An air ambulance helicopter’s blades are rotating in a circular motion as it slowly lifts off the helipad on the roof of the hospital building. Lynette is seen standing with a few doctors covering her ears tightly because of how loud the helicopter is as it ascends into the air and begins to fly forward. Lynette waves at the pilots in the helicopter with the others, before beginning to walk down the staircase with another doctor, called Dominic. “It’s great isn’t it? This hospital’s first air ambulance service” Lynette states, folding her arms while looking down at the steps on the stairs to make sure she doesn’t trip herself up. “Yeah it is, if everything goes to plan then they are talking about introducing some more helicopters!” Dominic informs her, a statement, which Lynette immediately agrees with. “It’ll be great for the NHS as well, fingers crossed ey?” Lynette states, before heading inside the hospital with the other doctors, anticipating the return of the air ambulance as it disappears into the distance. It cuts to Christine and Ryan’s wedding reception, which is being held at Amelia’s new restaurant. Christine and Ryan are sitting at the head table with Jessica and Abby on the side next to Ryan, whereas Maria and Amelia are next to Christine on the other side. “This place is stunning, you’ve done a really good job Amelia” Christine smiles at her, whispering it into her ear over the loud music. “Once this is over I’ll get it up and running, hopefully it’ll be a massive success” Amelia says, as Christine insists to her that it will. “We better make a move on soon or we’ll miss our flight” Ryan whispers softly in Christine’s ear, as she slowly nods with a now worried expression on her face. “Not until we have our first dance though!” Christine tells him, taking his hand and standing up as the music changes to ‘Yours’ by Ella Henderson. They head onto the dance floor and Christine throws her arms around his neck and they begin to slow dance in the centre of the dance floor. Maria sits with a glum expression on her face, watching the pair, as they are clearly loved up. “They are perfect together, god I don’t think I’ve been so emotional in my life” Jessica says, wiping her tears of happiness away as Maria rolls her eyes. “You need to get a grip Jess” Maria remarks in a rude tone, getting up and storming off out the emergency exit, as Amelia, Jessica and Abby all sit with confused expressions on their faces.

Jasmine begins to breathe heavily, beginning to sit awkwardly and fidget with her hands. “Are you alright?” Elaine asks, looking at her confused as Jasmine begins to pant heavily. Conrad turns his head and looks at her anxiously, as she holds onto the table tight. “You aren’t are you?” Conrad says, standing up and rushing to be by her side. “I don’t know, how the hell would you explain the water on the floor ey?” Jasmine says in a sarcastic tone, before shrieking with pain. “Conrad go get the car, I’ll stay with her” Elaine insists while Geraldine and Stevie both stand watching on helplessly. “Trust me to make a scene at someone else’s wedding” Jasmine groans, before screaming louder this time as she begins to go into labour. “Is everything alright over here?” Jessica walks over, looking confused as she tries to see what all the commotion is about. “What is it with people having babies on big nights for me?” Jessica moans, referring to Ella giving birth on the launch of Venom. “I’m so sorry Christine for this” Jasmine pants as Christine comes over with Ryan. “Don’t worry about it, we can’t tell babies when they can come out!” Christine jokingly says, as Ryan puts her arm around her and cuddles her in close. “WHERE THE HELL IS HE WITH THAT CAR?” Jasmine shrieks loudly this time, as everyone takes a step back from her. “He only left two seconds ago, give the guy a chance” Elaine says, trying to support her as she holds her hand tightly. “Do you need any help over here?” Karl asks as he comes over with Tara, however Elaine scowls at him. “We’ve got this” Elaine rudely says, looking back at Jasmine as Karl nods and walks back to his table. “And you tell me that you love her so much ey?” Tara says, putting both of her hands onto her hips. “Of course I do, but she doesn’t want my help…so what else can I do?” Karl states, as Tara rolls her eyes at him. “You go over there and you show that you want to support her, she can hardly help Jasmine on her own can she?” Tara says in a stern tone towards him, trying to give him advice as he puts his head into his hands. “Well it’s too late now, Conrad’s back with the car” Tara says, rolling her eyes as it pans over to Conrad helping Jasmine get up.

“Take it easy, there’s no rush” Conrad helps Jasmine get up with Elaine, as Jasmine digs her nails into his arms. “No rush? Tell that to this baby!” Jasmine moans, before walking out with her arms around both Elaine and Conrad for support. “Good luck!” Christine shouts out to her, as she thanks her before the door shuts. “Well this wedding has been eventful” Maria drunkenly remarks, holding a large glass of red wine in her hands as everyone turns their heads to face her. “We should try and slip away now” Ryan whispers in Christine’s ear, as she slowly nods in agreement with him. “Jess, cover for us if anyone asks will you?” Ryan says to her, as she nods before hugging her brother tightly. “What was that for?” Ryan asks her, as she forces a massive smile. “Just incase you leave without a goodbye” Jessica states, as Ryan shakes his head at her. “Of course we won’t, I’ll give you a text before we leave” Ryan convincingly tells her, while Jessica smiles and then nods at him. “Good luck” Jessica says to Christine, hugging her as well as she thanks her. They walk out of the restaurant and immediately bump into Alfie, who stares at the pair oddly for a moment. “I see her secret didn’t affect your relationship then?” Alfie remarks, as Ryan rolls his eyes. “What are you talking about now?” Ryan moans, as Alfie rolls his eyes back at him. “Christine has blood on her hands, didn’t you know? If you did then you must have pretty loose morals” Alfie tells him, as Ryan grows increasingly annoyed with him. “And this is coming from you? That’s rich” Ryan says, taking Christine’s hand and beginning to walk in the other direction with her. “Watch your back Ryan, I wouldn’t want to get myself caught up in it if I were you!” Alfie shouts at him, as the camera pans to the side alleyway between the restaurant and Planet Fitness, where Maria is standing having listened to every single word. “Alfie!” Maria calls out as she comes out of the alleyway with a suspicious expression on her face. “I think you have some dirt on a certain someone that I would be very interested to hear” Maria smirks at him, folding her arms as Alfie turns around. It cuts to the air ambulance helicopter, as it is seen descending a little into the air without the pilot’s knowledge. It is now hovering over Digital Lane, quickly approaching the business district at an unnatural speed…

