![\"Vicki](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763905031_696_535172-4b05.jpg\")
\n\t\tCan Vicki and Zack keep their burgeoning feelings in check? (Picture: BBC\/Jack Barns\/Kieron McCarron)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tCan Vicki and Zack keep their burgeoning feelings in check? (Picture: BBC\/Jack Barns\/Kieron McCarron)<\/p>\n
Vicki Fowler<\/a>\u00a0(Alice Haig<\/a>) has been put through the ringer ever since she reappeared in EastEnders last year, alongside Ross Marshall<\/a>\u00a0(Alex Walkinshaw<\/a>) and his increasingly terrifying son, Joel Marshall<\/a>\u00a0(Max Murray<\/a>).<\/p>\n The families hasty departure from Australia<\/a> and emergence in E20 was due to perverted Joel \u2018up-skirting\u2019 a classmate<\/a> and dad Ross agreeing to a $50,000 payment and his sons quick disappearance from the country with the victims parents.<\/p>\n Surfacing in Walford, Ross pressured Vicki to ask half-sister Sharon Watts<\/a>\u00a0(Letitia Dean<\/a>) for the cash, though Vicki believed their desperate need for cash was due to Ross\u2019 divorce settlement. Sharon eventually gave them the money and Vicki discovered the truth, but the nightmare was only beginning.<\/p>\n Joel\u2019s twisted behaviour only escalated from there: he\u00a0filmed himself<\/a>\u00a0having sex with\u00a0Avani Nandra-Hart<\/a>\u00a0(Aaliyah James<\/a>) without her consent and proceeded to\u00a0shame her for it online<\/a> and later introduced<\/a> Tommy Moon<\/a>\u00a0(Sonny Kendall<\/a>) to extreme pornography and\u00a0misogynistic content<\/a>. His behaviour turned even more extreme when he\u00a0sexually assaulted<\/a>\u00a0a commuter on the tube.<\/p>\n \t\t Though Vicki tried to help the wayward teen, even drafting in high school teacher Julie Bates<\/a>\u00a0(Karen Henthorn<\/a>) to help, his behaviour hit a horrifying crescendo following an incident at school.<\/p>\n Having disrespected a (of course) female teacher by telling her to \u2018shush\u2019, Joel and Tommy\u00a0subjected their classmates<\/a>\u00a0to some incredibly extreme pornography, so extreme, in fact, that the teachers had decided to inform the police.<\/p>\n Back at home, Ross, unable to take anymore of his sons disgraceful spew, left the house. The problem with his time out? It left his monstrous child alone with Vicki, and after she lambasted him, tearing his ideology to pieces before his eyes he hit her hard in the face<\/a>, and proceeded to record and kick her as she lay prone on the floor.<\/p>\n Though Ross did the right thing and reported his son, Vicki couldn\u2019t bare to remain with him and called time on their relationship<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t Last week saw Vicki continue to struggle to come to terms with what Joel did to her. Upon hearing that he\u2019d be pleading not guilty to her assault, necessitating a full trial, she hit the bottle hard and found herself firmly at odds with Damon (Danny Szam), the date of Chelsea Fox<\/a>\u00a0(Zaraah Abrahams<\/a>) and all around sleaze ball.<\/p>\n After calling him out for having a wife and trying to strengthen Chelsea\u2019s drink without her knowledge, she later followed him to the laundrette where he began to spew the same vile rhetoric as Joel. She shoved him hard<\/a> and he fell unconscious after hitting his head on a washing machine.<\/p>\n Zack arrived and sprung straight into action, using Damon\u2019s phone to collect evidence of his womanising and blackmailing him into remaining quiet about the clash with Vicki. With his back against the wall, Damon acquiesced.<\/p>\n \t\t Returning home, Vicki finally opened up about how she\u2019d been suffering and how Joel had left her feeling terrified, weakened and pathetic. Feeling protected and secure, in a way Ross had failed to make her, Vicki thanked Zack for taking care of her and the two locked lips<\/a>.<\/p>\n Though discovered and chastised by Kathy Beale<\/a>\u00a0(Gillian Taylforth<\/a>), the two exchanged flirty texts later that night.<\/p>\n Next week, Ross puts his foot in it again after Vicki has another incident with a male punter<\/a>, though he manages to right his wrong and she agrees to share a drink with him. As the week continues, Vicki attempts to shut out her feelings for Zack and agrees to take things slowly in rebuilding things with Ross.<\/p>\n Can Vicki and Zack deny the sparks flying between them, though? EastEnders fans sure hope so\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n Arrow Arrow Arrow![\"Joel](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763905031_453_535502-491c.jpg\")
\n\t\tJoel\u2019s behaviour progressed (Picture: BBC\/Kieron McCarron)<\/p>\n![\"Vicki](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763905031_316_535164-8aee.jpg\")
\n\t\tVicki continues to struggle in the aftermath of Joel\u2019s attack (Picture: BBC\/Jack Barns\/Kieron McCarron)<\/p>\n![\"Ross](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/535190-1968.jpg\")
\n\t\tRoss is aiming to win Vicki back (Picture: BBC\/Jack Barns\/Kieron McCarron)<\/p>\n
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