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Eastenders 30 July 2025
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00:18Ah, I was just bringing these upstairs to you.
00:20Well, I saved you the trip.
00:22Oh, it's a shame.
00:24It's a late shift today, isn't it?
00:28Do you know what?
00:31Do you taste better in bed?
00:44Avani?
00:46Avani?
00:48Are you OK?
00:50I've been very quiet lately.
00:52Avani?
00:53I've been ringing yet.
00:55Look, um, Dad, I'll catch you up, yeah?
00:57Uh, yeah, Ben.
01:02Are you mad at me for telling your nan where you were?
01:05No.
01:07How'd it go?
01:09I didn't go through with it.
01:11What?
01:12What do you mean?
01:12You're going to have the baby?
01:14Well, yeah, obviously.
01:16I'm going to have it, and then I'm going to give it to my grandma and Eve Therese.
01:20What?
01:21I thought you said that was a crazy idea.
01:24Yeah, well, I changed my mind, didn't it?
01:25Well, finally, this is huge.
01:27Well, Barney, it's my body.
01:28Yeah, but have you talked to parents?
01:31No, I'm not here.
01:32You can't lie to them about something like this.
01:34Okay, well, I'm not lying to them, am I?
01:36Look, this is between me and my grandma, and we know what we're doing, okay?
01:40I've got to go.
01:51Smile.
01:52Might never happen.
01:53Yeah.
01:54Oh, you did.
01:55That job, that woman, that job.
01:59Yeah.
02:00I told you.
02:05I told you I was coming here for breakfast, carving in space.
02:08Oh, did you?
02:09Sorry.
02:10Look, I've had a chat with Phil.
02:11He said I can crash at this place, so I'll be clearing out your gaff later.
02:14It's afternoon.
02:18Things will turn to corner soon, Dad.
02:21Yeah.
02:23Careful with your greasy fingers, Tim.
02:25I don't want my cards to smell like a chip shop.
02:29You know, most people would send their invitations via email, send themselves a ton of money in stamps.
02:36I like to do things traditionally.
02:39Oh, yeah?
02:40So does that mean that you would be needing a, um, made-up honour?
02:46I may do.
02:47You may do.
02:51Tell me something, hmm?
02:53You think this tiara looks a little bit OTT?
02:56Oh, Howie, finally.
02:59Finally.
03:00I can't be sitting down here all day wedding planning.
03:02I've got a business to run.
03:03And Howie here is twiddling his thumb so you can use him to your heart's content.
03:09Yeah?
03:09I'll see you later, yeah?
03:10Thanks, Howie.
03:12Patrick and Owen.
03:14How do you like this dress?
03:16Wow.
03:18Pricy.
03:19Well, I could have a replica made, or they might have something like it on the high street.
03:23I don't want anything fancy.
03:25After all, I'm not a giddy young bride, am I?
03:27Kitty is exactly how you should be.
03:31Leave it to me, sugarprone.
03:33I'll get you the dress of your dream.
03:36Yeah.
03:41Tickets are 250, and we need a coach fair, and I don't have a tent, so...
03:46Do you actually reckon you're an old man, and they go to a festival?
03:49Well, I've worked really hard for these exams, and I deserve to have some fun.
03:52So, let's call it 500.
03:55500 quid?
03:57Oh, no, I thought my dad would cover it.
03:59They brushed out big on the Viny 16th, so I'm holding something, man.
04:02And my dad's got, like, three ISAs, so he can't pull the poverty pardon.
04:06Yeah, mine's had his hours cut.
04:07What about Kim?
04:09I'll talk to him.
04:15It's one way to work up an episode.
04:18Oh.
04:20Do you think our honeymoon phase will ever end?
04:22I hope not.
04:23You know, it's funny, right, because if we were a heterosexual couple...
04:26Yeah, what?
04:27...we'd be thinking about what's next, like kids.
04:30Ew.
04:31What, you never thought about it?
04:33You know I haven't.
04:35Do you know how Varnie asked me this the other day?
04:39I think about it.
04:41Sure, what?
04:42No, I'm serious.
