us.’ Cindy tells him that Ian will go mad and send her back to Devon. They need to keep this between them. They go silent as Bobby walks in and asks if they saw his school tie, he can’t find it anywhere. Downstairs, there’s still tension between Ian and Denise as she states that he’s too lenient with Bobby and needs to reprimand him before he creates a monster. Ian almost chokes on his ham and cheese toastie as he replies that maybe that’s why all her kids left her. Denise leaves for work.

Ben tells Jay that he’ll help out at The Arches today, it’s the least he can do but Jay isn’t sure it’s a good idea. Ben begs him to give him a chance adding that it will help to keep him away from Phil….Sorcha asks Abi if she’s sure that’s what she heard as Jay doesn’t seem the type to do drugs. Abi sighs, ‘My auntie Rainie is an addict. I know the signs!’ Sorcha urges her to talk to him about it. Sharon tells Dot that she’ll leave Denny to school on the way to the hospital and thanks her for everything. Dot is heading out to church and sees Carol H. all on her lonesome and approaches her. She tells Dot that she’s blown it with Sharon, ‘Why would she want a stranger like me around her when she’s got people like you to support her.’ Dot smiles, ‘Sharon can be stubborn. Actions speak louder than words to her. Let her know that you’re there for her and be there when she needs you.’ Dot invites her to church but she declines.

Harlowe is distant with J-B when he enters the Pact Coffee shop for ‘coffee.’ J-B asks why she hasn’t been returning his texts or answering his calls, ‘I was worried about you!’ Harlowe can’t look him in the face as she states that she’s been really busy lately and her phone has been playing up. He asks if she’d like to meet up over the weekend but she can’t give him a yes or no answer. J-B leaves the shop in a downbeat mood.

Phil smiles as he sees Sharon. He asks about home but she doesn’t tell him about Ben or the burglary. Phil lets his guard down as he irately states that if they don’t let him out tomorrow, he’ll be discharging himself. Sharon is stern with him as she tells him that he can’t just up and leave, not after everything they’ve done for him. ‘I’m going mad in here Sharon. Staring at these four walls. I just want to go home. I just want things to go back to normal’ he cries. Back on the Square, Jay picks up his next package down an alleyway and pays the person.

Abi calls to the garage to see Jay but Ben tells her that he’s gone out on a message. Abi states that she’ll wait. Ian is in the chippy and receives a phonecall from Cindy’s school saying that she has been bunking off school which puts him in an even fouler mood. He marches home to the house. Off the Square, Max meets Sorcha in a swanky hotel that they have booked under Mr & Mrs Roundbottom.

When Jay gets back, he tells Ben to take his break. Abi wastes no time in getting down to business and asks him outright about what she heard. Jay argues that it was a business call, he’s been running this place single-handedly in case she hadn’t noticed. Abi sobs that he’s been very snappy lately and he can’t wait to get away from her. ‘Oh it’s all about you. It’s always about you. Isn’t it? Why don’t you try and put yourself in someone else’s shoes for once in your life! People don’t look at me the same round here anymore, not since what happened to Heather. Ben coming back has brought it all back for them too. Then, I have to deal with Phil being ill and seeing Dan get attacked and not knowing what to do. My head’s a mess and all you seem to be worried about his your dad’s latest floozy and bedtime cuddles. I’d do anything to have my dad back. You should be thankful of yours.’ Abi leaves in a pensive mood as the camera returns to the swanky hotel where Max and Ronnie are now in a state of undress. Ronnie almost calls him Jack but manages to save herself just in time.

Harlowe is on her lunch break in the back of the shop, sitting with a fretful look on her face. She goes to the toilet and pulls up her sleeves revealing sores, some of which are weeping and applies some moisturiser to them, trying not to scratch them. She can’t bring herself to look in the mirror. Across the Square, Sharon is cross with Denny who has got into trouble at school. Then, she finds Carol on her doorstep who offers to take him.

Ian storms into the house and up the stairs to see if Cindy is home but he’s doesn’t bargain for what he’s about to come across….

Sharon berates her ‘mum’ telling her that she is well capable of looking after her own son and maybe she should look for her junkie one, ‘who I suspect might have burgled my house. He’s got form, hasn’t he?’ Carol states that she’s just trying to help, ‘I know you’re going through a rough time at the moment.’ Sharon continues as she tries to put the key in the door, ‘When the going gets tough, you normally get going.’ Denny runs on in, Ben stands in the kitchen finishing off his lunch in his overalls. Carol snipes back, ‘Emily wouldn’t be dead if it wasn’t for you. She wouldn’t have set foot in this place. She came here looking for YOU…..*sobs* She wanted to get to know her sister!’ Sharon slams the door shut on her face as she yells at Ben to get back to work. Ben tells her to stop taking it out on everyone else, Phil being in hospital is affecting everyone not just her, 'You can't keep taking it out on us Sharon, it's not our fault.’ Sharon takes herself upstairs and locks the bathroom door. She falls to the ground sobbing and shakily opens a bottle of pills which spill everywhere…

Ian drags a half-naked IanMandy down the stairs, Cindy following swiftly behind dressing herself. ‘Get out. Get out of my house. I took you in when no one else would. I thought I could trust you. I let you into my home and THIS is how you repay me!’ Tears stream down IanMandy’s face as he weeps, ‘I’m SO sorry!’ Ian looks at Cindy in disgust, ‘Get out of my sight. I’ll deal with you later!’

DUFF DUFF: Ian closes the door and stands behind it looking up to the ceiling and catching his breath.

COMING NEXT 'REGRET':

IanMandy and Cindy wake up in Maurice’s flat. IanMandy thanks him for letting them stay the night adding that he hopes to clear the air with Ian today. Maurice states that it’s nice to have some company and not be rattling around the flat all alone, ‘Any plans for tonight? I here everyone’s heading to Angie’s Den.’ IanMandy looks at Cindy, ‘I haven’t been able to think that far. I don’t know if that’s because I haven’t had time to or if I’m afraid to!’ IanMandy takes his pills, ‘Most of our stuff is in Ian’s.’ Maurice offers to collect it but Cindy pipes up that they can go back when Ian is out.

Scrabbler is busy reading a script at the kitchen table. Vaslav pops up behind him trying to get a glance and startles him. ‘Does Cora appear? Any juicy stories coming up for her Scrabs?’ Skye asks if he likes it, sure it’s her best one yet. Seb walks in and asks Vaslav if he wants to go to the café for breakfast, his treat. Vas is out the door in a flash telling Skye she can have the gluten free bread in the toaster. Seb glances over at the others before leaving. Scrabbler waits for the door to close before stating to Skye that it’s taking them very long to find their own place. Skye quips, ‘They wouldn’t have money to splash out on slap up breakfasts then though. Would they?’

Lotty calls into Dan before she heads to the surgery. Dan states that they are letting him out on Monday but he had to tell a little white lie, ‘I said you would be staying with me. They’re not keen on me living alone with no help.’ Lotty is mad with him, ‘Daniel…..what about a rehab centre?....Just until you’re back to full fitness.’ Dan assures her that he will be fine but if the nurses ask her anything, then she needs to comply with his story. Lotty jokes that her husband will divorce her at this rate, ‘He sees more of the neighbours.’ Dan continues, ‘Every day I seem to remember a little bit more about the night of the attack. Can you ring DS Wilder to come and visit me?’

Dullagj2 remains in Dan’s flat desperate for his next fix. He shakes as he tries to dial his dealer’s number. Over in the pub, Carol H. is talking to Janine. She tells her that she’s blown it with Sharon, they had an awful row yesterday and she said things that she shouldn’t have. Carol enquires about her son, ‘When did you last see him? Sharon thinks he might have been behind the burglary.’ Janine stutters before stating that she doesn’t remember but surely he would contact them if he was back on the Square? Gary and Kim are loved up in the B&B as Gary receives a text from Janine. Kim sees it and gets the wrong end of the stick, ‘She’s gonna regret messing with ma man!’

Sharon calls a family meeting at the Mitchells as they prepare for Phil’s homecoming. Jay, Ben, Roxy, Ronnie, Billy and Lola all gather in the living room. Sharon starts by saying that she knows that things have been strained recently but they need to pull themselves together for Phil’s sake, ‘He’s going to be in recovery and we need to work together for his sake. That’s what families do at times like these otherwise they fall apart. We need to support each other.’ Lola looks over at Ben as Roxy nudges Ronnie asking where she was yesterday, ‘I called over to the gym twice and you weren’t there?’ ‘That scrote still working for you?’ spits Ben. Sharon looks at him as they disperse, she touches Jay’s arm asking him to stay a moment.

IanMandy is confronted by the sight of Ian on the market in a Wild West style showdown. Ian offers him money to start afresh somewhere else, ‘You’re a bright lad. I have a soft spot for you but you’re wasting your life around here. This is a chance for a fresh start. Take it!’ IanMandy is apologetic for his actions, ‘I didn’t expect to fall for her. She’s funny, smart and beautiful. I’m sorry Ian but I can’t give her up. I’ve never felt like this about anyone before. Finally real life is better than my fantasies.’ Ian states that they have until the end of the day to collect their things. Over at the shelter, Maurice queries Toni’s black eye but she insists that it was a drunk that got a bit heavy last night when she refused him entry.

