EastEnders 15th May 2025-n
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00:00Turn it off!
00:15This is such a mess.
00:18This is you I love, Gav.
00:20Yeah, and I love you too.
00:22Even though I know that Jean is on a knife.
00:25I knew you were a piece of work.
00:28It's not real. It's one of those AI things.
00:31Oh, yes, yeah.
00:32Of course it's real.
00:34I'm just doing Jean a favour.
00:36Giving her proof that Othella
00:39is knocking off a geriatric behind her back.
00:42Hello, Cindy, even for you.
00:44It's not true, is there?
00:48I mean, you wouldn't...
00:50Jean, I...
00:54I am so...
00:56I'm so sorry.
01:01See?
01:03I've never had any trouble with Louis.
01:18Why won't he latch on?
01:20Why doesn't he want me?
01:22Hey, sorry.
01:26Peter, I think Cathy needs your...
01:28I'm busy.
01:29Yeah, but Mum's just told the whole pub
01:31that Cathy's been sleeping with Harvey.
01:33What?
01:34Jean's Harvey?
01:35Mum's filmed him kissing.
01:36Of course she did.
01:37I've always had a niggling feeling about you,
01:39and now I know why.
01:40It's you I love, Cathy.
01:42You disgusting piece of filth.
01:45Everyone knows Harvey and Jean were solid.
01:47It's all Cathy's fault.
01:49If anyone knows about cheating, it's you.
01:51You drop your knickers faster than I'm cracking egg.
01:53It's not about me.
01:54It's always about you.
01:56Jean is broken-hearted, and it's all your fault.
01:58Cindy's right.
01:59Jean was saying you've been such a supportive mate,
02:01a really good friend.
02:03But what you really are, Cathy,
02:05is a backstabbing cow.
02:07Stop it, Cathy, stop it!
02:12Hey, the floor show's over.
02:14Call in time.
02:15Drink up, please.
02:17You show your face tonight, yeah,
02:19and I'll have you.
02:26Ain't you gonna say anything?
02:28Come on.
02:54Sorry, Nan, I used to last to the milk.
02:56How was the party?
02:59I got caught up at the Albert.
03:04Jean!
03:07Jean!
03:12What are you doing? Leave that!
03:13Well, it needs to be done,
03:14otherwise there'd be nothing clean for the morning.
03:16Jean, come on, it's all right.
03:17What's going on?
03:19Jean's just found out that Harvey's been seeing someone else.
03:22Yeah, been having it away with Cathy.
03:24Jean, how about I put the kettle on,
03:26make a nice strong cup of tea?
03:28I'm all right.
03:29Actually, Alf,
03:30go to the front room,
03:31see if there's some brandy, yeah?
03:32You're all right.
03:36Anne, I'm so sorry.
03:37Is this why you signed the Albert over to her?
03:49No one forced her to.
03:50It was either that or she was coming after the pie shop, the chippy, everything!
03:54I deserve compensation!
03:55You deserve to be burnt at the stake!
03:56There's no way you're getting the Albert after this!
03:57You signed the Albert just like I did.
03:58Yeah?
03:59Well, I'll rip it up and stuff it down your throat.
04:00I'll be damned if I'm letting you have the Albert now!
04:01Yeah, well, you're damned already, Cathy.
04:02Who knew you'd served yourself up as easy as your full English, eh?
04:03Whoa!
04:05Right, you...
04:09Right, that is it.
04:10I'm telling you what you're going to think.
04:11No one forced her to.
04:12It was either that or she was coming after the pie shop, the chippy, everything!
04:13I deserve compensation!
04:14You deserve to be burnt at the stake!
04:15There's no way you're getting the Albert after this!
04:16You signed the paperwork just like I did.
04:17Yeah?
04:18Well, I'll rip it up and stuff it down your throat!
04:20I'll be damned if I'm letting you have the Albert now!
04:22Yeah, well, you're damned already, Cathy.
04:24Who knew you'd served yourself up as easy as your full English, eh?
04:28Whoa!
04:29Whoa, whoa!
04:30Right, you...
04:31No, no, no, no!
04:32Right, that is it. I am going to the police.
04:34And you are going to be locked up for the rest of your miserable life
04:37for what you did to me.
