31/05/2016 EastEnders

So this is it then.

I've had ten days.

By tonight we'll know if the police can prove that...

..Bobby killed Lucy.

Morning.

Doing the driving today, are we?

Yep.

Where's Christian?

Back to Birmingham. Work.

I don't know how you managed to worm your way back in with Ian,

but I haven't forgotten what you did.

STACEY: Lauren.

All right?

Have you, er,

have you spoken to your dad?

Not yet.

I've applied for a visit, so hopefully soon. Oh...

Well, once Bobby's charged that's it - he'll be out.

What if they don't charge him?

Well, he's confessed.

And what if that's not enough?

Yeah, we both know Dad didn't do it, but...

what if they don't find enough evidence or something? They will.

How do you know?

Because Bobby did it.

We know he did it. I heard him say it to the policeman,

that's got to be enough.

How's...how's Abi taking it?

I'm on my way to see her now.

But, if I'm honest,

she'd be happy to keep him in there.

She'll come round.

We are going to get him out. I know we are.

Any tingling?

Numbness?

Maybe something.

Oh, I don't know.

Getting familiar, isn't it?

We'll have another go tomorrow.

This is all totally within the normal range for recovery.

Thank you for...

..all your help. It's much appreciated.

Thank you.

Bit more physio and I'll get there.

Go on, Ian. You'd better go.

You going to be OK? Go on, just...

Just go and get Bobby. We ain't got much time.

I'll call you as soon as I know anything.

Ian...

No matter what he's done...

..he's still our son.

Promise me...

you'll look after him.

Promise.

Thank you for letting us come over.

Well, it was Jack's idea.

Yeah, well, you know.

However it happened,

I like it. I'm just happy you get to spend some time together.

Yeah, I like it too.

It's good to spend some time with Louie.

You know when Bobby gets charged...

If.

He did it, Abs.

How can you be so certain?

What? He said he did it!

No, even before that. All the way through Dad's trial,

you were positive it couldn't be him, and why?

Well, he said he didn't do it.

Oh, and Dad's never lied to us about anything before.

He wouldn't...

he wouldn't lie about that.

Yeah, but it's like you never even thought it was possible.

You have never trusted Dad, ever since that Christmas.

And when everything's pointing towards him killing her,

you find out he's sleeping with her,

you get this incredible sense of loyalty,

as if you know something we didn't.

Lauren?

I wanted to tell you.

What?

I knew.

I knew that it was Bobby.

We all did.

Ian, Jane, Peter...

Well, why didn't you say anything?

Because I promised that I wouldn't. You promised who?

I promised Peter.

And Jane. All of them.

Well, what about us?

We are your family, Lauren. They let Dad go to prison!

That's why I'm trying to get him out!

That's why I'm being honest.

Oh, well it's a bit late to be honest.

He was going to put that on me. That could have been me, Lauren!

How could you let this happen?

It didn't happen.

You are protecting... He is a murderer!

Abi, I...

I honestly can explain it all,

I promise you.

How?

Other than that you chose your boyfriend over us,

you let our family fall apart?

Oi!

Go home before I smash that thing over your stupid head.

What's happening?

That's us finished.

You can move back in now.

Did you find anything?

I can't disclose that, I'm afraid.

Thanks for your co-operation, though.

I'll bring your stuff over.

Nah, it's...it's OK. Oh, it's no bother.

You've got enough on your mind.

Thank you.

DOOR SLAMS

Is he ready?

Nearly.

How's Jane?

Terrible.

She can't move, she can hardly feel anything, and...

she keeps blaming herself.

But can you believe it? She is still smiling.

She wants me to keep looking after Bobby, but I just...

don't know if I can do it.

Yes. You can.

You...sell your fish.

You just keep going. All right?

And I'm here for whatever you need.

Thanks, Mum.

Dad...

I thought I should wear this.

Can you help?

Come here.

Put your collar up.

You're much better at this than me.

I've had more practice.

Will I...

go to prison today?

No.

So I still get to come home, even if they charge me?

CAR HORN BEEPS

Dad?

Cab's waiting.

Ian, you don't have to do this alone.

We'll let you know what happens.

DOOR SLAMS

What have I done?

YOU haven't done anything.

Haven't I?

This is all because of me.

He's in there right now...

..because of me.

And I'm not with him.

His own mother...

..not with him on the day that they...

..they could charge him with murder.

Would you follow me, please?

We're in here for a bit more privacy.

This is Sergeant Buchanan. She's the custody officer.

Where do I sit, Dad?

Just there'll be fine.

Bobby, I'm Sergeant Buchanan,

the custody officer for your return on bail.

