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Hollyoaks 23rd September 2026
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00:02James, did you create a video to shift suspicion away from yourself?
00:04If I wanted Stigon, would I plant a fake video on my own laptop and then deliver it straight to
00:09you?
00:10No. No, no, no.
00:13You're closing up here and you're coming home with me.
00:15Look, you don't have to talk. You're not staying here on your own.
00:18I don't feel good.
00:51I don't feel good.
00:58I'll be right back.
01:11Did you hear Caleb's yelling last night?
01:40Unfortunately, I can't give you a laptop back. We found something concerning.
02:00Lonnie, Lonnie.
02:08Digital forensics found this AI video of Steve was generated on your laptop.
02:13The software was downloaded onto your device and it used the images already stored on there.
02:18Do you know, I look even more guilty.
02:23Like I created that video just to cover my tracks.
02:26No. If James had made that video, why would he give his computer to you?
02:30Perhaps he made it to throw Steve's family off the scent and when you figured it was a fake, he
02:34had to play the innocent.
02:34Or maybe he is innocent and someone else just got access to his laptop.
02:40James, you're being framed for Steve's disappearance. You might want to look interested.
02:47Okay, well what about the rubbish that we found in James' car?
02:50Can't you use that and figure out who was driving the car when Steve went missing?
02:53We checked. Too many hands on it. It's contaminated evidence.
02:57Where are you going? James!
03:03Okay, well I take it you're not arresting him then?
03:06Not yet.
03:14Hey, thanks for the coffee. I'm playing Maddox Day.
03:17I know it's hardly ideal having a student around.
03:19Especially when you just want to chill in your joggers, watching trash TV.
03:23Well, he's your nephew. Plus, keeps me on my best behaviour.
03:28You need to get a wriggle on. I will be checking you get to school on time.
03:31Oh, Miss Matthews knows how to crack the whip.
03:35Here.
03:36You made me lunch?
03:37Yeah, I wanted to.
03:39All those years making lunches for Holly and then Hilton.
03:43Honestly, back then it was the bane of my life.
03:45But now, I don't know, I really miss it.
03:49Thanks.
03:56Maddox still isn't replying.
03:58I'm telling you, he was slept over at Diddy's.
04:01I was too harsh with him yesterday.
04:04Erm, well, you had to be.
04:08Him and Frankie taking Caleb out and compromising his immune system was beyond reckless.
04:15Where's Caleb?
04:18He's in the bathroom, brushing his teeth.
04:21I still can't believe he didn't wake me up.
04:24You were flat out.
04:26He was having night terrors, definitely.
04:29Poor kid.
04:29I'm sure he'll be fine.
04:31Could just be a part of his recovery.
04:39I'm just scared there's something really wrong with my boy.
04:46He's gonna be fine.
04:48He's got his dad looking out for him.
04:59Heh.
04:59Hey.
05:00Hey.
05:01How'd you bolt when you saw Miss Matthews before?
05:03Erm, I didn't do my homework.
05:06She gave it to me at the Townshend's set up.
05:07I'm just about in her.
05:08About in who?
05:10Nothing.
05:11No one.
05:13I need the loop.
05:17Is she okay?
05:19Yeah.
05:20Yeah, everything's fine.
05:27Dee Dee?
05:28Are you alright?
05:31No.
05:33I sent something really embarrassing to someone I wasn't meant to.
05:37And now I can't tell if they saw it before I deleted it.
05:41But it's fine.
05:43You know, I'll just live in here.
05:46You can get me food from the canteen.
05:50Problem's sorted.
05:50Alright.
05:56Are you okay?
06:00No.
06:01Not really.
06:02If you caught shot, I owe you a pad.
06:04It's not that.
06:06Well, don't tell me my brother's got you preggers.
06:12Yeah, I think you might have.
06:37What was that with Mark?
06:40I'm not the solicitor here, but I would say that walking out like that made you look as guilty as
06:44hell.
06:45Yeah, look, I'm sorry. I just needed time to think.
06:50Alright, I'm gonna drop the subterfuge here and just put my cards on the table.
06:53Because we both really love Stee, don't we?
06:56So for his sake, we have got to be completely honest with each other.
07:01You need to look me in the eye and promise me that you didn't do anything to him.
07:07I can't.
07:18Diastolic's elevated.
07:22Yeah, oxygen levels are borderline too.
07:25Look, if this continues, we're gonna have to take you back into hospital, okay?
07:30You remember all this?
07:32I reckon you're more qualified than half your mum's nurses.
07:37Do you really think that this isn't about my spinal injury?
07:41That it could be, like, hereditary that mum passed whatever it is down to me?
