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EastEnders 5th March 2026
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00:17You can barely walk, so if I say he isn't here,
00:21then that is because he is not here, yes?
00:24Yeah.
00:24Now, I suggest you put out an alert and inform your charge nurse, OK?
00:28I mean, don't disrespect. I know you're really busy and all that,
00:31but how could you lose my husband, for God's sake?
00:36Er...
00:38Right, er...
00:40Er...
00:40I suppose he could have tried to find the toilet again.
00:43Er, he can't get as far as the canteen, and I've tried the day room.
00:46I mean, if he's collapsed somewhere, I swear...
00:52Nurse, it's my husband, Nigel.
00:54Can you tell me what's going on?
00:55Yeah, look, just come with me into his room.
00:59OK.
01:01I'm... I'm so sorry, I...
01:03What's happened?
01:04Well, I thought you'd been informed.
01:06Referred!
01:07Up the way!
01:09Your sex has dipped to 82%.
01:11OK, let's get him on the morning, sir.
01:13I don't want to see us!
01:15I don't want to see us!
01:16I don't want to see us!
01:18John!
01:18Hi, it's Claire. I can't get...
01:20Voicemail. Let's go straight to voicemail.
01:23I knew we shouldn't have got back in touch with Claire.
01:25I mean, she's not grown up at all.
01:28I mean, how could she be behaving so selfishly, so stupidly, so dangerously?
01:34How could she just check him out of here, Phil?
01:36Because he's her dad.
01:37Yes, I know that.
01:38But she's got eyes, hasn't she?
01:41I mean, ever since Nigel came in here, he's just not been getting better.
01:44Look, we've got to find him, Phil.
01:45Why are you not panicking?
01:47All those months, eh?
01:48All that time, all that effort,
01:50trying to make sure that he was safe,
01:51and then she barges in,
01:52and then she puts him at risk.
01:54I mean, why?
01:55Why is she doing this, Phil?
01:58Why?
01:58What is she doing this for?
01:59I mean, where is she taking him to?
02:02Today of all, is he?
02:02I wouldn't put it past her if she'd...
02:04she'd shoved him in the back of a taxi,
02:05and she's going to try and wheel him all the way back up to Scotland.
02:12Come on, Dad, please.
02:13Off, you old f***.
02:15I don't know who she is.
02:16Who is she?
02:17Let's do this for you, Nigel.
02:19How you said.
02:21You don't have to.
02:22You don't want to.
02:25Something hurts.
02:27You feeling bad?
02:29This isn't going to work.
02:31Maybe we should just take him back inside.
02:34I don't know how to do this.
02:37He doesn't recognise me, and...
02:39I don't recognise him.
02:42Are you going to come?
02:44Like you told us you wanted?
02:46Put a smile back on that face.
02:49One last time.
02:59I mean, all that time it's taken us to find him
03:02an appropriate care home place,
03:03and if he doesn't move in there today on time,
03:06you don't think they're going to give his room to someone else, do you?
03:08Because there's no way we can cope, Phil.
03:11Of course.
03:17Next, he says Nigel's safe.
03:20Right.
03:21Right, well, you'd better tell them to bring him back here.
03:22Julie, Julie, could you just stop, please?
03:27So what are they?
03:30Ain't it obvious?
03:31No, I'm...
03:32I'm just saying, you know,
03:33I haven't been totally sure Bon Voyage quite needs to mark.
03:36Well, is that her happy birthday?
03:38There ain't exactly a mark here for last pint in the Vic banners.
03:40What about some streamers?
03:41There might be some in the Christmas box.
03:45It's a cruel disease, innit?
03:47Hey, half an hour well spent, am I?
03:48So if there's one person who knows how to live in the moment,
03:51squeeze it out of the choice,
03:53of Lexi Pearce.
03:54No, I'm not sure this is good for her, you know.
03:56Come little Lexi's posting messages on your neighbour.
03:58Oh!
03:59I've always got something just out of the oven.
04:01Yeah, my dad'll be over as soon as he's having eel issues,
04:04can you believe me?
04:04I've got some nice water icing on it, can I breathe?
04:07Yeah, go and take it, it's lovely.
04:08Bless Lexi, though, what a good idea.
04:11Nigel's just part of here, isn't he?
04:12I've got squares in his bones.
04:14Oh!
04:14Talk to the witch.
04:16That's him.
04:16Yeah.
04:17Hiya.
04:19Cheers!
04:21Cheers!
04:35Hey!
04:40I heard you were back.
04:43Are you all right?
04:44You know,
04:46just getting my head around the fact
04:47that my dad can recognise a pub,
04:48but not his own daughter.
04:51Don't listen to me.
04:53I'm hardly the priority.