Christine and Ryan are both walking along Digital Lane, heading towards the house hand in hand. “This is great ain’t it? A perfect wedding and now it’s just us away off to Alicante, I can’t think of anything better” Ryan says enthusiastically, as they walk up the pathway towards the house and Christine unlocks the door and they enter the darkened house. “I better get out of this, can’t board a plane in a wedding dress!” Christine laughs, walking up the staircase as Ryan turns a lamp on and walks into the living room, to find an envelope with the airline logo on it. He picks it up and opens up the contents inside, before his eyes widen with surprise as there is only one boarding pass with Christine’s name on it. He purses his lip for a moment, as it cuts to upstairs to Christine coming out of the bathroom in a causal outfit, folding her wedding dress up and placing it carefully in her suitcase. She zips up her suitcase and then goes over to the window, opening the curtains up and smiling as she looks out onto Digital Lane. “Longest time I’ve ever stayed in one place…so many memories, so much drama…but I wouldn’t change any of it” Christine says to herself, reflecting on the past year in her mind as Ryan appears in the background at the doorway. “Why is there only one boarding pass?” Ryan abruptly says, holding the plane ticket up in the air as Christine quickly turns around to face him. “I was going to tell you Ryan” Christine insists, as Ryan shakes his head in total disbelief. “I thought you wanted this? I thought you wanted us to leave together and start a fresh life away from here?” Ryan interrogates her, clearly upset about what she has done. “I didn’t do it to hurt you Ryan! I done it because I love you!” Christine shouts as tears are beginning to visibly form in her eyes. “Because you love me? If you did then you wouldn’t just leave me here on my own!” Ryan shouts back at her, growing increasingly angry as Christine takes a deep breath while her lips tremble. “I done it to protect you Ryan, I couldn’t allow you to get caught up in my mess! I don’t want you to have a life that I have, always on the run!” Christine tells him in a convincing tone, as Ryan gulps loudly. “That wasn’t your decision to make” Ryan sneers at her, before turning on his heels and heading out, bumping into Amelia in the hallway as she appears from no where. “I told you to tell him before it got too late!” Amelia says disapprovingly, appearing at the doorway as a tear effortlessly falls from Christine’s eye.

Maria is standing outside the restaurant with a thoughtful expression on her face, tapping her chin lightly with her finger, as it’s obvious that Alfie has informed her about Christine’s secret. She smirks to herself, before walking across the road as the camera pans up to the air, where the air ambulance helicopter is now quickly descending as if it’s in free-fall, heading directly towards the restaurant where the wedding reception is being held. It quickly cuts inside, where most people are standing on the dance floor as the music blares loudly on the stereo. “Has anyone seen Maria anywhere?” Jessica calls out, however no one replies as her face turns to a worried expression. It then goes back outside, as the helicopter hurls towards the restaurant building. Maria looks up and watches in horror, covering her mouth with shock as the helicopter is now almost within touching distance of the restaurant. It then suddenly crashes straight into the restaurant, smashing through the roof of the restaurant as the residents of Digital Lane all scream in horror. The roof tiles fly off the rooftop and the windows smash. The ground begins shaking uncontrollably while there is a loud bang, throwing Maria to her feet in front of the restaurant. Suddenly, there is a gas explosion causing the restaurant to break out in flames as Maria drops to her knees outside and shields her head. She then stands up and stands frozen, staring in horror at the totally destroyed restaurant. Debris is littered all over the ground as the camera pans into the inside of the restaurant, where there are screams and shouts coming from the residents while people are trapped under numerous objects, as Jessica is the first to climb to her feet and begin spluttering from all the smoke. She looks in horror at the smashed up helicopter which is within touching distance of her, feeling a bit lucky that it didn’t crash a few more metres forward. “MARIA! ABBY!” Jessica shrieks, as the orange flames are spreading quick and fast around the large restaurant. Luisa gets up and spots Mark under the floorboards, as the helicopter has smashed straight through the ground causing the floor to begin to collapse into itself. She dangerously climbs down to him, trying to help him as she screams his name loudly. She checks for a pulse and breathes a sigh of relief as he is breathing, before glancing over and seeing that his leg is stuck under one of the blades from the helicopter.

