EastEnders 16th April 2025
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00:00Music
00:28Please, can we really try to keep the ball in the square, yeah?
00:33Come on.
00:34One touch football.
00:35All right, that's it.
00:36Right there.
00:36Come on.
00:37Up the ambers.
00:39Right there.
00:40That's it.
00:41Now, just keep it up.
00:42Come on, Nick.
00:44Quickly, quickly.
00:45Right there.
00:46Right there.
00:46Right, go on.
00:47Oh, careful!
00:49Sorry, son.
00:50Boys.
00:51Sorry.
00:51My bad.
00:52It's okay.
00:53No, I'm done, sir.
00:54Sorry about that.
00:55It's all right.
00:55Hey, how are you?
00:56All right, come on, let's go.
00:58Oh, very impressive, I must say.
01:01You know what they say?
01:02It's not the size of the boat.
01:03It's about the motion and the ocean.
01:05You only say that if you've got a small boat.
01:07So, who's wrapped up with a speedboat?
01:10Well, is he good looking?
01:13Yes.
01:15This is.
01:16Bye.
01:16This is Terry.
01:17And he's my dad.
01:18Hi.
01:19She's the one I was telling you about.
01:21Sorted out all the guided tours for the true crime fans.
01:24Oh, yeah.
01:24I'm sorry.
01:25It's all right.
01:26All right, Terry, I'm Alfie Moon, and I have no idea who this battleaxe is.
01:31But, um, anyway, I'm going to leave you to it.
01:34Right, Bert, Ernie, last one in the parks, the referee.
01:37I'll see you later.
01:37I'll see you later, Tom.
01:38See you.
01:39Ta-da.
01:41Is kids really called Bert and Ernie?
01:43Yeah.
01:45Can't choose your neighbours, I guess.
01:47They're all right, really.
01:49Even Mum has her moments.
01:50She delivered Bex many months ago.
01:54Didn't have her down as a midwife.
01:56You'd be right.
01:58It's a long story.
01:59Yeah.
02:00And I want to hear it.
02:02I want to hear all the stories.
02:04And then I want you to tell me what you think about my offer.
02:06I still haven't heard back from the police about that complaint I made.
02:19When you really think she'll be top of their priority list?
02:21Well, if I don't get an update from Jack soon,
02:24I'll be shoving a rocket where the sun don't shine.
02:26Manifesting works.
02:35Who knew?
02:42Avani.
02:46So Mo hears me screaming through the wall
02:48and she comes round to check that I'm not being murdered
02:51and there I am, Bex crowning away on the sofa.
02:54And you had no idea that you...
02:56Not a clue.
02:57No.
02:58I was only 15.
03:00Well, you did a good job and you stuck by her
03:04and you brought her up proper.
03:05It wasn't always that simple.
03:08She was adopted at first.
03:11I got her back when she was five and a half.
03:15Well, you got there in the end.
03:19Bit like me, I guess.
03:20Just took me a little bit longer.
03:21Well, I think it's a bit different.
03:25I was just a kid.
03:27Yeah, well, I weren't far off myself.
03:30I mean, hands up, I should never have left you the way I did,
03:32but...
03:34Would me and your mum have sorted it out if I'd stayed?
03:38Worked through me issues?
03:40Would I have stepped up as a dad?
03:41Do you, er...
03:47Do you regret putting Bex up for adoption?
03:50Missing all those milestones?
03:52You know, first words, first steps, first at school?
03:54Yeah, of course I do.
03:56But it wasn't like that.
03:58I did what I thought was best at the time.
04:00So, you can relate?
04:03No, I...
04:06I couldn't do it then.
04:08But I'm a different man now.
04:10I've travelled, I've earned good money.
04:13I proper turned me life around.
04:15I've lived, Sonia.
04:17Don't you think it's your turn to do the same?
04:22Just all a bit fast, innit?
04:25In fact, it's not just fast.
04:26It's ridiculous.
04:28I just need a bit more time.
04:31Yeah, of course.
