EastEnders 29th May 2025
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00:00Zach isn't my dad.
00:18He is.
00:19Him and your mum knew each other before.
00:21They had an affair.
00:23He didn't want you to find out like this,
00:25but he did want you to know.
00:26They're lying, Barney.
00:27I barely know these women.
00:30Tell them, Ted.
00:32Tell them they're lying.
00:35Tell them, Dad.
00:51Dad?
00:57I'm sorry, son.
00:58Will you excuse me?
01:09I think I need the toilet.
01:11I know about you.
01:17Did you have him killed like that girl?
01:20Get her out of my house.
01:22You are dangerous.
01:24You need locking up.
01:25All right, come on, let's go.
01:26How am I going to tell Sharon that her brother's dead?
01:29Come on, let's go.
01:29Come on, let's go.
01:29Come on.
01:29Why do you tell him?
01:40It's too late, Harry.
01:43It's too late for more lies.
01:45That's your mum's gun.
01:48Not mine.
01:50Harry, go upstairs and check on your brother.
01:52She's having a slash, Mum.
01:54You don't know that.
02:08Are you there?
02:09You OK?
02:25Yeah.
02:25Yeah.
02:29Mate, you stink of aftershave.
02:33Dad's.
02:34It was by the sink.
02:42Gonna move, then?
02:43In a minute.
02:49Barton.
02:50Yeah?
02:52You want me to stay?
02:53How long have you known?
03:02Today.
03:03I found out today.
03:05Is that a lie?
03:06No.
03:08No.
03:10But you were going to lie.
03:19Right, we'll get through this.
03:20We will get through this.
03:22You know I can pull this family together.
03:25We've just got to get through the storm.
03:27You don't know how to the other side.
03:29I believe in us.
03:37Sweetheart.
03:37Mum, please can I speak to Dad on my own?
03:41You heard him.
03:46Yeah.
03:46I'll be in the bar.
03:55Oh.
03:57Oh, my angel, I...
03:58Just go.
04:11You too, Harry.
04:12Can I give you a hug?
04:29I bet you've got a million questions.
04:31Because I know I do.
04:34You'll get sick if you stay in those wet clothes.
04:44Remember that day you took us both fishing?
04:47You and Harry were really into it.
04:49And caught loads.
04:50Had to bash them over the head with a mallet.
04:53I didn't want to kill my fish.
04:55And I cried.
04:56And then you sat in the car.
04:59Stuck your nose in a book.
05:01The Midnight Garden.
05:04And when we got home, Harry gutted the fish.
05:07And he put one of the heads down my T-shirt.
05:09And I cried again.
05:10Well, older brothers can be cruel.
05:12And you made us all sit down and play a board game.
05:15Because you knew it would cheer me up.
05:17Clued up.
05:18That's your memory, Bob.
05:20Mum was Miss Scarlet.
05:22Because she always had to be Miss Scarlet.
05:23And who was I?
05:25Professor Plum.
05:26You put on a voice.
05:27Oh, yeah.
05:29Professor Plum.
05:30On the case, huh?
05:32I have one more question I must inquire of you.
05:38And I won.
05:39But I think Mum let me win.
05:41You know that feeling.
05:43It wasn't a real win.
05:45It felt a bit disappointing.
05:47Yeah.
05:50But I wanted her to be happy.
05:52I was happy.
05:53Because I knew it meant something to her.
05:56So I went along with it.
05:58Mum?
06:03Shall we talk?
06:17Why were you wet?
06:23I was in a crash.
06:25And the car went into some water.
06:28With Zach?
06:30Is Vicky right?
06:32Is he dead?
06:35Yeah.
06:35Did you do it on purpose?
06:42No.
06:43No, it was an accident.
06:44I was driving him back in.
06:45Why were you with him?
06:47It's complicated.
06:50Your brother and me made a bit of a run-in.
06:52And I was trying to sort it out.
06:56But he got the wrong end of the stick.
06:59And he grabbed the steering wheel and the car went off the road and into the lake.
07:05And he's my dad?
07:08In a manner of speaking, yes.
07:16He's your dad.
07:17How long have you known?
07:23I only found out earlier today.
07:25Today?
07:28I don't understand.
07:34That makes two of us.
07:38So Mum had an affair?
07:40Yeah.
07:41With Zach?
07:42Yeah.
07:42Did you find out?
07:43No.
07:44Did she love him?
07:45I don't know.
07:47Did he know?
07:49No.
07:51So, does Mum do all this time?
07:56She must have got a shot when we moved here.
08:04But, Zach knows now.
08:07What he did before.
08:08Yeah.
08:10You okay?
08:11You sure I can't give you a hug?
08:21No, my father.
08:24I'm still your dad.
08:27I'm still your dad, father.
08:29I'm still your dad.