“Police and ambulance, fire brigade, everything! Please be fast! A helicopter has crashed into a restaurant, just please come quick!” Maria says, as the camera moves over to Alfie running down the street looking in horror, before Ryan appears behind him. “What the hell happened?” Ryan questions, as Maria is still in total shock at what she is witnessing. “It was a helicopter…it just dropped out of the sky, Ryan Jess and Abby are in there!” Maria cries, as Ryan holds her back while it dawns on Alfie that Tara is inside. “TARA!” Alfie screams, running towards the wreckage as both Maria and Ryan watch on. Back inside, people are beginning to awaken amongst the wreckage. “Gracie!” Finn spits out some blood as he pulls himself up from the wreckage, before seeing Gracie next to him. “Fi-Finn…it’s the baby, it…it’s not going to make it” Gracie slurs, trying to stay conscious as she inhales gallons of smoke. “I won’t let that happen” Finn coughs as the smoke fills up his lungs, trying to help Gracie get out of the rubble. Tara is holding her head in pain as it bleeds heavily, staring around in horror at the horrific scenes she is seeing, before seeing numerous bodies lay around the plane, already dead. “DAD! WHERE ARE YOU?” Tara shrieks, looking around the rubble and beginning to dig around, as Dean comes over on all fours, putting his arms around her and trying to pull her away. “Come on! We’ve got to get out of here!” Dean shouts, as the orange flames become more violent and bigger. “NAN!” Frankie and Aaron shriek, trying to find her amongst all of the wreckage as Andie crawls away trying to shield her face away from the flames. “SHE’S HERE” Jessica shouts, with her arm around Wendy as she tries to help her move. “We’ll take it from here” Aaron thanks her, taking Wendy’s arms with Frankie as they try to get out of the restaurant. Jessica looks around, trying to find more people to help before seeing Luisa and Mark down below in the place where the floor has collapsed. “LUISA! TAKE MY HAND!” Jessica calls out to her, putting her arm down to try and help her up. “I’M NOT LEAVING HIM, I WON’T DO IT!” Luisa shouts back at her, as Jessica looks at her worriedly. “GO LUISA!” Mark coughs out some smoke, as Luisa places her hand gently on his forehead. “I’m going nowhere. I’ve already lost Rose…I won’t lose you!” Luisa whispers to him, stroking his forehead gently as he lies there, unable to move because of the helicopter blade.

Alfie rushes into the wreckage, searching desperately for Tara before coming across Abby lying there unconscious amongst the rubble. He stands frozen for a moment, before deciding to help her and lifting her up, carrying her as Jessica appears getting up from being on all fours, panting heavily as she looks at Abby horrified. “ABBY CAN YOU HEAR ME?” Jessica shrieks loudly, as Alfie tries to safely get them out of the building. “I CAN’T LEAVE MY DAD IN HERE! DAD! KARL!” Tara shouts loudly, as Dean tries to drag her out of the restaurant to safety. “THE FIREFIGHTERS WILL FIND HIM AND SAVE HIM, ALRIGHT?” Dean shouts back at her, wanting to keep all of his friends safe as he leads them out of the restaurant. “FINN I CAN’T…I CAN’T DO THIS” Gracie screams, holding her baby bump in extreme pain as she collapses to the floor. “YES YOU CAN, COME ON” Finn tells her supportively, picking her up and walking over to the exit as the pair cough out smoke having breathed in loads of it previously. The orange flames are spreading quicker again, as the restaurant is almost filled up with fire and smoke. Karl splutters out some blood as he pulls himself out of the rubble, before looking around in horror as he scratches his head confused. His eyes then widen with total shock as there are numerous bodies lying there dead, before he manages to stand up, however he is still quite shaky. He tries to make it towards the exit, before he sees Luisa and Mark down below. “Luisa! Come on, take my hand!” Karl shouts at her, reaching out to her as she shakes her head at him vigorously. “I WON’T LEAVE HIM, HIS LEG IS STUCK UNDER ONE OF THE BLADES…GET HELP!” Luisa shouts back at him, as Karl sighs and then nods. He gets back to his feet and tries to push through the flames as he goes towards the exit. Geraldine and Stevie get up, as Stevie holds onto her mother tight. “We need to get to the hospital, Jasmine…the baby!” Stevie insists, becoming a bit drowsy from all the smoke she is inhaling. “Not until you get checked out!” Geraldine warns, knowing her daughter has inhaled a lot of smoke as they push through the flames trying to get to safety. Luisa is knelt down beside Mark, as he lies there falling in and out of consciousness, stroking her hand gently through his hair. “I’m not losing you…not now, not ever” Luisa says, clearly growing increasingly worried about him.

At the hospital, Jasmine is in the maternity ward screaming loudly as she continues to be in labour, as the midwife checks how much she is dilated. “I swear if it’s not ready to come out I’m going to rip someone’s hand off” Jasmine screams, as her face goes red like a tomato. “It’s 10 centimetres, we’re ready to begin pushing” The midwife smiles at her genuinely, as Jasmine breathes a sigh of relief before screaming in pain again as she holds Conrad’s hand extremely tightly. “We’re really doing this, we’re going to have a baby” Conrad smiles at her, as he kisses her softly on the cheek. “I don’t see you lying here pushing a baby out” Jasmine remarks in a sarcastic tone, smiling back at him before the process of pushing begins. “Okay on 3 I want you to give the biggest push you possibly can” The midwife advises, as Jasmine continues to breathe heavily while her grip on Conrad’s hand gets even tighter. “One…Two…” The nurse says, before Jasmine interrupts her. “Three!” Jasmine screams, pushing as hard as she can while Conrad can’t help but smile as she does so. Outside in the corridor, Elaine is standing anxiously awaiting news on the baby as she can hear Jasmine’s screams from the room. She glances up at the television attached to the wall and looks confused as a BBC News reporter is standing at the scene of the helicopter crash. She covers her mouth with shock as she sees Tara coming out of the wreckage in Dean’s arms in the background, totally horrified by the tragedy back on Digital Lane. “Karl” Elaine whispers to herself, clearly worried for his safety as she begins to bite her nails nervously. Back inside the hospital room, Jasmine is approaching her last push as the midwife is holding the baby’s head in her hands under the sheet. “Okay…one last BIG push” The midwife says, as Jasmine digs her nails right into Conrad’s hand causing him to yelp in pain, before trying to be brave as he places his hand on her shoulder supportively. Jasmine pushes for the last time, screaming so loud that it could make mirrors smash as the baby finally comes out and the midwife begins to clean the blood off of her. “It’s a girl!” The midwife smiles, as the baby begins to cry loudly in the blanket. The midwife hands the baby to Jasmine as she begins to pant heavily, however she is smiling uncontrollably at the baby as Conrad and her both look in total awe at their baby. “We did it…we actually did it!” Jasmine says, cradling her newborn baby in her arms. “She’s perfect, I’m so proud of you” Conrad smiles at her, as they share a passionate kiss before going back to looking in total amazement at the baby.

