FEBRUARY 3-14
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Firing line!
CLOSE RANGE Billy wrestles Max for the gun!
Betraying his longtime nemesis Max Garrick once too often finally has devastating repercussions for Billy, who again chooses to cross swords when the villain’s planned hold-up of a security van goes disastrously wrong! Despite escaping the scene with his other goons, Max’s disturbed to learn that Billy has been caught by the cops. As he and his mates compare notes, they realise that Billy deliberately tipped off the police to the
Tensions between Billy and Max finally explode as gunshots ring out, only for an innocent victim to take the bullet! robbery, causing it to go wrong. Livid, Max vows Billy is a dead man walking… Armed with a gun, Max (Jordan Reece) hides out at Tall Trees Cottage, where he takes Billy’s (Jay Kontzle) mother Jessie (Sandra Marvin), stepfather Marlon (Mark Charnock) and stepsister April (Amelia Flanagan) hostage! On discovering that Jessie has secretly called the police, Max levels the gun at her head just as Billy arrives on the scene!
Mick resorts to drastic measures to force alcoholic Linda to bin the booze
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ueen Vic landlord Mick Carter is at the end of his tether as he struggles to find a way to help his alcoholic wife Linda stop drinking. After a long battle, Mick thinks he’s finally winning when a clearly sober Linda organises a surprise
birthday party for him. However, an unsettling discovery soon clues Mick in that Linda is still gulping the demon drink – and at an alarming rate. While devastated to realise she’s on a big bender, Mick (Danny Dyer) has no idea that
TAKING THE MICK Keeping Linda sober becomes a full-time job for her husband!
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Disobeying police orders, Billy slips into the house, enables April to escape – and then confronts his sworn enemy... In a jiffy, a violent brawl for the weapon erupts – but as Billy brutally pummels Max, the blaggard snatches the pistol and a shot is fired! As the gunshot echoes through Tall Trees Cottage, Jessie collapses into Marlon’s arms, having taken the bullet meant for her son!
Linda (Kellie Bright) has drunkenly stumbled to the Prince Albert bar, where she’s so sizzled that she drops bombshell news about a missing Keanu on Sharon (Letitia Dean)! After stumbling home, Linda wakes the next morning with the hangover from hell and no recollection of her conversation with Sharon until she’s reminded and pushed for the truth. Forced to confess, Linda must then deal with a frustrated Mick, who describes her appalling actions the night before. When he’s advised that their autistic son Ollie is suffering due to Linda’s blackouts, Mick snaps, imprisoning an hysterical Linda in their bedroom and angrily wrninging she isn’t getting out until she dries out. Outsmarting him, Linda escapes and makes a scene at a function, riling Mick as he arrives to drag her home!
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ver the past four years, David Platt has had to live with the horrendous fact that his first wife Kylie was brutally stabbed in the street and died in his arms. He has long prayed he’d never have to relive the pain again but all his old demons resurfaced on Christmas Day when his second wife Shona was shot during a madman’s siege in the street’s Winter Wonderland attraction! Hiding in a massive box, Shona thought she’d be safe – but a ricochet from Derek’s gun struck her down. Rushed to hospital, Shona (Julia Goulding) rapidly deteriorated and was sent into surgery for a bleed on the