07:45So, let's not jump to any conclusions, eh?
07:49PHONE RINGS
07:55I actually thought I was gonna see the world with Frankie.
08:00That I was finally strong enough to...
08:02And we will keep building you up till you can fight whatever this is.
08:06Which is why I've made you a recovery shake.
08:09I've put your protein in it and, er...
08:12All the good stuff that your system needs.
08:16I promise.
08:17I'll make you well again.
08:43Don't jump, cos I'm not coming in after you.
08:46Give us a hand with ease if you're not busy.
08:48I used to feed the ducks here with Hilton when he was a toddler.
08:52Now he's on another continent.
08:54Barely says two words to me before hanging up the phone.
08:57Holly's abroad, too.
08:59And Alfie...
09:00Lee's doing a PhD in astrophysics, whatever that means.
09:04I'm here.
09:06On my own.
09:09It's the worst thing in the world, getting cut off on me, kids.
09:13Mumminate, you're the most important person in the life and...
09:19And they're gone.
09:21Bobby.
09:24Life really is too sharp.
09:33Maddox!
09:37Hey, erm...
09:38There's something I need to tell you.
09:43Beth.
09:44I get it.
09:45She can be a total nightmare.
09:47But don't let that tear you apart.
09:50She just looks after you your entire life.
09:53That's too precious to ruin.
09:56I bet her.
09:57Yeah.
09:57Yeah, I'll let you go.
10:03You know, I thought my future's gonna be finishing school and...
10:07Go and club in with Anne and work on my singing career, not...
10:11With a kid.
10:14Don't worry.
10:15Just take the test and we'll go from there, okay?
10:18Yeah.
10:20What am I looking at?
10:23I checked my bank statement.
10:25I ordered food from a sushi restaurant.
10:29Recognize the name?
10:30Yeah.
10:31It was on that rubbish we found in your car.
10:35And guess where it is?
10:37At the shopping centre where Steve disappeared.
10:40I don't remember buying that food, but...
10:44It places me at the scene on the day he disappeared.
10:50I don't understand.
10:53Surely, if you did something to Steve, you would remember?
10:56On the day Steve went missing, I was drunk.
11:01Maybe I did do something to him and I've just blocked it out like I've done before.
11:06Just sometimes there's a darkness that...
11:10...overcomes me and I just can't control myself.
11:14I know that must be hard to understand.
11:17Right.
11:19I need to remember who I'm talking to.
11:21James, you would never hurt Steve.
11:24Hello.
11:25Do you mind if we'll stick these out there?
11:27Yeah, do you want some help?
11:29Mercedes, forget what you think about me.
11:31Finding stairs is all that matters.
11:33It's going to take you hours to put those up.
11:41If you...
11:43...remember anything about the...
11:45...thing you forgot...
11:46...you'll tell me, right?
11:55Oi!
11:56Sorry, service is slow.
11:58Put it on me tab.
11:59You know, if you want some shifts here or the hutch, you could do with some help.
12:02And the company.
12:03All over the show at the minute, I can't stop thinking about Steve.
12:06Hey love, have a score.
12:07Oh, mind-blowing.
12:09Five stars.
12:10Lovely.
12:11Wow.
12:12Your boyfriend gets five stars from me.
12:15Oh, and it's so sweet the way Maddox talks about you.
12:20He is amazing, isn't he?
12:22He's kind and ambitious and he's told me all about the performances he wants to put on in the park.
12:27I was a total mess at his age.
12:29So I have no idea how that happened.
12:35Why?
12:36What's it got to do with you?
12:38Nothing.
12:39Too much peanut.
12:46Oh, I'm surprised you want to go on this.
12:49We've not played it for ages.
12:51Thank Auntie Cindy.
12:53Stayed at hers last night.
12:58She said some things that made sense.
13:01And...
13:02Well, I'm sorry for losing it yesterday.
13:05Well, me too.
13:07Look, I don't want you to ever feel like I don't support you.
13:10I know.
13:12And I've never actually thanked you for that.
13:14You don't need to thank me.
13:16You probably should.
13:18And I'll always love you, Mum.
13:19Stop it, you're gonna make me cry.
13:25Oi!
13:26We're having a moment here.
13:31Right, pause this. No more cheating you.
13:37Where's Caleb?
13:38Have you told him to stop answering my calls?
13:39He's trying to have a nice bath.
13:41Caleb, I'm here!
13:42Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
13:43Stay there, will you?
13:44I don't want any germs getting in.
13:45If yesterday he taught you nothing.
13:47He's still running warm.
13:49And he's even more exhausted than yesterday.