04:39On what proof?
04:43What?
04:46She's admitted it. You all heard her.
04:50No. No, I didn't hear anything. Did you? No?
04:54Me neither. George?
04:56Oh.
04:57Looks like no-one knows what you're talking about, Cindy.
05:00That bang on the head has obviously made you very, very confused.
05:04My money's on a mugging gone wrong.
05:07Peter! Are you hearing this, Peter?
05:12Like Dad said, I don't know what you're talking about.
05:16Thank you, Peter.
05:17Both of you, you just disgust me.
05:19This was going to be a celebration for my son, your grandson,
05:23and your great-grandson.
05:24Oh, Peter, I never meant to do anything.
05:26After everything you said to Mum about cheating on Dad,
05:28you were doing the same with Harvey.
05:30You're such a hypocrite.
05:32I am really sorry for ruining the party,
05:34but people need to know the true Cathy.
05:37Oh, shut it, will you?
05:39Otherwise the true Cathy will give you another slap.
05:41Oh, really? Right.
05:42What, no.
05:43Enough!
05:44Enough!
05:45I'm sick of the lawyer!
05:52You're kidding, right?
05:53You've got to let Stacey know.
05:55Oh, it's a pusher over the edge.
05:57Yeah, the mum's in the kitchen in pieces.
05:58Yes, I know.
05:59But do you think having Stacey in even more pieces will help?
06:03Boy, I warned you!
06:04Come on, you mean...
06:05You can scream and shout all you want, but I need to see Jean.
06:08No, you ain't going anywhere near her.
06:09That's for her to decide.
06:12I'm really saying as simple as it seems, I need to explain to her.
06:15Is that right, Harvey?
06:16What do you need to explain, huh?
06:17What, that you had an affair?
06:18What, you want to tell Jean all the sordid details?
06:21I used to think he was an all right bloke, you know.
06:23Tell me what, you never fooled me.
06:24Because I always knew that you got hold of that mire.
06:27Not mire, just Cathy.
06:29And clearly it takes a chance to sniff another one.
06:31Oi, oi, oi, enough.
06:32I ain't leaving this house till I've seen Jean.
06:35Cloday.
06:36There's things I need to hear from him.
06:38Jean, this ain't a good idea.
06:40Let him in.
06:41There's things I need to know.
06:42Amazing.
06:53I love her.
06:53I love her.
06:58I love it.
06:59I love it.
07:00How long's it been going on?
07:19A few months.
07:30How did it start?
07:38When Martin died,
07:41he was all in shock.
07:45And you focused on Stacey's grief.
07:48Of course you did.
07:49And I wanted to help.
07:51To support you.
07:53And I tried.
07:57Everything I'd done was wrong
07:58and you shut me out.
08:01You did, Gene.
08:02You made me feel useless.
08:04Invisible.
08:06And Martin was my mate, you know.
08:08I was grieving too.
08:13And...
08:13And so was Cathy.
08:19She needed someone.
08:22We both did.
08:26And...
08:26She was there.
08:28For me.
08:32I...
08:33I don't know.
08:34I...
08:34I never meant for it to happen.
08:37It just did.
08:38But you were pushing me out, Gene.
08:43So it's my fault.
08:46I'm not saying that.
08:47You are.
08:49Actually, you are.
08:50You know, Brian had a secret family.
09:05All the time he was up north working,
09:07he was with another woman.
09:09Been on for years.
09:11They had children.
09:13I'm not Brian.
09:14You're not that different.
09:15I never wanted to hurt you.
09:16Both of you decided that I wasn't enough.
09:20Both of you found someone else.
09:23Both of you lied.
09:24Both of you made me believe that everything in our relationship was absolutely fine.
09:28I'm sorry.
09:35I trusted you with loving me, with my family.
09:40I proposed to you.
09:46Stupid, Gene.
09:47No, don't, no.
09:47Don't say that by yourself.
09:49But I am stupid.
09:51Months.
09:52And I had no idea.
09:53I have talked and confided about my feelings for you to Kathy.
10:01It's who I am.
10:02Stupid, stupid, Gene.
10:03See this, this is exactly what I never wanted you to find out.
