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EASTENDERS 15TH JULY 2025 PART 1
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00:30Hello, sorry is it Julie? I'm Jane. I want to see my husband.
00:51Oh no! Morning handsome. A spare bed not good enough for you, no?
01:03I tried, couldn't sleep. I'm used to detention beds, aren't I?
01:08Right, a social worker is going to be here any minute and you need to be gone by the time she is, okay?
01:13He always has much fun.
01:15Look, maybe you should just go take a little wonder, you know? And the calf, it does a half decent breakfast.
01:21Free, is it?
01:34How am I supposed to buy fags and brekkie with a tenner?
01:38Do you know what? If you're going to be living in this house, you've got to quit smoking.
01:42Ah! Ah! Put some clothes on and oh!
01:46Hey.
01:47I'm sorry.
01:48Did you get a good look, did you?
01:56Yes, yes, yes.
01:59Thanks for letting me drop my stuff at yours.
02:01Oh, that's alright. You must have been knackered off without travelling.
02:04Yeah, well I'm used to getting no sleep over the last 18 months.
02:07Look, Jay.
02:09Let's stop eating about the bush, shall we?
02:11Yes, I'm tired.
02:13And I'm angry.
02:15So if you don't stop all this cloak and dagger nonsense, then I'm going to have to knock on every door on that square until my husband answers one of them.
02:21Alright, look.
02:22I may have downplayed on the phone how...
02:29What's the word?
02:31...different...
02:32...is.
02:33You think I won't find you?
02:38Sleep at one eye open, pal.
02:40I'll comment for you.
02:46Yeah, well I still think it's too early for the cinema.
02:49Ah, best time of day.
02:50We'll have the old place to ourselves.
02:52Well you start suggesting the back row and I'm legging it.
02:55Are you still here?
03:06Brian, Brian, Brian.
03:09Chill.
03:11It is too early for this level of negativity.
03:14I'll chill when you stop taking advantage of my son's good nature.
03:18I should have known you like this, Brian, Brian.
03:21Tanya and Jay.
03:23Yeah?
03:24Used to laugh about what a loser was.
03:27Well, how about I get in touch with a probation service and tell them about your little joyride, yeah?
03:32Yeah.
03:33Keep your eye on him, he's just going out at Young Offenders.
03:36Wait, Ian, no need for that.
03:38And you pack it in.
03:40You started it?
03:41Yeah, well I said rain it in there.
03:44Here, Phil.
03:45Can't go to the cinema without snacks.
03:47No, we'll get some there, Nigel.
03:49Nigel!
03:51I've been really worried about you.
03:56Sorry, but...
03:57You look well.
03:59Still my Nigel.
04:01Do I not get a hug?
04:03Just hang on.
04:04Please, just give us a minute.
04:05Look, he shouldn't be here, alright?
04:06He's my husband.
04:08If anything, he shouldn't be here.
04:10Phil, she has got a right.
04:11Don't you think he caused enough trouble, eh?
04:12Trouble?
04:13You've been with him all this time and you didn't think wants to pick up the phone.
04:16I'm not being funny, alright, but I think it's best...
04:18Are you seriously trying to tell me what's best for my husband?
04:22We haven't changed, have you, Phil?
04:24Still a bully who thinks he knows best.
04:27What's she talking about?
04:30Who is this woman, Phil?
04:37Can you believe it?
04:38I've been taking grief off the spawn of Max Branning.
04:40How mighty a fool of...
04:42Mighty?
04:43Yeah?
04:44Have I missed something?
04:45I mean, nearly a hundred years of Bill family legacy.
04:48Do you know what?
04:49I thought that new stall was going to be the turning point.
04:50You know, out of the ashes and all that.
04:52Well, the start at least.
04:54Yeah, but I've been thinking.
04:56Maybe I should put us back on top.
04:58How are you going to do that?
05:00Well, Linda's putting the Vic up for auction.
05:02I think we should make a bid.
05:04Oh, Ian, not again.
05:06Well, why not?
05:07Oh, come on, Mum, look...
05:09Look, it's a sound investment, all right?
05:11It's our local pub.
05:12I mean, I've run enough businesses around here
05:14to know how to turn a profit.
05:16What could go wrong?
05:18Well, maybe, because last time
05:19it almost tore this family apart.
05:21It'll be different this time.
05:23Look, I've lived around here all my life, all right?
05:25I mean, I could have gone and done anything,
05:27but no, I chose to stay where my roots are.
05:30Look, I think it's important to invest in the future.
05:33And I'm not just talking about Peter and Bobby, all right?
05:35I mean, Jimmy and Louis as well.
