Can Lauren stop Peter leaving?

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Lauren rushes to the tube station, desperate to catch Peter before he leaves for a new life in New Zealand. Finding him just in time, Lauren finally confesses that she's in love with him. Peter is stopped in his tracks and the couple share a kiss. Peter promises to stay in Walford to be with her. After Peter throws away his leaving note, which Lauren was clutching, a mysterious man picks it up...

After the dramatic shooting incident, the families of both the victim and the culprit are devastated. The incident has far-reaching consequences for everyone involved.

Emma turns up in Albert Square to see Max. When she finds him consoling Abi about Tramp's death, she's shocked by how unmoved Abi seems to be about the whole incident. After Abi leaves the two of them together, Emma confesses to Max that she misses him and couldn't keep away any longer.

Patrick McLennan

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.