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00:00surface, at least partially, and relationships are forced into irreversible territory,
00:05Compass episode overview set against a noticeably heavier tone in Albert Square,
00:09this episode intertwines multiple storylines that are now colliding rather than coexisting,
00:13core themes. Truth as an unavoidable force emotional consequences of secrecy control
00:18versus vulnerability the ripple effect of confrontation the structure feels more urgent
00:22than previous episodes with sharper pacing and more direct conflict.
00:30Hi! Hi! I want to see my baby! I need my temperature checked! I'm all painkillers! I want to see
00:41my baby!
00:52Did I say it was okay?
00:55It was just asleep.
01:00Oh, she's a little fighter. Like a dad.
01:04I think that's my side of the family, actually.
01:08How's mum? She's still got temperature.
01:11Okay, little feet, Harry.
01:13I mean, that, and then this...
01:16It's breaking her heart.
01:18Now they're saying 48 weeks in here, and that's nearly two months.
01:22Have you even slept, Dad?
01:24It's just the easiest happen, isn't it? I mean, there's nothing I can do.
01:30What was happening?
01:31I don't know. Nurse?
01:33Okay, I'm going to need some speech here, please.
01:36What is it?
01:37If you can't wait outside.
01:39Okay.
01:47Here, darling, do you fancy you chopped your martini?
01:51After all the eggs my mum pulled down yesterday, I don't...
01:54So you thought any more about coming to the trial tomorrow?
01:58I mean, it's murder.
02:00She might not come back.
02:01Well, after what she did to me, you eat her phone, eat evidence.
02:05Don't do one.
02:06Like mother, like daughter.
02:10Yeah, I'm going to go see her in prison.
02:12What? Like, now?
02:14Are you sure?
02:15Yeah, I haven't seen her since I was eight.
02:17She was going to change her plea.
02:20Having her brother on her side, that's just what she needs.
02:24Richie?
02:26I ain't on her side. I just need to look her in the eye and see if...
02:30I know, darling.
02:31Of course.
02:33See you soon, yeah?
02:43I thought... I thought he was at work, sorry.
02:46Um...
02:47No, I just need to see her and we'll get my phone.
02:53Has Mark spoken to you yet?
02:55No. Why?
02:58I do not think we're going to be late.
02:59I don't have to talk.
03:00Oi!
03:01Easy, Tiger.
03:02Late, Ross.
03:02What? I was just...
03:05I was just trying to have a joke.
03:07Good day, mate.
03:17Harvey.
03:19You're about, mate.
03:24I probably just don't want to let anything happen to her.
03:27Yeah, and you haven't.
03:30Just Penny asking if she can do anything.
03:37Mr. Knight.
03:38Is she in here?
03:38Ivy's fine.
03:39There was a longer pulse in her breathing, which triggered an alarm.
03:42What made you die, but again?
03:44There's nothing to worry about.
03:45It is very common with pre-term babies.
03:48Now, if you'd like, you can have some skin-to-skin contact.
03:54Oh, go on, then.
03:56You get to hold her.
03:58We only close her, Mum.
04:00She should be the first.
04:12I just don't know why you're so worried about Harry.
04:13She's got a very big heart.
04:15She didn't mean to go to.
04:16I just sent him a message, wondering if he needed any help.
04:19Yeah, and if he does, he's got a gene heart.
04:21Exactly.
04:22And I know she's premature, but she never really thought he was the sort of guy who over-worries
04:27about babies.
04:29Anyway, I guess I'll go to my meeting.
04:33Oh, you can put your dodgy eyes away.
04:41No.
04:42Believe me, I'm the last person to judge anyone for being in a Loren love triangle.
04:47Can you call him Loren?
04:49The hell is this fair?
04:50Breaking his little heart.
04:51Go through this DNA test, you might be paying for your own breakfast, own buggies, own shop.
04:56Lauren says I should do it.
04:57Lauren, Boren.
04:58She's not that smart.
04:59Look, he's got good money, good hair.