04:34But my flight leaves tomorrow still.
04:37Yeah.
04:41He's just a boat, Freddie.
04:43Cat, it's a speedboat, yeah?
04:44Yeah, well, I'm not the biggest fan.
04:46Why, face sake, can't you got your own laptop?
04:49I don't want Sonia to catch me playing detective at home, do I?
04:51Right, well, I doubt he's the type to be posting on his Instagram
04:54about the crimes he's been committing to you.
04:56All right, Gen Z, why don't you come over and see what you can find?
04:59Go on.
05:02All right.
05:03Well, it's no surprise you can't find him.
05:04You spelt his surname wrong.
05:06Well, it looks all right to me.
05:07Oh.
05:07Right, you're looking out for Sonia.
05:09Oh, I sense a butt coming on.
05:12When Zoe told me that she wanted to move to Spain with Harry,
05:18of course, I said I wasn't having any of it,
05:19but the more I said no, the more she just dug her heels in.
05:22It's different.
05:23Zoe's your daughter, not your sister.
05:24Sort of was at the time, actually.
05:26Rose, my point, Sonia's too young.
05:27I remember my mum crying her eyes out,
05:29him shouting his mouth off, kicking off.
05:32Look, everyone thought I was wrong about Rhys.
05:34Don't want to make the same mistake again, do I?
05:35That's a good point, to be fair.
05:36Thank you, Freddie.
05:37I'm not saying you're wrong, Bea.
05:39Just be careful where you go about it, yeah?
05:41You go too hard, you'll just push her further away.
05:46So you're saying I just turned up out of blue?
05:48No, I'm not buying that.
05:51So you're saying my daughter's a liar?
05:53No, I'm saying your daughter brought dealers into my house, yeah?
05:56And that ain't a good look for a copper, is it?
05:58But traumatising a young girl is.
05:59All right, calm down.
06:00It's a bit too early to go all caveman, yeah?
06:04Is it yours?
06:05Be honest with me.
06:06It's not mine.
06:08I just told you that.
06:09But have you been smoking it?
06:10Avani, what do we say?
06:14About being open with us, telling us everything?
06:16Look, I ain't doing this.
06:18Avani!
06:23He ain't gonna do anything.
06:27Ravi, look, please.
06:31Look, teenage girls ain't easy, I get it.
06:35But this is the second time that Amy's been pulled into this stuff.
06:38She was in the wrong?
06:40That's fair.
06:41Be sadly a surprise, is it?
06:43After everything she's been through.
06:45Treat a child like a criminal and they're gonna act out.
06:49Look, the investigating officers, they played by the book.
06:53She wasn't smoking weed and hanging around with dealers before all of this, was she?
06:56No.
06:57So we need to get to the root cause of it.
07:00Well, she's your daughter.
07:01That's down to you, innit?
07:03Would you be happy if they did the same thing to Amy?
07:07I didn't think so.
07:08Can you at least just chase up my complaint?
07:14I see what I can do.
07:16No promises.
07:16Barley.
07:21I don't know, Cass.
07:22I've only known him after a day.
07:25And I mean, Barley.
07:26I didn't even know where it was till I looked on the map.
07:29Well, you know.
07:30Might fall in love with the place.
07:32I mean, I didn't exactly see myself swapping Walford for South Africa all those years ago.
07:37Did you regret that?
07:39No.
07:40No, not to begin with.
07:41Not until Gavin showed his true colours.
07:44But then again, it was different for me, wasn't it?
07:45I went with my brother.
07:47Not with a man I barely know.
07:49What if it's my chance to get to know him?
07:51My only chance?
07:52Yeah.
07:56Yeah, I get it.
07:57I do.
07:58But sometimes you just have to go with your gut instincts, don't you?
08:01Just tread carefully.
08:02All right, Sonia?
08:03And do what's right for you.
08:05Not him.
08:09I don't think that I can bear hearing her crying at night any more, Harvey.
08:16How's your hobby?
08:17Sorry.
