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Eastenders 5 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!
02:14You old fat.
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,
03:06do you don't think they're going to
03:06give 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 technically sure
03:34Bon Voyage quite needs to mark.
03:36Well, is that her happy birthday?
03:38There ain't exactly a mark here
03:39for 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.
04:06Can I breathe?
04:07Yeah, go and take it, it's lovely.
04:08Bless Lexi, though.
04:09What a good idea.
04:11Nigel's just part of here, isn't he?
04:12You know, but squares on his bones.
04:14Oh, you talk to the witch.
04:16That's him.
04:16Hiya.
04:19Peace.
04:35Hey!
04:40I heard you were back.
04:43Are you all right?
04:44You know, just getting my head around the fact that 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.
05:00He tried to contact you,
05:01but you've got a new number.
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
05:12to get out here, are you?
05:14Right, come on.
05:15Or we'll have you a drink.
05:16Yeah.
05:17Oh.
05:18How's that house, my husband, of yours?
05:20Your little girl, she's not little any more.
05:22No.
05:26Woo!
05:28When Nigel went behind,
05:29I don't think he was talking about Prosecco.
05:31Yeah, well, certainly very Nazi.
05:35Congratulations.
05:36Everyone's got an opinion.
05:38I mean, it's not like Nigel knows what it says, is it?
05:42Right, I miss the thought that counts.
05:46There you go.
05:47Well, of course, it should really be a pint of oranges and lemons.
05:51Remember?
05:52The 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 in the down times.
06:06Good listener.
06:07What?
06:08Messing up your Santa Claus lines?
06:10I mean, you've got some hard work.
06:14Hey, God always said,
06:15the best port and lemon this side of Peckham.
06:19Oh, 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.
06:43You're going to have a sip.
06:45All the stuff we're getting you back in.
06:46Turn in one.
06:48That is 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 tactic?
07:00No.
07:03Well, they all woke up hanging in a field, apparently.
07:08Don't know how they got there, where they are.
07:11Someone mentions the ferry, probably Grant.
07:13Looks 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.
07:35Kent!
07:40Bonjour.
07:51Friend of Chelsea's?
07:54I don't think we've met.
07:56I'd, uh, remember your face.
07:58Large one, is it?
08:00I doubt it.
08:02No thanks.
08:04Cheers.
08:05God loves a try, right?
08:13What the hell's on the planet?
08:16Back off, can you?
08:19So, Nigel's fine, yeah?
08:21He's safe, just...
08:23Just let him have this.
08:25Just...
08:25It's 20 minutes.
08:30Yeah.
08:48Why 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 any more.
08:55You're not my teacher,
08:55and I'm not that screwed-up teenager in your way, Julie, all right?
08:58Oh, I never thought that.
09:00Don't do it.
09:02Do not do that.
09:05Act 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.
09:24OK, so, yeah, in, er...
09:26In some ways it was, yeah.
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.
09:40OK?
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...
10:06I'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.
10:18This 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.
10:31You 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.
10:46But the rest of us have.
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 off, you and it, and get him to cancel your phone contracts and
10:58all.
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 commission when you sell a car?
11:20Because, you know, technically, Lauren has head-earned you.
11:23Yeah.
11:26Priya, relax.
11:28You know, most normal people celebrate to get a new job.
11:31Most normal people ain't waiting for a drugs gang to talk to their house.
11:35Yeah, I told you I should mark down.
11:36Can 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.
11:55This favourite.
11:56Do you want me to get you a slice, Dad?
11:59You.
12:00Judy.
12:01Judy!
12:02It's all okay.
12:03It's all okay, I'm here.
12:03Judy!
12:04It's all right, it's all right.
12:05Hey.
12:06Cosmo.
12:07With the...
12:07It's the 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...
12:30You 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 those sugary doughnuts and bring them home with you.
13:04Yeah.
13:07And every weekend, the pair of you would have a competition in the kitchen.
13:14In the kitchen?
13:15To see who could hold her from licking their lips first.
13:20I always won.
13:22I always let you in.
13:25And made her laugh.
13:30Dad.
13:45It's, uh...
13:46It's, uh...
13:46It's sort of to break things up.
13:47It's, uh...
13:47Yeah, um...
13:50Someone's got a new home they need to move into.
13:52Oi!
13:53Finished the point.
13:55I'm first.
13:57Um, Lexi, would you come back and pout the pack after tea?
14:03And, um...
14:04Maybe you and Claire can settle Nigel in and help.
14:07I'll bring his case along later.
14:11Right.
14:13How about God of Honour?
14:15He's not going to walk.
14:17Yeah, she's right.
14:18We can still go see him.
14:19Exactly.
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.
14:27I've got more than 100 people and I think he has to leave me right now.
14:36Oh, look at that.
14:40Yeah, it's okay.
14:41And you know, you're all over and you let her go.
14:43You're not going to look it.
14:45Oh, look at that.
14:46Yeah, that's okay.