05:01You know, a bit too tidy, cute little tush.
05:04If Nicola's so worried about a DNA test, I'll fake one off for you.
05:07How?
05:08A bit off, you know?
05:10Laptop in.
05:12With your laptop in.
05:13Yeah, no.
05:14Sorry not all of us have loving, uncomplicated relationships.
05:17With jailbirds.
05:18She killed your dad.
05:20I'm kidding, that ain't helping.
05:21I know, but I want to see her.
05:23Patrick can't even be here because of that girl.
05:25He's lost his son.
05:26If you're not, you're pleased to judge, can't you?
05:28You don't know what people will do in the heat of the moment.
05:31You want to see your sister?
05:33See your sister.
05:34Nothing you do is going to make this any worse.
05:44Good luck.
05:47Okay, thanks.
05:55All right?
05:56Yeah.
05:57Is it the other thing with Zoe and Richard?
05:58No, she's fine.
06:00Okay.
06:00She's got a big girl pants on stage.
06:02She doesn't need her, Mum.
06:03He's making out Anthony with some kind of saint.
06:05My team's just had Patrick's video statement.
06:08I mean, we weren't expecting you to be giving Jasmine straight out of his voice.
06:12Well, okay, but what's he coming on?
06:13You know, he's angry and he's grieving.
06:15The mobile footage is inconclusive.
06:17Doesn't show the actual tag.
06:19It's going to be hard for the jury to be clear if it was self-defense.
06:23He was coming for her for both of us.
06:25There's hardly any other evidence.
06:27On the day, it'll all come down to witness statements.
06:30If we're arguing self-defense.
06:33I'm going to put her away.
06:34The trial ain't even started yet, Zoe.
06:36So, so, what are your options?
06:38Make him withdraw it.
06:40Oh, yeah, fly off to Trinidad.
06:41Bit of witness tempering, that will really help.
06:43Can't get stopped.
06:44Look, it's a bit of a punt, but, um,
06:47if Jasmine's other grandparent was to go in the box tomorrow
06:50and counter Patrick's narrative...
06:53Me?
06:53You said I wouldn't have to testify.
06:55It's all right, Richie.
06:56There must be other options.
06:59She was protecting me when I should have been protecting her.
07:02I mean, what if Josh won't stick around without her?
07:05You have got to get up in court.
07:07I cannot risk losing both of them again.
07:10If you're running a temperature...
07:12What are you, doctor, now, are you?
07:13Ivy is still really fragile.
07:14They're doing their best.
07:16Really? How?
07:17By giving me a virus means I can't see my baby.
07:19Yeah, I will be putting that in my trip advisor review.
07:21Well, I said you probably had it when you came in.
07:24You should just get me some pain killers to work, please.
07:26Can you get something?
07:33All right, now, you're frustrated.
07:35Ivy wouldn't even be in that incubator if it weren't for you.
07:37Come on, that's not fair.
07:38No, it's true.
07:39If you haven't been stressing me out, I'll be a stupid opening.
07:43I'm really sorry.
07:44You can't get so old, Ivy, right now.
07:45Bet you can't wait to get in there first.
07:47Mum, that ain't fair.
07:48You didn't see him.
07:49No, you're right.
07:51I didn't.
07:52Because I've been stuck in here, pumping, filling up bottles of milk full of stitches
07:57while you lot were swanning about.
07:59Okay, come on, Dad.
08:00Let's go hold it, yeah?
08:02Yeah, come on.
08:03Off your truck.
08:04I've got a lot of stuff with her.
08:06No, no.
08:07Go and play Happy Families.
08:16Actually, Harry, have you got a signal?
08:20Mate, Jean Garstead said, like, some kind of shrine to Martin.
08:23There's no way she's just going to hand the keys over.
08:25What's the Martin Shed?
08:27Uh, I thought you was working.
08:28I'm taking him game, you know.
08:30Take his mind off, Ivy, don't I?
08:31Harry messaged me, Ivy's fine.
