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Eastenders 30th December 2025
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00:00Oh, my God.
00:18Cindy, do not flip out all this.
00:19There's kids here, yeah?
00:20What are you doing here?
00:22I'm here for Lauren and Jimmy, isn't it?
00:23No, you're not.
00:24You are not here for us, Dad.
00:25You are here to make this day all about you,
00:27just like you did at our wedding day.
00:28Cindy, can I just have a word with you?
00:31What are you doing?
00:31You're going to make it worse.
00:32I'm not going to make it worse.
00:35Look, I know this is difficult, all right?
00:37I know there's probably loads you want to say,
00:38but can we just start off by saying hello to each other?
00:41It's nice to meet you, Cindy, all right?
00:43In the flesh.
00:44If you don't leave, I will crack your head open like a bald egg.
00:48Max, no one wants you here.
00:49It's not going too well, Dad.
00:51Why am I not allowed to be a part of it?
00:54It's my family, do you know what I mean?
00:55I've missed out on so much over the years.
00:56Oh, who's folks that, then?
00:58Yeah, partly mine, all right?
00:59I take responsibility for that,
01:00but sometimes I miss out because people I trusted
01:02kept things from me.
01:04And sometimes I miss out because I was banged up in jail
01:06for something I've never done.
01:08Ah.
01:08So what, you're a good guy now, are you?
01:11Like Jesus?
01:12Or Santa Claus?
01:14Cindy, all right?
01:15Whatever's between us ain't important, yeah?
01:17We're here for our kids and our grandkids.
01:20So can we please just, you know what I mean?
01:22Can we just bite down on it?
01:24I seem to remember you saying something like that before.
01:32You guys are looking at each other really intensely.
01:35Is there something you want to tell us?
01:38Can someone just please get rid of him?
01:40I'm shaking here.
01:42Yeah, well, I ain't leaving, Cindy, all right?
01:43Ian, the killer of our son is just standing there.
01:47I never killed Stephen, all right?
01:48That was just an accident.
01:49He was my first son.
01:50The old thing is all messed up.
01:51If it wasn't for you, I'd be here today.
01:53Can you just stop saying that?
01:54Can we just talk in private?
01:55Ooh.
01:55You know, I am actually sick and tired of getting the finger pointed at me.
02:06Especially by hypocrites.
02:07Look at her, standing there like the Virgin Mary.
02:10You're lashing out, Cindy, all right?
02:12For one reason.
02:12One reason only, yeah?
02:13Christmas.
02:16Well, but perhaps we should get on, eh?
02:19Heavenly Father, go ahead.
02:20Christmas, what do you mean, Christmas?
02:26Uh, yeah, I think Santa might have put some ginger nuts in Cindy's stocking.
02:33No, you didn't.
02:35You two slept together.
02:43Ritchie said he's caught within the next few days for a bowel hearing.
02:46But she didn't do it.
02:46What about her headwinds?
02:48It's not enough.
02:49Obviously thinks she's lying.
02:51Trying to stick the next one on someone else.
02:52Because it was someone else!
02:54Yes, we know that.
02:55But she's not mentioning Chrissy, which makes her look more and more guilty.
03:00So what do we do now?
03:01Well, it's Chrissy, isn't it?
03:02If we can't find her, get her to confess, then Zoe's had it.
03:06She needs us, Jasmine.
03:09She needs to be with all of us.
03:13Please, if there's anything you know that can help us find Chrissy...
03:16It will happen to protecting me.
03:17We will.
03:18No, you want to use me to bring Zoe...
03:19No, no, no, no, no.
03:20Judd, Judd, listen.
03:21All this has got out of hand, Joy.
03:23But my head is in a mess.
03:24Just come on with me.
03:25We'll sit down and we'll sort everything out.
03:27Home?
03:27That is not home.
03:28Nowhere is home.
