I thought last night's episode was rubbish, but to be fair EE doesn't always move in real time.
A few weeks ago we had almost an entire week's worth of episodes that portrayed the events of just one night. So it's understandable that we've now jumped forward a couple of weeks in the space of one episode. I admit that it's a bit confusing for the viewer though.
The most extreme example of a soap doing this (that I can remember) is when Daphne died in Neighbours. One episode we saw Des crying over her tragic death, the next epsiode there was a caption at the bottom of the screen saying "Two months later" and Des and Mike seemed to be pretty much over it! Well that's how I remember it anyway