08:33And you can focus on teaching me chess, can't you?
08:35Go on, then.
08:36Well, just a few of the guys.
08:37Martin Shed, you know, a few beers.
08:38There's a bit of man's space when we all need it.
08:40Can I speak about this?
08:41No, but it's a stupid idea.
08:43We ain't going to do it.
08:44So go on, chessboard's waiting.
08:46Can't wait.
08:47Well, show him no mercy.
08:49Oh, I like that.
08:51Martin Shed.
08:52I'd like to get rid of the fun police, didn't I?
08:54So, I'm going to get Jean to hand over those keys.
08:57Oh, I like it.
09:00Okay, just remember she's really delicate,
09:02but she's not made of glass.
09:07I love you.
09:15Look at her little face.
09:18Turn it off.
09:20She's so small.
09:22Harry, please, turn it off.
09:32She's hung up.
09:38You are so beautiful.
09:43She's strong.
09:48Just like your mum.
09:51She is actually really desperate to see you.
09:55But she needs to get a little bit better, isn't it?
09:58You'll have both of us, you know?
10:01We'll both be there for you.
10:02Look after you.
10:03Make you safe.
10:07God, I know this hasn't been the best it starts for.
10:15I know it's been really difficult, but I'm your dad.
10:26And I love you more than you can imagine, you know?
10:31And I will always be there for you.
10:36But right now, I need to run.
10:42I need to run.
11:05I've got a problem with this shit, baby.
11:07I've been in Martin's family for years.
11:10Vicky and I hate it.
11:15What?
11:16You still fancy her, don't you?
11:17I don't fancy her, mate.
11:18We're just friends.
11:19We're all just friends.
11:20You're very protective of how she feels about her sense she never even goes to.
11:25I'm a bit too keen to find fault in her fiancé.
11:28Look, when I had feelings for Avani, you were the one that helped me accept I had to let it
11:32go.
11:35Look, are you going to show me how to play this or not?
11:37From what I heard about Martin, he'd have loved all his mates.
11:40Pardon his shed raising a bit.
11:45Yeah.
11:46Come and then head go first.
11:48Yeah, you.
11:49White's.
11:49All right.
11:58I'm going to show you how to play this.
12:25You're so big.
12:27We're all grown up.
12:29And you're not.
12:36I can't believe you came.
12:45Hi, Vicky.
12:46Hiya.
12:47Hiya.
12:47Can I have a look, please?
12:52I take it that face means that you know about Patrick's statement?
12:55Give him a bit of direction, did you?
12:57Get your little ring light out for him.
12:59I've not seen it.
13:00He's done it all on his own.
13:01But he's a good man.
13:02And you know that.
13:04And whatever he said on the tape, he's not going to lie.
13:08Well, they want me to give evidence in her defence.
13:11At Jasmine's trial?
13:12Well, you said no, yeah?
13:14They reckon if another grandparent gives a different picture.
13:17That would be a line on oath.
13:19I've listened to enough true crime podcasts and I've made a couple of my own.
13:23Get me on the witness box again after Joel.
13:25Where they twist everything.
13:26If she goes down, it will kill my Zoe.
13:28But if you hadn't found her, it would be Zoe on trial instead.
13:32Banged up for life.
13:33If you really want Jasmine living with you and the kids.
13:37So what?
13:38You're going to sign up in court tomorrow and show you on the Bible that it was self-defence?
13:46Mate.
13:53Eight years.
13:54You were all I had.
13:56We went everywhere together.
13:58Laying in bed, making up stories.
14:00Yeah, it was you and me against the world back then.
14:02Yeah.
14:05And then you weren't there.
14:08You said you wanted to be removed.
14:10I never even knew why.
14:11Cassandra hated me.
14:13She didn't, Jasmine.
14:15Why would you think that she would...
14:16Because it happened with Keith.
14:18After he died.
14:21The second I left, she adopted you.
14:24All those years spent fostering for what?
14:27That wasn't them.
14:28That was the system, Jasmine.