08:18Sorry, I was miles away.
08:20Oh.
08:22Hello, you.
08:24I was actually looking for Stacey.
08:26Is she working?
08:29What, is everything OK?
08:31She won't come out of her room.
08:33She's not eating.
08:34She barely says anything to anyone.
08:35I'm so sorry.
08:36I didn't realise she was still struggling like that.
08:39Actually, Sonia, would you come talk to her?
08:43I mean, I'm at Melbick's End.
08:46And you two will have a special bond.
08:50So, you know, maybe...
08:52Maybe you get through to her.
08:55And you leave it away.
09:02Afternoon.
09:06So you're just going to ignore it, then?
09:09The massive elephant in the room.
09:12All I did was chase up a complaint from a neighbour.
09:14Oh, so you admit it, then?
09:15You're trying to throw us under the bus.
09:17We weren't by the book, Gov.
09:19Was it my proudest moment as an officer?
09:20No way.
09:21But by the letter of the law, we did nothing wrong.
09:23You did.
09:25All right, you were just doing your job.
09:27But would I want my Amy going through the same thing?
09:29Even if she did commit the crime?
09:33You're just kids, isn't they?
09:34Do you know what the problem with you is?
09:37You've been out of uniform too long.
09:43Here you go.
09:44Come on.
09:44What's this?
09:56Ruby had that made before she left.
09:59Guilty conscience.
10:02Yeah, well, it don't make up for what she did, does it?
10:07I haven't asked you how you're getting on yet.
10:11Your mum's worried about you.
10:12She's always worried about me.
10:15So there's Terry.
10:17You sure it's him this time?
10:18Yeah.
10:20Yeah, it's him.
10:22We had ID and a photo of me and him before.
10:26Before he left you as a baby.
10:30Do you think, er...
10:31Do you think you'd be doing all this
10:33if things hadn't happened the way they did?
10:36Flying halfway around the world with Rhys
10:38months after having a baby.
10:40Well, I seriously doubt it.
10:41I had a job getting into sorrow, let alone Asia.
10:44So what's changed?
10:48Just everything, innit?
10:51What he did.
10:53These true crime nutjobs turning up on my doorstep
10:56like I'm East London's answer to Lady Macbeth.
10:58Losing Martin.
11:01Now he's still.
11:06But it's not just the last few months, Stace.
11:08Billy.
11:12Billy.
11:13Grandad.
11:15Dot.
11:17Jamie.
11:20I think I'll be used to it by now.
11:23All that loss.
11:25But I don't know.
11:28She feels different this time.
11:29Too many ghosts.
11:32Too many ghosts.
11:35You need to have a word with yourself, son.
11:39Like it or not, this is my lot.
11:42Kids, grandkid, mum, the business.
11:45I've got ties, I've got ties I can't cut.
11:50But you can escape.
11:53You can leave the ghosts behind.
11:56What if it goes wrong?
11:58What if he's another Rhys or worse?
12:01Spin him off.
12:03You'll come home when you leave him
12:04on the other side of the world.
12:06In my experience,
12:08you regret the things in life you didn't do.
12:11You're a good mate, Stace.
12:13I wish we'd been nicer to each other over the years.
12:16What is it you called me once?
12:19More unstable than a three-legged chair.
12:25I take that back.
12:27You're the strongest person I know.
12:29You'll get through this.
12:34You both will.
12:41First off, I'm so sorry.
12:44All guns blazing, that's my go-to.
12:46Yeah, yeah, yeah.
12:47We're all parents, all in it together.
12:49The complaint?
12:50Any update?
12:52Listen, you'll get a written response,
12:54but no further action will be taken.
12:57Are you kidding me?
12:58Brilliant, aren't you?
13:00They're good officers.
13:02Okay?
13:02Nothing on their records to show any different.
13:04So what are we supposed to tell her?
13:05Just deal with it, move on?
13:07If you want to feel like you're doing something,
13:10then the complaint needs to come from her.
13:12All right?
13:12In her words.