Kim is first into the bar and accuses Janine of trying to steal her man, ‘Janice, keep your paws of my man. You hear me? You’ll regret the day you crossed Kimberley Fox.’ Janine fights back stating that Gary is just a friend. Gary rushes in as his mum enters the bar. Kim asks to read the text and reads it aloud, ‘Your mum is asking about dullag. Need you to call over.’ Carol demands to know what they’re keeping from her. Gary tells her that he hasn’t known that long but dullag was going cold turkey in Janine’s and he escaped on the day of the funeral, ‘We haven’t seen or heard from him since.’ Carol takes herself out back as she tries to keep her composure.

Sharon tells Jay that she’s worried about him, Abi’s been on the phone to her. Jay gets up to leave, ‘Ah not you as well. I thought you’d know better than to listen to her.’ Sharon adds that it’s only because they care, ‘Is it true that you saw who attacked dan? It must be eating you up, keeping that to yourself.’ Jay rolls his eyes asking if he can go to work now, ‘I want to finish early and go and see Phil.’ Sharon opens up about her own pill popping and states that it’s not the answer, ‘I won’t judge you Jay. I know what it’s like to be put through the ringer. You’ll do anything and everything to numb that terrible pain inside ya.’ Jay tears up as he leaves the house.

Dan thanks DS Wilder for coming, ‘I know who attacked me. It’s slowly coming back to me….’ Over at the surgery, Vaslav uses his appointment with Lotty to quiz her about Scrabbler. He states that he knows that she’s in contact with him, ‘He won’t talk to me. I’m worried about him.’ Lotty says that she cannot break patient confidentiality and he will open up to him when he’s ready.

Dullagj pulls back the blinds in dan’s flat, he goes to open the door but stops, not wanting to chance being seen in daylight. Meanwhile, Janine gives Kim and Gary a drink on the house. They are startled as DS Wilder arrives in, ‘Christopher Gary Hanley. I’m arresting on the suspicion of causing assault occasioning bodily harm of Dan. You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you may later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.’ Carol H. rushes out to the bar as Gary is carted away in the police car. Kim squeals that they’ve got the wrong man. Vaslav is coming out of the surgery and sees the arrest. Ben and Jay are also lurking in the distance having seen the police presence.

Vaslav rushes into the house and starts rummaging through Scrabbler’s drawers, still convinced that he attacked Dan. Gary waits until TheRedHood arrives before commencing his interview at the station. DS Wilder starts the tape and informs them that Dan alleges that he saw Gary’s reflection in his window just before he was struck from behind.

Gary gets the DUFF DUFF.

COMING MONDAY, #113 NIGHT OF SORROW:


The attacker teaser advertisement now contains the writing ‘Next week on DS Enders’ at the end.

The producer and writer of the series has also teased that the ‘All of Me’ episode is one of his favourite ever episodes as it encapsulates so much of the story that has driven the entire series, it’s heartfelt and I hope it translates the same way I have envisaged it to. The last episodes are a real roller-coaster with nonstop drama. It’s my aim for it to go out on a high whilst also giving sufficient closure to the various story strands that people have invested in.

Gary lies down in his cell, looking to the ceiling, contemplating what could happen next. His eyes fill up and he rubs them, not wanting to let them get the better of him. He paces up and down the cell as he reads the graffiti from previous inhabitants to take his mind of the situation. Outside, DS Wilder states that they will let him stew over night before releasing him in the morning ‘Dorothy Branning is his alibi. We can’t refute that. I know Dan’s game and it won’t deter me.’

Kim bursts into the living room at the B&B and asks who told the police where Gary was. Paula and Mo mouse look at each other as Patrick lies asleep on his armchair. Mo quips that Gary’s a good lad, he has nothing to hide. Kim goes upstairs in a huff. ‘What rubbish are we watching?’ Mo enquires. ‘Women of San Quentin’ yawns Paula. ‘Is this some kind of joke Paula? This is why you got the nickname ‘Radders.’ Isn’t it? You love taking the piss!’ Paula starts to caress his stomach as he gets worked up, ‘How’s about we go to the pub for a quick one? We’ll be home in time for Nude Nuns with Big Guns on the Horror Channel!’ Mo tells her to grab his coat as he runs out the door and across the Square.

Janine is pensive as she stands behind the bar. David tells her to go upstairs and get an early night. ‘Do you mind? Scarlett could do with a bath. She’s still up, the little witch had two naps today.’ Janine states gratefully as she kicks her shoes off in the hallway and heads upstairs. Carol H. and Carol J. get talking as Mrs. Hanley arrives down for a nightcap. David mans the bar and is pleased to see that Carol seems to be striking up a friendship. He hands them over a bottle of wine on the house and they bond over their troublesome kids, losing their youngest suddenly and having the same first name. Mo mouse gives Ms. Jackson a wink as he orders at the bar.

Sez and Priscilla persuade Mona to come on a night out with them. Mona is stubborn as a mule but they won’t take no for an answer. Cilla adds that she’s invited 0…0 and Skye along. Across the Square, Maurice has arranged a boys night out with IanMandy, Klen, Zack and J-B to Angie’s Den too. Cindy heads to Ian’s for the rest of her things having put it off all day. Sorcha and Linda prepare for another busy night at Sharon’s bar sans Sharon. Scrabbler is heading home after a long day at the office and greets the lads as they head in. Dullagj2 watches from the alleyway in search of his next fix.

Dan is taken aback when Jay enters his hospital ward and presumes that he has taken a wrong turn looking for Phil. Jay laughs and assures him that he’s got the right ward alright, ‘I want to know why Gary’s been arrested when you know rightly well he didn’t do it.’ Dan plays dumb and acts like he knew nothing about the arrest. ‘Thanks for ringing the ambulance Jay. I owe you one. Most people would have left me there to die.’ ‘Can you blame them? You’ll be glad to know you’re not the only gay murderer on the Square now Ben’s back. You two can bond over killing innocent young women’ Jay scoffs. ‘Wait. How do you know Gary didn’t do it? **Jay looks to the floor** If you saw who did it, why haven’t you gone to the police?’ Dan asks inquisitively. Jay says that he has to go and see Phil, he shouldn’t have visited him. Jay goes to walk away but turns around and cries, ‘I’m hated enough on the Square without putting someone away for attempting to kill you…..everyone thinks you had it coming to you.’

Mona is uneasy and uncomfortable in her surroundings. Priscilla gives her a drink to ‘neck’ and ‘calm her nerves.’ When a man winks at her, she feels like she’s about to have a panic attack and rushes out for some air. Sez and Linda are conversing at the bar as Maurice asks J-B to get the next round in. J-B stumbles to the bar almost landing in Sorcha’s cleavage. IanMandy is uncomfortable when they start to slag him about Cindy and he leaves. Zack urges Klen to get his own place, sick of him kipping in his flat. Maurice and 0…0 get acquainted but J-B warns him about Keyser who hangs around her worse than the fish smell.

Sharon is surprised to find Shirley on her doorstep. Shirley states that she wants to apologise for all the Ben stuff, ‘It mustn’t be easy holding this mob together with Phil in hospital.’ Sharon fetches an empty wine glass and takes her into the living room whilst texting Ben not to come downstairs. Shirley ponders what attracted them both to Phil Mitchell as she looks at an old photo of him with Sharon ‘He’s hardly catch of the century.’ Sharon weeps that she’s been more like a carer than a partner over the past month, ‘Sometimes I don’t know what to say to him so I just say nothing at all. I wonder what’s going on in his head half the time. When he was first diagnosed he opened up to Dot and Ian before he did me.’ Shirley says he’s a typical man putting on a hard front, ‘Now and again he lets his guard down.’ Sharon rubs her brow as she adds that she hasn’t had the courage to tell him about Ben yet, ‘He’s got enough going on. He’s due home on Monday and I’m dreading it.’ Shirley spits, ‘Tell the murdering coward to do one.’ Sharon tactfully changes the subject onto Shirley’s life and asks how she’s getting on with Dean. ‘Losing that pub is the best thing that could have happened **glugs end of wine**, running a pub is not all it’s cracked up to be and I’m finally building bridges with my son.’ Denny comes down the stairs and enters the living room, ‘Mum, I had a nightmare that a man was burgling our house again.’

IanMandy asks Mona if it’s ok if he sits beside her at The War Memorial as Ian berates Cindy over her recent behaviour at the Beale house. ‘If you get pregnant, I’ll be straight on the phone to Gina to take you home. You’re lucky I haven’t rang her already!’ Cindy bites back, ‘I’m not part of this family and I never have been. Don’t pretend otherwise.’ IanMandy comments to Mona how meeting your idol is epic but living with them twenty four seven is a different story as he shivers in the cold. Mona nods in agreement, ‘Shirley hasn’t even been in touch with me since losing the pub….I feel like I have lost so much of my life to her and for what? I will never get those years back. I’ve nothing to show for it.’ Mona begins to sob and IanMandy comforts her. Cindy pops around the corner, gets the wrong idea and backtracks tearfully to Ian’s. Back at the bar, Zack is worried when he learns about Toni’s black eye from Maurice.

