Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner)

[CrazyLea]

This is like getting a bit off topic, but still..
I don't believe int he death penalty for rapists or murderers.. like you said with the rapists, could get the wrong person.. but you could still get the wrong person with murderers too.. sometimes someone goes down for it, then a while later someone else will come into it or something and the person who was convicted was the wrong one.. and it's too late.

[Chris_2k11]

I just think a lot of prison sentences are not harsh enough nowadays

[alan45]

I just think a lot of prison sentences are not harsh enough nowadays

Something we can both agree on there then

[tammyy2j]

I can see Stacey cracking in the future and saying it to someone

[parkerman]

Apparently in tonight's episode, Inspector Marsbar tells Phil that she's not convinced Bradley is the murderer, because she has "a nose for these things"!

[parkerman]

From next week's Radio Times:

"As well as illuminating the gulf between those in the cast who can act and those who cannot, and showing just how good the soap could be if it was on, say, twice a week, Eastenders' recent live episode also begged the question: whither Stacey? Unlike the real world, Soapland is a moral place where wrongdoers are inevitably punished.

As John Yorke, then Eastenders' executive producer told a conference of bishops in 2002 in a speech entitled Eastenders: Faith. Morality and Hope in the Communitty, 'At little Mo's trial for attempted murder we had to find her guilty. The audience didn't want this, but we had to show that however great the torture she endured, she couldn't take the law into her own hands.'

This doesn't bode well for Stacey. Yorke, who is now BBC controller of drama production and in overall charge of Eastenders, says, 'At some stage, there will be legal and judicial intervention, but what's more important is the personal morality. Stacey will be profoundly haunted by her actions and that will provide us with a storyline for the next year. It also allows us to discuss a bigger ethical question - did Archie have it coming?'...

Arguably, Stacey has been punished enough by seeing her beloved Bradley die and, debatably, being culpable in his death. But Yorke says she has more trauma to come - starting with a two-hander episode between her and Max next week."

[Perdita]

EastEnders star Lacey Turner has predicted that viewers will see a permanent change in Stacey Branning following the loss of her husband Bradley.

The actress's troubled character watched Bradley (Charlie Clements) fall to his death from the roof of the Queen Vic last month while he was being chased by police who were convinced he was Archie Mitchell's killer.

In an interview with the Walford soap's official website, the 21-year-old was asked how she expects Stacey to cope with the bereavement in the long-term after already losing best friend Danielle Jones (Lauren Crace) last year.

Turner replied: "She's had quite an unlucky time really, losing so many people. I think Bradley was the love of her life so I don't think she'll ever be the same without Bradley.

"But I hope that she copes and deals with it as best as she can. I'm sure she will because she's quite a strong character."

On how her pregnant alter ego will handle life as a single mother, Turner added: "I think every time she looks at the baby it's going to bring back memories of her and Bradley so she may struggle in that sense. But overall, I think she'll cope.

"She's got good family around her and she's a strong-minded, tough person who's had to deal with a lot. I think it will be hard but she'll get through it hopefully."

Stacey will feature in a special two-hander episode with Bradley's father Max (Jake Wood) this Friday.

Looks like she is not going to lose the baby

[Siobhan]

That is good news.. and I hope this time they keep her and the baby in EE.. they have a tendency to ship babies out of EE

[lizann]

I guess its her fault for Bradley's death and she will have live with that

[Dutchgirl]

She had a good bond with Kat. Maybe they can bring some of that into the story.