10:07But me and Kathy, we ended things because of how you feel,
10:12how it might affect your condition.
10:14My condition?
10:15What's that got to do with anything?
10:17I take my tablets.
10:18You see me take my tablets twice a day.
10:20Don't you dare blame this on my bipolar.
10:23Don't you dare.
10:30Sympathy.
10:32That's the reason you decided to end things.
10:34Not guilt or feeling like you might be making the biggest mistake of your life.
10:38But you felt sorry for me.
10:42You lied to me about Maya.
10:44And I forgave you because I really wanted this to work.
10:48So what, you were pretending you wanted us to work?
10:54No.
10:56I did.
10:56I did want us to work.
10:57I've been fighting my feelings, my attraction to Kathy.
11:00Oh, yes, because she's so alluring, isn't she, Kathy?
11:03Beautiful, ageless Kathy.
11:05Fun, exciting, unpredictable.
11:08I'm sure she fulfills you in ways that I can't.
11:11Oh, don't.
11:11Boring, domestic gene, stuck in a ways, always cooking, always cleaning,
11:16once in a blue moon, a kiss and a cuddle on the sofa in front of the television.
11:19Do you know?
11:22I am nothing compared to Kathy.
11:31And you can't even deny it.
11:32I can be unpredictable.
11:40I can be exciting.
11:44Yes, I'm having a smashing time.
11:48Showing Harvey that I'm not boring.
11:49Shall we go in there?
11:51She wants us, she'll shout, won't she?
11:52Yeah, I don't have to call for an ambulance, I.
11:54What's happening?
11:55You smashed the whole sink full, if it helps.
12:02Thanks for giving me your permission.
12:05I'd only have to clear more of it up, though, wouldn't I?
12:07Because that's what I do, isn't it?
12:08Clean up mess.
12:11Me and Kathy, it's got nothing to do with you and me.
12:15I mean, of course, it does, but...
12:19You've done nothing wrong.
12:22You're still the gene that I fell in love with.
12:25Then why?
12:30I don't know.
12:33I think maybe I just got tired of always coming last with you.
12:37Just Harvey in the corner, reading his paper, taking the bins out.
12:41It's like we've been together for 40 years.
12:45So, I've neglected you.
12:48That's what you've been telling yourself.
12:49Look, Martin, he shouldn't have died.
12:57He was too young.
12:58He meant too much to too many people, but me included.
13:04Me and him, we had so much in common.
13:07I don't mean just the football and the Vic.
13:10Do you know, we were bonded by a slate of women.
13:13We supported each other.
13:15He was my mate.
13:16I mean, did that even cross your mind?
13:18This, again?
13:20What is this?
13:20Some sort of grieving competition?
13:22Stacey and Martin were together and had kids way before you arrived on the square.
13:27Stacey's in meltdown and I'm worried it's going to trigger her bipolar.
13:30And whilst we're on the subject, where were you when I was grieving?
13:33Whilst I was busy looking after everybody else, it was Alfie who checked in on me.
13:37But you, you were feeling so ignored that you had to rush over to Cathy for consolation.
13:42That's what you're telling me, isn't it?
13:45Well, poor you.
13:47Poor neglected you.
13:48I'm not trying to compete, Jean.
13:51And I was there for you and that kid.
13:52You were just too busy to sit.
13:54I can't do anything right, can I?
13:56It doesn't matter how much I try and show that I love you.
13:58Just keep me at arm's length.
14:01Have you...
14:03ever loved me?
14:07You need to ask.
14:10Do you still love me?
14:11Of course I do.
14:20It's just...
14:22It's just...
14:28So lonely.
14:33In this house.
14:36All the people are on the noise.
14:38I'm never alone, but...
14:39I've just...
14:42never felt...
14:43loneliness like it.
14:46And Cathy takes that loneliness away.
15:01Do you know who takes my loneliness away, Alfie?
15:03Do you do?
15:23I'd better pack my bags.
15:24Yes.
15:38Pete will come round.
15:40He always does.
15:41Yeah?
15:42Well, I hope for his sake he doesn't.
15:45Him and Lauren need to take those boys as far away from this place as possible.
15:49This house is like the Bates Motel without the welcome, Matt.