14:52Thanks, guys.
15:10Bye.
15:11Bye.
15:15He's no come back, is he?
15:17I think so.
15:22And I think so.
15:30Bye.
15:33Bye.
15:39Bye.
15:41Bye.
15:42Bye.
15:44Bye.
15:47Bye.
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 what would you put on your slippers nice little crochet blanket
16:27and we'll have a look at where your new bedroom is and the new bathroom
16:36hello mary let's get your back get a nice cup of tea
16:41we'll have a look at your new bed and the loo we've had the hospital discharge summary through
16:49right well we just need to do our basic medical check and i expect a nurse want to have a
16:55bit more
16:55of a thorough look at you don't want that pneumonia back and this is you seem feel like home
17:05it's like a a thousand cups gradual chipping away
17:11it's been a while now since you and phil have been taking such good care of him i think the
17:17night
17:17the hospital stay really took its toll on nigel i've been telling patrick what an excellent job
17:25you've both been doing i can't remember my name i don't even think he knows where i am most of
17:30the
17:32time it's just um it's just waiting for you know it's just it's just been such a big build up
17:39i feel
17:39like i'm wearing heavy coats i know there's no practical alternative but i just feel like such a bad
17:45person i don't want him to go hush hush hush hush julie julie julie julie julie hush hush hush
17:53look 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
18:22and i just already got us
18:28yeah
18:31take it off me
18:32just needs to give your arm a gentle hug
18:34no it's not
18:35i just want a gentle hug it's just it's just for your blood pressure that's all i haven't got any
18:39blood pressure you're a flippity jibbit so's your mum oh poor thing you've got a sore nose
18:47you you're useless you're no good to me i bet you ten thousand quid you can't make me better in
18:55ten minutes yeah go on his brother tried to kill me grant yeah it was at home i was in
19:02the bath and his
19:03brother's pushing me down trying to drown me i'm soaked look at me it's your brother gran
19:10look
19:11soaked
19:14all right all right it's all right
19:17why don't we take a minute yeah get you tidied up
19:23come here
19:25there you go
19:35well we've got to be realistic i mean it's meant to get worse
19:43everything
19:45nigel 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 saying i've been on enough of those it's not that easy to do though
20:04no
20:06but you're not on your own half of the square has already signed up to visit him
20:13i'm married to him though
20:15nigel will always he'll always have my heart
20:19the heart of an honorable woman
20:24you know
20:27we've had so many happy years
20:31and whatever time there is
20:35now that this what it's come to then i will visit a man who looks like my husband
20:40i'll do my best to keep him cheerful and make sure he's safe
20:46find joy in little things like um like a cup of tea and a plate of bourbon biscuits
20:54for the wonderful wonderful nigel and you
21:02and it's the least he deserves if i can make his life better then
21:11i need to be there for him don't i
21:20tell julio oh come on see the family just tell julio i'll visit
21:42you
21:43mind you we'll settle down he's sleeping
21:46you want to go in
21:49yes this is
21:52this is wrong she's wrong how is this
21:59how it is making his life any better
22:03transfer trauma is not uncommon in residents with
22:08how could it have been any worse in dying of pneumonia in hospital you know they could have
22:15just let him slip away you know with some sort of some sort of dignity but this
22:24this place this place to smell
22:30no it's as fast as to say to each other because you you didn't know him did you hey you
22:37didn't know
22:51films you know stuff like that and this this is not
22:57this is not how his life should end you know in this place just waiting for the axe to fall
23:02with
23:04we're kind of dogs don't we mr mitchell
23:06no he's in there he's in there terrified
23:12lost in you know dementia nigel's
23:17nigel's disappeared but his body's just his body's just keeping going in it it's obvious
23:26how hard you've been working i mean this is a big adjustment
23:33this is torture you don't deserve this you know i owe nigel everything he's
23:41he'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 you need
23:56let him adjust to his new routine here with us
24:04sometimes having a bit of space can help new residents adjust more easily
24:09we'll keep you updated plan for you to come back if when you've you know had some time to rest
24:17strength back maybe you should let us take care of the both of you for a while
24:34i can't i can't i can't do it i can't do it
24:40care of burnout we see it all the time it's nothing to be ashamed of
24:46it's all right i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry excuse me
24:56uh
24:57uh
25:02uh
25:06I don't know.
25:40I'm sorry, Nigel, I'm sorry for letting you down.
25:48I love you, Nigel, too.
25:51I love you.
25:55I can't.
25:57I can't help.
25:58I can't.
26:00I can't watch.
26:01I can't.
26:03I can't.
26:04I can't do this.
26:05I'm sorry.
26:10I can't be here for you anymore, Nigel.
26:17I can't.
26:35I can't eat.
26:38I can't eat.
26:43I can't.
26:45I can't.
26:46Oh, man.
26:46It's really good.
26:48It's good.
26:49It's good.
26:49It's good.
26:49You should do it.
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