Vaslav waits for Scrabbler in the dark living room as Seb has an early night upstairs. Scrabbler is startled by him and quips, ‘What? Are you auditioning for the next Bond villain? You’re just missing the white cat.’ Vaslav holds no punches and blurts out, ‘I know that you attacked Dan and Lotty is covering for you. You’ve been acting weird since it happened. Don’t deny it….Did you think you were avenging Ron and Emily’s death? I can see the headlines now ‘EastEnders producer charged with attempted murder. BBC soap in chaos.’ Scrabbler can’t believe what he’s accusing him of, ‘You know what Vassychops, I have had a really long day and week and I could do without coming home to an Mi5 interrogation in my own living room. I promise you that I didn’t do it but you can believe what you want.’

The gang head home from the club, J-B wanders off alone staggering from side to side. The girls; Sez, Priscilla and Mona stay up for the post-mortem of the night’s events but are startled when they hear a noise, knowing that Janine’s house is still vacant. IanMandy worries when Cindy isn’t home and the camera shows J-B’s warped vision as makes the long journey home on foot. Mona goes downstairs to investigate, hairdryer in hand followed by Cilla and Sez. They turn on the living room light and scream in unison as a hooded figure stands with their back facing them. He makes a run for it but Priscilla trips them up and pulls back the hood to reveal dullagj2. He stares at her coldly before brandishing a knife and demanding money. He scarpers as Mona hyperventilates into the hairdryer, Sez sits frozen on the ground and Priscilla stands open-mouthed in pure disbelief and shock. J-B is near the closed tube station when he walks out onto the path of an oncoming Turpin taxi. J-B lies on the road as the taxi man gets out.

DUFF DUFF: J-B’s eyes close in a close-up shot.

COMING NEXT, #114 HOMECOMING:

The urologist visits Phil first thing to let him know if he’ll be getting home or not. Phil is elated when he’s given the green light and gets in touch with Sharon straight away. He’s told that he will need to wear the urine bag for another few weeks and he needs to rest as the recovery will take another month. The camera pans to Dan who is sitting in another ward, waiting with all his things packed for Lotty to come and pick him up, eager to get out of hospital having been there for over a month.

Vaslav and Scrabbler remain quiet at the breakfast table as they both munch on their cereal. Scrabbler breaks the silence and reminds Vaslav of how convinced he was that Cora would be Sharon’s mother, ‘This isn’t the first time you have let your imagination run away with you.’ Vaslav is still convinced and states, ‘You were bound to fight back sooner or later. Gary and Bomani tried to kill you. I don’t blame you for attacking dan. The Hanleys have been through so much since Ron’s death.’ Seb walks in and kisses Vas on the cheek before asking if they can stop bickering.

IanMandy continues to try and get through to Cindy but she’s not answering his texts or calls. Knowing she’s due in school this morning, he lies in wait for her to leave the house. Elsewhere, J-B is fed up of his mum, Josie, fussing over him. Josie wants to know what he’s not telling her but he moans for her to leave him alone. Josie cries, ‘You could have died and I know those nurses were keeping something from me. I could see it in their faces.’

Kim is relieved to have Gary home but Gary is irate with the knowledge that dan lied to the police and tried to pin it on him. Paula is surprised to see Zack at the door. She lets him in and he opens up about his worries, ‘Maurice told me that Toni has a black eye and I know that Los is back on the drink. I don’t know what to do. I still see her, lying there, lifeless in the bath. It was me that found her you know and dragged her out of the water. It still haunts me. I can’t watch her suffer in silence. Not again.’ Paula tells him she’ll sort it.

[My Love plays in the background]

Sorcha is busy putting together a three course dinner for the Brannings, determined that nothing will go wrong this time. She sings along to Westlife as she begins her preparations. Lauren and Abi are unsure if their respective partners will make it as Zack has gone AWOL and Jay wants to be at the Mitchells for Phil getting home. Over at the Mitchells, Sharon is mulling over how to tell Phil that Ben is back as she prepares to pick him up.

IanMandy follows Cindy to the bus stop before confronting her. Cindy warns him to stop harassing her or she will scream. IanMandy demands to know what poison Ian has been dripping in her ear but she takes some earphones out of her pocket and looks in the other direction. IanMandy pleads with her to hear him out, ‘As if I’d give any other girl a second look when I’ve got you.’ The bus arrives and she hops on. Meanwhile, Ronnie chauffeurs Phil and Sharon home. Sharon is on edge as she contemplates when to drop Ben into the conversation, not wanting him to hear it from someone else or see him before she’s even told him.

Lotty apologises to dan for taking so long, ‘The traffic was murder.’ Dan is just glad to see her and asks her to take him home. When he walks back into his home, he’s plagued by memories. He looks at the state of the place, ‘Someone’s been squatting here. Look. It’s a tip.’ Lotty is apologetic as she says that she has to go to the surgery. Dan stands all alone in the centre of the living room as the camera pans out. Over at the Brannings, Max, Abi and Lauren all gather around the table for dinner. Sorcha is pleased that they have managed to turn up this time and serves up a vol au vent as a starter. They all tuck in but Lauren is disappointed that Zack hasn’t made it whilst Abi explains Jay’s absence with snorts and giggles.

Paula shows up at Toni’s door demanding to know what has happened to her, ‘Your drunk dad beat me around. I’m not going to let the same happen to you. Not over my dead body!’ Vald appears behind Toni with a stark look on her face. Vald is surprised when Toni lets her mother in. Vald seizes the opportunity to tell Paula that Los is currently at another AA meeting thanks to her. Paula spits back, ‘That explains my daughter’s shiner.’ Back on the Square, Zack tells Maurice what he’s done at the homeless shelter. Maurice asks to be kept out of it as he doesn’t want to fall out with Toni again but adds that her mother is the only one who can get through to her.

B-J tells J-B that it’s time he told mum the truth, ‘If you don’t tell her now, when are you going to tell her? It’s nothing to be ashamed of. It’s YOU who has to live with it.’ J-B is pensive as his mum continues to nurse him back to health. J-B cries for her to stop smothering him and breaks down. Josie tearfully looks into his eyes and asks what he’s keeping from her, ‘I NEED to know. I’ve all kinds of scenarios playing through my mind….each one worse than the one before it.’ J-B struggles to get the words out, ‘I’m going…..I’m……I’m going blind.’ Back on the Square, Vaslav is determined to find out what Scrabbler is keeping from him and uses his market sweep job to his advantage by spying on him throughout the morning but he doesn’t bargain on catching a heated confrontation between Scrabs and Seb in the market inspector’s office. He moves closer to eavesdrop on them and his heart sinks as Seb tries it on with his mate and asks for a ‘repeat performance.’ Vas sits in Mc Klunkeys as Scrabbler leaves and returns to EastEnders HQ.

Gary visits his mum who is distraught at her son being a wanted man, ‘Sharon’s never going to talk to me again. We have to find him……find him before he causes anymore damage.’ Priscilla, Mona and Sez all enter, trying to put a united front but still shaken by the event. Carol H. feels guilty for her son’s actions and can’t bring herself to look them in the eye. Mick makes small talk with them all and the Hanleys can’t help but overhear that dullagj is a wanted man and it’s only a matter of time before the police catch up with him and throw away the key. Over at the Mitchells, Sharon has found the right opportunity to tell Phil and is relieved that Ben isn’t home. Jay, Roxy and Billy are all there to greet him. It isn’t long for Billy puts his foot in it and lets the Ben shaped cat out of the bag. Sharon gulps as Phil looks at her and Jay shakes his head at Billy.

Carol moves in a quiet furtive manner out the back. Gary follows and she breaks down in his arms in the kitchen, ‘What have I done to deserve this? What have I done to deserve all this heartache? I don’t think I can take much more!’

Carol Hanley gets the DUFF DUFF:

COMING NEXT, #115 REVEAL:



#116 ‘All of Me’ will continue on from the reveal and allow us to delve into the minds of the victim and the attacker.

Phil demands to know where Ben is, furious that they have kept his return from him. Jay, Ronnie and Roxy return to work as Billy and Sharon tell Phil that Ben will be back soon. Phil soon returns to form and demands that Billy tell him if he knows what’s good for him as Sharon rustles him something up in the kitchen. As Sharon enters with a couple of sandwiches, Phil growls that he’s not hungry and wants to go to The Arches. Sharon states that he has to rest or he’ll end up back in there. Phil huffs that he’s been stuck in hospital for two weeks and he’s not going to be a prisoner in his own home.

Sorcha serves up a cheesecake for the final course, surprised how well the dinner has gone. Max quips that she’s in the wrong line of work as he gobbles it up. Lauren continues, ‘This is one for the history books. A Branning dinner that went off without a hitch.’ Abi snorts that it’s a pity Zack couldn’t make it, ‘He usually brings his own crockery and cutlery.’ Lauren retaliates, ‘At least I didn’t get stood up for Phil Mitchell.’ Sorcha asks Abi to help her clear the table as Eddy wakes from his afternoon nap.