13:13So she's going to read it the whole thing, yeah?
13:15Like it wasn't humiliating enough the first time.
13:18Believe it.
13:19He doesn't have a clue.
13:20She's my little girl.
13:27I don't know what to do.
13:30Then it's got to be worth a go, yeah?
13:32Right?
13:33And she's not going to tell your mum.
13:37She still has just between us.
13:39I told her I needed new clothes for the baby
13:41and I didn't want to ask mum for the money.
13:43She's going to pay you back now.
13:44As if.
13:45I don't want your money.
13:47Look, Bailey and you are out of trouble.
13:48It's...
13:49It's what big sisters are for.
13:52Right, I'd better go.
13:54I said I'd give mum a break
13:55from the screaming ball of flesh.
13:56It's what big sisters are for, yeah?
14:03But it does get better.
14:05I promise.
14:08I just don't want to forget him.
14:09As if you are ever going to forget Dad.
14:12Look, I won't let you for a start.
14:15Lily, if you ever need anything else,
14:19you only have to ask.
14:21OK?
14:26Oi!
14:37Oh, what's this?
14:39A welcoming committee?
14:40We've got the red carpet.
14:42Hey, can you get the cab?
14:43I've only got euros.
14:45Yeah.
14:46Have a good time, mum?
14:47What, three weeks away from here in the sunshine
14:49drinking spicy margaritas?
14:50Yeah, you better have had a good time.
14:52Well, come on then.
14:53Get your mum's bags.
14:54Oh, shut down, there's you get your three ones.
14:55Aren't we a bit old to eat at Holland?
14:58Er, absolutely not.
14:59You've got aftershave, chocolate
15:01and three bottles of a roo-boot.
15:03But, you're going to share the latter, mind?
15:05Well, come on, boys.
15:07Kettle's on.
15:08Let's go.
15:08What on, them muscles?
15:09Hey, Jim's paying off, isn't it?
15:10Oh, shut up, Harry.
15:12Oh, the gym?
15:13Oh, God, you'll have him eating
15:14steamed chicken and broccoli next.
15:17As if I'd train with him.
15:18No, I'll go with that.
15:19He knows his stuff.
15:25A bit of fresh air would be good for you.
15:34A little window.
15:36Well, er, we can see if George is free.
15:38You know, I'd go down for a sparring.
15:40I said no.
15:43You were doing so well.
15:46I thought you'd turned a corner.
15:47I said, I just, I just want to, er...
15:49I just want a bit of time to me, sir.
15:51I just...
15:52I've still got half of these to get through, and...
15:55I'll just drop it here, yeah?
16:02I've got to get to work.
16:03Er, see you later.
16:06Yeah.
16:07See you later.
16:11Sorry I'm late.
16:13I was, er, just catching up with Lily.
16:16Huh.
16:16Is that Uncle Billy?
16:21Another one she'll never get to meet.
16:25Come on.
16:26Out with it.
16:28Flicking through old photo albums hardly screams,
16:31I'm in a good place.
16:34You love it, don't you?
16:36Backpacking.
16:37Yeah.
16:38Yeah, best thing I've ever done.
16:40Why?
16:42Terry.
16:42He's asked me to go with him for a few months.
16:47You as well.
16:48Are you serious?
16:49Well, you hardly know him.
16:52I know, but he is still my dad, Bex.
16:54And what if it's fate?
16:56After everything that's happened, he shows up, right place, right time.
16:59Both of my girls, together in Bali.
17:03Bali?
17:04Yeah.
17:05What's wrong with that?
17:07Best place I've ever been by far.
17:09I was planning on going back.
17:11I told you.
17:13Fate.
17:14And he's offered to cover all the costs.
17:17Just think about it.
17:18No more hostels.
17:20No more slamming it.
17:21And if things go wrong, you know, we can just go our own way.
17:25Take our own path.
17:26Or just come back here.
17:29So if I say yes, if we...
17:31If we really do this, there is just one problem.
17:37Bianca.