04:43I think about it all the time.
04:45Kids?
04:46Well, no, kid, singular.
04:49You think about having a kid?
04:50Yeah.
04:51With me?
04:52Yeah.
04:56I, um...
04:57I hate to break it to you, my love,
04:58but I think both of our eggs are a little on the geriatric side.
05:02There's always ways.
05:04What?
05:05What?
05:06I'm being serious, Eve.
05:09I think we'd be amazing parents.
05:15You are serious.
05:17Why is it such a crazy idea?
05:20People have babies all the time.
05:21Worse candidates than us.
05:23So why shouldn't we?
05:24We've never discussed it before.
05:26Well, we're discussing it now.
05:28I...
05:29Is this about Vinny and us?
05:30Are you feeling a bit pushed out?
05:31No.
05:32Are you?
05:32No.
05:33Well, maybe.
05:34But look, you said yourself that I was an amazing mum.
05:36Yes, you are.
05:37Right, and that meant the world to me.
05:39See, cos that's how I want to be seen.
05:41Well, what about being a career woman?
05:42I'm both.
05:43And being a good mum matters to me.
05:45You've already done it, Sookie.
05:46But I did it on my own, Eve.
05:48And with a man I didn't love, and whilst living a lie.
05:52This, me and you, this is right.
05:57And I want us to have a chance at being parents, together.
06:05Will you think about it?
06:09Yes, yes, I will.
06:11I will think about it.
06:12Yeah?
06:13Mm-hm.
06:17I think Stacey did say she wanted me in a little bit earlier,
06:19so I'm, um, I'm gonna, um, gonna jump in the shower.
06:23OK, sorry about that.
06:37I got a free coffee,
06:38and I thought, who better to give it to
06:40than my hard-working son?
06:42Just had one, sir.
06:44Oh, all right.
06:46I also wondered if you fancied some extra work.
06:50I need a bouncer at the bar.
06:51Look, it's decent pay, OK?
06:52It's four nights a week.
06:54You can fit it around the other stuff that you want.
06:56That's one of my guys.
07:00Yeah, what's happening?
07:02Your friends have gone now, like me.
07:04Yeah, man, they make them handsome, don't they?
07:07Have a word.
07:10What are you doing?
07:12Oh, I'm gonna need your flat to bag up some product this afternoon.
07:15Yeah, yeah, no, it ain't happening, mate.
07:16Not a chance.
07:17Bring out one of the gov.
07:20Hello.
07:22Sorry, when my son says no, it means no.
07:27It's Mumsy.
07:27OK, fine.
07:28What time?
07:30Two.
07:32Actually, maybe three.
07:34Love it to me, by the way, Harry.
07:36Don't care.
07:48Harry, are you still here?
07:53Part of me just wants to hide under the quill, and then the other part of me knows it's important
07:58to mark these moments, especially for the kids.
08:01A cat's made of cake.
08:02I thought I'd hope it's not morbid.
08:05I said don't bite of them ones.
08:08Are you all right?
08:10You've come in early on, you're late, and I think you've left your brain in the bed.
08:14Suki wants kids.
08:17Kid, singular.
08:19What?
08:20Exactly.
08:21I mean, what the hell is going on?
08:23How did this happen?
08:24I mean, she's in her late fifties, for God's sake.
08:28I thought those hormones were supposed to be switched off by now.
08:31You really sound like a bloke sometimes.
08:33Hang on, Suki wants a baby with you?
08:36Yeah.
08:37Oh.
08:38No, Stacey, not.
08:39Oh.
08:40Ew.
08:41Why?
08:42I don't want a baby.
08:43Why not?
08:44The great thing about being gay, right, one, is that you can stick two fingers up at convention.
08:49Right, so all of those questions that people feel like they've got the right to ask you,
08:54like when you have any kid or when you have any second, we don't have to deal with it.
08:58You know, we can just live our lives without any pressure.
09:02You know, I never said I wanted kids, not once.
09:05So just tell her that then, you don't want them.
09:08It's not that simple.
09:11She's got that look in her eyes.
