EastEnders spoilers: Denise Fox comes face to face with her killer ex, Lucas!

Week 4 EastEnders Thursday Denise Fox
(Image credit: BBC/Jack Barnes)

EastEnders spoilers - Despite having huge reservations, Denise Fox is persuaded to meet with her killer ex, Lucas Johnson. Is he a changed man?

Denise Fox (Diane Parish) finally comes face to face with her killer ex-husband Lucas (Don Gilet) in tonight’s episode of EastEnders on at 7.35pm (See our TV Guide for full listings) but will she regret it?

Week 4 EastEnders Thursday Chelsea Fox

Chelsea has engineered a meeting between her mum, Denise and Lucas (Image credit: BBC/Jack Barnes)

Denise’s daughter Chelsea (Zaraah Abrahams) convinces Lucas to meet with Denise, Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) and Patrick Trueman (Rudolph Walker) to make amends for all his crimes.

Denise Fox and Lucas Johnson

Lucas tells Denise that he is a completely changed man (Image credit: BBC/Jack Barnes)

Lucas explains how remorseful he feels and tries to convince his ex, Denise, that he no longer poses any threat to anyone.

Denise doesn't know if she can ever trust Lucas again or believe anything he tells her

Denise doesn't know if she can ever trust Lucas again or believe anything he tells her (Image credit: BBC/Jack Barnes)

Later on, Denise is still not convinced but Patrick advises her that maybe she is better off keeping her enemies close and not risk losing her daughter Chelsea who has threatened to break off contact if Denise doesn’t give Lucas another chance.

Jack Branning in EastEnders

Jack Branning decides to offer Lucas a place to stay (Image credit: BBC/Jack Barnes)

Meanwhile Jack comes up with a solution and offers homeless Lucas one of his flats to live in so he can keep a close eye on him. Denise reluctantly agrees to the idea rather than risk losing Chelsea.

Week 4 EastEnders Monday Ben Mitchell

Ben Mitchell (pictured above) is planning to pop the question to Callum (Image credit: BBC/Jack Barnes)

Elsewhere love is in the air when Ben Mitchell (Max Bowden) puts his engagement plans into action with a little help from Lexi and Lola Pearce (Danielle Harold). Will Ben wow boyfriend Callum Highway (Tony Clay) with his romantic proposal and could there be a newly engaged couple in Walford?

Week 4 EastEnders Thursday Gray Atkins

Gray Atkins suggests a night in but Whitney has plans (Image credit: BBC/Jack Barnes)

Meanwhile manipulative Gray Atkins (Toby Alexander Smith) suggests to Whitney Dean (Shona McGarty) that they have a movie night together with the kids but he’s secretly irritated when Whitney tells him she can’t because she has a date.

Week 4 EastEnders Thursday Whitney Dean

It seems like Whitney might be swayed! (Image credit: BBC/Jack Barnes)

Gray swings into action and plants a seed of doubt in Whitney’s mind and is pleased when she later tells him she’s changed her mind about the date and will stay in with him instead for a movie. It seems like Gray has got his way again!

Plus Honey Mitchell (Emma Barton) and Jay (Jamie Borthwick) decide it’s time to tell honey’s ex, Billy (Perry Fenwick) the truth about their relationship.

Week 4 EastEnders Tuesday Honey Mitchell

Honey decides it's time to bite the bullet and tell Billy what's going on with her and Jay (Image credit: BBC/Jack Barnes)

Honey asks Billy if she can have a word in private but Billy gets the wrong end of the stick and thinks she wants to get back together with him and that romance is on the cards! Uh oh.

Meanwhile there’s more emotional drama involving Mick Carter (Danny Dyer) and his daughter Frankie Lewis (Rose Ayling-Ellis).

EastEnders continues on BBC1 on Friday at 8.40pm 

Tess Lamacraft
Senior Writer for What's On TV, TV Times, TV & Satellite week, Whattowatch.com

Tess is a senior writer for What’s On TV, TV Times, TV & Satellite and WhattoWatch.com She's been writing about TV for over 25 years and worked on some of the UK’s biggest and best-selling publications including the Daily Mirror where she was assistant editor on the weekend TV magazine, The Look, and Closer magazine where she was TV editor. She has freelanced for a whole range of websites and publications including We Love TV, The Sun’s TV Mag, Woman, Woman’s Own, Fabulous, Good Living, Prima and Woman and Home.