Billy finds out about his son

Billy finds out about his son (Image credit: BBC)

Billy meets Henry in the Vic and is furious when Henry stalls over telling him about his son. Billy goes to attack a frightened Henry, who reveals that the family who adopted his son are called Pearce. Phil sees the altercation and wants to know what's going on. Phil blurts out in front of Julie the name of her son and she's stunned. Janine begs money from Ricky. Pat finds her in the cafe and snatches the money from her hand. Pat tells Janine to leave Walford. In the chippy, Janine asks Ian for an advance, but he refuses. Janine grabs a bucket of cold, dirty oil to throw over Ian, but it ends up over her instead. Ian fires a miserable Janine. Later, she's approached by a man she assumes is a debt collector and is stunned when he tells her she's the sole beneficiary of Lydia's large estate! Mercy is in the Vic celebrating with Whitney, Lauren and Jodie that she's now allowed to stay in the UK legally. Lauren tells Fatboy that he and Mercy can stop pretending they're in love with each other now that Mercy has her visa. Fatboy clearly hasn't thought about this and is worried that he'll lose Mercy.

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.