09:13You know where she's already decided, yeah.
09:17It's like, when Suki's made up her mind, you know you're in trouble.
09:21What are you going to do then?
09:24Well, I thought you'd come to the drinks this afternoon, take your mind off it.
09:27What drinks?
09:30Martin's birthday.
09:31I knew you weren't listening.
09:33Sorry, Slice.
09:34Of course.
09:35I'll be there.
09:43Right, all done here.
09:45All done.
09:47Oh, Katie.
09:51Here is your one.
09:52Special delivery.
09:54Oh.
09:55Wonder what this could be.
09:58Let's have a look.
10:00Oh, you're getting married first of September.
10:03Lovely.
10:04And we're going to have the reception at the Nick.
10:06Never heard of it.
10:07Where's that then?
10:09Here we go.
10:11Oh, Kathy.
10:14Don't I suppose you've got any shifts going, have you?
10:16Post office cut my house.
10:17Oh, no, I'm sorry.
10:18I've just taken Vicky on.
10:20Although, I did hear that they're looking for bouncers over at Harry's barn.
10:25Bouncers?
10:26Yeah.
10:27Have you thought me?
10:30Well, I mean, obviously, Howie, I'm not on the panel, but, well, it's well for sure, isn't it?
10:39You're done with me here, Yolandi?
10:40Well, you're not going wedding dress shopping with me.
10:43Joke.
10:44Thank you very much for helping me.
10:46You nearly got me, you know.
10:57Yolandi, look, I, uh, I don't want to put my nose in, but I know from experience that gambling, well,
11:06it's a mugs game.
11:09Pardon?
11:09Um, Patrick, you're paying for this wedding in the bookies.
11:15Uh, um, that's not where the money has gone from, Kathy.
11:18Okay, well, you can turn a blind eye to it if you want.
11:20But believe me, it is a slippery slope.
11:23And I don't want you ending up at the bottom of it like I did with Rocky.
11:27That's all I'm saying.
11:29But, anyway, thank you for the invitation.
11:42You all right, Stace?
11:47I've got this memory jar thing.
11:49The kids have written some messages.
11:50I thought we could all read them out later.
11:51Oh, that's lovely.
11:52Thanks, Kat.
11:53Like that weren't rude.
11:55What are you taking for?
11:57They need to give teachers a pay-wise.
11:59These holidays are going to kill me.
12:01Literally.
12:02Trace?
12:03Okay, Stace.
12:05Well, be here, please, Trace.
12:07I wouldn't give for a pint with that bloke right now.
12:10Hi, Stace.
12:11Sorry, Billy can't make it.
12:12He's got stomach issues.
12:14Oh, don't worry.
12:15Jean's got the trucks and all.
12:16Oh, has she?
12:17I just thought he'd eaten a bad burger.
12:19Reckons it's super spreaders.
12:21Pardon?
12:23Kids.
12:24Okay, right, listen, is everyone here?
12:25Lovely.
12:27All right, attention, everybody.
12:28Listen, um...
12:29Um, thanks for coming, okay?
12:32As painful as it is, I think it's great that we're all doing this together, yeah?
12:37Even if it means suffering, Kat's baking.
12:39Oh, it sounds good.
12:41Here you go, kids.
12:42Oh, it's all right.
12:42Oh, nice.
12:45Come on, then.
12:46Make a wish.
12:50Yay!
12:52All right, everybody.
12:54Go on.
12:55Let's raise our glasses.
12:56This one's for Martin, yeah?
12:58Martin.
12:59Martin.
13:08What are you doing here?
13:10What?
13:12Phil's out.
13:12So, I'll be going over later.
13:14Oh, yeah.
13:16It's just...
13:17Can't just hang about here.
13:19I'm in the middle of a job application.
13:21You got a problem with that?
13:22Yes.
13:23No, no.
13:24It completely slipped my mind.
13:25My mum, she's interviewing for people down at Harry's barn.
13:28You should go down there.
13:29Yeah, well, nice of you to think of me, but...
13:31I'm aiming a bit higher than barmen.
13:33Yeah, of course.