IanMandy confronts Ian in the café but Ian states that if he’s looking for someone to blame then he should look in the mirror. IanMandy storms out with a revengeful look in his face. ‘It’s time Ian was thought a lesson.’ [Mandy’s voice] Vaslav sits in the corner of the café mulling over a cold mug of tea. Dan refuses to be kept in his flat and grabs his crutches. All eyes are on him as he hops down the market, IanMandy sees him and snipes that he bets he doesn’t even need those crutches. Dan ignores him and hops on. #DSENDERSLIVE He notices that the pub is under new management and goes to enter only to be confronted by the Hanleys…

Paula tells Toni to tell her what really happened her face. Vald is anxious for her to go knowing that Los will be home soon. Toni says that she slipped in the shower and hit her face, ‘I didn’t admit it to anyone because I was embarrassed.’ Paula looks her in the eye to test her resolve. Vald says that she can go now that she has found her answer, ‘You’re not welcome in this house.’ Paula asks Toni if she’s going to let her speak to her like that. Toni states that its best she goes as Los is just getting back on his feet following a relapse. But Paula has a few choice words for Vald before she goes…

Also tonight, CherryRose is upset when she can’t find anything to fit her on the market and comfort eats at her stall. J-B leaves Josie reeling and rings Harlowe, begging her to meet him. Zack frantically cleans the flat. Los is uplifted as the AA session breaks up and heads home with a smile on his face.

Ben is working at The Arches. Jay tells him that Phil is eager to see him, ‘It’s crazy. All you have done and he’d still take a bullet for you. It was like no one else existed when he learned that the prodigal son had returned.’ Phil and Sharon make their way over but Jay feels put out and leaves as the father and son share an emotional hug. Sharon notices and texts Abi. Ben cries that he’s sorry that he didn’t come back sooner but he was afraid of the reaction he would receive on the Square. Phil says it don’t matter as he scans the premises and thanks him for helping out while he was away, ‘You hold your head up high son. You have done your time.’

Sorcha thanks Max for getting the girls together, ‘I know they came for you. You should be very proud of them.’ Max quips that one is an alcoholic and the other has been repeating exams for five years. Sorcha pours the end of the wine bottle into her glass before cosying up on the sofa with Max. ‘I never thought I would find anyone after TK. I felt like I’d been buried with him and would never be the same again.’ The camera zooms in on a guilty faced Max. Across the Square, Vaslav tries to play it cool with Seb and not arouse suspicion as he ponders what to do with his new information.

Gary spits at dan that he’s not welcome around here anymore and Janine has asked him to tell him that he’s not welcome in The Queen Vic any longer. Dan states that Walford was his home long before the Horrid Hanleys rocked up. Gary asks how he could lie and tell the police that he was behind the attack, ‘Haven’t you caused this family enough pain?’ Dan laughs, ‘You know what, I got sick of you lot bleating on about how hard life has treated you all. Here’s news for you all, life isn’t a bed of roses and Emily wasn’t a saint. In fact, Sharon is the only saintly Hanley I have encountered but then she has had nothing to do with any of you her whole life. Funny that.’ Carol H. weeps that he’s a poisonous leech. Dan tries to rile Gary and gets up in his face, ‘At least when I attack someone. I get the right one, I finish the job and I don’t get caught….you were lucky you didn’t kill poor Angie.’ David emerges and holds back Gary having heard the commotion, ‘Clear off!’ #DSENDERSLIVE Dan slips off down the alleyway beside the Beales and is confronted by RedHood, ‘I’m a monster, a monster. I’ve turned into a monster.’ Dan looks at him with utter bewilderment.

J-B thanks Harlowe for coming to see him on her break. Harlowe asks what’s so urgent that it couldn’t wait, ‘I was worried when I hadn’t heard from you all weekend.’ J-B asks if he can crash at hers for a while as his mother’s smothering is overwhelming and he has nowhere else to go. Harlowe is hesitant, ‘We’re still getting to know each other. I….I don’t want to move too fast.’ J-B assures her that it’ll be just as friends nothing more and she relents. Elsewhere, Lauren is quiet with Zack as she returns home. Zack continues to manically clean the place stating that it’s like living with a pair of animals. Lauren states that his OCD has got out of control, ‘I’m afraid if I put something back in the wrong place or leave a few crumbs on the sofa you will have a meltdown. I can’t live like this. If it wasn’t for the sex, we would have broken up ages ago.’ Zack slips to the shiny floor as Lauren goes to the bedroom and packs an overnight bag.

Paula tells Vald to keep her beak out, ‘I don’t think it’s healthy how much influence you have over them. Toni, I urge you to leave this witch’s coven as soon as you can.’ Vald bites back that she shouldn’t have abandoned Toni for being a lesbian if she wanted to be a part of her life! ‘We all know what happened with poor Ken.’ Paula turns on her heels, ‘How dare you! Where are your sons? Nowhere to be seen. Why don’t you look at your own front door before you stick your nose into everybody else’s! I think your relationship with Los, Valerie, is beyond creepy.’ A scrap soon escalates in the front garden and it’s left to Toni to separate them. Vald picks her false teeth and hearing aid up from the ground as Toni lifts her mother’s fake hairpiece and hands it to her, ‘Mum. I’ll be in touch. Please leave.’ Both women look like they have entered a Worzel Gummidge lookalike competition. Paula gives a death stare to her new nemesis and leaves. Back on the Square, Dan tells RedHood that he’ll have to be more specific. Red states that he’s sorry for walking past his body after the attack and not doing anything, ‘I should have called an ambulance. I’m glad you have recovered.’ Dan laughs and returns home. He sits down and sticks on his wedding video for the first time. He hears a knock on the door and assumes that it’s RedHood again, leaving the video playing. He answers it. #DSENDERSLIVE ‘I was wondering when you would have the nerve to show your face. I’m afraid I’m still breathing despite your best efforts.’

LIVE DUFF DUFF


COMING NEXT, #116 ‘All of Me’:

[Dan leaves dullagj standing at the door and returns to the sofa to watch his wedding day video. Dullagj enters cautiously, shutting the door behind him. Dan gestures for him to sit beside him, his eyes remaining focused on his television. Dullagj walks awkwardly towards the sofa and sits on the edge]

Dan: Look. This was meant to be the happiest day of my life but it was ripped away from me.

[All of Me plays in the background of the video as dan’s eyes fill up. He turns off the television and looks towards dullagj]

Dan: Come here to finish me off, have you? Are you not wondering why I haven’t shopped you to the police?

[Dullagj visibly shakes and dan throws him a blanket to keep warm]

Dan: Were you squatting in my flat too? I guessed so. A bit sick to squat in the flat your sister died in.

[Dullagj coughs and gulps as she prepares to speak]

Dullagj: Can I have a hot cuppa? I’m gasping.

[Dan laughs in disbelief]

Dullagj: How do you know it was me? How do you know it was me who attacked you?

Dan: I saw you. I saw your reflection in the window as I tried to put the key in the door and I’m all out of teabags, ain’t had a chance to pop to the shop in case you hadn’t noticed. I only got discharged this morning…..[dan looks at him with bewilderment]….You look like you’re gasping for more than a cuppa.

Dullagj: Why didn’t you tell the police?

Dan: I know you only have one more strike before they throw you in the slammer. I don’t want that. I don’t think that’s justice. Look at the amount of people who reoffend when they are released. They need help and they don’t get it.

Dullagj: They’re looking for me anyway. The police. I robbed the Mitchells and Cilla’s for a measly few quid. I’m in debt to every dealer in the borough.

Dan: I may as well be in jail. The lynch mob are already out with their pitchforks. I can’t stay around here but I’ve nowhere else to go. Lotty is the only person I can trust. If I didn’t have her, I would have nothing. All my life, she’s been there for me when no one else was. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for her. I’ve let her down big time.

[Dan holds back the tears]

Dan: Bevis’ mum threw a brick through her window. Do you know that? I hate that she’s suffering because of me. If I leave, it will be for her and not because of them.

Dullagj states blankly: You killed my sister. Have you any idea of the pain and hurt you have caused? What you’re feeling right now, multiply it by a billion and you will only have an inkling of how we feel. The sorrows I have seen. Why do you think I fill my veins with this sh!t every day? *sniffs* I can’t bear to live with myself. You know what. [smiles] I didn’t attack you because of what you did to my sister. I wanted your money. Pure and simple. You were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Janine had me going cold turkey in her attic and I escaped. I lost track of the days but I was possessed. I didn’t and don’t care who I hurt. I can’t be helped.

Dan: I thought it was for killing your sister. I had literally just confessed to killing her at her wake in front a packed pub. I had nothing to lose. It may sound silly but if it wasn’t for EastEnders, I probably wouldn’t care if I dropped dead right this second. When I have a near death experience, the first thing that enters my mind is what was the last EastEnders episode that I saw; I frantically search through the banal every day stuff to try and remember what happened and who got the duff duff; what upcoming stuff I will never get to see. I’m over a month behind thanks to your little psychotic episode so if you kill me, can you make sure that Lotty sticks my Tivo box in my coffin with me?

Dullagj: If I was going to kill you, I would have by now. What have I got to live for? I struggle to put two feet in front of the other most days. My life ended the day my son died. Those words the paramedic uttered, are etched somewhere in my brain. I wouldn’t let them stop. I willed him back to life but he just lay there lifeless. That little boy who had consumed my every thought for two years, my son, my flesh and blood and he was just torn away from me and it was all my fault. I should have been watching him, ME. *cries* I’ll never be able to change that. I’ll regret it for the rest of my life. I had to be the strong one. Men don’t cry. She wailed and cried for weeks…months….no one asked how I felt. I think she secretly wished it was me in that coffin. I remember opening the fridge and collapsing to the floor. I came around, and staggered upstairs, knocking everything in my path. No one was there but for that one split second, I forgot about what happened and I wanted that feeling again. I craved it. The pain was killing me.

