Lauren falls out with Lucy and Whitney

Lauren falls out with Lucy and Whitney (Image credit: BBC/Jack Barnes)

Lauren discovers that not only is Joey off the hook with Lucy, she's in the dog house with Lucy and Whitney for releasing Joey from the handcuffs. When Lauren finds Joey she tries to slap him, but he grabs her arm. As Joey lets go Lauren insists she's on to him. Later Joey talks Lauren round, saying how much he values her. Sharon visits Phil to warn him not to stress Ian over Lexi's residency order. As Sharon gets ready to leave she notices Phil's living room is filled with old photos of her and Phil! Forced to admit that he put her name on the residency order as his fiancee, Phil tries to justify his actions. Sharon is initially swayed by Phil's plea that it was all for Lola until she finds out that Lola knows nothing about it. Sharon demands Phil take her name off the order. Carol visits Walford with Liam, Tiff and Morgan. She's unimpressed to find a cupboard in the house piled high with Derek's dodgy gear. Derek apologises when Carol tells him to get rid immediately as Bianca can't risk any illegal goings-on when she returns in a few weeks' time. Derek stashes the dodgy gear and counterfeit money in the garage, hiding Carol's letter from David.

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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.