08:30Have you been wearing my aftershave?
08:41I wanted to smell the smell of you.
08:46Were you going to tell me?
08:50No.
08:52You were going to keep it a secret?
08:54Well, for you, Mum.
08:57For your protection.
08:59You see, blood.
09:01It don't matter.
09:03Because you're in my bones, son.
09:06You are in my heart.
09:09At the very core of me.
09:12And nothing needs to change.
09:15You, Harry, and Mum.
09:17You've all been hiding stuff from me for weeks now.
09:20How come Harry isn't talking to you?
09:22That ain't about this.
09:23What is it about?
09:25Shireen.
09:27But why would he be angry at you and Mum?
09:29Never mind, Mum.
09:30Please, never mind.
09:33Vicky said Mum hurt that woman.
09:36Did she mean Shireen?
09:37There was an accident.
09:42And that's how she died.
09:45An accident?
09:46Like with Zach?
09:50Look, you're right.
09:53This family has been drowning in lies.
09:57But now...
09:59Like, now it's our...
10:00And what?
10:01And we can survive.
10:03All of us?
10:03As a family?
10:05No.
10:06Not your mum.
10:08But me, you and Harry?
10:10We're all the family you need now.
10:13And we have got your back.
10:15Always.
10:19You never suspected before, now.
10:22That I'm not your son.
10:23Oh, stop saying that.
10:24I knew I was.
10:24Please.
10:25Please, just answer the question.
10:28No.
10:31Never.
10:32But we're not alike, are we?
10:40Well, not in obvious ways.
10:43But in other ways we are.
10:45You know, we can both be a little bit soft.
10:50Both just a silly voice.
10:56People love you, don't they?
10:58You always know what to say, how to be.
11:03Whereas me, I just feel wrong a lot of the time.
11:08Oh, I do too.
11:10But I do too.
11:11I just hide it better than you, that's all.
11:14But you?
11:17You're perfect.
11:19And lovely.
11:21And pure.
11:22Anyways, what does it matter?
11:25You don't have to be alike
11:26to love each other, do we?
11:31And we don't have to be alike
11:32to be your dad.
11:37I could never hurt anyone.
11:41Couldn't even kill a fish.
11:48I want to go for a walk.
11:49Okay, I'll get me comb.
11:52Alone, please.
11:53I'll need to clear my head.
11:55Stay, Barham.
11:55We've barely finished talking.
11:57I'm done for now.
11:58Thanks.
11:58No, no, Barham, please.
11:59Just stop this.
12:00Please, stop it.
12:01Please, please.
12:02Can you just take your hands off me, please?
12:04Please.
12:19Bar's closed.
12:27No, I've got to give it to you, Mum.
12:31You're an amazing liar.
12:33Like, world class.
12:35And it don't touch you, does it?
12:37No.
12:39Most people, they're burdened by secrets,
12:41but you, you just sat here
12:43like you've got an handful of aces.
12:45So tell me
12:47what really happened
12:50to Shireen.
12:57Okay.
13:00Let's do this.
13:03Sit down.
13:04You're right.
13:24I killed her.
13:25You seemed really upset earlier
13:33and I just wanted to see
13:34if you're okay.
13:36I'm okay.
13:38I'm just worried about Sharon.
13:40Her and Zach are so close.
13:45Do you want to come through, Barney?
13:51Hi.
13:52Hello.
13:52Hi, Phil.
13:55You have a seat.
14:05So, I guess Sharon's my auntie.
14:09Yeah, that's right.
14:11I'm your sort of auntie, too.
14:14Sharon's my half-sister.
14:17I don't mean to be rude,
14:18but how come everyone knew before me?
14:21Oh, sweetheart.
14:23We haven't known long.
14:26And I am so sorry
14:27that you had to find out this way.
14:30I have to find out this way.
14:33I said you'd drown.
14:54I swam to the other side of the lake.
14:59Why?
15:00So they couldn't get me.
15:02They was going to bring you up and they weren't going to hurt you.
15:04How do you know that, Phil?
15:05Harry tried to kill me.
15:06It's not what to do with me.
15:08Harry wouldn't hurt anyone.
15:10What are you doing here, Bonnie?
15:17I told him, Zach.
15:21He knows.
15:23I thought you were dead.
15:26I'll, um, I'll give you some space.
15:29Yeah, I'm going to go as well.
15:32I'll get you Sanko Ross's to wear, yeah?
15:41Barn, do you mind if I sit down, mate?
15:42I just want to say, um, I don't know.
15:45I just want to say, um, I don't know.
15:53I just want to say, um, I don't know.
15:57You just couldn't bear for her to have me, could you?
16:01I just want to say, um, I don't know.
16:06I just want to say, um, I don't know.
16:09It's bad, isn't it?
16:24You just couldn't bear for her to have me, could you?