Dan tearfully adds: Sometimes you get put in awful situations and you don’t know what to do. I never planned to kill your sister. I’m not a bad person. She was holding me hostage and I hit her to get free. I didn’t think I killed her but in that split second, I made the stupid decision to conceal it. I placed her in the wardrobe before deciding what to do. I told Bevis and asked him to help me. I couldn’t do it alone. But for the months that followed, I was a mess. I couldn’t sleep. I will have to live with it for the rest of my life. For what it’s worth, I wish it was me who died that day. I’m sorry for taking your sister away from you.

Dullagj: I was her older brother. I should have been there for her more. It was my job to protect her and I failed. Like I fail with everything. At least when I’m homeless, I hurt no one but myself. I stop myself getting in situations where I can hurt people.

Dan: It hurts them that you’re not with them Jon. I’m sure of it. You may as well be dead. Get help. You CAN be happy again. Janine’s got the pub now, you know and it looked like you were a great father figure for Scarlett.

Dullagj: It’s too late now. I have ruined it all.

Dan: I’m sure you can talk them round.

Dullagj: You didn’t see the look on the girls faces. They disturbed me. They were petrified. I was wielding a breadknife for god’s sake. It’s over and it has been for a long time. My life ended the day my son died.

Dan: You know what? You get showered and stay in the spare room. Tomorrow we’re going to put the world to rights. It’s never too late. This is a new start for both of us.

Dullagj: Why would you want to help me? ….I left you for dead.

Dan: I owe it to you and your family. It’s time I started doing some good around here. People will never forget what I did but I don’t want that to be a lasting memory.

[Dan sits up watching EastEnders while the camera pans on the alarm clock as time goes by. It stops at 2.50. Dan is now snoring on the sofa with EastEnders still playing in the background. Dullagj is itching and sweating in the bedroom and gets up for a glass of water. On his journey to the kitchen, he spots dan’s wallet. In mental turmoil, he looks over and back; in need of another hit. He creeps towards the wallet but dan wakens from his sleep as dullagj pouches through his wallet. Dan rubs his eyes and looks at him.]

Dan: It’s like that, is it?

[Dan lunges for dullag who grips the wallet firmly. A tussle ensues. Dullagj soon gets the upper hand and nails dan to the floor.]

Dan: This is the spot your sister lay dead. Go on! Finish me off once and for all, you know you want to.

Dullagj: I am better than that and I know it’ll much harder for you to get through the rest of your life. I won’t give you the coward’s way out.

Dan: I will give you a five minute head start before I ring the police.

[Dullagj spits in dan’s face before getting up and making a run for it. The doors remain open as dan lies breathing heavily on the ground. The duff duff drums commence on the television.]

DUFF DUFF: The camera pans out the door and up to the sky full of stars.

COMING NEXT #117 ‘LOSING YOU’:

Dan is surprised to see that Pact Coffee now have their own store and enters. He remains uptight as the glares and stares from the extras don’t go unnoticed. He makes small talk with Harlowe and leaves. Harlowe informs J-B, who is next in the queue, that his mother is on the market looking for him according to 0…0.

Cindy bumps into mona on her way to school and asks why she was kissing her boyfriend, IanMandy. Mona is dumbstruck and hisses that she wouldn’t touch him with a ten foot bargepole, ‘Ugh!’ Cindy turns on her heels and goes back to the house. Elsewhere, Max quips to Sorcha that he feared Lauren was going to move back in, ‘Bet she hasn’t had a decent homemade meal since she left.’ He kisses Sorcha and heads off to work. Sorcha yawns loudly, tired from her late shift in Angie’s.

Los goes to the B&B before work to tell Paula to keep away from Toni. Paula admires him and says it must have took balls to do it but he can’t keep her away from her daughter. Meanwhile, Lauren is back at Zack’s but she’s irate when she discovers that he’s watched the first four episodes of Wentworth season two without her, ‘I recorded that for us to watch together’ she squeals. Zack receives a text from Maurice, ‘Boys night out. Angie’s @ 10.’

Seb wonders why Vaslav is so quiet. Vaslav is forced to conjure up a lame excuse and sniffs that his aunt Bambi is poorly. Seb laughs at the name leading Vaslav to sigh that no one believes him when he says that he has an aunt called Bambi. Across the Square, Ben tells Phil that he’s sorry he hasn’t been there and he wants to make it up to him by proving himself at The Arches. Phil smiles. Sharon discreetly puts their bedclothes in the washing machine in the background.

Dan brazenly enters the pub but he hasn’t time to utter a syllable before Janine points towards the exit, ‘You are barred.’ Dan is surprised at Janine and adds that she’s no angel herself. Dan revels in telling the Hanleys and Janine that he had an interesting conversation with dullagj2 the other night, ‘Very revealing indeed. Ironic that he opened up to me, don’t you think?’ Carol doesn’t believe him and Gary warns him to leave before he throws him out. ‘Your son attacked me after SHE *points at Janine* locked him up in her attic. He robbed me the other night, just like he did Sharon and Cilla. I’ve let the police know. He won’t be squatting in my flat any longer He’s a dead man walking.’ Dan leaves as Carol stands open mouthed and Janine tries to keep a tough upper lip.

Cindy tells Ian that she was mistaken and she’s going to make it up with IanMandy. Ian issues her an ultimatum, warning that she won’t be welcome on this Square if she reunites with him. Cindy cries that he was happy for her to share a room with him and callously tells Denise about Ian’s hidden cash stash, ‘and it ain’t around his midriff!’ Ian’s eyes narrow towards Cindy who storms out. Denise pulls back the floorboard which reveals a wad of cash and demands an explanation.

Vaslav runs over to Lotty outside the surgery and tells her that he knows Scrabbler’s secret but he is confused at why she would keep it for him. Lotty think he’s trying to call her bluff but when he states it outright, she admits that she did it because it was a silly mistake that Scrabbler made and he didn’t want to ruin your friendship, ‘He really values it.’ Inside the Brannings, Sorcha is sorting through Max’s dirty washing and remarks a lipstick stain on one of his shirts. The colour doesn’t match hers and her suspicions are piqued. She carefully examines the rest of things before putting them in. She watches the clothes going round, tears fill up in her eyes.

[ Gold plays in the market]

J-B frantically searches the market for his mother, worried who she may have found to tell embarrassing stories to. He breathes a sigh of relief as he catches her talking flowers with CherryRose. ‘There you are. Can you see me? What colour am I wearing…no wait, how many fingers am I holding up?’ J-B tries to keep a level head, ‘You see. This is why I didn’t tell you. I knew you would react like this!’ Josie apologises and asks him to come home, ‘Where are you staying?’ He states that he’s kipping at Harlowe’s which leads to another flurry of questions, ‘It must be getting serious then!’ J-B sorts through his stock as he continues to listen to her stream of consciousness. She looks through his stock, ‘How do you make an honest living selling this tat. Do people really buy it?’ She buys some fish from 0…0 and tells J-B not to be a stranger, ‘Come home son. We’ve lots to talk about. B-J tried to explain it all to me but it’s like an episode of Would I Lie To You? With him. I don’t know what’s lies or truth. Bring your girlfriend, it would be nice to meet her. I promise I won’t embarrass you…at least.I’ll try not to…no baby photos or home videos.’ A shocked 0…0 quips, ‘I thought I liked to talk.’

A man called Gavin turns up outside the pub looking for Carol. David is collecting glasses and presumes that it is his Carol [Jackson]. ‘Kitty told me she would be here. You must be her latest toyboy. That tramp doesn’t waste much time. Knickers like a yo-yo.’ David punches him to the ground. Peter waddles over to see what’s going on and ushers his uncle inside. Carol H. is inside the pub and assumes that he’s hit Dan. She’s startled when he states that it was some bloke called Gavin. Cora is passing with an e-cig, sunglasses and skyscraper beehive. She almost trips over Gavin, not looking where she’s going. She helps him up from the ground. Clearly smitten, she takes a tissue from her sleeve and gives it to him for his nose bleed. She puts out her hand for a handshake, ‘Cora. Cora Cross.’ Gavin enters but Carol Jackson covers for Ms. Hanley and states that she’s the only Carol who resides there.

Zack drops the bombshell that he’s going on a lad’s night out tonight. Lauren asks why the girls aren’t invited. Zack replies that she should organise a separate one for the girls. ‘This is because we argued over going home last time, isn’t it? They tried to make you stay and made out like I was forcing you to go home.’ Zack laughs that she’s overthinking it. Lauren cries, ‘How do you think I feel when you come home smelling of alcohol and want sex?….the mere smell of it could cause me to relapse. I taste it on your lips but I put up with it. It’s all take, take, take with you and I’m sick of it. I have had enough….what would happen if a smelly baby was introduced into this set-up? Dirty nappies and toys everywhere. Uh?’ Zack retaliates that he barely drinks because of her and is allowed to let off some steam now and again, ‘I do give. I just don’t make a big fuss about it. I’m afraid to leave drink in the house in case you fall of the wagon.’ Zack slams the door on his way out as Lauren stands sobbing.