Present are Bobby, Mr Beale as appropriate adult, your solicitor...

Richmal Scott.

..and investigating officer DI Samantha Keeble.

Bobby, can you confirm your name, please?

Bobby Beale.

Anything?

Not yet.

Oh, Mum.

All this.

It comes down to one decision.

One decision...

I made one night, in one second, because...

..I thought it was the right thing to do.

But if I had to go back to that moment...

If I was there, right now...

..would I do anything differently?

No matter...

..how I look at it...

all the damage, all the...

..I don't know if I would.

Does that make me a good mother...

..or an awful one?

I wouldn't know, love.

Bobby Beale, I'm charging that on the 18th of April 2014,

within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court,

you did unlawfully kill Lucy Beale.

You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence

if you did not mention when questioned

something you later relied on in court.

Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

11:37am.

No comment to charge and caution.

I'm going to object to bail.

Oh, that is ridiculous.

He's a child!

I have it listed at this afternoon's Youth Court.

As soon as we finish the paperwork, we'll head straight there.

Bobby, could you come with me, please?

It's OK. Just do what they say.

PHONE BEEPS

"Unlawful killing.

"Bail next."

SHE SOBS PITIFULLY

Oh, it's all right, love.

It's not all right, Mum! Nothing...

Nothing about this is all right.

Not now!

I cannot take any more...

physio or prick testing or anything else,

there's no point.

I'm never going to walk again, so you save your energy

and your lovely big smile for someone who needs it.

Nearly done.

You er...heard anything...?

Not yet.

So when do you reckon...? PHONE BEEPS

"Unlawful killing."

He's been charged?

What that boy needs is psychological help.

You OK?

Yeah.

"Bail hearing next."

What if he doesn't get bail?

What's going to happen to him in prison?

I thought that prison would straighten my Nick out.

Did it? No.

I sent him packing many a time,

but he'd turn up home

and I'd always take him in.

Maybe that made a fool of me at the end.

It doesn't make a fool of you.

It doesn't matter. You don't give up on someone that important to you.

You can't.

You just have to keep going as a family.

Bobby Beale.

The Youth Court cannot deal with any offences which involve a death,

and these matters are too serious for our powers of punishment.

You will be sent to the Crown Court for a preliminary hearing next week.

As to the question of bail...

..I am satisfied that there are substantial grounds

to believe that if granted bail,

you will reoffend.

Therefore, I am refusing bail.

In addition,

I am satisfied that the grounds for a remand

to youth detention accommodation are made out.

Therefore, you will be remanded to such accommodation

until the next hearing.

No!

You said I wouldn't go to prison.

You promised.

It's just until the next hearing.

Can I still see you?

Course you can.

Come here.

Dad...?

It's OK.

You'll be OK, all right?

Come on.

Oh, go away.

Bobby's been charged with murder.

Yeah? So what? I still don't want to speak to you.

OK, well, listen then, because I'm going to talk whether you like it or not.

You are such a hypocrite, coming back here and shoving your perfect little life in everyone's face

when you've been lying to us all along. You think my life is perfect?

Doesn't mean you know better than everyone else. You honestly think that my life is perfect?

OK. Yes,

I lied to you and I'm sorry about that,

but could you put yourself in my position for one minute?

I had just had a baby.

I had Jane all over me. She was pressuring me.

She was telling me how... how innocent Bobby was.

And she promised me that Dad was going to get out.

She said that she was sleeping with him, in court.

That was his alibi.

And I told the police.

I told them that it was Bobby, and they didn't believe me.

I tried, Abi. I really did.

Yeah, well, you still lied to us,

you still picked Peter over your own family.

Yeah. And that lie was the... biggest mistake of my life.

It took away everything that was important to me.

You...

..Dad...

..Peter...

Oh, so...

..so what happened with you and Peter then?

We broke up.

And? Me and Ben - we broke up.

Yeah, but...

.."broke up" makes it sound like one of us actually made the decision.

We just fell apart.

Lucy dying, and keeping that secret...

..it just destroyed everything that we had.

Imagine...

Imagine the worst thing in the world happening to you...

and...

all you want to do is escape it.

But every single time that you come home,

there it is.

I was that for Peter.

Louie was too.

He just...

needed to start again.

And he couldn't do that.

He couldn't start again with us.

You still think my life is perfect?

No. No.

No. You're a massive loser.

Massive loser.

You're actually a mess. I'm embarrassed to call you my sister.

Valid.

I am sorry for lying to you, though.

Why didn't you tell me it was all going wrong?

You really didn't have to go through this on your own.

I wasn't really.

Steven. He's...

He's been so incredible.

Not just with me either, with Louie as well.

