28/02/2014 EastEnders

There's a lot riding on this.

You seriously telling me

you bought every family member one of these jumpers for Christmas?

The market's my priority now. It's important we show the council we're a united team.

Well, if you want me to wear "Scarlett's" across my... you can give me double time.

It's just a shame that some of the team are a bunch of amateurs.

That's the reality of being a grown-up. You don't always get what you want.

Peter! Where's your sweatshirt?

Oh. That's him.

What the hell did you tell Luke that for?

She loves him and you screwed everything up now.

DOOR SLAMS

Stace...

everything's going to be all right.

Excuse me.

I don't think Cindy's breathing right.

What does Dex know? He's just a kid.

You ain't exactly perfect, Max.

You want to get your priorities right.

And that means the happiness of your family.

Yeah.

And you know what, Cora? We ain't related.

I'm cooking, I'm cleaning,

I'm suffocating with your hairspray and his feet.

So move out, will you? The pair of you.

Any time today.

She IS breathing. I can see her breathing.

Were you here when she fell over?

Did she have any kind of fit before she fell over?

Do you know what Cindy had been doing before she fell over?

No. It weren't... I'd only just got here.

-She's hammered.

-She's hammered?!

Is she? I...look.

Please don't tell Ian - he'll go off his head at me.

Oh, fantastic(!) Right, we're going to have to stay with her.

You'll have to go and find a bucket, OK?

I can't believe she'd get this wasted when she knows she's...

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

I've got 14 hours till I'm on call and back in this uniform.

Well, we can't...

I have to stay with her.

So stay with her.

I've got plenty other friends I can have a drink down Soho with, doll.

What you doing, eh? Silly girl.

What am I? Your child minder? A mind-reader?

-We needed to talk.

-Because Stacey thought Janine's offer was a good one?

-Is this with or without the medication?

-No.

No! No, Kat. Cos Janine murdered Michael.

Do you want me to go in the hallway and explain what that looked like?

She stabbed him to death. My cousin. The father of your son.

And you're trying to get Janine off and land Alice right in it?

So you tell me, what were you talking about all night?

I haven't made the statement, have I?

Where do I stand?

In all of this, where do...

Where do I stand?

I'm up all night, worrying about you.

Like a mug.

Leaving you messages that you don't even pick up.

How did we get back there so soon, eh?

I'm a prize mug.

Alfie Moon, Mr Paranoia, just holding it all together and I can't do that no more.

-No!

-I'm not living like this no more, Kat.

-No, no. Stop it, Alfie!

That's not true. That's not true.

Listen, what if Luke goes to the police?

Kat, no-one has the right

to get away with murder...OK?

Listen, I didn't tell Luke to cause grief.

I told him cos he sussed something.

But come on - don't you think the bloke has a right to know?

They were trying for a baby. That's why she's come off her meds.

He won't go to the police...

..cos he loves her.

KNOCK ON DOOR

CINDY GROANS

Come on. Come on. We're doing it.

No! No, no, no.

Hey. Hey, hey, come on, me and you.

Me and you, babes, all right? We'll do this.

OK? Me and you. Come on.

-(They've gone.

-Are you sure? Have a look out the window.)

No, no, it's all right. They've gone. KNOCKING

Come on. We're going out the back.

Don't you think if I'd have wanted you around that bad I'd have found a way?

Did I call you? Did I e-mail you?

Did I ask you to barge in and ruin everything that matters in my life?

-Did I?

-We don't even know if it's the Old Bill.

-Lily!

-No, you can't!

What? What choice have I got?

What have you left me to lose, Kat?

KNOCKING

Baby, Mummy loves you, OK?

I love you.

I love you. I love you.

I love you.

I know.

I know, baby.

-Open the door.

-Stace, you don't have...

-Open the door.

Have another drink. Let me tell you what we here at the Vic think.

Can I interest you in some hors d'oeuvres?

Us Beales, we've been on the market for generations.

On the house, obviously.

Oh, that is so typical of that woman.

She thinks making a poster with a felt-tip pen is professional.

How can we compete against free booze and feminine wiles when we've only got Sonia?

Well, you could be pleased to see me!

Has someone changed the locks or have I come out with the wrong keys again?

-Took your time, didn't you?

-You called HER?!

Well, the Tube from Charlie's was a nightmare.

Let's have a look at you.

What have you done now?

-Stace?

->

That's just great. Why don't you just post it online, eh?

What's happened, Alfie? What's she doing back here?

Oh, the usual, you know. Hiding out. Splitting up from a fella.

Coming off her meds. Gone to visit Janine in prison.

Yeah, that's right, Max. Cooking up a deal where Janine will drop the lie

about Stacey if Kat goes and lies about who done my cousin in.

HE SIGHS (I can't do this.)

CAR HORN HOOTS

CAR HORN HOOTS

It's OK, darling, come on.

We're nearly there.

Stace?

So why's she come off her meds?

-You know how many people would be up for lynching her if they found her here?

-Go away, Max.

You think I'm the only one that saw her shouting at cars in the middle of the Square?

-The clock's ticking.

-This is nothing to do with you.

I'm her friend, Kat, all right?

