Comfort and joy are not two words you'd normally acossiate with the festive season in Albert Square. So why break the tradition?
There's a funeral - sadly, Nana Moon pases away shortly before Christmas, Sharon spends Christmas Day in A & E with Dennis, which will teach her to pig out on enough selection boxes to feed an orphange. And there's a shooting, with one person left dead - but sorry, we cant open our presents early and reveal who it is yet.
So if there's something of a dark cloud hanging over Walford, that's only to be expected. Little wonder then that a grieving Alfie Moon decides to leave before he's next on the Grim Reeper's hit list!
With it already known that the Golden Couple of Shane Ritchie and Jessie Wallace are leaving Enders at christmas, the real question is whether or not they are reunited and go together. For before dear old Nana dies, she leaves Kat a note with one last wish "Make My Alfie Happy"
So after the turbulent and destructive relationship, Kat should finally take the hint. Leave the poor bloke alone! As Born and Be Wild Alfie plans to do an Easy Rider and head off on an epic motorcyle journey across America, he and Kat do exchnage gifts. He gives her glow in the dark stars for her bedroom ceiling - which the rampant girl is well used to staring at.
And she gives him something equally as naff- a set of furry dice! Sitting down with the slater's for a chicken nugget dinner dosent cheer her up much either. Funnily enough, theres no gravy as Little Mo still has an aversion towards it....
Meanwhile the Miller's lunch is disrupted when Dawn and Mickey's real dad Mike gatecrashes their festivities. But Sadly that villain Johnny Allen finds himself home alone becuase he refsues to accept the relationship between his precious daughter Ruby and bad boy Juley.
The loathsome dad might be sulling but then he has just found out that Rubes will no longer be eligible to take part in any Nativity plays, well not as the virgin Mary!