EastEnders confirms gun horror in build up to 40th anniversary

Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins) has made sinister plans to bargain Phil Mitchell’s (Steve McFadden) weapon successful EastEnders.

The Walford fable is fearing for her beingness following a disturbing onslaught connected Christmas Day, erstwhile she astir met her end at the hands of a snowfall shovel.

It won’t beryllium until the BBC soap’s 40th day adjacent month erstwhile the yet find retired who the enigma walloper is, but until past a fig of her ain friends and household person been enactment successful the spotlight.

Let’s look it – they haven’t precisely helped themselves. Daughter Gina (Francesca Henry) launched a ceramic astatine her done a window, informing that her days are numbered.

The enactment attached read: ‘You should person stayed dead, present I’m coming for you.’

She’s present denied being portion of the wide plot, saying that she simply didn’t privation her estranged parent to instrumentality location to Albert Square.

The digit has besides been pointed astatine her different girl Anna (Molly Rainford), ex-husband George Knight (Colin Salmon) and his woman Elaine (Harriet Thorpe), who each recovered the shovel successful the tube store and decided to determination it.

Rather than reporting it to the police, George stashed it distant connected The Queen Vic roof.

We can’t hide his bloody shirt, which was recovered successful the cupboard down the barroom either. Despite his insistence that helium was partaking successful an amerciable combat astatine the time, George admitted to Gina successful tonight’s occurrence that helium wasn’t being 100% truthful.

That wasn’t the lone daze – the residents were reeling from the autumn retired of Gina’s 1 nighttime basal with Freddie Slater (Bobby Brazier), who was antecedently tipped to mates up with Anna.

He tried to get their relationship backmost connected track, and whilst Anna seemed initially hopeful of a aboriginal together, she told him that it would beryllium intolerable to shingle the representation of him sleeping with her sister – and that she deserved better.

Ian was adamant that Gina should beryllium reported to authorities for throwing the brick, but Cindy wanted to woody with it her ain way.

She headed to the pub and told George that she wanted the weapon.

Her ex-lover Junior Knight (Micah Balfour), who she was engaging successful a steamy matter with anterior to the vicious attack, was listening into their conversation.

George disappeared to retrieve it from the roof, lone to instrumentality and explicate that it had been taken.

Who took the shovel?

Cindy’s fears intensified, and she was forced to instrumentality hopeless measures to support herself. She walked crossed the Square and barged her mode into Phil Mitchell’s (Steve McFadden) location to plead for his help.

She didn’t privation him to beryllium her idiosyncratic assemblage guard. Cindy knew that helium would person a gun, and definite capable helium opened up the partition harmless and produced it.

There was a catch, and Phil explained that he’s ne'er liked her and wouldn’t beryllium handing implicit the pistol.

She was mortified and stormed out… but not earlier taking enactment of his harmless code.

Back astatine his flat, Junior sat down and stared astatine the snowfall shovel.

Did Junior onslaught Cindy?

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