17:41Yeah.
17:41I thought I was opening up.
18:00Mr. Leeson?
18:03Walford videos.
18:05Oh, it hasn't been a video show for years.
18:08You're lying.
18:11I've got to open up.
18:25I'm already dead.
18:26Nigel?
18:27What's the matter?
18:30They changed it.
18:32They changed it without telling me.
18:34Oh.
18:37What have they changed?
18:39The video shop.
18:41Why is everyone acting like this is totally normal?
18:46So, should we go home?
18:48Yeah?
18:48Back to Poole.
18:50I walk with you.
18:52Albert Square, mate.
18:54Yeah.
18:55Um, yeah, you know what?
18:56I'm sure it is a lovely area, but I'm not sure I want it left unattended for a couple of weeks.
19:01You know what I mean?
19:02Yeah.
19:03All right.
19:03Look, look, look, I'll call you back.
19:06All right.
19:06See ya.
19:08Sorry about that.
19:09It's all right.
19:11Sounded serious.
19:12Oh, no, just Rick the Fish.
19:14It's the fellow who's shipping this out to Bali for me.
19:18Says he can't get it picked up for a couple of weeks, though.
19:20Oh.
19:21It's a shame, really, that it couldn't go down to the Docklands and you could set off to Bali from there.
19:25Yeah, it'd save on the carbon footprint, you know, four of us on a nine-hour flight.
19:30True.
19:34Is that a yes?
19:36Are you coming?
19:38I don't know how long for, yeah?
19:40So we'll just see how it goes.
19:41But, yeah, we're all on board.
19:42You won't regret this, I promise you.
19:44This is all I've ever wanted.
19:46A family around me.
19:48My own flesh and blood.
19:50Right, er, well, I'd better get packing.
19:57Yeah, I'd better book you some tickets.
19:59Business car's probably out of the question, but, um, but nothing less than economy plus.
20:13Bianca, where are you?
20:15When you get this, come home, yeah?
20:18There's something I need to tell you.
20:20Avone?
20:31Can you come here, please?
20:38I haven't boxed, if that's what you're thinking.
20:41Let me see your eyes.
20:46Not red.
20:47Look, if this is going to be a speech about how it's a gateway drug, can you save it?
20:52I had a couple zoos, it's not that deep.
20:54Can you just sit down, please?
20:55We've been talking to Amy's dad, about what happened to her, and the complaint I made.
21:08What, let me guess.
21:09They were just doing their job?
21:11See, what's the point?
21:12There's one last thing we can do, take things further, save what happened to you, from your perspective, describe exactly what you went through, how you were feeling, how you're still feeling.
21:26You're joking, right?
21:27This could really change things, Avone.
21:32Make sure it doesn't happen again.
21:34It doesn't matter, though, Mum.
21:36It's already happened.
21:39Nothing's going to change that.
21:41I ordered for you.
21:50I hope you don't mind.
21:51I know what you like.
21:52Oh, you didn't have to do that.
21:54If I can't get my sister a takeaway every now and then, from a place with a one-star hygiene rating.
21:59Come on.
21:59You know I'm skint.
22:01I'll put it on a plate, make it look nice.
22:05There's something I need to talk to you about.
22:07Listen, it's about Terry.
22:13I know he's your dad.
22:14And I shouldn't have sucked me aure in.
22:19It wasn't my place.
22:21You've changed your tune.
22:22Oh.
22:24I don't mind admitting I'm wrong every now and then.
22:28All right.
22:30Cut out a word.
22:32You look at my dad.
22:35David's David.
22:37Has he changed over the years?
22:40Who knows?
22:41Maybe Terry's done the same.
22:44Well, maybe this won't be as hard to swallow as I thought.
22:47Oh, I know it's cheap.
22:49I'm sure it'll be all right.
22:49No, I don't mean the food.
22:53Terry's asked me, Bex and the baby to go to Bali for a few months and I've said yes.
23:02Have you now?
