Has he? I don't remember that.

When he found out that Kevin wasn't his real dad. I think it involved him drinking and possibly matches......I can't quite remember.

Oh i remember this! I guess he's never been emotionally stable....

I don't remember much about his first stint so this is interesting. It seems possible then that he's someone who could try and hurt himself.

Exactly - right from his first episode that was seen - he lied to Pat about Kevin being dead!


Definitely. Apart from the initial yelling at Shirley, Dean seems quite stable now. He comes across (minus the Linda obsession) as being quite together. I still think it's all an act and I still don't understand why no one has spoken to him about how he really is!

I've just remembered - I think Deano had a lighter and Kevin managed to calm him down and close the lighter - I think Dean had put petrol all over the car lot cabin...

He does seem quite together there's just the odd hint all is not right. He's been together enough the last few years to become a hairdresser too. We haven't really learnt much about what he's been up to since he left. I suppose he hasn't given anyone a reason to think there is anything wrong so they haven't asked how he is. They know something awful happened in prison but I suppose they don't know him well enough to ask about it (except Shirley of course but that's not likely happen anytime soon).

Yeh hopefully when, maybe Nancy, knows him better, they will ask about it.

She seems to be the only one likely to talk to him about it.

I am glad Linda told Dean she wasn't happy with what he did and warned him off. She is understandably very uncomfortable about the incident. I kind of expect to see Dean's copy of the photo at some point with Whitney and Lauren cut off!

Yeh I think so too - Nancy would ask tough questions as well.

Yeh I'm glad Linda told him as well, and I liked the way she did it - it seemed to get through to him. I agree - that would be very weird but I think he would have already made the picture just him and Linda.

I was just reading the spoilers for next week about Dean and Babe stashing e Camino's cannabis at Blades. I don't understand why Dean would take any risk of ending up in prison when his previous experience was so bad. It doesn't make sense to me.

It doesn't to me either. Starting to wonder if they know where they are going with the character at all.

Why would he learn a trade if he didn't want to keep on the straight and narrow?

I agree. However, we know how Dean can be manipulated easily! Shirley seems to try and stop it as she doesn't want Dean to go back to prison - maybe we'll finally get some lines about Dean's time in prison!

Yes me too. It does seem odd to me that he would become a hairdresser - doesn't seem to fit somehow.

Then again like Sez said though he is easily led and he doesn't really think things through before acting. I mean I don't imagine he thought about the consequences of grabbing Linda's arse!

Yeh he definitely doesn't think things through all the time. Also, when we first saw him he was hiding mobile phones - he hasn't gone totally straight when it comes to crime!

The prison talk will be interesting - I hope Dean mentions how much he doesn't want to go back there.

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Looks like Stacey will be working with Dean at Blade's then! Seems to show Dean and Stacey doing hair for Sharon's wedding perhaps.

Love this! They obviously put Dean and Stacey together quickly then - it was obvious since the first time we heard Dean was a hair stylist

Yes it was pretty obvious - why else have them both getting hair dressing experience while away. Dean may still be looking for a stylist when Stacey gets out of prison and getting a job will be one of the first things she'll need to do. Or he'll hire her as a colourist. I wouldn't be surprised if they get together romantically at some point once Dean has got over his Linda thing. I don't think it will be for a while though but hopefully they can develop a good friendship working together.

I agree. I'd like to see them develop a good friendship. Maybe she could help him through whatever he is going to be going through in the next few months? They have a lot in common.

What do you think about the speculation that Dean could

I doubt it'd be him for some reason.

I do think he'll be in these eps though as a director this week tagged him, Lacey, Shane and Rita in a tweet.

At the moment I see no reason why he would do it but he may have one by the time the fire happens who knows. I think whoever does it won't mean anyone to come to any harm and will suffer a lot of guilt. It could be interesting to see Dean dealing with that especially if he gets paired with Stacey but if someone is seriously injured it can't be good long term.

I agree, at the moment there is no motive at all. It's great that he's at the top of some people's lists though - it means Matt is doing a persuasive job with acting out Dean's obsessiveness and everything else.

I think people are just going by the idea that he is supposed to be darker this time around. He hasn't actually done anything bad enough to be chief suspect yet. If it was the Vic that was to go up in flames (again) I could understand why it could be Dean but no idea why he would have anything against the Slater's just yet. Like I said though they have a month or so to come up with something I guess!

Yeh...at the moment no one has a motive so it will be interesting to see what happens...

Look at that beautiful smile Dean gave Babe! I wish we got more of those from Dean, I get he needs to be broody but it'd be good to get some fun out of him.

I liked seeing Mick and Dean team up tonight too.

Yeh some lovely stuff tonight

However, I didn't like how Dean just said that he'd "done a bit of bird" - would he casually just say that he'd been in prison given what happened to him?!