“In a strange event that couldn’t be foreseen by anyone living here in this suburban neighbourhood, a helicopter has crashed into a restaurant behind me. It is understood there are numerous casualties, with many fatal. The police have yet to make a statement about how the helicopter dropped out of the air and crashed into the restaurant as they are currently focusing on getting all the guests out of the building. This is sure to cause a major investigation to exactly how this happened and if anything could have been done to prevent it. It’s also not the first time that the residents here have experienced a community tragedy, as it was only in June when rioters invaded the streets here in protest of the jail sentence of Brad Foster” A news reporter says into the camera, as the camera slowly pans across the wreckage of the restaurant, with residents of Digital Lane all huddled together with their families, as Tara continues to watch on with a worried expression on her face waiting for Karl to come out of the restaurant. “I’ve got to go back in there, I have to go and get him!” Tara says, trying to pull away however Alfie pulls her back and holds her tightly. “You’re not going anywhere” Alfie whispers, holding her tight with relief that she is safe. Hector is standing a distance away from the rest of the Bolen’s, as Abby is now conscious and getting checked out by one of the paramedics. It pans across to the Hunters, with Andrea missing as Keith stands there helpless. “They won’t let me go back in there…I mean what if” Keith says, beginning to get tearful as Ella puts her arm around him. “Don’t say it” Ella warns, watching on as the fire brigade members try to get into the burning building. An ambulance pulls up to join the other ambulances and Lynette Young climbs out in a paramedic uniform which has ‘Doctor’ on the back of it. “How the hell did this happen ey?” Lynette says to one of her collegues, looking in horror at the helicopter smashed into the building. Karl comes out of the building coughing and spluttering out smoke, as Lynette rushes over to help him. “Your brother is in there…he’s under one of the helicopter blades…Luisa’s fine but she won’t leave his side” Karl informs her, much to Lynette’s shock as her hands begin to shake and tears begin forming in her eyes. “Joe, could you deal with this one please?” Lynette says to a paramedic, as he nods and takes Karl with him. Lynette takes a deep breath, before walking into the wreckage with another paramedic, calling out for Mark in a shouty voice. “Over here!” One of the paramedics shouts, as she makes her way over and looks in horror down below, as Mark’s leg is still stuck under one of the helicopter blades. “I’ll get you out of there Mark, alright?” Lynette says, before taking a step back and beginning to breathe heavily as she takes a moment.

‘Fix You’ by Coldplay begins to play over the closing montage. It begins at the wreckage of the restaurant, as the Digital Lane family units all stand huddled together watching the fire brigade attempting to put the fire out. The Hunters are trying to stop Keith from running into the wreckage to find Andrea, however he is too strong for them as he pulls away and runs into the burning building. Tara is standing next to Karl as he gets checked out by a paramedic, putting her arm around him and then hugging her father tightly, clearly relieved that he is fine and survived. Maria watches over her shoulder as she sees Ryan heading off in the other direction, causing her to have an annoyed expression on her face as she turns her attentions back to Christine. It the cuts to the hospital, where Jasmine is laid on the hospital bed next to Conrad, as Conrad cradles the baby in his arms and she smiles at him. Elaine then comes in and her worried expression turns to a massive smile, before she hands Jasmine her mobile phone, with an article about the helicopter crash on it. Jasmine and Conrad both look horrified, before handing the phone back to her as she breaks down into tears, clearly worried about Karl more than she thought she would. It goes back to the business district, where Hector takes a step forward and puts his hand out for Jessica to shake. She smiles at him faintly, before hugging him instead much to Hector’s surprise. Maria stands staring at a pair of police officers, folding her arms as she considers shopping Christine into the police. It then shows Wendy standing with her arms around Frankie and Aaron, as this tragedy brings them all even closer together. It then goes onto Digital Lane, where Christine and Amelia walk out to the car with Christine putting her suitcase into the boot of the car, before turning around and looking surprised to see Ryan standing there. She smiles at him as he looks at her with a sympathetic look, before simply hugging his wife tightly and then following her into the car. The montage comes to an end at the wreckage of the helicopter crash, as Luisa is looking a mess and is still kneeling down by Mark’s side while he is still unable to move. Lynette climbs down a ladder with another paramedic, as Luisa covers her mouth with upset as she tries to avoid crying in front of Mark. He lies there going in and out of consciousness, making Luisa scared that she could lose someone again and this time he is the only person she’s got. It slowly goes to a birdseye view of the helicopter crashed into the restaurant showing the full extent of the crash, before the screen slowly fades to black.

Cast – All Cast Appeared In This Episode.