13:34A man of your calibre, she's after a barn manager.
13:39Really?
13:39Yeah, yeah.
13:40She's had a window open for interviews this afternoon,
13:42and she asked me if I knew anyone, and I thought it were you.
13:45She said you should go down there.
13:46What, you mentioned Martin Lane?
13:47Yeah!
13:48She is.
13:49It's all right.
13:49Anything to help out a mate.
13:51Right, well, have a shower, spruce up, get myself over there.
13:55Well, no, she's interviewing now, like in the next hour,
13:57and my mum's not a woman who hangs about, so...
14:00OK.
14:01Let's strike while the iron's up.
14:02Yes, my man!
14:04OK, looking good.
14:06Right, yeah.
14:08Cool.
14:09All right.
14:11Cheers.
14:11See ya.
14:21Mum, it's me.
14:23Before you get carried away, I'm not waving a white flag,
14:27but I might be dusting it off if you can do me a solid.
14:33What does it say, sweetheart?
14:35I remember when we made Martin a leopard-pint money belt.
14:39It was the day we knew he was a slater.
14:42That's right, yeah.
14:44It's me.
14:45I can be sentimental sometimes.
14:47Oh, man.
14:49My turn.
14:52Sharon, why is it in your scroll?
14:54She got in touch earlier from Australia.
14:56She just said she wanted to be included.
14:58Oh, that's nice.
14:59I remember me and Michelle babysitting Martin when he was a nipper
15:02and going to read him a story,
15:04only to find him jumping up and down on the bed
15:06wearing my lipstick in his birthday suit.
15:09Oh, nice.
15:10OK, right.
15:12Uh-oh, talking of birthday suits.
15:16Right, and this is...
15:17I remember when I pulled Martin's towel off in the kitchen.
15:22OK.
15:23Guilty.
15:24That was hilarious, wasn't it?
15:26Yes.
15:30You OK?
15:31Yeah.
15:33I'm just saying I wouldn't be here without my kids.
15:35Stace.
15:36No, I'm not trying to persuade you.
15:38I'm just saying they don't take stuff from you.
15:41They give you stuff.
15:43So much.
15:46You'll give another one.
15:48Howie, just...
15:49just...
15:50just swing by later.
15:51All right?
15:52Yeah.
15:54Sorry about that.
15:55Please, take a seat.
15:57Er, I was going to get changed,
15:59but Harry insisted that I get here straight away, so...
16:02You're nice and tall, aren't you?
16:06I can't actually remember the last time I had an interview,
16:09so I'm a bit rusty.
16:10Lovely big hands.
16:13Well, I've been my own boss.
16:15Most of my adult life.
16:16I've run a successful bar in Marbella,
16:18and obviously you know about the Vic.
16:19Sorry, I'm going to stop you there, George.
16:21I'm a bit more interested in your brawn than your brains.
16:25I thought you wanted a bar manager.
16:27No, a bouncer.
16:29Oh, Harry should have said...
16:31Bouncer.
16:32Well, yeah.
16:33Sorry, you've got the wrong guy.
16:35Oh.
16:36I think the job's beneath you, dear.
16:37Well, I'm not about to start being a door boy at this age, so...
16:41Thanks, all the same.
16:42Where are you going?
16:43Home.
16:44I didn't think you had a home.
16:46Excuse me?
16:48Oh, sorry.
16:50That was a joke.
16:51Please.
16:57Harry must have got confused.
16:58I thought you realised the position was for a bouncer.
17:02Right?
17:02I'm not trying to mug you off.
17:04God knows I'm not going to judge someone
17:06for having a car crash of a personal life, am I?
17:09I mean, I live on me own,
17:10my marriage has just blown up,
17:11and my eldest son ain't talking to me.
17:13I mean, honestly, George,
17:14I may be smiling,
17:16but on the inside,
17:16I am screaming.
17:19What?
17:20Not in a psycho way.
17:22Look, chill out.
17:24Do you want a drink?
17:25All right.
17:34Man, I have had my eyes on this horse for a long, long time.