23:03I know it's a big call and I know everyone's going to think I'm mad, but, you know, I just
23:10want to get away from Warford for a little while and let the dust settle, you know?
23:14You're a golden ticket, I see.
23:23I get it.
23:25You do?
23:27Yeah.
23:27I mean, if David came along tomorrow and offered to whisk me off my feet for a long holiday, I'd jump at the chance.
23:38You do, yeah.
23:47So, when are you going then?
23:50I'll have to take you out shoplifting with me again, won't I?
23:53And get you a few bits.
23:55Don't think you've got anything in that wardrobe for backpacking.
23:57We're leaving tomorrow.
24:01He's booking the flights as we speak.
24:08Wow.
24:11Well, that's...
24:12That's great.
24:16This is like the last supper.
24:18There we go.
24:34Oh.
24:34Two sugars, nice and strong.
24:39Seriously, I'm fine now.
24:43Last time I lived round here, it was a video rental.
24:46I used to manage it.
24:48Oh.
24:49Don't really need them anymore, do we?
24:51What with live streaming and...
24:52I used to love working in that shop.
24:54My little sanctuary.
24:56Of course we stopped all the blockbusters, you know, all the mainstream rubbish, but...
25:01Horror.
25:02That was my thing.
25:03Oh.
25:04Proper niche ones, though.
25:06You know.
25:07Films that are actually scary.
25:10Not just jump scares and gore.
25:13Mm.
25:14I can watch them if I'm with somebody, but I wouldn't...
25:16Foreign films.
25:17Um.
25:18Not as popular, but still a market.
25:23That's where I met Julie.
25:25She was in her French cinema.
25:29Maybe she'll come in soon for another one.
25:31I, uh, thought I heard voices.
25:36Oh, Phil, this is, uh...
25:38Sorry, you did tell me.
25:39Yeah, it's all right, mate.
25:40I know who she is.
25:41Oh, Phil, yeah.
25:42Um, I found him on Turpin Road, a little bit confused.
25:46Yeah, he's, uh...
25:48He's been through a lot lately, but, uh...
25:50Well, he'll be fine.
25:52Are you sure he's okay?
25:53I said he'd be fine.
25:54Jane, you know what?
25:54I just, uh...
25:56Well, thanks.
25:56Thanks for bringing him on.
25:59Okay.
25:59Right.
26:00Well, I'll be on my way.
26:02Maybe see you around.
26:04All right, yeah, see you.
26:05Sorry.
26:05I take it she's given you the good news?
26:25Listen, I'd offer to buy you a ticket,
26:26but the, uh, the budget only stretched to flesh and blood.
26:30I'll tell you what, I'll get her to send you some postcards.
26:33You know, easy to get, isn't it?
26:34Out of sight, out of mind.
26:36You might think you can pull the wool over her eyes,
26:39but you don't fool me.
26:41Well, it doesn't matter, does it?
26:42She's made her choice.
26:47Oh, that's the big plan, is it?
26:49Get the old battle axe involved.
26:51Bother you, does it, eh?
26:52Someone who knows the real you.
26:54Someone who can see your true colours.
26:56The woman?
26:57She doesn't even see her own lot.
26:59Yeah, Sonia told me about it all.
27:00What was it?
27:01Four kids from four different dads, and I'm the bad guy.
27:04Watch it, Terry.
27:05Although, it appears that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?
27:08Sonia said you've got four of your own.
27:10But they've all left home, and I don't blame them.
27:12Listen, listen.
27:15You always were a gobby little bit.
27:18Always crying till you got your own way.
27:23A woman like you needs a good slap just to keep them in check.
27:28Now, listen.
27:29I've waited a long, long time for this,
27:32and I'm not going to let you ruin it, OK?
27:34So you just steer clear of us, understand?
27:36Oh!
27:36Oh!
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27:55Kinahan, the true story of Ireland's mafia.
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28:04The Kyle Walker podcast.
28:05And new on BBC Two, Rollercoaster, the secret genius of modern life.
28:10In a moment.