[Montage 'Love You Like I'm Gonna Lose You’]

Los kisses Toni at the shelter and tells her that he’s decided against genital surgery and he wants them to get their own place. IanMandy and Cindy reunite. Phil tells Sharon that he’s set a date for the wedding and has organised a meal for two at the Chinese restaurant tonight. Denise packs her suitcase as Ian sits on the floor downstairs pulling out his hair. Sorcha looks at Max desperately hoping that she’s wrong. J-B and Harlowe feed each other chips on their lunch break and he notices sores on her inner wrist. Lauren sits alone scrolling through pictures of Zack and her on her phone. Dullagj turns up at the cellar and startles his mum when he sneaks in the back door. ‘Mum, please help me!’ Vaslav watches as Seb shaves off his stubble beard in the bathroom, ‘Was I not enough for you? Uh? Is that why you had to sh@g my best mate? I have tried to forget what I heard but I can’t. It just keeps going round and round in my head. You make me sick. They both of you do!’ Vaslav grabs the razor out of Seb’s hand and holds it to his throat. ‘I’m going to make you pay!’

DUFF DUFF: Vaslav & Seb [The mirror shows Vaslav holding the razor to Seb’s throat]

COMING NEXT #118 ‘HURT’:


#4episodestogo

Carol Hanley’s brow furrows as she ushers her son into the barrel store. She’s taken aback by the sight of him. He asks her to score for him, ‘Please mum. I need a hit!’ Carol’s face creases up with sadness. Her mind races. She stutters before telling him to stay hidden behind the barrels until she comes back.

Vaslav is still holding the blade to Seb’s throat, ‘This is like the one they use in the barber’s. Only the best for Sebastien, eh? All the better for slicing you with.’ Seb gulps, the sweat running down his face ‘Put the razor down Vas. Hear me out.’

Ian sits alone in the dark. Bobby enters and asks if he’s alright. He draws the curtains and turns on the light before comforting his dad. ‘You’re all I have left, Bobby. Everyone else has left me.’ The camera pans to a bewildered Bobby, ‘What about Lucy?’ Ian cries ‘Janine’s given her a flat for free. Denise has walked out on me. Peter’s happy with Lola. I have burnt my bridges with Cindy and IanMandy.’ Bobby promises not to leave him.

Sorcha asks Lauren to babysit Eddy for the night and drops an overnight bag over. Lauren is more than happy to oblige. Klen rushes in and it’s clear that he’s been crying, ‘Lucifer Beale has dumped me by text. I went round to her new flat and she wouldn’t let me in. B!tch. I’m out of this sh!thole. There’s nothing for me round here anymore.’ Lauren smiles to herself as she gets Eddy settled. Sorcha returns home. Max swiftly makes his excuses and leaves. Sorcha follows but loses him when he hops into a car outside the car lot.

Vas takes the razor away from Seb’s throat and retreats to the edge of their double bed, tears dried in on his cheeks. Seb catches his breath as he looks into the mirror to see Vas broken on the bed. Seb edges towards him closely afraid of what he might do next. Vas cries, ‘Why did you cheat on me?’ Seb tries to sweet talk him and say that it was all Scrabbler, unaware of what he overheard. Vaslav slyly tells him to open the wardrobe with narrow eyes. Seb opens the wardrobe and sees all his designer shirts, ties and trousers have been cut to pieces. ‘Fick dich Sebastien. Fick dich’ Vaslav spits. ‘Get the f*ck out of this house before I slit your throat!’ Sebastien packs his things or what’s left of them as Vaslav goes into the front garden for some air.

J-B and Harlowe crack open the red wine to celebrate the weekend. With the drink flowing, it isn’t long before J-B opens up to her about his blindness. ‘I’ve got RP. It means I’m slowly going blind. I’ve tunnel vision at the mo. My night vision is really poor, that’s why I got hit by the taxi. The docs don’t know how quickly it will progress. I only found out that I had it six years ago when I was trying to get my driver’s licence. They said my eyesight was too bad. That’s why I don’t drive and I only told my brother cos he was slagging me. My great great grandad had it and they said I could pass it on to my own kids.’ Harlowe tries to take in all the information, ‘You don’t look like you’re going blind…..my problem seems trivial in comparison. No one’s ever opened up to me like you have. I tend to close myself away afraid to let people in. Afraid of the hurt that it may cause.’ J-B states that she can talk to him.’ Harlowe cries and she takes off her jumper to reveal her arms which are full of weeping sores and cuts. J-B looks but she’s unsure how much he can see. ‘Har, tell me you ain’t been slicing yourself!’

Receiving a text from Lotty, Scrabbler is afraid to enter his own home and sits outside the pub. A broken Sorcha wanders over and sits beside him, ‘I think Max is cheating on me. I know the signs better than anyone. I should’ve known he wouldn’t change for me. I foolishly believed that I would be enough for him.’ They head inside for a drink and continue their conversation/Sorcha’s monologue there. Eagle-eyed Vaslav watches.

Scrabbler and Sorcha continue to talk inside. Janine serves them and wonders where Carol Hanley has got to. Carol Jackson is behind the bar and Scrabbler tells Sorcha to talk to her. Sorcha tells her that she thinks Max may be cheating on her, ‘Could you ring him? He just upped and left without saying anything. Has he said anything to you?’ Carol tries to get through to him but he rejects her call. The camera pans to him alone in a hotel room. Back in the pub, Sorcha’s lip quivers and her hand shakes as she takes a slug of her drink. Scrabbler tells her to keep her chin up, ‘There’s always people waiting for you to fall. Don’t make it easy for them.’ As they finish their drinks, they head home. Vaslav greets Scrabbler when he returns home. ‘I know all about your little fling with my German beau Scrabs. He’s gone but I’m willing to hear you out.’

Harlowe finishes off her latest glass of wine before telling J-B that she doesn’t harm herself, ‘Well not on purpose. I can’t help it. I get an itch and I have to scratch it. Eczema they call it. I wake up in the morning and I have ripped my skin to pieces. Dried blood in my nails, skin and sheets. Sore and raw. I do what the specialists tell me and I get nowhere. I still have to look at this disgusting skin of mine every day and then, I’m conscious of other people seeing it. I was in the supermarket once and the checkout lady asked if I had chickenpox. It makes me feel so self-conscious. That’s why I cover up all the time. I’ve had since I was a baby but I always hoped it would go away. Only 25% carry it to adulthood or something like that….I’m now resigned to having it for life. It may not seem like a big deal to others and may not be compared to their problems but they don’t see the psychological impact of living with this has on me. The never ending daily cycle. I’d do anything just to have normal skin. It makes me anxious, distressed and depressed.’ J-B comforts her as she breaks down. They share a lingering kiss. As he holds her face to his, he tells her that she’s beautiful.

Zack stumbles home early half cut and hurts his foot on a toy brick. He’s taken aback to see kids toys and things all over the living room area. He pinches himself thinking that he’s walked into some kind of nightmare. He falls on the sofa and closes his eyes. Ronnie joins Max in the hotel and it isn’t long before they’re getting passionate. Back on the Square, Sorcha rummages through all Max’s things and finds a number for a hotel. She rings it and asks if a ‘Max Branning’ is staying there. They confirm that he is and she books a taxi there. She arrives and books an overnight room.

Scrabbler promises that it was a one-night stand and he has regretted it ever since, ‘It was the day of Emily’s wake and I was feeling down. He approached me at the swings. He kissed me passionately and Lotty saw us. I can’t remember the last time a man showed an interest in me. We went back here and one thing led to another….**sniffs as Vaslav looks at him with tear-filled eyes**. I haven’t been able to look you in the eyes Vas. I’m so sorry….Hit me. Go on. I wouldn’t blame you.’ Vaslav remains surprisingly calm and states, ‘Thanks for letting me see his true colours Scrabbler, He would have cheated on me sooner or later. I’ve packed my things. I hope you will understand but I can’t stay any longer. Scrabbler begs him to stay and says that there’s still a place for him on the EastEnders team. A bemused Skye arrives home to find Vaslav leaving with his suitcase. Scrabbler is left to explain what happened as Vaslav calls to Cora in his hour of need, ‘Any room for a little ‘un?’

Hurt plays in the background.

Carol returns to dullagj in the barrel store but she hasn’t got any drugs for him. Janine is taken aback as the police arrive in the bar and inform her that they have been told that dullagj has been spotted on the premises. Dullagj is arrested. He looks at his mother with disdain, ‘How could you? My own mother. Is it any wonder I’m screwed up?’ Janine asks Carol if she called the police on him. Carol cries, ‘I had to. It’s for his own good. He’s safer in there than he is on the streets.’ Janine’s voice crackles, ‘You could have at least let me say goodbye.’ Mrs. Hanley spits back, ‘You said your goodbyes when you kept him captive in your attic and didn’t tell anyone.’

Janine gets the DUFF DUFF.

COMING NEXT #119 ‘TORN’:



With #3episodestogo, producer dullagj2 used three words to describe the final ever DS Enders; ‘shocking’, ‘surprising’ and ‘tear-jerker’ The final scenes will be set on 19th February 2015, 30 years since the first ever EastEnders was broadcast.

Just caught up dj, sorry I haven't posted in here, but brilliant as ever.

Cheers Toni. Thanks for reading.


Jay holds his chest in the Mitchell kitchen [heartburn] as Abi and Sharon prepare to leave on their shopping trip. Phil tells Ben and Jay to eat up as they will be getting paid time and a half to work today to get up to date. Roxy notices that Ronnie didn’t come home last night as Amy wakes her.