15:55Oh, stop looking at me like that.
15:58Well, I've never had you down for, um, having affairs with men in relationships.
16:03Do you remember Buster?
16:08No.
16:09Mixed, Dad.
16:12I was seeing him behind Shirley's back.
16:15Now you know.
16:16I'm no better than the peroxide witch.
16:18I'm so sorry, Mum.
16:33Oh, what are you doing, Alf?
16:38You go on back up and I'll bring you a milky drink.
16:41No.
16:41He says he still loves me, Stacey.
16:47I don't think he can.
16:49He can't, can he?
16:52Because if you love someone, you don't have sex with someone else, do you?
16:55Oh, I love Bradley.
16:58I loved Martin, but I still slept with Max.
17:03I hurt Martin so much.
17:07See?
17:07I'm getting stronger every day.
17:09Yeah?
17:10I could talk about it now.
17:11Mum, this shouldn't be happening to you.
17:16Oh, shh.
17:17I'll be fine.
17:18I'll bounce back.
17:20Will you?
17:22I mean, Harvey, he just, he just fitted, didn't he?
17:25He was like my dad.
17:26He's, he's like the rock.
17:28You know, we're all going from crisis to crisis and he's the solid one.
17:34I mean, the kids, they think the world of him.
17:36How are they going to cope with losing someone else?
17:39Yeah.
17:41He's a bit like the cement holding the bricks together, isn't he?
17:50Right, um, let's get you back upstairs, eh?
17:54Yeah.
17:55Come on.
17:56Harvey got the use of this caravan and Jean was tied up looking after Stacey's kids.
18:08Now's not a good time.
18:21It's a very good time for me.
18:22Er, let her in, Ian.
18:28Jean, look, you're hurt and angry.
18:30I know, I know, and you've every right to be, but it wasn't planned.
18:34It just happened.
18:34Whoa!
18:39Right.
18:40I needed to get that out of my system.
18:42I think you should go.
18:44Is that whiskey?
18:46Yeah.
18:47Could I have one, please?
18:50Well, Ian?
18:51Thank you, Ian.
19:06Would you leave us alone now, please?
19:09What, so eat, slap her again?
19:10Ian, it's OK.
19:14I'll be upstairs.
19:15You betrayed me.
19:27You know how much Harvey means to me.
19:30I am so sorry.
19:33I hate myself.
19:35He was my last chance after Daniel.
19:40Jean, if Harvey came to me,
19:43it's because things weren't right with you and him.
19:46He wasn't happy.
19:48Well, of course you'd say that.
19:50I think he was.
19:53So how did it start?
19:54I've heard Harvey's side.
19:56I want yours.
19:58Well, I misread the signs and kissed him.
20:03But, as you'll know, he shut me down.
20:06Because of you.
20:07He said he had you.
20:10He was happy with you.
20:11Happy?
20:13Yeah, we were.
20:17And then...
20:18And then Martin died.
20:22Oh, yes, yes.
20:24He said,
20:26grief makes us do crazy things.
20:29I mean, I was focused on
20:31trying to help the grandchildren
20:33deal with the fact that their father was dead
20:35whilst you and Harvey were ripping each other's clothes off.
20:38No!
20:39No, it wasn't like that.
20:40And I'm not excusing what happened,
20:42but, Jean,
20:44you've got to see,
20:46if he was really happy with you,
20:48then he never would have looked my way.
20:50Harvey is a good, decent man.
20:53Yes, he is.
20:55He's my decent man.
20:57And I'm here to tell you, Cathy,
21:00that if you really are as sorry as you say you are,
21:03you will leave Harvey alone.
21:07What?
21:07You'll...
21:07You'll forgive him?
21:10I...
21:11I can't compete with you, Cathy.
21:15Jean, it's not a competition.
21:17Isn't it?
21:20Men will always look at you, admire you, want you.
21:24Won't me.
21:27So,
21:28what are you saying, Jean?
21:32Just because Rocky is locked up in prison,
21:35please don't take Harvey away.
21:37Well,
21:39that's not my decision, is it?
21:41I mean, that...
21:42That's for Harvey to decide.
21:44Well, I know Harvey.
21:46Anything for a quiet life.
