Another week in soap has passed but
what has been happening?
EastEnders- The week’s BIG story
This week was the week we have all been waiting for. Yes,
Shirley finally found out the truth about Heather’s murder. The week’s episodes
(SEVEN in total) were spread across one day and what a day it was for all the
main players (Shirley, Ben, Phil, Jay and Sharon). The week started with
Shirley and Phil genuinely happy and Shirley finally making progress in
accepting Heather’s death. There was even talk of “everything is going to be ok
from now on”. Obviously this statement by Phil had alarm bells ringing in my
head. Whenever somebody says something along these lines something always happens
that blows their world apart. Shirley and Phil’s engagement party at the Vic
was a nice affair for Shirley, but a tense one for Phil who was keeping an eye
on a fragile Ian rather than celebrating with his fiancée. Ian’s behaviour was
very strange and him dropping a glass after seeing a photo of Heather was very
obvious and clichéd yet effective. I’m shocked that no one realised that he
tensed up whenever Heather’s name was mentioned...
Shirley and Phil went home to celebrate with their real
friends and not the free loaders at the Vic. This party was of course
interrupted by an urgent knock at the front door. Phil opened the door to see
Sharon Rickman stood there in her wedding dress. It turned out that she had
just jilted her fiancé at the altar and the first place she could think of
running to was Albert Square. So off Phil went with Sharon to rescue her son
Dennis, leaving Shirley and Ben together.
I’m not going to go into huge detail about Sharon and Phil’s
journey as to be honest it was very farfetched and ridiculous but I will say
that Sharon got Dennis back after Phil punched her fiancé who had kidnapped
Dennis as revenge for Sharon jilting him. (The real excitement was happening on
the square and I was eager for the Sharon and Phil scenes to be over so we
could get back to what was happening with Shirley and Ben!)
Shirley was at a loose end so went round to Denise’s. While
chatting about Shirley’s estranged daughter Carly and her newborn son, Shirley
was horrified to notice the photo frame she believed to be the murder weapon on
Denise’s shelf. The frame now contained a photo of Kim and Denise. Grabbing the
frame and wrapping it in a tea towel, Shirley begged to Denise to tell her
where she got it from. So off they went on a wild goose chase to the charity
shop where Kim had bought it. Cora informed them that it came in a bag from the
Vic. Shirley and Denise then confronted Jean who (for dramatic reasons) couldn’t
remember where the bag of charity came from. Then she remembered that the bag
with the photo frame in came from Phil and Shirley’s house. (Shirley had just
had a clear out and taken the belongings to Jean who sorts them out and then
takes them to the charity shop. Remember Ben and Jay’s desperation getting the
photo frame back just a few weeks ago?)
Shirley then arrived home and was clearly putting the pieces
together slowly. She had learned that the photo frame came from her house, went
to Jean, went to the charity shop where it was bought by Kim and displayed at
Denise’s house. She came to the conclusion that Phil had killed Heather!
Obviously this is close, but not quite close enough. Shirley placed the photo
frame on the table and waited for Heather’s killer to come home. It was Ben who
arrived home first and he was visibly shocked to see the murder weapon on his
table, despite thinking that it had been thrown away. Shirley screamed at him
that she knew who had killed Heather! It was Phil...
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