So if she needs me, I'm going to be there for her. I'm still her friend, ain't I?

I can't have an ambulance cos I've already had a fire engine.

Well, call Ian. Or better still, I'll get Ian. Smug git.

My pleasure.

I'm not being put down by Bealey.

I'm not going to be patronised by that boring smug bosser.

Whoa. "Bosser"?

He been showing you how to butter bread again?

Look, if she's plastered, you're better off sitting with her while she sleeps it off.

She's pregnant.

I'll come with you.

I mean, they really are all bells and whistles, aren't they? Your average fire engine.

Billy, not near the food, please.

How's Tina supposed to notice me when I've only got a little ladder and I ain't even a lesbian?

-Put it on a smaller plate - makes it look bigger.

-All right, you've got ten minutes, Ian.

Though I don't know why you can't do your own "charming".

-Because I'm not a woman with boobs or eyelashes or...

-Charm.

I didn't mean that in a sexist way.

-What?

-What?

Billy, you work at the chip shop. Off you trot.

No, no, no. I've had thoughts.

A valuable contribution to make to the preservation of Bridge Street Market, yeah?

-Yeah, and we've got a haddock delivery.

-It's a pound a pint, Ian.

That is a crying shame, OK? When you get there, take them out and count them.

It's £55 a tray and I'm pretty sure I'm getting short-changed, all right? Go.

If you want to go abroad again, I'll sort the tickets out.

Or maybe if you want to go to a different part of the country.

Stace, come on, please. You ain't got time for this.

You need to get back on your meds and you need to get off this square.

Stacey, please.

Please, help me out here.

Can't you even look at me?

Come here. Come here. You listen to me.

What? You want to go to prison, do you?

You want Lily to go into care?

I decide!

-I

-decide.

-STACEY:

-What kind of life is this for a kid?

What kind of parent does this to a kid?

-You can start again, Stace.

-Lies to a kid.

You've got to survive. And fight.

She's just a little girl, Max.

I've taught her to jump every time she hears a police siren.

Different hostels. Moving all the time.

You've come through worse, ain't you?

What about when you first come back here? You know, your mum's,

all boarded up. That estate. Kids throwing bricks.

-I've got nothing left, Max.

-And the grief me and you kicked off.

You came through all that, didn't you?

I got nothing. I got no home. No job. No money.

I've lost her the person she thinks of as Dad.

What mum lets it get this far?

I can't do this any more.

So you're just going to sit here and give up, are you?

Wait for them to come and find you? Drag you out.

Just hold my hands up.

No, Stace, no. There's a way.

There's always a way. There's got to be. You know, what about Janine?

-This deal Janine's offered you.

-The truth, Max.

All you got to do is get her to drop the charges, that's it.

You still don't get it, do you? It catches up with you.

There is no good way for this to work out any more.

Hey. You all right?

Yeah. Yeah, they're sorting it out.

Good. Best leave them to it.

If anyone's got a plan, Max Branning will, won't he?

I don't think you're a mug, Alfie.

Look, Kat, I'm... I'm tired.

And I know you are. And I know how you feel about Stacey.

You're being pulled both ways - I get it.

But let's just focus on us, yeah? Me, you...

and our family, yeah?

Where you going?

I'm going to get the kids some chocolate. Keep them happy.

Listen, you couldn't get a muzzle for Mo, could you?

Alfie...

I'm sorry.

It's all right. I love you.

OK. Who's next?

DOOR SLAMS >

Oi! Why aren't you at work?

-I'm homeless.

-Just get back to work.

What will they do?

They'll do a finger-prick test. They'll find a vein.

They'll put a drip in the back of Cindy's hand to keep her hydrated.

"Breathe through your nose." Then hopefully she'll sleep it off.

They'll chuck her a load of leaflets and give her a massive rollicking.

Seriously. You want to see a baby whose mum's caned it throughout her pregnancy.

No, I don't.

They ought to phone Social Services, you know, with her being so young.

I had my daughter, I weren't much older.

Yeah. Embarrassing, I know. With a man. What can I say?

I was naive.

I experimented.

Don't tell anyone but I once had a relationship with the opposite sex.

Kept thinking if I practised enough, it might get a bit more interesting.

When I had my daughter, I didn't even know I was pregnant.

Is that why you trained as a nurse, so you could spot the signs?

Rebecca was adopted.

For a long time, I thought I'd lost her.

I once left Zsa Zsa on the Tube.

Not a natural.

The best thing was choosing the name.

Cos they don't tell you, do they?

Looking after a baby - it's like working in some really boring factory.

Unpaid. 24/7.

While sitting on a bag of frozen peas with your baps out.

Nothing maternal about me.

I did quite fancy a couple of the mummies, though.

We need to formally bring this meeting to order.

I think you'll find this is an informal meeting.

No. We need to lay down a series of proposals and discuss them professionally.

-Is he like this in the bedroom?

-Yeah.

-Can you muzzle that thing?

No! Dog! Dog! Look!

Will you shut up, please?

Thank you.

Some people are actually trying to save this market.

I'll get time off for good behaviour.

I can get a decent lawyer.