14:31Did you really think Sandra would...
14:32She could have had both of us.
14:34And she chose you.
14:36Look, I'm not blaming you.
14:38You were exactly blaming me, Jasmine.
14:40I'm not.
14:41I'm just...
14:42I'm just saying that you could have come with me.
14:46And you did it.
14:48You stayed.
14:49I wrote you letters every week.
14:53One time I sat in McDonald's with my social worker waiting for you.
15:00You're my sister, my twin.
15:02I didn't know who I was without you.
15:04And I missed you every day.
15:07As soon as I turned 18, I accessed our files.
15:10I saw your name in the paper.
15:12I got your number from your adoptive mom.
15:15Mom, you could have done the same.
15:19How do you think I don't know that?
15:22If I could have had you by my side all my life.
15:25Are you seriously putting this onto me?
15:27No, I'm not.
15:28I'm not.
15:29I'm just saying.
15:32Why did you kill him?
15:36Why did you do it?
15:40I didn't even have a chance to meet him.
15:41He was our birth dad.
15:42I didn't know that, did I?
15:45I didn't know that.
15:46I was just scared.
15:50I was so scared.
15:51Josh, okay?
15:52It all just happened so fast.
15:55Zoe was just lying there.
15:56Zoe, our mom, was just lying there.
15:58And he was kneeling by her.
15:59And I...
16:01I don't even remember what happened.
16:03I don't.
16:04I just remember wanting him to stop.
16:07And...
16:11I'm sorry.
16:12Okay, I'm sorry.
16:14I'm sorry that I took away your chance to meet him.
16:19And I'm sorry that I didn't write back when, you know, I was moved.
16:25But...
16:27I was just a kid.
16:28I was just a kid, Josh.
16:30I was just a kid.
16:34You are my brother.
16:37You're half of me.
16:38That's your time, please.
16:50Look me in the eyes.
16:53Look me in the eyes and tell me that you can see I'm telling the truth.
16:57Tell me you believe me.
16:58Because if you can't see that, what hope have I got?
17:07Time, please.
17:14Sorry.
17:29There's nothing wrong with my drains.
17:31Look, I'm not going to charge her.
17:33What are you even doing here?
17:34Because I care about your plumbing.
17:37And you can smell it outside.
17:38He's doing you a favour.
17:38I can't smell anything.
17:40And when I'm backed up, I use a plunger.
17:41So I thank you, Harvey Munro, to not go sniffing around my backyard when you're not invited.
17:46And as if I haven't got enough of my plate at the moment with Jasmine going to court.
17:49Why don't you just show me where to waste?
17:50You can't just go straight.
17:51Yeah, look, I'll show you.
17:53See, no smell.
17:55Because you ain't me running your taps.
17:56Fine.
17:57No, listen, no.
17:58Let me just...
17:58No, no, no.
17:59You just have to run in the taps.
18:01As soon as you're so determined to prove that my drains are so offensive...
18:07Mine, thank you.
18:09Yeah, I just...
18:10I want...
18:12It's...
18:15Just...
18:16Honey?
18:17Do you, uh...
18:18Do you like the ones in them?
18:20Oh, you never know.
18:21Oh, George.
18:23How's Nicola in the baby?
18:26Well, uh...
18:27She's getting stronger, eh?
18:29But Nicola's still got a virus safe.
18:30She can't hold her and see her.
18:32Oh, that's awful.
18:34Oh.
18:36Oh.
18:37Are you going to go and grab her some stuff?
18:40No, no, I've got to check in on the restaurant and in on the bar, so...
18:43George, you can't do everything, you know.
18:46Yeah, well, I need to, uh...
18:49I'll tell you, you're asking after her.
18:50Um, we'll see you next time.
18:52I don't know.
18:58What were you wanting with Martin's shed keys in the first place?
19:02Harvey Monroe!
19:03Ross Marshall, will you stop walking away when I'm talking to you?
19:07All right, you tell her.
19:08All right, you tell her.