The episode opens in complete silence continuing from the previous Tuesday episode, as Luisa and Mark are the first characters seen in the massive hole in the floorboards, as Luisa continues to kneel down by Mark’s side holding his hand tight. She can’t even bare to look at his leg which is stuck under one of the helicopter blades, while the silence slowly fades out and the sounds of chaos and destruction begin to come through loudly. “Mark! Can you hear me?” Lynette shouts, climbing down on a ladder with a paramedic holding it steadily for her. “He’s going in and out of consciousness, but I think he can still hear me” Luisa informs her, as Lynette puts an oxygen mask over Mark’s mouth and tells him to breathe in. “Luisa you need to get out of here, this place could collapse at any time” Lynette warns her, making Luisa shake her head in reply. “I’m not leaving him. I won’t let him be here on his own” Luisa tells her, as Lynette looks at her with worry as another paramedic kneels down next to her on all fours. “We will get him out of here, believe me when I say I won’t let what happened to Rose happen to Mark” Lynette tells her in a convincing tone, as Luisa remains unconvinced. “They said that before” Luisa mutters to herself, brushing back her dusty hair and coughing a little as Lynette tries to focus her attention on Mark and his leg. Up above the hole in the floor, Keith is running through the rubble and fire, with a blanket over his mouth as he searches frantically for Andrea. “YOU CAN’T BE IN HERE, YOU’VE GOT TO GET OUT” The paramedic shouts as he tries to advise him, however Keith shakes his head. “MY WIFE, SHE’S IN HERE SOMEWHERE” Keith shouts back, as the paramedic insists they will find her and get her to safety. “IT’S BEEN TOO LONG” Keith says, before digging around in the rubble, as the paramedic joins him and helps him out. It cuts back to the underground hole, as Luisa tries to hold back her tears while Lynette inspects the blade which is cutting into Mark’s leg. She whispers something to her colleague, as Luisa then gets annoyed that they are not telling her anything. “What are you whispering to him? What’s going on?” Luisa anxiously questions in quite an annoyed tone, as Lynette purses her lip. “We….we may need to amputate Mark’s leg” Lynette says in a worried voice, as Luisa’s eyes widen with total shock.

Christine, Amelia and Ryan are sat in the airport across from the check-in desk, as there is an awkward atmosphere between the trio. “Amelia, go get us a coffee you?” Christine says, handing her some loose change and making a facial expression to show that she wants to speak to Ryan. “What did your last servant die of?” Amelia says, standing up and walking towards the airport café while Christine slides along the row of seats to get next to Ryan. “I didn’t think you were going to come, I thought that was it for us” Christine tries to break the ice, as Ryan rubs his forehead stressfully. “Well you’re my wife aren’t you? I’m hardly going to just let you leave without saying goodbye!” Ryan tells her, causing Christine to crack a smile at him before putting her arm around him. “You have to know that what I did…I done it to protect you, not to hurt you” Christine says, as Ryan lifts his head up to show a confused expression. “But why couldn’t you just tell me that? Instead of pretending we were fine right up until the last minute, I’ve put a wedding ring on your finger for gods sake!” Ryan moans at her, clearly still quite upset by her actions. “I didn’t know how to tell you…you were so excited to start a new life, I tried to tell you that I didn’t want you to get caught up in my mess but you wouldn’t have it” Christine tells him, as Ryan slowly nods, realising that he also has a part to play in this. “I just wish things could have happened differently…” Ryan says, as Christine nods in agreement with him. “I lie at night just wishing that I could turn back the clock…if I didn’t do kill my sister then my life would have been much different…mum wouldn’t have had a heart attack because of all the stress, Amelia wouldn’t have taken so long to come round, and most of all, I would have my sister back and people wouldn’t go round calling me Christine, instead they’d actually call me Penelope!” Christine says, in a thinking mood as Ryan listens to her words intently. It cuts to Amelia handing the change over to the woman behind the counter, before glancing up at the television screen and looking in horror as the news continues to report the helicopter crash. “It’s terrible ain’t it? All those people injured and some even dead” The woman says, as Amelia continues staring in disbelief. She walks out of the café and back over to Ryan and Christine. “You told me there was some drama at the restaurant but you didn’t flippin’ tell me it was a helicopter crash!” Amelia shrieks at Ryan with stress, shoving the coffee cup into him and then storming out of the airport lounge as Christine puts her suitcase down and then runs after her.

Back at the business district, Elaine arrives as she walks onto the street, searching desperately for Karl and Tara through the crowds of people. “KARL! TARA!” Elaine shrieks, pushing her way through as people give her judgmental looks. She spots them over at one of the ambulances, as she breathes a deep sigh of relief, brushing her rugged hair back and smiling faintly at the sight of them. It pans over to the Hunters, as they stand awaiting on Keith to come back out the building with Andrea. “I’ve got to go and get them out of there!” Lewis shrieks, as Daniel pulls him back while Ella and Finn both remain silent. “They will be out soon, we just need to wait!” Daniel tells him calmly, as Lewis growls at him. “Easy for you to say, it isn’t your parents in there!” Lewis shoves him, clearly taken over with anger and worry about his parents. “Finn, I need to get checked out…something isn’t right” Gracie says, going pale and brushing her hair back stressfully as she holds her baby bump. “What do you mean something isn’t right?” Finn says, clearly distracted with the situation about Andrea and Keith. She sighs to herself and turns on her heels, heading towards one of the ambulances before she collapses to the ground in pain. Elaine who is walking by notices her and tries to help her up as she begins to sweat and scream in pain. “SOME HELP OVER HERE?” Elaine shouts to one of the paramedics, as the paramedic rushes over to help Gracie. Karl hears her and turns his head and smiles faintly when he sees Elaine, as she gives him a quick glance and then goes to find Finn amongst the crowd. It goes back to the Hunters, as they all stand frozen watching the firefighters trying to put out the fire. Suddenly, Keith comes out of the building holding Andrea in a blanket in his arms. He falls to his knees as he coughs loudly, with a large amount of smoke in his lungs. “DAD, MUM” Lewis, Finn and Ella shout almost all in sync as they rush over, with two more paramedics going over to take them to an ambulance immediately. “Finn!” Elaine shouts over the loud sounds of people talking and shouting. “It’s Gracie…I think you should be with her!” Elaine shouts, getting closer to him as he slowly nods with a confused expression, before running towards the ambulances at the end of the street searching for Gracie.