17:37You know, it's form has been building nicely,
17:39and the conditions today, man, it's perfect.
17:42Patrick, a word.
17:43All right, baby.
17:44What is it?
17:47It's my fault.
17:49My eyes have grown bigger than our bank balance.
17:52That is what is driving you to do all this.
17:55It's getting out of hand, Patrick.
17:56I can't condone it.
17:58You can't condone what?
18:01I don't want belts.
18:02I don't want whistles.
18:04I just want you, as you are.
18:07I don't want you battered and broken into destitution
18:10just because of a wedding.
18:12I don't fall off.
18:13I wish you was here to chat the gambling in mind.
18:16Baby, I know what to do, man.
18:19Patrick, your horse lost earlier in the wake.
18:22Yeah, but that means that my bad luck caught anyway.
18:24Patrick, I'm not asking you.
18:25I'm telling you.
18:26Just stop it.
18:28Come here, please.
18:34I got that point.
18:45So sweet.
18:46Wait, when it last year was in the Square Gardens,
18:50we were celebrating his mistake, thought you?
18:53He's horrendous.
18:54I'm going to feel awful.
18:56I was making jokes about eye cream for weeks after.
18:58It's a bit better.
18:59He loved it.
19:00He did.
19:01He did.
19:02Hi.
19:03Check it.
19:03Oh, I'm trying.
19:05This one now.
19:06Mine?
19:06Hello.
19:08You all right?
19:09Yeah.
19:09Hot stuff?
19:10Oh.
19:11What can I get you?
19:12Some way to take a seat?
19:14Yeah, I might have had a couple of drinks.
19:17Actually, I think this is one of his white wine,
19:19so we could just sit in the glass room.
19:21Oh, no.
19:22Just an orange juice, please.
19:23Well, we're celebrating.
19:25Can I?
19:25Yeah, I just, um, won't have a chat later.
19:28I need a clear head for him.
19:30Oh!
19:31Oh!
19:33Oh, that is a beautiful dress.
19:36Oh!
19:37How lovely do you look?
19:39Oh!
19:43What?
19:45You.
19:46Just so transparent.
19:48What do you mean?
19:49Well, you think that me seeing you with a cute kid
19:52is going to make me all gooey-eyed?
19:54What?
19:55I don't want kids, okay?
19:57I never said I did, so come and please just drop it.
20:01Thanks.
20:02Thanks for thinking about it.
20:05I'll get the only shoes.
20:17Ian.
20:19You want to first do that two grand yet?
20:21No.
20:22And what are you doing here?
20:25I was starving.
20:26Even my boy Einstein couldn't have cracked relativity
20:29in an empty stomach.
20:30Ian, please.
20:33Are you sure you won't pop in?
20:35For Martin's sake.
20:36I can remember Martin without sharing oxygen with the Slaters.
20:40I thought we might go to his grave, you know.
20:42Nice and flowers.
20:44Mum, I'd love to, alright, but
20:46I'll have my staff off with more on virus.
20:49I'm stuck here.
20:50Consider yourself unstuck.
20:54I'll never get sick.
20:55I've got one of those super human immune system things going on,
20:59so, yeah, I'll step into the breach.
21:04You are joking.
21:05I know.
21:06It's a generous offer.
21:07Don't feel bad.
21:08Family's important.
21:09And we all love Martin.
21:11You never met Martin.
21:13Never met him if he's Chalamet either.
21:15Love is real.
21:16And Martin, he was a legend.
21:19Hmm?
21:20Ian.
21:20He's right, isn't he?
21:22Come on, please.
21:23We should mark today.
21:25Come on.
21:26Give us the penny.
21:32I didn't shun you in a rump shit.
21:34Bright boy, Brian.
21:36Selling chips.
21:38I've got this.
21:43But you think you're past the stage where you make your kids cringe, eh?
21:46You know, Kojo starts.
21:50Sometimes I'll stand too close to him.
21:52And he shudders.
21:54Literally.
21:55I thought he was your brother.
21:57He is?
21:59Tragic, innit?
22:01I mean, I'm cool, innit?
