Max Branning is consumed with grief in EastEnders - can Dot help?

Max Branning
Max Branning is in anguish over daughter Abi, who's on a life-support machine.

With his daughter Abi on life support, Albert Square's Max Branning struggles to come to terms with the thought of losing her…

Abi Branning has been in hospital since her horror fall from the Queen Vic roof, and her family are faced with switching off her life-support machine. This week, father Max is pushed to the limit when a cot Abi ordered for her baby arrives. Despite Lauren's pleas for him to come to the hospital, Max is intent on assembling the cot - but the emotions get too much and he breaks down and destroys it. Will Jack and Dot be able to get through to him?

Max Branning is in anguish over daughter Abi, who's on a life-support machine.

Max Branning is consumed with grief in EastEnders

Max Branning is in anguish over daughter Abi, who's on a life-support machine.

Max Branning Lauren Branning

Worried Lauren tells her dad they're needed at the hospital.

Worried Lauren tells her dad they're needed at the hospital.

Max Branning Dot Branning Jack Branning

Jack and Dot arrive to find Max overcome with emotion at the thought of losing Abi.

Jack and Dot arrive to find Max overcome with emotion at the thought of losing Abi.

Max Branning Dot Branning

Dot talks to Max and tries to calm him down.

Dot talks to Max and tries to calm him down.

Max Brannning

Max goes to the hospital, but is he ready to say goodbye to daughter Abi? Watch all the drama in EastEnders from Monday 15 January!

Max goes to the hospital, but is he ready to say goodbye to daughter Abi? Watch all the drama in EastEnders from Monday 15 January!