19:10I wanted to, you know, set up a sanctuary for the minute.
19:13In Martin's shed?
19:14Just a few cans.
19:15Give the poor women a break.
19:17I just thought they're doing some housework so that the poor women could go and have a few cans of
19:22their own might be more appreciated.
19:26Look, I didn't know Martin.
19:28Yeah, but I did, mate.
19:30And he loved that shed.
19:32That doesn't mean that I wouldn't let him and Stacey, they'd have a row and he'd go over there, let
19:37things settle and then come back here, sort it all out.
19:44He'd love his mates to do the same, do you know what I mean?
19:49Yes.
19:50Well, I suppose it's better than all the men running off with other women.
19:55Please spruce up.
19:57I promise I will look after him.
20:00Didn't mean to hide in a shed when you were with me, did you?
20:06You can thank me later.
20:08We'll swap the light.
20:20Hey.
20:22Are you planning your retail empire?
20:24Yeah, I want, like, a sign that you can see from here.
20:27Um, how's Ivy?
20:29Yeah, she's doing okay, I think.
20:30I mean, whereas her mum wants all the pain to this she can get for when she's discharged and she
20:35can't send Harry for opioids, so...
20:37Uh, I thought he was fine, though.
20:39Yeah, he is.
20:40But you don't want to daggle temptation in front of his face, do you?
20:43I mean, either that or she just wants to get rid of me.
20:46Alright, I'll see you later.
20:48See you.
20:56Right.
21:01You don't worry, Ivy.
21:04Okay.
21:09Mummy's coming.
21:17It's okay.
21:21I'm coming.
21:25Guys, this is the third one.
21:27We've got to do better than this.
21:28Yeah.
21:29We're closed.
21:33Oh, I'm sorry.
21:34Yeah.
21:34We'll be open later.
21:36I...
21:37I came to check on you.
21:39Yeah, well, I'm fine.
21:42Honest.
21:44My Jordan was premature.
21:47It's okay to say you're stressed.
21:51I, uh...
21:53I really need to, uh...
22:08It's really scary.
22:10Being there.
22:12Alarms, going off, jumping, everything.
22:16Sometimes just being somewhere else is, you know.
22:20The thing is, we're about to open, so...
22:28Oh, God.
22:31Maybe if I'd been there that night and we hadn't argued.
22:35If only's.
22:36I wasted so many days with if only's.
22:39Well, you can ask her.
22:41She'd tell you the same.
22:42And she'd be wrong, too.
22:45When I had Jordan, I wanted someone to blame.
22:49Someone to be responsible.
22:51Anyone.
22:52Because otherwise, you know, things are just random and...
22:56Yeah.
22:58I was just trying to do what was best for her, you know.
23:01And for Nicola.
23:03It's never going to be enough.
23:06I do work with her.
23:10However much she blames you,
23:14she is blaming herself so much more.
23:22It, um...
23:23It took me a long time
23:25to talk about it.
23:27All that time in hospital.
23:31Knowing there was a tiny baby
23:34in a glass box
23:35all on his own.
23:37Knowing I hadn't carried him
23:39to term.
23:41I was the one whose body had failed.
23:45I was the one who should be
23:47feeding him.
23:49Protecting him.
23:50Loving him.
23:52All those machines
23:53doing what my body should be doing.
23:57And everyone would say, you know,
23:59don't blame yourself, but...
24:03We're mums, George.
24:05That's what we do.
24:08And I got to be with Jordan.
24:10I can't imagine
24:11what it feels like
24:12for Nicola wanting that so much.
24:15Not being able to look at her.
24:17Be in the same room.
24:21So if...
24:24If kicking off at you
24:25is how she deals with it,
24:26then...
24:27Maybe you'll just have to take it.
24:30Until she's ready to let you in.
24:34Richie said the police
24:34give evidence first,
24:35then the video,
24:36then Patrick,
24:37then me and you.
24:38And what if I get it wrong?
24:38You won't.
24:39Like Richie said,
24:40just focus on how great he's been
24:41to have her back in our lives.
