28/12/2015

In the Vic, Mick prepares for his stag. Lee tells him it will just be a quiet one. Linda and Nancy come downstairs ready to go for a girly lunch. Mick hears a guitar in the bar and steps out to find a band, NOASIS. Then his stags arrive in T-shirts saying ‘Field Marshall Carter’. Tina tells him they have a surprise. Lee rounds up the troops to start the games. Saucy Lil turns up and Mick assumes she’s the surprise but Tina tells him there is a lot more to come. They pick a dare card and Mick has to convince the next stranger who enters that he is gay. Alfie arrives and Mick greets him, relieved he isn’t a stranger.

Jack enters and approaches the bar. Everyone looks to Mick. He introduces himself to Jack and Lee shouts out ‘Who are ya?’ and everyone freezes. Jack realises that he’s on a dare. Lee calls Billy out of the game and puts a wax strip on his arm as a forfeit. Jack allows Mick to kiss him as part of the dare. Then Dickie Ticker arrives but this still isn’t Mick’s surprise. Jack tells Mick that he’s Amy’s dad and Mick tells him about Dean and Roxy. Billy is doing badly at the drinking games and has to wear Elaine’s green sequin dress. Dean comes into the Vic angry that Mick spoke to Jack. Lee tries to push him but drunkenly stumbles and falls. Mick punches Dean. Shirley follows Dean. Whitney takes Lee upstairs and lays him on the sofa. Mick comes upstairs. Whitney is at the end of her tether with Lee and tells Mick that she will be breaking up with him after the wedding. Lee hears the conversation on the baby monitor. Back downstairs after a long day of partying Mick asks what his surprise is. They send him upstairs where he finds Linda in a Wonder Woman outfit.

In the hospital Dennis has come through his operation. The doctor hands Phil a leaflet about cirrhosis which he bins. Phil walks into the Vic and orders a scotch. Shirley doesn’t serve him. Ian tells him that they are sending Bobby to boarding school. A doctor tells Sharon that they are ready to wean Dennis off of his sedation but they won’t know if he has brain damage until he regains consciousness. The door opens and she turns to see Gavin in the doorway. At home Phil has Googled his illness and turns to a bottle of scotch.

Roxy attempts to cover the cut on her cheek with makeup. Later Shirley finds her sat on a bench in the Square. She tells her that there is a good side to Dean. Roxy returns home to find Dean lighting candles. He hands her a present. He has booked a holiday to Cyprus, leaving tomorrow. Then a week later they can get married. Jack enters looking for Amy after talking to Mick. Dean leaves and Jack packs Amy’s bags. He tells her that the old Roxy would never let him come in and take Amy like this. She refuses to have her mind twisted against Dean. Later Roxy takes off her ring and tells Dean that it’s over. He can’t hear what she’s saying and refuses to allow her to leave. He pushes her onto the bed and attempts to rape her. Shirley opens the door and looks at him in horror…

Honey talks to Ronnie about Jack and points out that he wouldn’t have stayed if he wasn’t interested in starting things up again. Jack asks Ronnie why she didn’t tell him about Dean. A drunken Billy interrupts their argument to tell Honey something. He has brought her old wedding ring and written something down. He can’t get the words out and Jack reads it to her. Their declaration of love for each other brings Jack and Ronnie together as they help Honey and Billy agree to be husband and wife again.

At Stacey’s Alfie asks Kat why she didn’t come home Christmas Eve. She says that Spain has been one big whirl wind. She clearly wants to be in Walford. Alfie joins Martin at Mick’s stag. In the Vic Alfie is downing his drink whilst sat with Phil and Ian. He tells them that doctors found a mass on his brain that might be a tumour and that he needs tests.