Harlowe is surprised to wake up and see that J-B is still there, ‘I thought you’d be gone!’ J-B states that he isn’t going anywhere and pulls the covers back over them. Over at Scrabbler’s, Skye pulls the blankets off him and tells him to get up ahead of today’s important anniversary meeting, ‘Only 4 months to go!’

Sorcha remains well hidden in the hotel lounge waiting for Max to show his face. Max and Ronnie lie awake in bed. Back on the Square, a hungover Zack gets a rude awakening when he’s woken by baby Eddy. Vaslav makes Cora some scrambled eggs and toast as a thank you and watches in awe as she makes her beehive. The atmosphere is frosty in The Vic between Carol Hanley and Janine. Scarlett breaks the awkward silence.

At the café, CherryRose tucks into her fry-up as two extras, both male, stare at her. She notices them glaring at her from the side of her eye but ignores them. Dan orders a coffee from Ian whilst badmouthing the muck that Pact Coffee serve.

Jay leaves the house to open The Arches. He kisses Abi and exits through the back door. Abi follows. As he makes his way, he becomes breathless. He starts to fan himself with his t-shirt, the sweat lashing down his face. His holds his chest and his arm as his vision becomes blurry. Sonia is passing and chats to Abi who is putting stuff in the Range Rover. Jay blacks out and falls to the ground clutching his chest on the pavement opposite the Mitchells. Sonia and Abi run towards him. Abi starts weeping, ‘Is he dead? Is he?’ Sonia checks for a pulse and tells Abi to get Sharon Watts, she’ll know what to do. Phil rings an ambulance as Sonia storms into the kitchen and almost knocks Ben to the floor. Ben gives her a death stare as they all run out to Jay. Abi tells him not to worry, help will be here soon as she strokes his hair. Sharon looks at him worriedly before staring over at the spot where Dennis died. Roxy looks out the top window in utter shock. She covers Amy’s eyes as she leaps up to see what’s happened.

As CherryRose licks her plate clean, the two extras approach her and start taunting her about her weight. Ian and Dan look on as the altercation begins to get heated. One spits, ‘I’m surprised that chair hasn’t snapped in half with the weight of her. O-beast.’ The other laughs and snorts, ‘She’ll be asking for seconds in a few minutes by the looks of it….no, I bet she’s just finished her second helping.’ Dan is seething and approaches them. He pins one up against the wall and tells him to do one before he gets battered by a gay murderer.’ The other is aware who dan is and gives his friend the nod to scarper. A tearful, anxious Cherry is extremely grateful and Ian thanks dan for dealing with the commotion.

Abi goes in the ambulance with Jay as Phil and Sharon follow in the Range Rover. Ben is ordered to go to work as Roxy states that she’ll look after the kids. Sonia comments on Amy who is barefooted and in her pj’s, ‘She’ll catch a kidney infection.’ Roxy turns towards Sonia as she picks up her daughter, ‘F**ck off Sonia.’ Dean sees the altercation and smiles as he asks for the keys to the salon. Dot finishes curtain twitching and grabs her coat and handbag.

Zack and Lauren remain at loggerheads. Zack accuses her of asking Sorcha to leave Eddy round to get back at him for having a lad’s night out. Lauren lambasts him but they’re interrupted by klendathu who drops a bombshell….Max receives a call from a frantic Abi who cries that Jay’s had a heart attack. Max and Ronnie hurriedly get dressed as Sorcha becomes impatient in the lounge, fearful of what she may see and hopeful that she’s being paranoid. Cora is surprised when Gavin shows up at her door again. Vaslav’s interest is piqued by her fancy man. Vaslav is coy when Gavin mistakes him for Cora’s son.

Scrabbler arrives for work in a foul mood. Skye asks for hush as ‘The Godfather; enters. He goes straight to the edit room and has a run-in with the director when he states that a particular shot should be a lingering close-up. Harlowe’s skin is sore but she can’t keep the smile from her face. J-B is also smitten and asks her to meet the family. Back at the hotel, Sorcha is floored as Max and Ronnie leave in a hurry.

Dan and Ian get chatting as the café morning rush ends. Both alone and at a crossroads, they confide in each other. Dan states that at least he has a son to get up for, ‘I have nothing to get me up in the morning. No one wants to employ a murderer especially one that hasn’t been convicted.’ Ian advises him to move on from Walford, ‘That young girl’s family are living here. Every time they see you, they’ll be reminded of what happened. I can’t imagine what that must be like. You’ll never be able to move on while you live here!’ As Ian opens up, Dan recommends that he concentrates on his kids and mental well-being. On the market, Cherry is an emotional wreck and raids 0..0’s fish stall.

[Your Woman, White Town can be heard faintly through Sorcha’s earphones.]

Sorcha finds herself in the cemetery at TK’s grave. She kneels down beside it. She tearfully states that this is happening because of what she did to Maurice, ‘I did the exact same thing. I deserve this. I deserve every little bit of the pain that I’m feeling right now. Stupid Sorcha thinking she could tame Max Branning?’ She starts grabbing the soil and rubbing it on her face. ‘I’m never going to be happy again. People said it would get easier in time. That the pain would lessen but it hits me like a brick every morning when I open my eyes.’ She sobs uncontrollably. Dot is leaving the church and spots her. Dot holds her as she weeps and tells her about Max’s affair with Ronnie. ‘Ronnie Mitchell?’ Dot gasps, ‘Oh I say!’

Phil and Sharon sit outside the hospital room as Abi sits on the right hand side of Jay who lies in the hospital bed. Phil is perplexed and asks Sharon if Jay has been over-working himself lately. Sharon states that the cancer has hit him harder than Phil might think, ‘Abi was worried that he was dabbling in drugs so I had a chat with him and he assured me he wasn’t. Now I’m not so sure. …he’s been spending a lot of time in Ronnie’s gym. Maybe she knows more?’ Phil tears up, ‘This is Jamie all over again.’ Ronnie and Max arrive. Max rubs his head as he states that he gave Ronnie a lift, ‘No point in us both driving.’ The doctor checks Jay over and reveals that they have found traces of steroids in his blood and that is heart isn’t able for it, ‘If you continue to take them, you will die.’ Abi grips her chest as Jay sits shaken by the doctor’s words.

Gavin invites Cora to the pub for a drink and she gleefully obliges. Vaslav tags along and watches on as the pair shamelessly flirt with each other. Gavin keeps glancing at the bar and the door when it opens. Cora asks if he’s expecting anyone else. Gavin states, ‘Just an old friend.’ Gary arrives in and sees Gavin. He makes his way hurriedly upstairs to see his mum, who is busy watching Scarlett. Carol is shaken to find out that Gavin is downstairs. Ben calls Ian to The Arches unable to concentrate after today’s events. He throws the wrench and breaks down in the corner.

Zack is upset that Klen is putting plans in motion to leave Walford but he has a bigger problem when he’s left holding Eddy. Lauren snipes that Abi needs her, ‘Her boyfriend has just had a heart attack!’ but Zack doesn’t believe her. Klen is in disbelief as he looks on at the warring pair. As Lauren leaves for the hospital, Klen tells Zack that it’s hardly a lie she can make up, ‘I did see an ambulance out there earlier.’ Back at the pub, Carol H. is on tenterhooks as Gary promises to stop Gavin from hurting her again. Carol looks across at the Mitchell house with a worried look on her face. Dot takes Sorcha back to the Square. Sorcha quickly grabs her things and Eddy and heads off to her cousin’s house.

Gavin revels in the unease he’s causing and walks Cora home. He’s surprised when Cora asks him to stay the night. Vaslav is left feeling like a gooseberry. As Lauren arrives home, she finds Zack broken on the floor. He informs her that he’s leaving Walford forever! Ian invites Ben to stay at his for the night in a bid to bond with his brother. Ben doesn’t return Phil’s calls but as Phil checks The Arches he catches Max and Ronnie smooching in the shadows. Furious with his cousin, he tells her that she can find somewhere else to live. Ronnie shouts that he can’t blame her for what happened to Jay.

Torn plays in the background.

Zack sits on the floor as the calendar beside him flashes to Tuesday 14th October. The camera pans to the curtains. Lauren draws them as Zack and Klendathu prepare to leave in the taxi. Lauren is emotional as he remains cold with her. He kisses her on the lips before leaving with his suitcase and hold all. Toni and Mona are outside to say one last goodbye to their friend. Toni weeps as she hugs Zack, ‘I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you. I’m forever indebted to you.’ Mona gives Zack an awkward hug as she states that she’s glad they resolved their differences and wishes him all the best in his new adventures. Klen tries to hide his disappointment that Lucy hasn’t shown her face. Toni and Mona wave the both of them off as Lauren retreats to the flat, closes the door and breaks down on the floor.

Lauren gets the DUFF DUFF.

COMING NEXT #120:


#2episodestogo

Just stumbled across this hilarious thread!!! Brilliant!

Now the other Lola has left would I still be refereed to as Skye or my name?

Glad you enjoyed.


Lola won't be leaving DS Enders in the final two instalments so you will be referred to as Skye to avoid any confusion.


