Phil wins the Arches back from Max! EastEnders spoilers (VIDEO)

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Karin Smart is back in Albert Square and she has bad news for Max Branning – the police are onto them and the other local car lots that are selling the stolen motors.

Max knows he has to get rid of them and when Phil Mitchell gets wind of events he uses his knowledge to blackmail Max. If he doesn't sign the Arches back to him, he's going to the police.

He's got Max trapped and he knows it...

Watch the soap scoop preview of this storyline in EastEnders, plus what drives Kat Moon to face her troubled past by returning to the convent where she gave birth to Zoe.

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