16:27Couldn't bear the fact that I might love another woman more than my own mother.
16:30No, darling.
16:34It wasn't that.
16:37It wasn't really anything to do with you.
16:41It was to do with my little boy.
16:43Arnie.
16:45Look, you and Shireen, it was unhealthy.
16:49You know, any idiot could see that.
16:50I loved her.
16:51Oh, yeah, yeah, you loved her, darling.
16:54You hated her, too.
16:56I mean, the arguments, the screaming matches.
16:59You know, the breaking up and then making up.
17:01I don't blame you for thinking that that is love.
17:04Right?
17:05Especially with me and your dad as role models.
17:08And I don't blame you for choosing someone volatile.
17:11Someone familiar.
17:12No, Shireen was nothing like you.
17:14Oh, yeah, of course she wasn't.
17:16What's Barney got to do with it?
17:17She found out that Teddy wasn't his dad.
17:22How?
17:24I told her.
17:26Too many martinis one night.
17:28And I underestimated her.
17:30She came round the next morning.
17:32Cogs had been whirring.
17:34She realised she could use it.
17:36Thought she had one up on me.
17:38Her pupils were like saucers.
17:40She was high as a kite.
17:41She won't use them, then she stopped.
17:43Oh, yeah?
17:44Is that what she told you, was it?
17:45And she said she was going to blow my secret.
17:49Destroy my family and make sure you never spoke to me again.
17:52Well, congratulations, Shireen.
17:54You've got what you wanted.
17:56So you murdered her instead.
17:59And she was pregnant too, Mum.
18:02So you killed your grandkid.
18:05I mean, do you feel anything?
18:07It was an accident, Harry.
18:08We were having an argument and she took a swing at me.
18:11I defended myself and I pushed her.
18:14Right, and she fell.
18:15It was an accident, I promise you.
18:18No!
18:21Maybe I am right for you.
18:25Harry!
18:26Stop!
18:27Please!
18:29Don't you ever lay a finger on me again!
18:32She's done it!
18:33You know that!
18:34I will tell him the truth, not you!
18:37It wasn't Benji
18:50who killed Shireen.
18:53It was me, but...
18:55It was an accident, all right?
18:56It was a terrible, terrible accident.
18:59You didn't...
19:00You didn't know.
19:06I can't bear to be around you.
19:19Why do you lie?
19:31What's the point in him hating you too?
19:34I mean, someone's got to look after our boys
19:36and if it can't be me, then it's got to be you.
19:39What, do you think that'll make me forgive you?
19:43I'm not playing games, Teddy.
19:45You're never not playing games.
19:50Why are you here?
19:53I thought maybe Barney'd come here.
19:55What?
19:56We said he needed to spend some time on his own.
19:59Well, we've got to find him.
20:01We're his parents, Ted!
20:03We're still his parents!
20:14Okay.
20:15Guess he didn't take after you, either.
20:20Keep up those gym sessions, mate.
20:22You never know.
20:24I'll put the kettle on.
20:36That's why you've been sniffing round me lately.
20:39I thought it was a bit weird.
20:40I've been thinking about this moment so much.
20:50And now, see, I've just...
20:52You must have, um...
20:59You must have a lot of questions.
21:03How...
21:03Sorry, mate, go on.
21:04You go.
21:06I'm not going to ask.
21:07How long have you known about me?
21:10You know, when you went to the hospital.
21:13I heard the paramedic say what blood group you were, and I realised then.
21:16Well, why didn't you say anything?
21:18Barney, your mum...
21:21Nicola, she, um...
21:23She had me beaten up.
21:25And she threatened my family.
21:27She...
21:27She made it impossible.
21:29She was probably just trying to protect me.
21:31What?
21:32I'm sorry, Barney.
21:37The truth is, um...
21:39The truth is I'm worried about you.
21:47All this stuff that's come out about Shireen, I'm scared that you ain't safe.
21:54Teddy.
21:55Your brother, they're all in on it.
21:56They're all out to protect her.
21:58And I'm sorry, you ain't going to like to hear this, but you're my mate.
22:00Jesus.
22:00Jesus, you're evil.
22:03I don't know.
22:03I'm sorry.
22:04Them, at best, they're just trying to protect her, and at worst, they're as bad as she is.
22:08Which is why I need to protect you.
22:10I need to keep you safe.
22:13Barney, I need to get you away from here.
22:15What?
22:15I know that this is a shock.
22:17I know we're going a million miles an hour, and you don't know who I am.
22:19I don't know who you are, but we will get to know each other, because you're my son, mate.
22:22You're my son, and I would never do anything to hurt you, mate.
22:24I don't need protection.
22:26Stay plain, mate.
22:26Did you hear what I said?
22:27Did you hear anything I said?
22:28That is enough.