Back inside the restaurant wreckage, Lynette is continuing to examine the blade through Mark’s leg as the paramedic whispers something into her ear. “You’re going to have to take it off aren’t you?” Luisa says worriedly, as Lynette stares for a moment before shaking her head. “As a last resort…but not here, we’re going to trim the blade and make it smaller then get him straight to hospital, we have more treatment options there” Lynette informs an anxious Luisa, who nods quickly. “Well go on, get him out of here!” Luisa says, just as Mark lifts his hand up to his head and takes his oxygen mask off. “Luisa get out of here now, this floor could collapse at any moment” Mark says in a croaked voice, coughing and spluttering a little. “How many times do I need to say it ey? I’M NOT LEAVING YOU HERE, I’VE ALREADY LOST ROSE AND I WILL NOT LOSE YOU TOO” Luisa shouts loudly at him, as she then breaks down into tears while her grip on Mark’s hand gets tighter. “I’m going to get someone else to come down here and trim the blade, I can’t do it” Lynette says, getting teary as she crawls over to the ladder. “What do you mean you can’t do it?” Luisa asks angrily, as Lynette is clearly far too upset and is worried in case she makes a mess of it. “I need to be professional here…I’m not in the right state of mind to do this to my own brother…I’ll be more useful out there” Lynette explains to an annoyed Luisa, who only cares about getting Mark out of there as soon as possible. “You said you would get him out of here!” Luisa says, trying to stop herself from continuing to cry but her attempt fails. “And I will, but it just won’t be me doing it!” Lynette says, before beginning to climb up the ladder as Luisa sobs uncontrollably holding Mark’s hand up to her cheeks. In the ambulance, the blanket has been removed from Andrea to reveal massive burns across her arms and chest, and even on her face. Keith covers his mouth with shock, trying to take in what he is seeing as Ella puts her arm around him supportively, while staring in horror herself. It cuts to another ambulance, as Gracie is screaming in severe pain while holding Finn’s hand tight. “Is it the baby? Is it alright?” Gracie screams at the paramedic who hands her an oxygen mask. “We won’t be able to tell until we get to the hospital” The paramedic replies, as Finn has an extremely worried facial expression.

Amelia is standing outside the airport, with her arms folded, as there is a light breeze in the wind blowing through her wavy hair. “Are you alright?” Christine asks, appearing from behind her with a worried expression on her face. “Not really, no. I mean my restaurant has just had a flippin’ helicopter crashing into it and my sister is just going on the run for murder, apart from that I’m absolutely amazing” Amelia rants in a sarcastic tone, not looking Christine in the eye as she does so. “I’m sorry, about the restaurant…our family seems to just have a streak of bad luck eh?” Christine remarks, making Amelia smile a little as she nods in agreement. “Nothing ever seems to go right…even your relationship with Ryan that was perfect before has somehow gotten messed up, I don’t know what it is about us…” Amelia replies, engaging in conversation with Christine after being hostile. “I wouldn’t change these past few months for anything Amelia…having you back in my life after so long, it’s just been…it’s just been amazing, I didn’t realise what I had lost” Christine tells her genuinely, placing her hand on Amelia’s shoulder supportively. “It’s just a shame you had to go over some stupid letters…can’t you stay? Please? I don’t know how I’m going to cope without you by my side” Amelia admits to her, breaking down into tears in front of Christine. “You know I can’t, don’t do this. Not now, I have to go and you know that” Christine tells her, trying to comfort her as Amelia heavily sighs to herself. “I just wish I could have had a lot more time with you…we missed out on so much these past few years and now I had you back and now you’re being taken away from me again, god why is life so unfair!” Amelia sobs, attempting to calm down but is unable too. “You know I would take you and Ryan with me if I could…but it’s just far too dangerous, I don’t want you to get caught up in the mess that I got myself into, it’s not fair” Christine says, as Amelia slowly nods, drying her tears away. “Yeah well I wish you all of the luck in the world in Alicante and don’t lose touch, I want at least one phone call a day!” Amelia smiles at her, causing Christine to get teary as she hugs her sister tightly for one of the last times.