05:37Well, I think that's very noble of you, son.
05:41What, you're not going to try and talk me out of it?
05:43What's the point?
05:44If you've already made your mind up.
05:46See you later.
05:52There's our house.
05:54The chickens.
05:56There's our cat.
05:58Darth Vader.
06:01You named him that cos
06:03he always tried to bite you when he was a kitten.
06:07You regret it now, cos every time you take him to the vets,
06:09that's what they call it like when it's his turn.
06:15He's been spending more time next door since he'd been gone anywhere.
06:18I've never seen this cat before in my life.
06:20I'll see you later.
06:22Hi, good boy.
06:24I'm sorry.
06:25I can't do this.
06:26Excuse me.
06:28He, er...
06:29He struggles sometimes.
06:30You know, it's my place, tricks, eh?
06:31Yeah.
06:32I can't do this, excuse me.
06:40He, er, he struggles sometimes. You know, it's my place, Triggs, eh?
06:43Yeah.
06:45I know how dementia works. Thanks, Phil.
06:47Well, then you should probably know that turning up out of the blue
06:51and jumping on him in the middle of the street ain't the best idea.
06:54Are you serious trying to pin this on me?
06:59He's my husband, Phil.
07:01I thought he was dead.
07:03I'm just saying.
07:04Yeah, well, don't!
07:09You should have called me months ago.
07:13I'm his flaming wife.
07:15He hasn't got a clue who I am.
07:19It's final, healthy months.
07:24And you've stolen them from me.
07:26This should have been my time, Phil.
07:32You've taken what I should have had.
07:35Will you stop shouting?
07:37It's fine, Nigel. It's all right, mate.
07:39I don't like it, Phil. Can you ask her to leave, please?
07:41Please, Nigel, can we just talk?
07:43Could you please leave now?
07:46Go, please.
08:02All right, stop staring.
08:05Girl from Woolford's got taste.
08:06Look at you.
08:10Oi!
08:12Chill.
08:13I'm just going to show him my take.
08:20That's sick.
08:21Are you going to tell us what you did?
08:22I'm not sick if he got caught.
08:23We can play cops and robbers if you want.
08:25Let your strip touch me.
08:26Hey, just so you know, that's my daughter.
08:29So be careful who you talk to like that, yeah?
08:31Just ignore him.
08:33He was caught joyriding.
08:35Him and some brain-dead idiots nicked an old banger
08:38reverse-litten at a wheelie bin behind power landing acne.
08:41There's nothing to brag about, mate.
08:43Jack, what the hell, man?
08:46He's your nephew.
08:48Yeah.
08:49This is Max's son.
08:51And this is Cathy.
08:52Yeah? Ian's mum.
08:54Makes sense.
08:55Er, your grandson said you'd pay for this
08:58on the house, stick in the tab sort of thing.
09:00That cool, yeah?
09:02Ian did say that Lauren's brother was back out of the blue.
09:05Yeah.
09:07Think she's made of Teflon, that one.
09:08Even the stint inside ain't brought him down a peg or two.
09:10No, that's not going to help, is it?
09:12What he does need is someone positive in his life.
09:15And he's really lucky that you're his uncle
09:17and a serving police officer,
09:19who I know will definitely be coughing up
09:20to pay for his unpaid meal.
09:23There you go.
09:25I upset her, didn't I?
09:32I didn't mean to.
09:33Yeah, I'm sure she'll understand, yeah?
09:35Er...
09:37I don't like upsetting people.
09:39I really don't.
09:43Maybe you could find her, smooth things over.
09:46And, er...
09:47I'm not sure that's such a good idea.
09:49Oh, please, Phil.
09:51Just, er, bring her a cup of tea or something
09:53and, er, say I didn't mean it.
09:56Alright.
09:57Alright, fine.
09:59Just don't take sugar just a splash of milk.
10:01Do you mind if I...
10:02Do you mind if I...
10:11Do you mind if I...
10:12Do you mind if I...
10:17That girl back there, Varnie?
10:18I don't think she was your time.
10:19Why wouldn't she be racist?
10:20She's a girl, isn't she?
10:21So what, you don't have a girlfriend by now?
10:22Or a boyfriend?
10:23Um...
10:24I've seen a girl before I went inside.
10:25Proper fit.
10:26Yeah.
10:27So what happened?
10:28I don't think it's all about her.
10:30So what happened?
10:31That girl back there, Varnie.
10:32I don't think she was your time.
10:34Why wouldn't she be racist?
10:36She's a girl, isn't she?
10:39She's a girl, isn't she?
10:40It's been both ways, isn't it?