04:54I'm just...
04:55I know, shocked.
04:56Shocked.
05:00I tried to contact you, but you've got a new number.
05:02God!
05:03I'd have been here.
05:05I'd have come back.
05:07I can't believe he doesn't know who I am.
05:11Well, you're not giving him a chance to do that here, are ya?
05:14Right, come on.
05:15Or we'll have you a drink.
05:17Oh.
05:18How's that handsome husband of yours?
05:20Your little girl!
05:21She's not little any more!
05:22No.
05:22Ah!
05:26Woo!
05:27Hey!
05:28I don't think anybody's talking about Prosecco.
05:30Yeah, well, certainly very Nazi.
05:34Congratulations!
05:36Everyone's got an opinion.
05:38I mean, it's not like Nigel knows what he says, is it?
05:42Well, I miss the thought that counts.
05:46There you go.
05:47Of course, it should really be a pint of oranges and lemons.
05:51Remember?
05:51The cocktail we all had at your birthday party.
05:55The first night your mum and dad met.
05:57I introduced them.
06:02Yeah, he bought me a pint more than once.
06:05In the down times.
06:06Good listener.
06:07What?
06:08Messing up your Santa Claus, Lance?
06:10Yeah.
06:11I mean, you go to my work.
06:14Hey, God always said,
06:15the best port and lemon this side of Peckham.
06:18Oh, yeah.
06:19Lord knows Jim tried to top him.
06:22Yeah, according to Dad,
06:23the only man who could set Grant Mitchell straight
06:25and walk away is still wearing his own face.
06:28Mum always reckoned you preferred a nice cup of tea to a pint.
06:36Let's see.
06:43You going to have a sip?
06:45All this stuff are getting you back in.
06:46Turn in one.
06:48That's inappropriate, Maureen.
06:53I'll get us a drink.
06:54Well, if you want to talk about drinking,
06:56has anyone heard the story about Nigel and Ricky Butcher's dad do?
07:00No.
07:01No.
07:03Well, they all woke up hanging.
07:05In a field.
07:06Apparently.
07:08Don't know where they got there.
07:10Where they are.
07:11Someone mentions the ferry.
07:12Probably Grant.
07:14Looks like France.
07:15Must be France, right?
07:16Anyway, this is urgent
07:18because this is the actual day of Ricky and Bianca's wedding.
07:21Oh.
07:22Nigel's the only one with an early level.
07:24So we volunteer to start speaking French.
07:27Well, the poor farmer hasn't got a clue what he's saying
07:29because they're not in France at all.
07:32They're in Kent.
07:33Oh.
07:40Bonjour.
07:51Friend of Chelsea's.
07:54I don't think we've met.
07:56I'd remember your face.
07:58Large one, is it?
08:01I doubt it.
08:02No, thanks.
08:04Cheers.
08:05God loves a try, all right?
08:13What the hell's on the planet?
08:15Oh, back off, can you?
08:19So, Nigel's fine, yeah?
08:21He's safe, just...
08:24Just let him have this.
08:25Just...
08:25It's 20 minutes.
08:30Here.
08:34Sorry.
08:47Why are you following me in here like some middle aged stalker?
08:50You've come to tell me off.
08:53You're not the step-mum anymore.
08:54You're not my teacher,
08:55and I'm not that screwed-up teenager in your way, Julie, all right?
08:59I never thought that.
09:00Don't do it.
09:02Do not do that.
09:04Act like you're perfect because you're not.
09:07Because none of us are.
09:09All this playing, poor me, it does my head in.
09:12Do not pretend that your life didn't get a whole lot easier once I left.
09:16Well, we certainly had more money in the bank.
09:20Your dad missed you.
09:24Okay, so, yeah, in some ways it was.
09:28Yeah.
09:30And you wonder why I never came home for Christmas.
09:33Nigel just wanted to meet his granddaughter.
09:36No, Julie.
09:38Not enough.
09:39You won, okay?
09:42You won.
09:43And I'm not interested in you or your opinions.
09:48I'm just gutted.
09:50He doesn't know who I am.
09:53I am gutted.
09:54You didn't call me when you first found out.
09:58You knew he went missing.
10:01I left you I don't know how many messages.
10:04And now I've lost the chance to tell him I'm sorry.
10:10But Dad never called me either, did he?
10:14Then I...
10:15I never called him.
10:19This was just one little nice thing I could try and do for him, you know?
10:24One wish.
10:27You don't have the monopoly on loving him, Julie.
10:31No, you never have.
10:38Yeah, but Nigel's smiling, ain't he?
10:41When did you last see that?
10:44Nigel ain't got his memory.
10:45Well, the rest of us are.