At the hospital, Andrea is being treated in the resus area of the Emergency Department, as Keith watches on with an extremely worried facial expression. The camera moves round to show Andrea’s severe burns, showing the full extent as they have burned right through her skin and almost to the bones. “I’m going to have to ask if you could wait outside for me, we don’t want you getting infections in here” The doctor asks, as Keith slowly nods, turning around and heading out while looking over his shoulder at the bed which Andrea is laid in. It cuts to Lynette storming through the entrance of the Emergency Department followed by Mark who is now in a hospital bed having managed to get out of the wreckage, with a pale looking and ill looking Luisa behind him. “Right I want the blade out of his leg ASAP. We’re going to need to get some surgeons from upstairs to come down and take a look, but you’ll have to deal with it as I need to get cleaned up” Luisa says to a few nurses, as they listen to her orders. “Lynette! I’m sorry…you know, about what I was saying back there…I was going out of my mind with worry about Mark and I know you were too” Luisa apologises, as Lynette weakly smiles at her. “Well he’s not out of the woods yet…but fingers crossed, ey? Make sure you get checked out too” Lynette tells her abruptly, walking off down the corridor, taking her doctors jacket off as Luisa stands with a confused expression on her face. It cuts to Finn and Gracie sitting in a cubicle of the ED, when a sonographer enters with a machine and begins applying the gel to Gracie’s stomach, telling her it will feel cold as Gracie interrupts. “You don’t need to go through it all again, I had a scan last week” Gracie says, before seething a little with pain. “How is the pain? Has it gotten any worse?” The sonographer asks while moving around Gracie’s stomach. “It’s pretty much the same...” Gracie informs her, as the sonographer then nods. Finn takes Gracie’s hand tightly, as she breathes a sigh of worry. “Well? Is our baby okay?” Finn anxiously asks, as the sonographer falls silent and gulps. “There’s no heartbeat….I’m very sorry but you have experienced a miscarriage” The sonographer informs the devastated couple, as they sit frozen in total disbelief at what they have just heard.

Back at the wreckage, residents of Digital Lane are continuing to gather round as Maria walks back over to her family, who are huddled together. “Where did you get yourself too?” Jessica asks, as Maria is clearly acting suspicious. “No where, what are you on about?” Maria tries to divert the conversation, while Abby involves herself in the conversation. “Stay close, we don’t want anyone going missing” Abby informs her, as Maria slowly nods. “Well where has Ryan gotten himself too? And Christine?” Maria questions, trying to act like she doesn’t know as Jessica puts her head down. “They’re going, moving to Alicante” Jessica admits in an abrupt tone, beginning to walk away as Abby stands there with confusion and Maria pretends to be shocked. “Oi! You can’t just say that and then walk off, tell me what’s going on!” Abby shouts angrily at her, as Jessica stops in her tracks and turns back around to face her. “They wanted a fresh start…without any influence from anyone else, they weren’t going to tell anyone until tonight but with the crash and all it was better to just have a quiet exit” Jessica explains to the pair, as Abby covers her mouth with shock. “Well we’ve got to go to the airport, now!” Abby exclaims, rushing to the end of the street as Maria hesitates. “Well they wanted a quiet exit so shouldn’t we give them that?” Maria guiltily says, as Jessica raises both of her eyebrows. “Come on, we deserve a goodbye” Abby tells her, as they rush out of the business district. At the hospital, Luisa is sitting in the relatives room when Finn and Gracie enter, looking totally devastated as they sit down across from her. “How’s your mum doing? I heard she’s got some quite bad burns” Luisa tries to make conversation with them, as they sit there frozen staring into space. “We haven’t heard anything yet” Finn quietly replies, while Gracie is simply staring at the table with an emotionless facial expression. “Has something happened? You look…” Luisa says, coughing and spluttering as she finishes her sentence from all the smoke she inhaled. “We’ve just found out we have lost our baby” Finn informs Luisa, whose eyes open with total shock as she looks at the pair. “Oh my…I don’t know what I can say, I’m so sorry” Luisa replies with sympathy, as Finn weakly smiles at her while trying to comfort a devastated Gracie. Luisa sits back in her chair and folds her arms, shutting her eyes for a moment as memories of losing Rose begin to come flooding back…

At the airport, Christine, Amelia and Ryan are standing just before the security area, where Christine is saying her last goodbyes to them. “I didn’t realise how hard this would be until now!” Christine exclaims, drying the unshed tears from her eyes as both Amelia and Ryan stand there totally devastated she is leaving. “Don’t worry about the restaurant alright? Everything will get sorted out and you will make a success of it, I know you will” Christine convincingly says to Amelia, who is still left reeling about the crash. “I hope your apartment has two bedrooms because don’t think I won’t be coming over to Alicante every weekend to see you!” Amelia replies jokingly, before hugging her sister tightly and trying to stop herself from crying. “And you…oh you, don’t forget about me too soon ey?” Christine tells Ryan jokingly, before hugging him tightly and then kissing him softly. She then lifts her head up to his ear and whispers “I’m pregnant” in his car, before smiling at him as he looks at her in total shock. She then kisses him once more, and then turns on her heels and heads off in the other direction towards the security checks. “Good luck!” Amelia shouts out to her, clearly emotional as she begins to sniffle. Ryan is standing there frozen with shock, as Amelia is waving her sister off before breaking down into tears, making Ryan put his arm around her to try and comfort her. Back on Digital Lane, Stephanie, Stacey and Sophie are all walking along the street when numerous police cars appear out of no where, approaching the Walker house at the end of the street. Police officers get out of the car and begin to approach the house, as Stephanie’s face goes pale with worry. “You two get inside, I’ll go and see what this is all about” Stephanie suggests, pushing her daughters out of the way and making her way down the street. “Imagine getting arrested on your wedding day!” Sophie says, as she and Stacey walk towards the house. “Excuse me…Stephanie Collins, you could call me the neighbourhood watch around here…what’s going on?” Stephanie asks, as one of the detectives turn around to face her. “Do you know a Penelope Walker? In fact, you’ll probably know her as Christine” The detective asks her in quite an aggressive tone, as Stephanie slowly nods. “Do you know of her whereabouts right now?” The detective further questions her. “At her wedding reception, the site of the awful helicopter crash” Stephanie announces, knowing where Christine really is. Suddenly the door is banged down and the police rush into her house, as Stephanie watches on with an extremely worried expression on her face.