13:52There's something wrong with him. I know there is.
13:54So he doesn't need you turning up every five minutes?
13:56He's probably not answering his phone because you're suffocating him.
13:59Just give us some space.
14:01Please, Frankie.
14:04Were you telling him that I came by?
14:07Were you telling him that I came by?
14:17Kathleen Angel in? I did message her.
14:19Yeah, she's faffing around upstairs.
14:21Kathleen Angel, Anne's here to see you.
14:23Come in!
14:24See you later.
14:24Bye.
14:41I'm sorry, Frankie, you're gonna have to wait for my dad because I can't serve alcohol.
14:44Perfect.
14:46Sorry I'm not annoyed at you.
14:48Just had another run in with Caleb.
14:50Stupid cow of a step-mom.
14:52Yeah, Maddox said something about his mum and his Auntie Cindy not really getting along.
14:56Don't really know what that's about though.
14:58Apparently it's all over some pocket watch that Beth stole from Cindy in Switzerland years ago.
15:04Okay, that's random.
15:08Beth is proper shady though.
15:10Do you know, a couple of months ago, I found her box full of baby stuff, right?
15:15Except Maddox's name wasn't on the hospital bracelet.
15:17And then ever since Cindy came back.
15:21Just been proper weird and tense between the two of them.
15:24Over some dusty old pocket watch?
15:27Well, I don't know.
15:29I'm starting to think it's something more.
15:31Something deeper.
15:42No.
15:43No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
15:44Wait, I'm having a shower.
15:45You should have got it quicker then.
15:47Wait, please.
15:48No.
15:50Look, I've been non-stop on this Steve investigation all day.
15:53I feel rotten.
15:54I spoke to Sienna, by the way.
15:56She seems okay.
15:58Completely fixed on Steve.
15:59You don't need to worry about her.
16:02Okay, thank you.
16:04So, are you leaving?
16:06Or do you want to jump in too?
16:08I'm sorry.
16:09That was a bad joke.
16:11Just don't use all the hot water.
16:21Is there something you want to tell me?
16:24That's not mine.
16:26I think that's Teresa's.
16:32Done.
16:33Thanks for giving us a hand.
16:36How's Sebastian?
16:37Oh.
16:38I was wondering when you were going to ask.
16:41It's good.
16:42We're asking to be extra careful at home with his risk of infection and that, but...
16:46He's doing well.
16:49Mercedes, I'm so desperate to see them.
16:53The only reason you offered to help.
16:55No, I want to find Steve, obviously.
16:59But while we're together, we may as well try and find a way through this.
17:02I know that Warren and I didn't end things on a good note.
17:05You can say that again.
17:07You lied, manipulated.
17:08You was an absolute grade A headwrecker.
17:12And the things that you put our Cleo through.
17:15Honestly, were absolutely disgusting.
17:18Prisons changed me.
17:19Oh.
17:20And I am the Blessed Virgin Mary.
17:27Do you know what, Mercedes?
17:28No one is going to keep me from my children.
17:32I am going to get back everything that was taken from me.
17:35And anyone who tries to get in my way is going to find out what a grade A headwrecker is
17:40really capable of.
17:46Sorry I haven't texted.
17:47Just had a lot going on.
17:50Caleb's not well.
17:52Me and my mum fought and...
17:54Just didn't want to be at home last night.
17:58I wish my dad had just let you stay here.
18:01It's all good.
18:03Auntie Cindy took me in.
18:05Did she?
18:07Why?
18:09Well, we are family.
18:10She was really nice.
18:12But I just...
18:12I think she's missing her own kids.
18:16Anyway.
18:18The surprise you got me might cheer me up.
18:22So I did buy you something.
18:25But?
18:28It's okay.
18:30If you're not feeling up to it, we can just chill.
18:32I'm happy as long as I'm with you.
18:45I'm sorry.
18:48Erm...
18:49My head's...
18:51Yeah, maybe we can do this tomorrow.
18:56Are you mad at me?
18:58Hey.
18:59Hey.
19:01Whatever it is you can tell me.
19:08Look.
19:09I might have this totally wrong.
19:12And it's gonna sound like completely unhinged.
19:15But Cindy said something today.
19:17About you.
19:20And...
19:20I heard that she hates your mum over some pocket watch that she stole from her.
19:27What if the pocket watch isn't a pocket watch?
19:32What if the pocket watch is you?
19:36Erm...
19:37What?
19:42Malux, I think that your mum might not be your mum.
19:50I think your mum might be Cindy.
19:59I think your mum might be Cindy.
20:19Bye.
20:20wine...
20:21Bye.
20:24Bye.
20:26Bye.
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