22:29Hey, your mum, she killed Shireen.
22:31She wanted me dead.
22:32Probably put Harry up to hit me.
22:34I'm scaring him.
22:34Mate, she's a psychopath.
22:36Your mum's a psychopath.
22:36She's not a psychopath.
22:38She's my mum.
22:44Barney?
22:46Dad.
22:47Barney.
22:50Barney.
22:50You're alive.
22:58Listen, mate, I'm sorry if I scared you, but you need to trust me.
23:01Trust you?
23:02He don't know you.
23:03I'm your dad.
23:04I'm the one that brought you up.
23:05Right, Barney?
23:06Listen, listen.
23:06They ain't who they say they are, and I will keep you safe.
23:09You're safe with me.
23:11Barney, listen.
23:12Your dad tried to kill me.
23:13No.
23:14No, no, no.
23:15You attacked me, and you made me lose control of the car.
23:17I ain't forgotten about you, Harry.
23:19He wanted to kidnap you, Barney.
23:21Barney, your family, they're dangerous.
23:23You don't know my family.
23:24I know your wife.
23:26Oh, my dad.
23:27Me.
23:27Me.
23:28Not what the courts would say.
23:29Because you had some grubby bunk up with my wife decades ago.
23:32It means nothing.
23:33He is my son.
23:34Your son?
23:35He's nothing like you.
23:36Look who all you are.
23:37You're criminals.
23:38You're scumbags.
23:39You should have kept your hands off my wife.
23:40I didn't know, did I?
23:42And that's why he's my son.
23:44He's mine.
23:44What did you say?
23:45Come on, Harry.
23:46Let's do it.
23:47No.
23:47We're going to start swinging your fists, are you?
23:52Put your willies away.
23:54All that matters is what Barney wants.
23:57What, you want to take an arm each, do you?
23:59Rip him in half.
24:00See who gets the bigger bit.
24:03You pathetic.
24:05Barney, darling.
24:06Look at me, look at me.
24:07Don't look at them.
24:10What do you need?
24:12I just want everything to come back to how it was.
24:15All right.
24:18Look, I'm...
24:19I'm going to need you to speak up for me.
24:22All right?
24:23Do you think you can tell me that?
24:24I don't know.
24:25Look at me, Barney.
24:26Look at me.
24:26Look at me.
24:28I believe in you.
24:31What?
24:32You have got a voice in there.
24:34You've just got to use it.
24:37Come on.
24:37Come on, darling.
24:44You tell them what you want.
24:47I, um...
24:48I just want everything to come back to how it was.
24:53I hate having you listen to a word, Doctor.
24:55Zach, Zach, it's...
24:57What do you mean?
24:58Go back to how things were?
25:00I want us all to be a family again.
25:03Before you fell out of Harry.
25:05Before everything went weird.
25:08I'm not coming home until we're a family again.
25:12Until we're together.
25:15Please.
25:16I can't do that.
25:17I'm Harry.
25:18People can't just make this better, mate.
25:22And that's okay.
25:23We can.
25:24We're strong.
25:25Look, none of what's happened
25:28means that we can't be a family again, all right?
25:31We make mistakes.
25:32Okay.
25:35We love each other.
25:37Yeah, Teddy?
25:40Yeah.
25:43Yeah, we do.
25:44And we're a family, Harry.
25:46And we stick together.
25:48What?
25:51What?
25:55Bonnie.
26:02Mate, it's lies.
26:03Come on.
26:06Bonnie, it's lies.
26:07Let's go home.
26:11You all right?
26:12I've got you.
26:12I've got you.
26:25I've got you.
26:26I've got you.
26:26I've got you.
26:36You all right?
26:49I've got you.
26:49I'm not kidding.
26:50You all right?
26:50You got me?
26:51I'm not kidding.
26:52You're right.
26:53You're right.
26:53Right.
27:13Let's get things back to normal, shall we?
27:21What do you want to do?
27:23Board game?
27:39It's midnight.
27:43It's never too late for a board game, is it?
27:47That's a good one, Barney.
27:49Okay, you choose the game, but no squabbling.
27:51And you put the music on!
27:55I'm not playing hide-and-seek, Brian.
27:57Sorry!
28:00Oh my God!
28:02Oh my God!
28:03Oh my God!
28:07What do you think?
28:07What так?
28:09I'm not feeling the name.
28:10Oh my God!
28:11Oh my God!
28:13Shit that fire!
28:15Wheat girl!
28:16It wasn't about me.
28:16It was off.
28:17Only sauce.
28:17I love that.
28:17I love that too.
28:18Yeah, it was.
28:19It was várias.
28:19Hold on up!
28:20But they know that you stood so great!
28:20That's fine!
28:22They walked before us about us!
28:23Oh, my God!
28:23It wasels, of course!
28:24You're wrong!