Summary[]
Bianca has lost her baby. Frank offers to help Roy out of his business difficulties but is rejected. There is a poor turnout for the switching on of the Christmas tree lights.
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Frank tells Ricky he should have a funeral for the abortion, as it's his last day staying with them and he offers to help with the expenses. Then he asks Ricky why Roy is working on the car lot, and Ricky explains that they had a financial disaster. Frank looks thoughtful and suddenly decides that he will stay around for a few more days after all, as he ought to be at the funeral. As he's going out, Michael comes over to ask Bianca when she will be back at work, as she's been off "sick" for rather a long time. Frank tells him that she's not really ill at all, she's just lost the baby and doesn't feel like working. Michael seems to accept this and says sorry. Bianca visits Alex later that day, and he gives her a sermon about suffering being good for her. She moans about people suffering who don't deserve it. She goes home and decides to visit her mother for the weekend, and tells Ricky. Frank sees Pat and digs for information about the business, and gets a frosty reception. He then goes to see Roy to gloat and offer to "help him out". He gets an even more frosty reception, and Roy also assumes Pat had something to do with asking Frank to offer him help, so Roy's very irritated. He berates Pat, who says she knew nothing about it. Roy says he will get his business back on its feet if it kills him, and Pat says it probably will at this rate. Frank gets a similarly unpleasant reception at the Vic, where Grant and Phil ignore him as he walks up to the bar and comment that there seems to be a bad smell in the place. Frank says he wants to bury the hatchet, and asks if he can he buy Phil a whisky. Grant says you have been away a long time and Phil says he'll have an orange juice. Mary is working in the café when Ian comes in and moans to Kathy about how difficult it is finding a nanny, and he's still interviewing. She asks Kathy if she could go for the job, and Ian arranges an interview. Mark and Pauline gossip about Conor being a filthy slob. Pauline goes home to find Conor asleep on the sofa and filthy crockery in the kitchen where he's helped himself, and she's furious. He jumps up and tells her he's finished the decorating, and when she sees it, she is pleasantly surprised and takes him to the Vic to buy him a drink and tell everyone what a brilliant job he did. Cindy turns up to see her kids, and Lucy won't talk to her at all, and runs away to Ian. She leaves in tears, and phones someone from the taxi for consolation. Alex turns on the Christmas tree lights in the Square and the ceremony is boycotted by everyone who disapproves of the criminals' hostel he's supporting, except Bianca, who goes out and stands around moodily refusing to sing the carols, despite Alex taking hold of her hand comfortingly. Meanwhile across the Square everyone else is supporting Ian doing an interview with the press about his stance against the offenders' hostel. |
Credits[]
Main cast[]
- Bianca Butcher - Patsy Palmer
- Alex Healy - Richard Driscoll
- Ricky Butcher - Sid Owen
- Frank Butcher - Mike Reid
- Pat Evans - Pam St. Clement
- Roy Evans - Tony Caunter
- Kathy Mitchell - Gillian Taylforth
- Ian Beale - Adam Woodyatt
- Cindy Beale - Michelle Collins
- Mark Fowler - Todd Carty
- Pauline Fowler - Wendy Richard
- Mary Flaherty - Melanie Clark Pullen
- Conor Flaherty - Seán Gleeson
- Phil Mitchell - Steve McFadden
- Grant Mitchell - Ross Kemp
- Peggy Mitchell - Barbara Windsor
- George Palmer - Paul Moriarty
- Annie Palmer - Nadia Sawalha
- Nigel Bates - Paul Bradley
- Clare Tyler - Gemma Bissix
- Julie Haye - Karen Henthorn
- Sarah Hills - Daniela Denby-Ashe
- Michael Rose - Russell Floyd
- Lucy Beale - Casey Anne Rothery (uncredited)
- Peter Beale - Alex Stevens (uncredited)
- Steven Beale - Stuart Stevens (uncredited)
- Jacques Butcher - Jack Snell (uncredited)