Ryan lies to Janine

Ryan lies to Janine
Ryan lies to Janine (Image credit: BBC)

Ryan cooks Janine a birthday breakfast. Ryan gets a mysterious text and he tells Janine he's going out to buy some bubbly. Stacey is waiting for Ryan in the cafe and asks him to go with her to get his name put on Lily's birth certificate. Janine tries not to cry when Kat lets slip that Ryan is out with Stacey. Ryan lies about where he's been. Janine doesn't let on she knows different and is clearly plotting something. Alfie is forced to relocate the Vic opening party to the Slaters' when Greg reveals the Vic's electrics aren't ready. Janine takes Ryan to the party after Pat gives her tickets for her birthday. Alfie makes a heartfelt speech in front of the punters and the party gets underway. Janine heads upstairs to Lily's cot and menacingly stares at the baby... Lauren is sure that Max knows who killed Archie. Max feels stuck, but is saved from having to answer when Carol interrupts. Lauren storms out and visits her uncle Jack at the club. Lauren tells Jack that Max revealed that Bradley didn't kill Archie. Jack persuades Lauren to let it go and insists that Max is just looking out for her. Also, Bianca confronts Carol about the suicide note. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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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.