1Monday 4 May: Nicola comes home with the babynicola mitchell, eastendersBBC

Although she can’t help feeling slightly overwhelmed.

2Monday 4 May: Nicola finds some supportnicola mitchell, gina knight, eastendersBBC

She has a heart-to-heart with Gina.

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3Monday 4 May: Julie heads back to the care homejulie bates, eastendersBBC

It’s time to pack up Nigel’s belongings.

4Monday 4 May: Sam and Phil aren’t far behindphil mitchell, sam mitchell, eastendersBBC

Kat has tipped them off that Julie intended to pay this visit by herself.

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5Monday 4 May: Phil is determined to show supportjulie bates, phil mitchell, eastendersBBC6Tuesday 5 May: George heads to see Eddie in hospitalgeorge knight, eastendersBBC

Eddie has been trying to get in touch.

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7Tuesday 5 May: Eddie is very frailembargoed until 28042026 0001 eddie knight eastendersBBC8Tuesday 5 May: George is shocked to see Eddie looking so fragileeddie knight, george knight, eastendersBBC

How will their conversation go?

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9Tuesday 5 May: It’s another important day in the election calendarian beale, alfie moon, elaine knight, eastendersBBC

Ian and Elaine are taking part in a public debate.

10Tuesday 5 May: Alfie introduces the two candidateselaine knight, ian beale, alfie moon, eastendersBBC

Although after all of their publicity-seeking in recent weeks, surely no introduction is necessary!

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11Tuesday 5 May: Ian is hindered by sabotageelaine knight, ian beale, eastendersBBC

Oscar has swapped his planned speech, but Elaine steps in to put him at ease.

12Tuesday 5 May: Elaine may think she’s being helpfulian beale, elaine knight, eastendersBBC

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13Tuesday 5 May: Ian attends Jimmy’s birthday partylauren branning, cindy beale, peter beale, ian beale, bea pollard, eastendersBBC

But he’s still furious over what happened earlier.

14Tuesday 5 May: Everyone comes together to celebrate Jimmycindy beale, peter beale, lauren braning, ian beale, bea pollard, oscar branning, eastendersBBC

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15Tuesday 5 May: Ian still has the election on his mindian beale, bea pollard, oscar branning, jasmine fisher, eastendersBBC

So he gives Bea permission to post a video online which smears Elaine…

16Wednesday 6 May: Max and Cindy have a drink togethermax branning, cindy beale, eastendersBBC

They continue to grow closer.

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17Wednesday 6 May: Elaine is left devastatedelaine knight, eastendersBBC

After a tip-off from Cindy, she sees that the smear video is gaining traction online.

18Wednesday 6 May: Linda is concernedlinda carter, max branning, eastendersBBC

Did Cindy do the right thing by warning Elaine?

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19Wednesday 6 May: Ian has second thoughts about the videobea pollard, ian beale, eastendersBBC

Feeling guilty after Elaine’s recent kindness towards him, he asks Bea to take the video down.

20Wednesday 6 May: It’s already too late to delete the video and pretend it never happenedbea pollard, elaine knight, ian beale, eastendersBBC

Elaine has seen it and demands answers from Ian…

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