24:44Josh!
24:45How'd it go?
24:47Um...
24:48How is she?
24:49How are you doing right?
24:50Just let me speak.
24:51Just sit down.
24:52Okay.
24:54Um...
24:54She just looked really...
24:56scared.
24:58I believe her.
25:00She was just protecting you.
25:02I said I'll come tomorrow
25:03to the trial
25:04with Kim and Denise.
25:05I want to give her
25:06all the support I can.
25:07She's got her whole family
25:08in her corner.
25:09They're gonna do this.
25:11We're gonna get her back home.
25:17I just want to see my daughter.
25:20Please, you need to go
25:21back to your room.
25:22Nicola.
25:23Oh, I bet they can wait
25:24to call you.
25:25You're risking spreading
25:25the virus.
25:26No, I want to see the door.
25:27No, no, no, no, George.
25:29Right, you'll get what I've got.
25:31It's fine.
25:31She needs you.
25:32So do you.
25:33No, you won't be able
25:34to hold her.
25:35Right now.
25:37I need to be here
25:38with you.
25:38I'll bet for you.
25:40I just want to see
25:41my baby.
25:42I know you do.
25:44And you won't see it.
25:45Right now, I'm here
25:46and I'm not going anywhere,
25:47okay?
25:48I've got you.
25:49I've got you, love.
25:51Yeah.
25:53Come on.
25:54All Zoe wants
25:56is Jasmine home.
25:57Our kids together.
25:59I get that.
26:00I've been there.
26:01But.
26:02Come here now.
26:11I know Chrissy
26:12was playing games
26:12and messing with her head
26:14but that video
26:15is hardly clear.
26:15Whoa, whoa, wait.
26:16I thought you dropped
26:17all this.
26:18What's she put Patrick
26:19through?
26:19What's she put us
26:20all through?
26:21She was going to let
26:21Zoe rot in prison.
26:23What if Jean was right
26:24about her all along?
26:24Okay, she did what
26:25she had to do.
26:26Listen, she saved
26:26Zoe's life.
26:28She could have just
26:29called for help.
26:30It had to hit him
26:31so hard, did she?
26:32What if it wasn't
26:33self-defense?
26:34What if she just saw
26:34red?
26:35That's murder.
26:36Oh, she's a scrappy
26:37little madam
26:38who fights for
26:39what she wants.
26:40No idea where
26:40she gets that from,
26:41will you?
26:41What are you messing
26:41about?
26:42She set fire to stuff
26:44and then locked
26:44Zoe in the room.
26:45Listen, listen.
26:46She's looking at
26:46a 15-year stretch
26:47at minimum
26:48in case you forgot
26:49she's your granddaughter.
26:50So what?
26:50I've just got to
26:51stand there and tell
26:51everyone that she's
26:52such an angel.
26:53Okay, you've got
26:53no choice.
26:54She killed a man.
26:55You've seen the video.
26:56Do you really want
26:56her in our home?
26:59You know you're
27:00going to lose Zoe
27:01again, right?
27:03All of you.
27:05All of you putting
27:06this on me.
27:07All this pressure.
27:11I can't do it.
27:13I can't.
27:19The April 6,
27:212026 episode
27:22of EastEnders
27:23marks a significant
27:24escalation point
27:25in the current
27:25narrative arc,
27:26delivering an
27:27installment that
27:28finally begins to
27:29pay off the slow
27:29burn tension built
27:30across the previous
27:31week.
27:32Where earlier
27:33episodes leaned into
27:34restraint and
27:35emotional undercurrents,
27:36this chapter allows
27:37those pressures to
27:38rupture, messily,
27:39imperfectly, and
27:40compellingly, this is
27:42not a full-climax
27:42episode, but it feels
27:44like the beginning
27:44of one.
27:45It's the moment
27:46where denial
27:47collapses, truth
28:21and it's not a huge
28:22thing.
28:22I can't do it.
28:22I can't do it.
28:24I can't do it.
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