Eastenders - Current Episode Discussion - VIII

[Dazzle]

at time of lucy's dead mick made of point of his daughter being same age and didn't want a murderer on square around her now he knows ian knows the real killer what will he do they cant just drop the case

Mick's a very different person to who he was when Lucy was murdered. Something big has happened (or will happen shortly) with Dean, Linda's pregnant (possibly with Dean's baby), he's just getting used to Shirley being his mum and Stan's dying. I think his priorities are different nowadays but that doesn't mean he won't ask Ian about it at some point. Ian'd better have an excuse prepared.

Don't know whether D.I Keeble will do a great deal ,not on past performance. Denise may be the one to start shaking things up. The only couple of comments I would make about the plot is, I think it went on far too long with the result that silly side issues were included i.e Billy keeping pics of Lucy and then writers trying to justify that red herring how they did. Finally I think the creation of that so called shortlist of suspects well out of order , in the knowledge that Bobby was the killer. I understand that he couldn't be included ,would be to obvious he was involved . Far better not to have had the list.

I like your idea of Denise being on the case.

Yeah the Billy thing was nonsense and out of character.

To be fair to DTC he did say in at least one interview that viewers would be misled. He even used the word "gimmick", so we were warned that we'd be deceived. You're not the only one who's miffed about it though Glen - some people have even made official complaints to the BBC and Ofcom!!

When and how did Emma realise Lucy was killed at home by her own jewellery box?

It was explained during Friday's live episode how Emma knew Lucy was killed at home (though I still think it unlikely that nice but dim Emma would have put all the pieces together lol), and it seems likely that Bobby left the music box under the Christmas tree (I've no idea why) so Emma probably didn't know anything about that.

...and I don't think Ian can tell Keeble and the police to drop the case

Ian would be silly to do that as it'd immediately make them suspicious of him.

My biggest fear is that they are just going to fudge over all this and no-one outside the Beales will mention Lucy's murder again. We'll see....

I'm glad to see from Tammy's spoiler that this isn't going to happen, but there's no doubt the case will die a death sooner or later.