I don't think I would have made it through without him.

Wait, are you and Steven together?

No. No, that is a secret, by the way.

I don't think Ian would appreciate that.

No, he wouldn't.

You know, maybe you're right. Maybe they...

did get it completely wrong about Dad.

They did.

Yeah, but he was happy to see ME go down for it.

And everything that he's done to us, to Mum...

to Bradley...I mean...

maybe this is what he deserves.

Yeah...

He's going to get out though, Abs.

Whether you want him to or not.

You just have to be ready for that.

We're going to move back.

Your father and I.

Get somewhere nearby, between you and Christian...

so we can care for you.

I already have my family.

I think you should consider

if they're the best people for you to be with.

I love you, Jane.

And I know I've not been the best mother, but...

look at you.

Killing yourself to be loyal to Bobby -

the boy who put you in here.

And Ian?

What's HE ever done for you? Ever since you married him.

Ian has given me everything.

Except honesty.

Steven's back.

I didn't want to be the one to tell you, because I knew how much it would hurt.

But Ian's lying to you about it now, and that's not right.

Steven is in New Zealand.

This morning, he was just the other side of that door.

He's driving Ian backwards and forwards.

He never said anything.

No.

He didn't.

Oh...

Flowers?

Too much?

No, it looks...it looks really nice.

It's just a lot of bad things have happened in this house.

I just want it to feel welcoming.

So...

..Abi might know about us.

What happened to keeping it a secret?

Oh, I know - I'm sorry.

I am sorry, but...

I'm sick of lying to her.

So what happens now with your old man?

Erm...an appeal.

I need to get the OK from Dad, but it's...it's going to happen.

Who knows how long it's going to take, though?

Everything's just a mess.

Not everything.

Yeah...

but that's just us, you know?

Yeah, for now.

For NOW it's just us.

But, bit by bit...

and maybe it takes a really long time, but

bit by bit,

we put our families back together.

You're an amazing person.

What is this?

What the hell is this?!

We were going to tell you.

Tell me what exactly? You're moving in on your brother's

girlfriend while he's in New Zealand? I'm not moving in. OK? This isn't a new thing.

So this is why Peter's not here?

No. Because of you? No, Ian.

But you have been lying to me since you got back here.

You've tried to convince us all that you've changed, but you're doing what you always do.

You're lying. Lie after lie after lie!

Fine. You want to know why he's not here?

You want the truth? You wouldn't know the meaning of the word.

He wants nothing to do with you. Oh... Not you, not the family, no-one.

Steven, stop lying!

Am I?

No.

No.

No, I'm not having that.

Peter wouldn't do that. He just wouldn't do that.

Ian, he's...

he's really struggling.

Do you know what? It doesn't matter where you are in the world -

you will do something, you will find some way to hurt this family.

That is not what I am trying to do!

LAUREN SCREAMS Get out! Ian, please... Out!

Go on, out! Ian...

Get out! Get out of my house! Ian!

All right, all right... Go!

Get out!

Get out of my house. I don't want either of you anywhere near it any more. Do you understand me?

It doesn't matter how hard you try, how much you want it,

you will never be like him,

you will NEVER be my son.

DOOR SLAMS

He...

He didn't get bail, love.

They kept him in.

For how long?

Until the first hearing. Next week.

Where is he now?

They've taken him to the, erm...

..to the youth detention centre. They took him straight down.

I hardly had a chance to talk to him.

They've said I can...

take some things in to him.

I'm so sorry.

It's not your fault.

I know today...

..can't have been easy for you, Ian.

But I just want you to know how grateful I am for everything you've ever done for me.

You don't have to be grateful.

I'd do anything for you.

So why didn't you tell me

about Steven?

Mum told me.

I was terrified, OK?

I mean, on top of everything else, I just...

I was trying to look after you, love.

By lying to me?

HE SIGHS

This is all just...

..such a mess, isn't it?

Bobby's gone. Steven's here.

Peter....

I've been...

..doing everything to try and hold us all together, and...

..it's not working is it?

No.

No, it's not.

Ever since that night...

..Bobby and Lucy, I've...

..I've tried to do what's best for this family.

Yeah, and you have.

But now I realise that...

..the best thing for this family is...

for me not to be in it.

Oh, Jane, come on. That's not true.

You are a wreck, Ian.

You have lost everything... I haven't lost you...

..and that is all because of me.

You need to start again without me poisoning everything... No. I don't want to start again...

..without me being in a bed for the rest of my life. Jane! I love you.

Stop talking, all right? Just stop.

Yeah, I'm a mess.

I can't...

do it without you, OK? I can't.

I'm sorry, love.

It's over, Ian.

It's over.