10:41So what, you don't have a girlfriend by now?
10:46Or a boyfriend?
10:47Um...
10:49I've seen a girl before I went inside.
10:51Proper fit.
10:52Oh, yeah.
10:53Yeah.
10:54So, what happened?
10:56That was Phil.
10:57Bare being a lone wolf anyway, you know,
10:58I don't want to get tied down.
11:02Probably chip off the old block here, ain't ya?
11:05Long as I sit round here,
11:06I figure that's not a good thing.
11:09So, when did you ask to hear from him?
11:11Christmas.
11:13Well, that ain't bad, for Max's standards.
11:152022.
11:19Do you know who I was?
11:23What do you mean?
11:24The thing I did wrong, make her not want me.
11:27No, mate, it wasn't like that.
11:28Then why does he want to know?
11:33Look, some would say you were lucky.
11:38Just be nice, yeah?
11:40Tell someone I'm up cool enough for once.
11:45Look,
11:48I ain't gonna start taking a football practice
11:50or teaching you how to shave
11:52but you're here now, ain't you, Stoke?
11:55So am I.
11:57Oi.
11:59You need him to think you let me know, yeah?
12:02Yeah.
12:04Someone's got to look out for you, ain't they?
12:06And everybody else.
12:08What with a mini bisexual Max Brannan on the loose,
12:09no-one's safe either.
12:11I'll tell you one person, Liz.
12:13The guy here at the delivery didn't turn up to grab off and bat me.
12:18Oi.
12:19Ian ain't so bad.
12:20He got my dad set down for murder, didn't he?
12:22What?
12:23All because he slept with his daughter?
12:25Oscar, Oscar.
12:26That's enough.
12:29Look, Lauren and Peter are going for enough at the minute.
12:31Don't need you irritating Ian as well.
12:34All right, so why don't you just be the bigger man?
12:36Show everyone you can apologise.
12:38Nah, why should I?
12:39Because Lauren's got a lot riding on this.
12:41All right, don't let her down.
12:42It's a splash of milk.
12:56No sugar.
12:59He remembered.
13:05He's never spoken to me like that before.
13:09Well, he ain't like that all the time.
13:13You know...
13:16The worst part...
13:19How quiet it's been.
13:22The silence.
13:26Do you know how loud that silence can be, Phil?
13:31Yeah.
13:33Yeah, I'll do as it happens.
13:36He, er...
13:37He wanted me to come and find her.
13:38You know, he felt bad about...
13:40Losing his rag like that.
13:45For Nigel, losing his rag means barely raising his voice.
13:48And then going for a long walk and coming back with a...
13:51Packet of biscuits.
13:53To apologise.
13:55Biscuits that he'd end up eating more than half of.
13:57Yeah.
14:02You know, when I got...
14:05That call from Jay.
14:08I thought...
14:10Finally.
14:13Light at the end of the tunnel.
14:14You know, the...
14:16The nightmare was over.
14:17It's not, is it?
14:27Before he, er...
14:29Before he got really bad, he recorded some videos.
14:30He said...
14:32He wanted you to see him sometime, you know.
14:34So...
14:36Well, it might explain a few things.
14:38It looks like...
14:41Today's that day.
14:47I'll give you some privacy.
14:50We'll walk round you.
15:06Don't move on our behalf.
15:08Just daydreaming.
15:10What, about pub?
15:12Yeah, maybe.
15:13Taking on the stall.
15:14Got you dreaming big, is it, Ian?
15:16Yeah.
15:17I might make a cheeky little bid at the auction next week.
15:19You?
15:23Running the fit?
15:27What's so funny?
15:29People usually like their pub landlords, do you?
15:32Hold on a minute.
15:34Look, when you and Alfie had it last time,
15:36it wasn't the epitome of success, was it?
15:37We did all right.
15:39Come on, let's not rewrite history here.
15:40I mean, look, not everyone has got a natural business acumen,
15:43and that's fine.
15:45Can't all be entrepreneurs, can we?
15:47Excuse me, we have got businesses, thank you very much.
15:49Well, yeah, a cleaning company,
15:50a limo business you share with me mum,
15:52and a backstreet back van.
15:54I mean, you're hardly captains of industry, are you?
15:57Well, I'll be captain of kicking you in the face
15:59if you don't wind your neck in.
16:01And that is how you get barred before I've even got the place.
16:05He's nice to the guy acting last long, didn't he?
16:07He and Bill running the Queen Bench?
16:10With Cathy and Harvey propping up the bar?
16:13Doesn't seem right.
16:15No, Jean, you're right.
16:16It doesn't.
16:20It's a lovely home.