03:29do you think if i'd have known i'd have had anything to do with him he is the one in the
03:38wrong who knew exactly who i was no i didn't yes you did he just didn't say your name acting like
03:44it was some kind of game i sound like you yeah talking about i didn't have a clue she was we
03:49were in the outfit my name is above the door what you think i look at the door and booze are going
03:54to you're just a barmaid cindy why are you just a lonely barmaid who wanted a bit of christmas
03:59tlc i ain't be funny pretty much jumped on me shut your mouth i have had it with you turning
04:07every special day into a nightmare you're a mess when are you going to get it in your head that
04:12no one here wants you
04:13all right all right
04:24look at that little rat rope there sucker punching me typical bill move that is calm down will you
04:32you know we've been through hell for the last god knows how long and today was meant to be a day
04:42where we could just try and be a proper normal family but no we've got to put up with this
04:47a slanging match a punch up your disgusting sex life i just wanted to share a memory of you all
04:53yeah is that too much to ask yeah we've done that all right
04:56all right louie me and your dad only mucking about now just go go away
05:10oh i missed you man oh i miss you too
05:22oh i missed you man oh i missed you too
05:35are you feeling better
05:38um yeah physically i guess
05:42you seen that ravi's back yes well don't it make your blood boil mate how he's got the front to
05:51walk around like nothing happened harry holding a grudge won't help forget about rabbi focus on
05:59the good people well apart from you mate all the good people are gone you know dad barney g barney's
06:06still around yeah but he don't want anything to do with us anymore you know i just wish i could go
06:11back in time get everyone back in the house and have it like it was i know teddy isn't able to come
06:17back but what about barney i don't know he's been with zach for so long now
06:25i'll tell you what though seeing this soppy face over breakfast would really help me right now
06:30come on eat up
06:41move
07:11i reckon you should have been christened today biggest baby in town get out of yourself
07:39you're back early how'd it go oh let's just say the vicar is now questioning his faith
07:53go to the bills beg laurence forgive you start now she might forgive you sometime in the century
08:08that's it keep making those healthy life choices
08:21all my favorite people today oscar wait i'm not having a great afternoon to be honest jazz
08:26the last thing i need is more mind games off you i know just please stop i want to tell you something
08:36i want to tell you the truth about me it's a process though
08:40listen rich is working on it you'll be out soon i promise you what you got there condolence messages from the pub
08:49what are you doing with them reading them seeing who said something nice and who hasn't
08:59don't worry i'll take them back jasmine yeah she's um gone out for a walk with gene getting on like house on fire
09:08oh all right yeah all right yeah i'll speak to you soon listen stay calm we love you
09:14hey i've just seen uh jasmine with oscar she hasn't legged it thank god for that listen you
09:20spoke to sharon about you know who are you a hundred percent sure that zoe didn't do it
09:26because the alarm system didn't go off i know team get a power cut remember oh yeah and also you
09:32know i've explained to you about the head wounds overnight i'm just going through it in my own mind
09:39because it's horrible to think that a floor that i clean regularly is soaked in a man's blood
09:44heart don't worry i'm on it i know she's been through a lot but i ain't having that i mean i get
10:01her point now how do we know for sure it won't zone listen here you so he's gone through hill looking
10:07for her kids and the minute jasmine turns up she's taken away do you know what that feels like
10:11because i do god knows we've come through for you why don't you try doing the same for someone
10:16else for a change i was in the hospital because of you i know the place was burning zoe was inside
10:29you locked the door on her jasmine don't remember oh come on stop no seriously i i was disassociated
10:34i do not remember okay i'm sorry i'm so sorry
10:37uh so cindy was your way in with the slayers
10:45what about me was i waiting to you know hook up the hottest guy in town for a cover no no oscar i
10:52came so close to telling you you are the one thing that has felt real and and right in all of this oscar
11:00i mean that i really mean that
11:07is that everything what do you want more no no not really
11:15that's it i was messed up okay i was just reacting and i know i know that is no excuse the things that i
11:24did they were awful and i am never going to forgive myself for them
11:35brain it's going to take a minute for me to get my head around this jazz and i understand i mean
11:42i'll let everyone including you
11:48i can't even ask for anything have you been to see patrick he's not going to want to see me
11:55you're his granddaughter yeah he's just lost everything knowing you exist might help
12:01same again please
12:09i'm max by the way nicola mitchell
12:14all the world needs another mitchell
12:18where'd you come in a pecking order do you see any pecks on me i'm queen of the coop darling