10:48So, if...
10:49If you ever go off like that without telling us again, I'll...
10:54I'll get Cullen to take your laptop with you, innit, and get him to cancel your phone contracts and all.
11:00But your mum...
11:03Your mum would be proud of you.
11:05I know that.
11:13Then what was it again? More hours in the back van?
11:16A lot more minimum wage and...
11:18Commission when you sell a car?
11:20Because, you know, technically, Lauren has head-earned you.
11:26Priya, relax.
11:28You know, most normal people celebrate to get a new job.
11:31Most normal people ain't waiting for a drug scan to torch their house.
11:35Yeah, I told you I should mark down. Can you just...
11:39Will you just trust me?
11:41Yeah.
11:42As soon as you give me one good reason to.
11:46Victoria, sandwich Nigel, your firm favourite.
11:48I'll be making you one of these every week when you get yourself settled.
11:54Oh, hi.
11:55Miss Favre.
11:56Do you want me to get you a slice, Dad?
11:58All right.
11:59You.
12:00Judy.
12:01Judy.
12:02It's all OK.
12:02It's all OK. I'm here.
12:03Judy.
12:04It's all right. It's all right.
12:05Hey.
12:06Of course, come on.
12:07With the bit of a name change.
12:09Hey.
12:11It's not his all-time favourite, though, is it, Clare?
12:14Years back, it was...
12:16It was doughnuts.
12:18From the bakery by the swimming pool.
12:21Wasn't it, love?
12:22Yeah.
12:24He used to take Clare swimming every Saturday.
12:29That time you, um...
12:31You made him go with you up to the top diving board.
12:35Three flights up, it was.
12:36And then you got cold feet.
12:40Turned around and walked all the way back to the bottom.
12:44I was only 30.
12:45And you...
12:47You felt obliged.
12:49You didn't want to hold the queue up.
12:51And he hates heights.
12:54Never seen a belly flop like it.
12:57And you always used to pick up...
12:59Those sugary doughnuts...
13:02And bring them home with you.
13:04Yeah.
13:06And...
13:07Every weekend...
13:09The pair of you would have a competition.
13:13In the kitchen.
13:14In the kitchen?
13:15To see who could hold off from...
13:17Licking their lips first.
13:20I always won.
13:23I always let you in.
13:25And made her laugh.
13:30Dad.
13:36Clare.
13:44So...
13:45Sorry to break things up.
13:47That's...
13:47Yeah, um...
13:49Someone's got a new home they need to move into.
13:51Hi.
13:53Finished the pint.
13:55I'm first.
13:57Um, Lexi, would you...
13:58Come back and help with that after tea?
14:03And, um...
14:04Maybe you and Clare can...
14:05Settle Nigel in and help.
14:07I'll bring his case along later.
14:11Right.
14:13Outback, guard of honour.
14:15He's not going to walk.
14:17Yeah, she's right.
14:18We can still go see him.
14:20Exactly.
14:21I've already made a group chat.
14:22So everybody needs to tick off which day is best for them...
14:25Because we don't all want to turn up the same time.
14:27Yes.
14:27Uh-huh.
14:36Uh-huh.
14:37I mean...
14:38Oh, no.
14:41Oh, no.
14:42I'm gonna let her go.
14:44I don't know.
14:46I'm gonna let her go.
14:48Yeah, I'm gonna let her go.
14:50I go.
14:51Hi-hoo!
14:52Bye-bye.
14:56Bye-bye.
14:57Bye-bye.
14:57All right, peace, guys.
15:01Why not do it, guys?
15:05Whoo-hoo! Whoo-hoo!
15:10Bye.
15:11Hey, Marge.
15:14Ah, he's never caught him back, is he?
15:17I think so.
15:27You, too.
15:27Thank you, I'm not here.
15:44I'm asking for the investigation.
15:45I'm not going to have to pay attention.
15:45I'm going to stay here.
15:45I'm going to make another money and uncanny.
15:45It's the last time for the show.
15:45Mr. Gabbett, what to do?
15:45Mr. Gabbett.
15:47Mr. Gabbett, how to say the show.
15:51Mr. Gabbett, how to do the show.