16:22Cheers.
16:24Which one are you's a musician?
16:26Guilty.
16:28I can show you if you like.
16:29Why don't we wait until you've had a little bit more practice, Peter?
16:34Oh, yeah.
16:36Oh, they're just my brothers.
16:38He's quitting, so it's a smoke-free house.
16:43Oscar, isn't it?
16:45We try and be joined up with the other services where we can.
16:50I know it's not ideal, but if it makes it any better,
16:53he is great with the kids. He really, really is.
16:55Lauren, relax.
16:57Yes, I will need a few more details on his history.
17:00And we should go through logistics.
17:03Sleeping arrangements, that sort of thing.
17:06Otherwise it's fine, yeah?
17:08Because if it's not, we can kick him out, you know.
17:12You've made some real progress, Lauren.
17:14And that's great.
17:15But any unforeseen stresses that might trigger a relapse,
17:19we will need to keep an eye on.
17:22Yeah, I know, of course.
17:24He's promised me he's going to be on his best behaviour, so...
17:28Please, Harry.
17:30Yeah. No, just before a couple of days.
17:33Yeah. No, okay.
17:35Yeah, and I understand. Kids come first.
17:37Right, right.
17:39Hello, Harry.
17:40Oh, my. He's trying to give me a heart attack.
17:42Why would I want to do that?
17:43Don't worry, it's just a saying.
17:46Why do you need somewhere to stay?
17:48It's a long story, Coach. I'll tell you another time.
17:51Do you want to sleep at night?
17:53No, I couldn't do that, mate.
17:55Why?
17:56You're my best friend.
17:58You can sleep at the sofa.
18:00I could kiss you, Coach.
18:03Come on, let's go. I'll buy you a drink.
18:05Sorry, Ian.
18:07Save me.
18:11I come in peace.
18:14I can run my mouth off. Sometimes.
18:18A defence mechanism for my many insecurities.
18:22Wow.
18:24A branding with self-awareness.
18:26Do you know what? That is a new one on me.
18:28Yeah, well, like it or not, we're sort of family now.
18:30Yeah, well, like it or not, we're sort of not.
18:33You might have pulled the wool over your sister's eyes, but...
18:35Brian, come on.
18:36Ian!
18:38Ian!
18:39Look, I know, I know, I'm a lot.
18:41But when I'm real, I'm really grateful.
18:44Truth?
18:46No.
18:48Ian!
18:49What?
18:51Nothing.
18:53Do I know you?
18:55One of them faces me.
18:57You all right?
18:58Mm-hm.
18:59Play along, yeah?
19:00Play along?
19:02Ah!
19:03Ah!
19:04Ah!
19:05Ah!
19:06Ah!
19:07Ah!
19:09Ah!
19:11Ah!
19:12Ah!
19:13Ah!
19:14Ah!
19:15Ah!
19:16What's happened?
19:17Slipped on your messy floor!
19:18I think it's broken.
19:19Ah!
19:20Ah!
19:21Ah!
19:22Ah!
19:23Ah!
19:24Ah!
19:25Ah!
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20:09Ah!
20:10If it is, I'm truly sorry.
20:15I want you to know how much I love you
20:19and how much I've missed you every single day.
20:24I know I should have told you,
20:25and I know you would have been with me every step of the way.
20:31You are and always will be the best thing that ever happened to me, Julie Bates.
20:37You have unquestionably given me the best years of my life,
20:42and that's why I couldn't do it to you, become a burden.
20:48It was never my plan to come back here to Walford.
20:54I just sort of drifted here like flocksom and jetsam.
20:58But as much as it hurt to leave you finding Phil,
21:06after all these years, Julie, he's been a godsend.
21:12Between you and I.
21:16I think he needs me as much as I need him.
21:21Anyway,
21:22I don't know how long I've got left to live.
21:28Could be years, could be months.
21:30But
21:34that's my death sentence.
21:38It shouldn't have to be yours.
21:41You should be happy.
21:44I want you to have a good life, Julie.
21:47That's the gift you gave to me.
21:49And I'm giving it back to you.
21:56Because, um,
21:58if I can't hold you in my mind,
22:02I will always hold you in my heart.
22:05What the...
22:11Phil!
22:12How do I stop this?
22:14There isn't even any mess.
22:17You're making it up.
22:17Do I not like I'm making it up?
22:19Am I making it up?
22:20I ain't getting involved.
22:21I just want me chips.
22:22Do you think you can hold your arm out straight?
22:24There isn't even any mess. You're making it up.
22:36Do I look like I'm making it up? Am I making it up?
22:39I ain't getting involved. I just want me chips.