They've got to take into account what Archie did to me.

Maybe they might let Lily stay here.

Do you think, Max?

Maybe they might.

Because she should know who her family is.

Will you look out for her, Max?

I don't mean put yourself out, but if you see her about or if they send her away -

if they foster her out - please, Max, please will you stay in touch with her?

-Cos she's just a little girl. And none of this is her fault.

-No, Stace.

I can't promise you that.

I can't even look out for my own kids.

Bradley died for you.

All we did to him - he still gave up his life so you could have yours.

I know you loved him, Stace. I know.

You know, it's what you told me at the airport.

You said you'd always love him.

I really miss him.

There's a big space in my life where he should be.

Life he never had.

It's just a waste.

So you sit here, Stace. You just give up. You just...

wait for them to come for you.

And it'll be all gone.

That'll be all for nothing.

Cos I'm telling you, you'll count on one hand the people who'll love you like that.

I need to get my phone.

There you go, Patrick. Ta.

Thank you so much for coming.

-Bye.

-Oh! Success, eh?

That council representative works for the department of la-di-dah.

He's been in here hours,

ate all the cakes and promised us absolutely nothing.

I think that deserves a drink, don't you?

I've got some fizzy orange and crisps in the basement, if you're interested.

You coming on to me?

Yeah.

It's the menopause.

No hard feelings.

No, it's all right, it's not a problem. It was just a misunderstanding, weren't it?

All part of the learning curve. Onwards and upwards.

Diplomacy's in his genes.

Whose?

Well, obviously mine. It's not going to be his mum's, is it?

She was more vindictive than diplomatic.

I tell you - he has got all the makings of a good small-to-medium-sized businessman.

It's all part of our father/son bond.

I tell you what, when Cindy goes, there'll be more space. He might even move back in.

-More space? What?

-I told you.

I didn't tell you?

-OK, Gina's moving to Portugal with her mum and they want to take Cindy with them.

-Oh!

-I know.

MONITORS BLEEP

PHONE RINGS OUT

JEAN: 'Stace?'

Hello?

'Oh, Stacey!'

SHE SOBS

Hey, hey. No, no, it's all right. It's all right. It's all right.

I was just waiting for them to call me.

I've been outside the whole time, you muppet.

Well, after that, Vanessa saw sense and she left me.

And then Tanya saw sense. She left me. Cheers.

And then there was Kirsty - she saw sense.

And she didn't even have that much sense to begin with.

And then Tanya saw sense again and that was it.

You ever thought about getting a cat or something?

I think it's safer if people like me and you just stay single.

You're still my dearest friend, though.

Yeah, always.

CAR HORN HOOTS

If you must know, I've finally seen sense and left Max's.

Ain't like we're related.

I'm thinking of going visiting.

Safe trip.

Although, er...

I did tell Dexter, when he called to say that Max had kicked you out,

you know, the both of you can move in.

Well...as a friend,

obviously.

-Honest is best.

-Ian's an idiot.

No-one tells him I'm pregnant. He's sending me to Portugal.

Do you still see your little girl?

Yeah, of course. She lives with me, and her dad.

-We all live together.

-So it all worked out well, then.

Yeah, all worked out.

And you know, fighting for my little girl was the best thing I ever did.

I've got to go. Bar in Soho.

Tosh rescues me in a fire engine and all she gets is a little snog -

no wonder she's hacked off.

-See her in. Do you mind?

-Yes!

My breath smells. Does my breath smell?

I can't talk now, Billy.

I'm just coming to the end of a big family crisis.

All right, all right. But when you're through here,

-I've got three trays of haddock - 30 quid a pop.

-25, and you can fetch them straight over.

-Done.

Sounds like Ian Beale has been.

Vomit, beer cans everywhere, back door wide open.

-Ian.

-Do you know what, young lady? I took you in out of the goodness of my heart.

I had no legal obligation to do so.

I tell you what - that plane cannot leave soon enough.

-Ian!

-What?

-What? What are you even doing here? Have you got my sweatshirt?

-No.

Right, well, I want it back in the morning,

-washed and ironed, or it's coming out your wages.

-Do you know what, Ian?

What is it with you and all the other men that grew up round here, eh?

Have you not got any time to think about anyone else's feelings other than your own?

Have you not wondered where she's been? Why the drinking?

She's a teenager.

No, Ian, she's been to hospital.

Alcohol poisoning.

She's a very lonely little girl.

And she's pregnant, Ian.

Cindy's pregnant.

Mummy strap you in. There you go.

That's it.

Alfie, where's she going?

Where's she going? Stace?

Stace? Stace!

Keep your voice down. What?

You don't have to go.

It was her own idea. She's going to Jean's.

She wants to see her mum.

What have you done?

I was trying to make it all right.

You... You actually went and lied to the police?

You told them you saw Alice kill Michael?

I thought she had nowhere else to go. I thought there was no other choice.

Well, you were wrong.

We can go. Thanks.

Max. Alice, she's part of your family. You talk to her.

I thought you did the right thing.

-I just wanted her to come home.

-I know.

I know where I stand now, Kat.

My family. Our family.

We come last.