16:17and we can move your photographs around how you want once you've had time to have a look
16:21your wife Julie isn't it already bought on your slippers nice little crochet blanket and we'll
16:27have a look at where your new bedroom is and the new bathroom we've had the hospital discharge
16:46summary through right well we just need to do our basic medical check and I expect a nurse want to
16:54have a bit more of a thorough look at you don't want that pneumonia back and this is you soon
17:02feel
17:02like home it's like a thousand cups gradual chipping away it's been a while now since you and Phil have
17:14been taking such good care of him I think the night the hospital stay really took its toll on Nigel
17:21I've
17:22been telling Patrick what an excellent job you've both been doing I can't remember my name I don't
17:28even think he knows where I am most of the time it's just it's just waiting for you know it's
17:36just it's
17:37been such a big build-up I feel like I'm wearing heavy coats I know there's no practical alternative
17:43but I just feel like such a bad person I don't want him to go oh Julie Julie Julie Julie
17:51Julie
17:51hush hush hush hush look the care home we pray will be the best place for you
18:04you and Phil have done all that you could you have nothing to be guilty for
18:11I'm not choosing this it's just little tiny flashes you know Nigel's already gone us
18:28yeah
18:30take it off me just needs to give your arm a gentle hug no it's not a gentle hug it's
18:36just
18:36it's just for your blood pressure that's all I haven't got any blood pressure you're a flippity
18:42jibbit so's your mum oh poor thing you've got a sore nose you you're useless you're no good to me
18:49I bet you ten thousand quid you can't make me better in ten minutes yeah go on his brother
18:58tried to kill me Grant yeah it was at home I was in the bath and his brother's pushing me
19:04down
19:05trying to drown me I'm soaked look at me it's your brother Grant look soaked all right all right
19:16it's all right it's all right why don't we take a minute yeah get you tidied up
19:35well we've got to be realistic I mean it's meant to get worse
19:45everything Nigel didn't want everything he left Scotland to spare me from
19:50I suppose I've just got to find a way to get detached a bit well I mean that's what all
19:56the
19:57online forums say and I've been on enough of those it's not that easy to do though
20:04no no but you're not on your own half of the square has already signed up to visit him
20:11yeah I'm married to him though Nigel will always he'll always have my heart
20:19the heart of an honourable woman
20:24you know we've had so many happy years and whatever time there is now that this what it's
20:36come to then I will visit a man who looks like my husband I'll do my best to keep him
20:42cheerful
20:42and make sure he's safe find joy in little things like um like a cup of tea and a plate
20:52of
20:52bobbin biscuits for the wonderful wonderful Nigel and you and it's the least he deserves if I can make his
21:06life better then I need to be there for him
21:14don't tell Julia tell Julia see the family just tell Julia I'll visit
21:42Nigel we'll settle down he's sleeping
21:46you wanna go in
21:49yes this is
21:52this is wrong
21:53this is wrong
21:54how is this
21:59how is this
22:00making his life any better
22:03transfer trauma
22:04is not uncommon in
22:06residents with
22:08you know
22:09I could have been any worse
22:09him dying of
22:13pneumonia in hospital you know they could have just let him slip away
22:16you know with some sort of
22:18some sort of
22:20dignity
22:20but it's
22:24this place to smell
22:30you know it's
22:31so
22:31that's where you do your job
22:32can you
22:35you didn't know him did you
22:37you didn't know Nigel
22:39he's
22:41Nigel's
22:42he's
22:43you know he's
22:45he's a
22:45kind
22:46gentle bloke
22:47he's
22:48he likes
22:50he likes
22:51whole films
22:53stuff like that and this this is not this is not how his life should end you know in this
23:00place
23:01just wait for the axe to fall with we're kind of dogs don't we mr mitchell he's in there he's
23:21in
23:22this body's just keeping going in it it's obvious how hard you've been working I mean this is a big
23:29adjustment this is torture you don't deserve this you know I owe Nigel everything he's my best mate
23:47perhaps maybe it could be helpful for both you and Nigel if you take a break short or as long
23:55as
23:55you need and adjust to his new routine here with us sometimes having a bit of space can help new
24:07residents just more easily we'll keep you updated plan for you to come back if when
24:13you've you know had some time to rest your strength back maybe you should let us take care of both
24:23of
24:23you for a while do you know what I can't I can't I can't do it I can't do it
24:39care of burnout we see
24:43it all the time it's nothing to be ashamed of I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry excuse me
25:44for letting you down I love you Nigel I love you I can't I can't help I can't watch I
26:01can't I can't do this I'm sorry I can't be here
26:13for you anymore Nigel
26:17I'm sorry I'm sorry well that you're not Ä‘i
26:29I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry all that you're not gonna be able to but I can't believe it
26:29you can't believe it anymore you're not the only thing I know what you're saying
26:38mine have you yours to suggest as they mean men have you so much we've killed
26:39I'm sorry if you're not sure what one has lived
26:40I'm sorry I like having children people were happened next just to get wanted so I am sorry as mad
26:40if I want you know don't know what you hear there
26:42I'm sorry I will say thank you guys no one now rinse Highway
26:46It's so good.
26:48It's so good.
26:49It's so good.
26:49You should do it.
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