22:41Do you think you can hold your arm out straight?
22:43I think I need to get you to the hospital.
22:47There isn't anything there.
22:48That's all facts, Brian. Didn't ship over nothing, did I?
22:51Right, come on, can you stand up, Oscar?
22:54Yeah. Oscar?
22:56That's my nephew, Stace.
22:58Stace? What, as in Stacey Slater?
23:01I've heard all about you.
23:04Yeah, Dad, Brother, Uncle. Want to make it four in a row?
23:08I'd be really careful what you say next.
23:10I don't want to say thank you.
23:12Yeah, the only person my mum can't stand more than me is you.
23:16He's faking it.
23:18We'll see what the X-rays say. Thanks, Brian.
23:21See, this is what being a bigger person does.
23:23I apologise. Like you told me to, he told me to go do one, doesn't he?
23:26Wait, wait, hang on.
23:27What's the name of this place again?
23:29I need the deets for the insurance forms.
23:31Oscar, please leave it out.
23:32Leave it out.
23:33This is my dominant arm, Uncle Jack.
23:34How am I supposed to reintegrate back into society as a functioning human like this?
23:38He's milking it.
23:39I can't milk it, Brian. That's sort of the point.
23:42It's not looking good, is it?
23:46Oh, all right, look, um, maybe we can come to some sort of arrangement.
23:52If you keep me mouth shut.
23:57If I can't hold you in my mind, I will always hold you in my heart.
24:04Well, Phil, how do I stop this?
24:11When did I get so old?
24:13There'll never be a burden to me, Nigel.
24:16Never in a million years.
24:19He did a couple more videos for Josh and Claire.
24:23Are you still in touch with him?
24:25Oh, Claire, not so much, no.
24:28Um, but Josh, he's been my rock, really.
24:33He moved back home the month after, the month after he disappeared.
24:38He's there to be through at the moment.
24:40He'll be made up when, when I tell him that I found him.
24:44I can't remember the last time we were all together.
24:47Avie Moore, my 50th.
24:52It was your 60th.
24:53Someone's bright idea to get your skiing lessons.
24:57No, no, I'll pay the sea.
24:59You'd be wasting your money.
25:01Could barely get him out with a chairlift.
25:03My bum was numb for days.
25:06Right.
25:08Who fancies a takeaway curry?
25:10I'm done about you two, but I'm starving.
25:13Julie never usually lets me have one.
25:15Too much salt, too many carbs.
25:22Hi, Joe.
25:24What do you fancy?
25:26You can have spag bol or Thai green curry.
25:32Thai green curry, but not too spicy, though.
25:37What are you doing?
25:38Cojo said it was all fine.
25:40You could have told us we've got a new lodger.
25:45We've got a new lodger.
25:47We are going to check on him then, all right?
25:50I don't care how you feel.
25:51Look, he's just a broken arm.
25:53Oh.
25:54Got that arm.
25:56Quite a little.
25:58Oh, look at that.
26:02It's a miracle.
26:04I want my money.
26:07All of it.
26:08Come on, love.
26:09Give it back.
26:10Fair's fair.
26:11Nah.
26:12I think I'll keep it.
26:13Emotional trauma.
26:14Some scars on the business.
26:15Right, that's it.
26:16Well, no, come here, come here.
26:17Ian, not now.
26:18Hey, look.
26:19I'm packing it.
26:20Norman and Peter must have the social worker with them.
26:21Ian!
26:22No, look.
26:23I want my money.
26:24It's fine.
26:25You want that bad?
26:26It's yours.
26:27Dad!
26:28Hey.
26:29Er, we're just writing a sketch for my socials.
26:40Huh?
26:41Let's go again.
26:42Once more with them, yeah?
26:44On second thoughts, maybe we should chat some more.
26:49It's been less than 24 hours.
26:53Yeah, it's just even problems, innit?
26:56You'll settle in.
26:59Give me some money.
27:19He's touched the world in there.
27:23Er, I've found a bed and breakfast nearby.
27:29I've got a room for the night.
27:35You will make sure he gets a good night's sleep, won't you, Phil?
27:41He's going to need it with a nine hour train journey in the morning.
27:44What?
27:46For taking care of him.
27:50It's about time you two reconnected.
27:54But I'm taking him home, Phil.
27:56Just hang on for a sec.
27:58Hang on for a sec, Phil.
27:59Hang on.
28:00I've missed the last 18 months.
28:01I'm not missing any more.
28:06I'm taking him back to Scotland.
28:08All right, thanks.
28:09Thanks.
28:10Thanks for listening.
28:11I'm out.
28:14All right.