22:02I mean, you know, cool to most people.
22:06Ian Beal.
22:07Oh, God, George.
22:08That isn't aiming very high, is it?
22:12Well, I shouldn't.
22:13Come on, what's the point in having a midlife crisis if we can't enjoy it?
22:17I think you're fine.
22:18I'm going to be on the halfway stage.
22:20You look young.
22:21That's all that matters.
22:22And I reckon they invented the midlife crisis so we could get away with doing things we shouldn't.
22:30Can I ask you something?
22:33You and Elaine.
22:35What was that about?
22:37What do you mean?
22:37It's no offence.
22:38It's just I imagine you, right, with someone a lot more...
22:42I had someone.
22:43I thought more.
22:45Whatever that means.
22:47It didn't end well.
22:49Elaine's a good woman.
22:50I'll not have a bad word said about her, all right?
22:53Mm.
22:54I respect that.
22:55It's refreshing to have someone not slag off their ex.
22:59And it's a good quality I look for in a bouncer.
23:02No, come on, I mean it, right?
23:03I don't want some thug working my door.
23:07I want someone with good judgment.
23:10Someone who can keep their head.
23:12I'm drinking whiskey in the middle of the day.
23:15So I would say my judgment is a bit questionable.
23:17Yeah, well, you're just following boss's orders.
23:21Another quality I look for in an employee...
23:27I should go.
23:28You should do a lot of things.
23:30You know, sometimes...
23:33the things you shouldn't do...
23:35are a lot more fun.
23:43...of the men...
23:46...of the men...
23:49...if you have a good...
23:56...of the men.
24:05...of the men.
24:31Do you need to get in there?
24:35Problem?
24:37No.
24:55I'm sorry, that was... clumsy.
25:03Forgive me?
25:07Look, it's just, you're suddenly saying all this stuff you know about wanting a kid. It's just really freaking me
25:12out.
25:12Yeah. I can see that.
25:16I love you and I love our life and I'm the happiest I've ever been.
25:21Yeah, me too.
25:22Right, so surely that's enough?
25:24It is. I never said it wasn't. And it's because I'm happy with you that I want this.
25:30You don't even like kids.
25:33I do.
25:33I can't imagine you're on the floor playing Lego covered in goop.
25:36Well no, because that would be your job.
25:37Me?
25:38Yeah.
25:41Because you were the big kid.
25:42Eh?
25:44I'd teach them discipline and teach them to tell the time.
25:49And you would do the silly voices and get them riding a bike.
25:57We'd be a brilliant team, Eve.
25:59And you would be an amazing parent.
26:02You don't know that.
26:05That's what it's about, isn't it?
26:07You're scared.
26:09It's okay, I'm just not wired for it.
26:11Says who?
26:11Says...
26:12Says your mum?
26:12Your dad?
26:13Your guilty conscience?
26:14Come on.
26:16Hey, you are the most fearless person I know.
26:20We've all got demons.
26:22This voice inside our head that tells us we don't deserve something.
26:26And maybe, somewhere, on some level, those words have gone in.
26:33I mean, my mum did say, at least you won't have kids.
26:36At least that gene won't get passed on, so that's a blessing.
26:40I mean, I know, I know, I know it's ridiculous.
26:42It's homophobic nonsense, but...
26:46Maybe you are right.
26:48And maybe I've never gotten over it.
26:51Because I never had to, right?
26:54Because...
26:54No one ever made me feel like it was an option.
26:57Until now.
27:01Eve, you are kind, you're caring, you're funny, and patient.
27:07You'd be an amazing mum.
27:09You would.
27:16Family?
27:18Yeah.
27:19Our own little family.
27:24Shh.
27:26Wow.
27:29Is that a good well or a bad one?
27:31It's a good well.
27:32It's a good well.
27:33It's a good well, yeah.
27:34I'm not saying definitely yes, okay.
27:37I'm not.
27:38But we can look at...
27:40At some options.
27:41See what's possible.
27:43So you'll consider it?
27:47For you.
27:55So you up for it then?
27:59You up for having my baby?
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