Sorcha stands at the Tube station holding Baby Eddy. She takes a deep breath and walks in the direction of the market. When she reaches the top of it, she stands still afraid of what may lie ahead. Maurice is at the homeless shelter and spots her. He senses that something isn’t right and approaches her. Sorcha walks quietly and sits down beside him at The War Memorial. She fills him in on Max’s misdemeanours and he rages that he’ll swing for him. Sorcha cannot comprehend why he would care after what she did to him and how she treated him. Maurice grips her hand and tells her that there will ALWAYS be a place for her at his. Sorcha straightens herself as she adds that she has abandoned everything for Max and she wants to put that right.

Vaslav has noticed Gavin flashing the cash and is intrigued to know why he has shown such a sudden interest in his darling Cora. He sees his jacket hanging on the kitchen chair and can’t stop himself from pouching through the pockets. He spots a wallet. Inside is a wad of cash and cards but he is taken aback to find a picture of Sharon Watts in behind everything. He jumps up and down and ends up waking them. He hurriedly puts everything back where he got it before Cora emerges from her bedroom asking what all the racket is. Vaslav lies that he’s just learned that Seb is moving to Spring Lane when in fact he has known it for days.

Jay and Phil are resting as Abi waits on them on hand and foot. Sharon quips for them not to get used of it. Ben arrives in before work, now that he’s keeping his brother company in the Beale house. He catches Jay and Phil all pally on the sofa as they laugh about the latest sporting headline. They don’t notice him and he doesn’t disturb them. Over at the pub, Carol H. begs Janine to draw a line under everything with dullagj but Janine replies with a damning statement, ‘I don’t know if I want you living here anymore or being a nanny to Scarlett. I don’t know if I can trust you.’

Kim is quiet and Denise assumes that Gary has done something to upset her. She states that if she is unhappy in the relationship then she should leave, ‘I hung on too long with Ian when I knew deep down that it was never going to work. The longer you leave it, the harder it will be.’ Kim laughs and states that she’s got the wrong end of the stick before producing a positive pregnancy stick. ‘I’m pregnant’ Kim gushes….

Toni face-times Zack. He tells her that he has arrived safely in Glasgow and is staying with a mate of Klen’s until he sorts himself out. Los pops his head in to say hello as he scrolls through property websites on his tablet. Vald is down in the dumps and it doesn’t go unnoticed by the pair. She eventually opens up and informs them that one of her sons would be 40 today but she hasn’t seen nor heard from either of her sons in years and mightn’t recognise them if she saw them today. Los asks for their names and does a quick search on Mates Gate. What will he uncover?

Sorcha reconciles with Priscilla. Cilla drops Eddy to nursery and leaves Sorcha to deal with Max. Max is unaware that Sorcha is coming back as Dot’s informed him that her bereaved cousin needs her for the foreseeable. Abi is staying with Jay and Lauren is waiting until the end of the month to move back in. With nowhere to go, Ronnie has made herself comfortable in the Branning house. She states that Phil wants more money to keep quiet but Max refuses adding that it’s out in the open now anyway. Ronnie is cross that her plan has stalled so swiftly.

Jay opens up to Phil about how scared he was that he was going to lose him and states that the exercise helped him to take his mind off all the things that were troubling him and rid him of his frustrations. Phil is touched and adds that Jay is like a son to him, 'The cancer has given me a new perspective on life and I've learned what's really important. No more dodgy dealings or manor malarkey. I'm too old for that rubbish and it only causes me grief.' Later, Jay and Abi discuss the steroids. Abi makes him promise that he'll never take them again saying that she doesn't know what she'd do if she lost him. Jay states that all the working out he was doing wasn't altering his appearance, 'I wanted to bulk up and I took the easy option. It made me feel good not seeing my slender, child-like frame in the mirror anymore. It wasn't worth this though. I've never taking them again. I swear.' Over at the Beales, Ben weeps that he doesn't belong with the Mitchells, 'I never have and I never will. Ever since I came here, I have been trying to fit in. Who was I kidding? Look what that lead to.' Ian puts his arm around him and adds that he would have happily taken him in but there was no way Phil would have let him, 'This is a new start for the both of us. Mum's up there somewhere sowing us together with her knitting machine. Life is full of ups and downs but you have to keep going. It's how you rise from the lows that make you who you are.'

Vaslav isn’t too impressed when Gavin suggests that Cora drops the beehive but he keeps his ears wide open as the two converse over breakfast. As the talk soon talks to giving up children when Gavin spots the photo of Ava and Dexter, Vaslav jumps to the conclusion that Gavin must be Sharon's father but could Cora be her mother, could he finally be proved right? Carol H. sees Sharon and makes a beeline for her afraid that Gavin may have got in contact with her. Sharon is dismissive of her which upsets Carol further. Carol remarks Cora outside the pub and warns her off Gavin stating that he's bad news. Cora laughs at her jealously and tells her to mind her own business.

Sorcha uses her key and quietly walks up the stairs. She opens the bedroom door to find Ronnie and Max in her bed. Ronnie smirks as Max flutters his ginger eyelashes. 'It isn't what it looks like.' Sorcha laughs in disbelief and orders Ronnie out of the house, 'You baby swapping, condom pinching, tragic whore.' Ronnie gets dressed before Sorcha marches her out of the house. When she gets to the steps, Sorcha grabs Ronnie by the hair and manhandles her down the steps. A catfight soon breaks out between the pair and Roxy runs over to break it up, reminding them that they're fighting over Max Branning. Ronnie leaves in disgrace as Sorcha returns to the house and gives Max what for. As he comes down the stairs barefooted, she confronts him at the bottom. She seductively whispers in his ears as she smells Ronnie's perfume. She proceeds to grabs him by the balls unaware and squeezes them tightly. 'You ginger cheating barsteward. You have a cock for a brain. God help the next woman who falls for you. You're lucky I haven't yanked your balls off. I'm not going to waste any more time or energy on you *disdainful look* We're finished!' Sorcha crunches her stilettos on his toes as she makes her exit.

Kim sits Gary down for lunch at the B&B, just the two of them. Gary is still worried about Gavin's presence but is happy to have some time alone with Kim, 'It's been too long.' He remarks that she is unusually quiet, 'This isn't about Janine again, is it?' Kim can't hold it any longer, 'No. It's not about Janice. I'm pregnant.' Gary almost chokes in shock but is delighted by the news. He jumps up from his chair and hugs her. 'We're having a baby!' Elsewhere, Los tells Toni that he's going to track down Vald's sons but he has had no luck on Mates Gate, 'I'm going to hire a private detective. It can't be that hard.'

Sorcha runs into Scrabbler, both aware of their respective infidelities. Sorcha states that she hasn’t got time for him but he is swift to remind her that she isn’t a saint herself. Sorcha collects Eddy and decides to take Maurice up on his offer. Maurice is gleeful as she says that he’ll call round to the Brannings for her stuff, ‘We don’t want Max seducing Cilla’ he jokes. Sorcha is extremely grateful and gives him a peck on the cheek.


DUFF DUFF: A lovestruck Maurice.

COMING SOON #121 ‘Stole The Show:

No. of episodes: 121

Dan: 10
E4, E31, E43, E44, E47, E65, E89, E91, E100, E101.

Bevis: 9
E7, E34, E57, E64, E68, E72, E89, E90, E92.

Gary: 8
E11, E55, E58, E66, E71, E84, E88, E112.

IanMandy: 7
E32, E42, E52, E54, E56, E63, E94.
Maurice: 7
E10, E14, E21, E50, E60, E98, E120

Dullagj2: 6
E5, E40, E59, E75, E108, E115.

Michael: 5
E23, E25, E36, E38, E39.
Sorcha: 5
E1, E16 (JT), E21, E61, E87.
Scrabbler: 5
E9, E45, E69. E70, E102.
Sharon: 5
E30, E73, E77, E82 (JT), E109.
Vaslav: 5
E2, E41, E46, E105, E117.
Janine: 5
E24, E38, E97, E106, E118.

xTonix: 4
E18, E22, E51, E79
Carol Hanley: 4
E76, E82 (JT), E93, E114.

Klendathu: 3
E19, E48, E49.

AngelicPrincess: 2
E8, E13.
Mona: 2
E6, E27.
vald: 2
E29, E35 (JT).
Los.kav: 2
E33, E35 (JT).
Dean: 2
E83, E99.
Phil: 2
E62, E81.
Lotty: 2
E20, E104.
Lauren: 2
E85, E119.

Emily/Troll: 1
E3.
Joyof_pat: 1
E15.
Priscilla: 1
E16 (JT).
Denny: 1
E17.
Jayma: 1
E25.
Poppy: 1
E26.
Mr. Ender: 1
E28.
Evie: 1
E53.
Bomani: 1
E69.
Ronnie: 1
E78.
Mo mouse: 1
E80.
Bianca: 1
E95.
Lucy: 1
E96.
Mrs. Bevis: 1
E103.
David: 1
E106.
Jay: 1
E107.
Abi: 1
E110.
Ian: 1
E111.
J-B: 1
E113.
Seb: 1
E117.

Non-character:
** The sky: E12.
** A pitch black shot of the Square: E37.
** The picture fades to black for the credits and the theme plays: E67.
** The music continues into the credits superimposed over an aerial shot of the Square: E74.
** The night sky: E86
** Sky full of stars: E116.
** Screen fades to black: E121.

The last DS Enders will be posted Monday 26th October.