Phil gives Peggy a black eye!
Peggy is in a panic when Louise goes missing. Phil finds Louise leaving a florist carrying a bouquet for mum Lisa. Phil forces Louise to return home and is hurt when Louise reveals that Peggy told her that her mum wanted to see her. Phil accuses Peggy of trying to ruin his relationship with Louise. Peggy hits back that he's not fit to be a father and Phil hits her around the face... Carol, Whitney and Bianca are furious when Billie calls to say he was refused leave and they confront the army recruitment officer Lewis. The ladies are stunned when Lewis reveals that Billie took his leave and has gone on a weekend away with friends. Lewis flirts with Carol and gives her his business card asking her to call if she needs anything. Vanessa apologises to Abi when Abi walks in on her and Max. Vanessa finds Tanya's sister Rainie in the living room. Rainie asks Max where Tanya is and he tells her that Tanya has left him. Abi begs Max to let a 'clean' Rainie stay over. Max hesitates, but he agrees as a plan formulates to lure Tanya back to Walford. Also, Chelsea tells a stunned Libby and Denise that she's moving to Spain. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop
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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.
An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.