12:23salute
12:27simple life oh my life is far from simple yeah
12:35you know everyone likes to think they're complex but they ain't
12:40i worked out at a young age that people were just animals
12:44base
12:47i can see in the people's shadows yeah i know what they really want
12:54any happier sitting here drinking on your tod
12:58well i'm not on my own am i because you're here
13:02all right what do you see in my shadows max
13:13i see an abyss
13:17i see chaos
13:20danger
13:23carnage
13:29what about the bad stuff
13:38here you are
13:41i heard you wrecked the christening
13:43i told you that golden boy
13:46well beat up peter you slagged off cindy
13:48and your own daughter
13:51yeah yeah sounds like you got the old story
13:54well which part isn't true my partner
13:57me the way i feel
13:58it's like my family you know people were supposed to love me the most
14:06she's come for me the whole time
14:07oh so you're blameless then
14:09no i ain't saying that they just
14:12twist things though and make me the bad guy
14:13i got lost aj
14:18overnight all right that's why she's with tanya now
14:23she's wandered off she's stuck in the shed screaming her name
14:26like the worst 10 hours of my life i thought she was dead
14:32that's that's awful yeah thank you it was
14:35well how'd it happen
14:41silly
14:43neighbor needed a hand aj was asleep i left the tablet on live you know just to keep an eye on her
14:48i must have looked away for like two minutes and got back she was gone
14:54this neighbor
14:57was it a woman
15:02yeah you're just like the rest of them and you're assuming the worst
15:08yeah it was a woman
15:10so what i mean this this happens to other people in that they they get sympathy it happens to me i'll just
15:14get snide comments i'm trying to help you
15:16yeah it's what we do all the time and it's trying out with everyone
15:23a wise woman at warford
15:27it's embarrassing
15:33enjoy your wallowing
15:42hi hi
15:46i um i bought these for anthony
15:52oh for patrick i suppose sorry um i i didn't want to leave them at the pub just because you know
15:58they they need water that's very kind of you thank you
16:04would you like to go through is that okay oh yes go on
16:08uh through there
16:27it's jasmine isn't it
16:28yeah yeah jasmine jasmine fisher
16:41there he is my little bookworm
16:45i really missed you mate you look a lot better yeah cheers i'm giving it a go
16:50thanks for your message what do you want to talk about
16:54firstly i wanted to say sorry i put you through some terrible things and i didn't act how a brother
17:01should
17:03secondly i want to rebuild our family i want you to come home it's just me and mum there and i need you
17:08man i need to feel like everything ain't wrecked
17:12you're my brother and i love you but i can't with dad away and everything that's happened there's just too much to think about
17:20i'm not i'm really sorry harry let's do something together soon will you
17:33scumbag
17:36what'd you say you're not even going to say hello
17:41look at you just trying about like nothing happened
17:44i have to be somewhere yeah go on off you pop princess not giving a monkey about the lives you've destroyed
17:54listen harry everyone knew what they were doing yeah
17:58you're an animal abby
18:01one day i hope you feel the pain that we have
18:14i've seen you around with oscar
18:19he's a nice boy
18:23i meant to congratulate them on the christian but i haven't had the time
18:27oh you need something my darling
18:31where's my overproof rum i had it here somewhere finish it already
18:37patrick you don't remember let me make you a cup of tea look and we have a visitor
18:42i'm sorry for your loss man can i leave anything at all in this house
18:48i didn't know anthony very well um but i know how shocked everyone is
18:53who is this girl she brought some flowers and you shouldn't have let she in man
19:02i don't want anybody at all in this house right now apart from my family i am your family
19:09so um i didn't really know how to do this without uh
19:18i think you knew that that anthony was looking for some some kids that he had with
19:23with zoe slater i'm one of them
19:26is this some kind of a trick no no no did they send you the slaters on them to for for us to get
19:35on their side no no i'm your granddaughter anthony he was my dad and and zoe's my mum
19:41if that is true how long have you known not very long i mean anthony didn't tell me that
19:50he he had a daughter i mean and both of we we be close you know he tell me everything and if he
19:58if he had a daughter on the doors yep he would have tell me he didn't know
20:02we didn't get that far i i didn't know you just missus can't catch hold down yeah i'm sorry sorry
20:16this was the wrong time to do this i'm sorry i'm just just stay away patrick patrick look look
20:23please please jasmine jasmine he's grieving just give him time sorry sorry i'm so stupid i'm so
20:32stupid sorry
20:40oh what are you doing
20:45sorry mate was on your eyes yeah make yourself comfortable
20:56why do we even bother the family
20:57feel free to give me out lifting art zone
21:06we could resell those sandwiches in the caf is that all you think about i'd rather think about
21:12sandwiches than you and max thank you very much people are drinking in that bowl hope you wiped it
21:18down
21:31Oh, hi, Cindy.