21:49You see, it's not just me.
21:50It's the whole family,
21:52and he knows that we need him.
21:54I have been watching
21:56the pain that Stacey has been going through
21:59these last few weeks after losing Martin.
22:01Life is so short, Cathy,
22:03so, yes, yes.
22:05Yes, I think I can forgive him.
22:07Well,
22:10then I promise you, Jean,
22:12I won't do any running.
22:15But if Harvey
22:16comes knocking on my door,
22:19I'm not closing it in his face.
22:21I've got everything I need.
22:35Would you just come in the front room for a minute?
22:50There's nothing more I can say, Jean,
23:04apart from I'm sorry,
23:06because, you know,
23:07I am, I really am.
23:11I'm sorry enough to forget it ever happened and stay.
23:13Whoop, their echo of being unpredictable again.
23:17Jean,
23:18what are you saying?
23:21Um,
23:21what I tried to do in Southend,
23:30many men would have walked away,
23:32but you didn't.
23:34Of course I didn't.
23:35And after everything
23:37that we have been through together
23:39as a family,
23:40you've stayed.
23:41And that's not because
23:42you're stuck in the corner with the newspaper.
23:44You've stayed because we matter to you.
23:47Of course you do.
23:49You all do.
23:52The way you invited my family
23:53and you gave me life again
23:55after Donna moved away
23:56and Aaron was locked up.
23:59I've never been so low
24:01and then along you came.
24:05Because this is your home.
24:09This is where you belong.
24:11We are your family
24:12and we need you.
24:13You are the thread
24:17that holds us all together, Harvey.
24:20So if you go,
24:21I don't know what will happen.
24:22I don't need to be emotionally blackmailed.
24:24No, I'm just saying it as it is.
24:27And it's not too late.
24:28So you want me to stay for the family?
24:32Well, I've never seen Stacey like this before.
24:35The kids absolutely adore you
24:37and, well, if...
24:40if Lily loses another father figure...
24:42What about you?
24:44Oh, my feelings don't matter.
24:46She...
24:47Let's just put all this behind us, shall we?
24:52Forget it ever happened.
24:54Cathy's agreed to back off, so...
24:56You saw Cathy?
24:57Yes, well, I made her see
24:59that this is where you belong
25:00and she knows that that's the right thing.
25:01She said that?
25:02Well, she doesn't love you like I love you
25:04and I am happy to forgive you.
25:07You want me to stay for the sake of Stacey and the kids?
25:09Yeah.
25:12You don't beg me to stay because you love me.
25:14Oh, well, I love you.
25:16Of course I love you.
25:18I mean, we'll never be the love of each other's lives.
25:20That's been and gone.
25:20But, um...
25:21Well, we make each other happy, don't we?
25:23And that's enough for you.
25:25Making each other happy.
25:27Well, it's not just about me.
25:30No, it's not.
25:31It's about me as well.
25:34My feelings.
25:36My wants.
25:38My life.
25:39I'm sorry, Jean,
25:44but I need to be where someone wants me
25:47for me, not to make their family happy.
25:52I don't love you anymore, Jean.
25:55I'm in love with Cathy.
25:58No.
25:59You're not.
26:02You might think that you are, but you're not.
26:06I love Cathy.
26:09And I'm leaving you.
26:13Okay.
26:17Well, get out, then.
26:18Well, look, I just want you to...
26:18Get out! Get out!
26:20Get out! Get out! Get out! Get out!
26:21Get out! Get out!
26:23Choosing her over us!
26:25Tell me you're back on a whole family that needs you!
26:27Where'd you get off, Harvey, eh?
26:29You are scum!
26:31Do you know that?
26:32No, no, no, no.
26:33I'll help you.
26:34Go on, get out.
26:36Don't look at her!
26:37In fact, don't even look at any of us, yeah?
26:40Get out.
26:48Oh, Jean, come here.
26:50Oh, darling, it's all right.
26:52It's all right.
26:52I'm here.
26:53That's what happens when you get involved with Cathy Beale.
27:04She destroys lives.
27:05I've left her.
27:33And I've talked about this, you know, I love.
27:38Well, you best come in, then.
27:39And I've talked about this, I love.