The Bolen’s rush into the airport and see Ryan and Amelia both standing at the large window, which views onto the runway where the planes are. He watches as one pulls out, knowing Christine is inside it. “Ryan!” Jessica shouts, causing him to turn around and look at her confused. “Where is she? Where is Christine?” Maria asks, making Ryan sigh to himself. “She’s on that plane right behind us” Ryan remarks, pointing to the plane as Amelia stays silent, continuing to stare out the window. “Why aren’t you on that plane? What happened?” Maria anxiously questions him, looking stressed out as Ryan looks at her oddly. “She only booked one plane ticket…she didn’t want me to get caught up in her mess” Ryan admits to the family, while Amelia raises her eyebrow, continuing to simply stare out of the window at the plane going onto the runway. “I’ve done something really stupid” Maria sighs, banging her head against the window as everyone then looks at her oddly. “What have you done?” Ryan interrogates her intently. “It was me alright…I sent those letters to her, I didn’t know she actually did have a dark past! They were just innocent…I was, still am angry about what she done to you…sleeping with Alfie like that” Maria explains to them all, as Ryan’s facial expression turns to anger and Amelia looks like she wants to punch Maria in the face there and then. “It has nothing to do with you! And now look what you’ve done, my wife is fleeing the country all because you got her so paranoid she was going to be outed!” Ryan screams at her furiously, as Maria tries to plead with him. “Well the Bolen’s clearly don’t stick together like they say they do” Amelia sneers at Maria, before walking off to watch the plane taking off from one of the other windows. “I’m sorry” Maria whispers softly to Ryan, who is clearly devastated. “No Maria…you’ve gone too far this time…get out of my sight, NOW!” Ryan shrieks at her angrily, as Jessica and Abby both give her dirty looks. Maria turns on her heels and slowly walks towards the exit with tears forming in her eyes, not looking over her shoulder as she can’t bare to look back. Ryan puts his hand gently against the window, as it shows an outside view of the window, where Amelia is standing almost breaking down into tears and Ryan is remaining composed. It cuts to the interior of the plane, where Christine is sitting next to a man, around mid 30s. She sighs heavily to herself, before smiling as he offers her a sweet so her ears don’t pop. She takes it and puts it into her mouth, before gazing out of the window at the ground below while the plane takes off into the air. “I’ll never forget you” Christine whispers to herself, referring to Ryan as she places her hand on the plane window gently with sadness.

Elaine is crossing the dark Digital Lane heading towards the Collins house with some first aid supplies when Karl emerges from the darkness at the other end of the Lane, calling her name causing her to reluctantly turn around and look at him. “You were great today, helping Finn and Gracie like that” Karl says, as Elaine rolls her eyes. “Is that all? Anyone would have done the same thing” Elaine states rudely. "Look, before you left...our problems were this big" Karl says, opening his arms wide to show her as she stands there silence. "But since you came back, I've realised they only seemed that way because we were so close up against them" Karl continues to speak, while Elaine just stands there listening to him intently. "I now realise how much I love you, which is this much" Karl tells her convincingly, opening his arms wider this time causing her now to look at him confused. "I see that now and I needed to tell you that, because you have to say these things while you still can…I mean look at all those people who died today at the helicopter crash, they didn’t get the chance to say what I’m saying now" Karl says, smiling at her genuinely while Elaine continues to look at him baffled. "Karl… Jasmine is sitting in a hospital room needing pajamas and I'm not entirely sure what you're saying" Elaine finally speaks up, totally confused about the situation. "I'm saying...that I know you've moved on and I hope that you'll be happy, because you Elaine...you will always be the love of my life...that's all" Karl answers her, placing his hand on his chest while Elaine simply stands staring at him. "What do you mean I've moved on?" Elaine questions him, causing Karl to put his hands into his pockets awkwardly. "Come on, you've been with people while you've been away and you made it pretty clear when you came back you didn't want us to talk. If you’re in love with someone else then fine, but I need to let you know how I feel" Karl replies with information based on his assumptions, causing Elaine to shake her head at him. "Yeah I am in love...with you" Elaine admits to him, much to his surprise. "...me?" Karl asks her with a surprised and confused facial expression. "You" Elaine smiles at him, dropping the bag of clothes and beginning to walk towards him as he begins to walk towards her. "You...you, it's always been you" Elaine whispers softly to him, as they stand before each other. They stare at each other for a moment, before Karl kisses her with deep passion as Elaine throws her arms around his neck. The camera goes round them in a circular motion while they continue to passionately kiss, before the camera pans up to the dark sky and the screen fades to black.

Last Appearance of Christine Walker (Natalie Anderson).

Cast List (Only Speaking Roles – 21 Regulars, 1 Recurring, 0 Guests)–

That's such a shame but the year it went on for was absolutely brilliant! I understand how hard it is with writing, trying to keep up and having to post on a schedule. Luckily I keep my fan fiction soap work well hidden away so nobody notices

You were so great with character development and all those little things and nudges to recent histories you put into your episodes to make the continuity all the more realistic - it's absolutely amazing! What do you do as a job/to study? Have you ever considered going into writing and production and stuff? It's an absolute blast and you seem like you really enjoy it. You've also got some evidence of your writing skills (a year's worth, I might say!)