21:45How'd the Christine go?
21:46Oh, don't ask.
21:48Cup of tea with some tranquilizers on the side, please.
21:51I have to have it.
21:53Oh, great.
21:55You're back, are you?
21:57I'm gonna get out of here, okay?
21:58We're all mick and mild now, are we?
22:00Look, I've had a really bad day, Cindy.
22:01And I don't want any...
22:02Yes, but too bad.
22:03I want some answers.
22:05Leave her alone.
22:06She's only a kid.
22:08A kid who tried to kill me?
22:09She shoved me down the stairs.
22:11I'm sorry, I messed up.
22:12I completely messed up.
22:13I didn't...
22:13Well, I want to know why.
22:14I want to know why you're so obsessed with me, Jasmine.
22:16I just...
22:17I didn't mean to scare you.
22:18Yeah, well, you did.
22:20Do you know what it's like to live in terror?
22:23I am talking to you, Jasmine.
22:25I want answers.
22:26Yes.
22:27Yes, I do.
22:30Right.
22:30So I know you're not a Ford.
22:33Then who are you, Jasmine?
22:35Who the hell are you?
22:36She's my granddaughter.
22:41What?
22:42You heard.
22:43She's Zoe and Anthony's kids, so she's part of us.
22:46So if you want to start on her, you go through me first.
22:50Yeah?
22:54Yeah, but that girl is poison.
22:57Ignore her.
22:58You're going to come back with us, yeah?
22:59We'll keep you safe.
23:00I promise.
23:05Oh, come on.
23:05Let's go.
23:06Come on.
23:06Come on.
23:06I just want to say sorry to you, all right, for what I said in the bar.
23:35It was spiteful.
23:43Yep.
23:54I'm sorry you had to go through that with AJ.
24:00What?
24:03That's just that tone.
24:05What tone?
24:06It's like you speak to your mum.
24:11I really measured.
24:14Like you're just trying to hold it all together but really you want to just put my head through the wall.
24:18I'm not talking to you at all.
24:20I've let you into mine and Annie's lives and then you behave like you did today.
24:22Look, I ain't been good, Linda.
24:26Since Tanya really.
24:29You, you know, I've been on my own a lot.
24:33Just been hating myself.
24:36Hating myself for how I've failed.
24:41Went to date.
24:44Lauren.
24:47Louie.
24:49I don't know why I just keep going off like that.
24:54This messing up feels familiar.
24:58I know that one.
25:00You're scared, you'll get nothing so you burn everything.
25:05And then sure enough, you're right.
25:09You've come a long way.
25:15Yeah, it's not been easy.
25:17Well, it's impressive though.
25:18I'm a terrible parent.
25:22Even worse, grandparent.
25:27You're no worse than anyone else.
25:30Well, maybe a little bit.
25:33I know.
25:34But none of us are perfect parents and people love to sit in judgement.
25:39I've been on the end of that.
25:41What with Annie?
25:43With all my kids at one time or another.
25:46Why did something happen or not?
25:50No, no, I'm just saying, you know, generally, it's not easy being a parent.
25:54Especially on your own.
26:05Do you regret letting me in?
26:10It's right that Annie knows her dad.
26:14Yeah, but I really want to build something with Annie.
26:19And you.
26:21Yeah, Anna.
26:23And Will.
26:26You've got good heart in there somewhere.
26:33You don't know what that means to you.
26:40You'll get through me.
26:42You...
26:43You and me.
26:53Where do we let her slip away?
26:54What are you doing?
27:10What is wrong with you?
27:11Sorry.
27:12I'm sorry.
27:13Oh, my God.
27:16You kids are unbelievable.
27:18Does any sign of affection equal sex to you?
27:20Are you that messed up?
27:21Sorry.
27:22Well, I just thought I saw something.
27:23Yeah, well, you didn't.
27:24I mean, you go around complaining that everyone jumps to conclusions and then you do that.
27:27Sorry.
27:28All right, I am.
27:29Max, Max.
27:30I don't want to hear it, all right?
27:31Just get your head out of your backside.
27:32Grow up.
27:33Prove that you can be a good parent.
27:34Otherwise, you will end up with nothing.
27:36I don't want to hear it.
27:37I don't want to hear anything.
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