EastEnders Live Week
EastEnders Live Week (also known as EastEnders: The Week of Revelations) is a set of five EastEnders episodes, including live elements, which was broadcast 17–20 February 2015 to mark the programme's 30th anniversary. The episodes were broadcast on BBC One and simulcast to Irish viewers on RTÉ One. The week was based around the wedding of Ian (Adam Woodyatt) and Jane Beale (Laurie Brett), whilst concluding the "Who Killed Lucy Beale?" storyline and featuring elements of the aftermath of Nick Cotton's (John Altman) demise, after he collapsed in his mother Dot Branning's (June Brown) arms having injected himself with impure heroin on 13 February 2015. The week also featured Kim Fox-Hubbard (Tameka Empson) giving birth to her daughter Pearl two months prematurely, the continuing fall out from Dean Wicks' (Matt Di Angelo) rape of Linda Carter (Kellie Bright) and the shock return of Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth), who was presumed dead nine years earlier. Plot All episodes were set on the day of Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) and Jane Beale's (Laurie Brett) wedding. Each episode included live "inserts" before broadcasting a full live episode on 20 February. There were two episodes broadcast on 19 February; following its usual broadcast, the show aired a flashback episode, in which viewers were shown the hours leading up to Lucy Beale's (Hetti Bywater) death (see Who Killed Lucy Beale?). 17 February 2015 The residents of Albert Square are haunted by the death of Lucy as Ian and Jane's wedding dawns over Walford. Lauren Branning's (Jacqueline Jossa) quest to out the killer continues; she gives Jane the wedding card, however Jane is shocked when it is revealed what Lauren wrote – "I know what happened to Lucy. She was killed at home." Meanwhile, Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) returns to the Square with Billy Mitchell (Perry Fenwick) and Peggy Mitchell (Barbara Windsor) by his side. Phil is determined to find Ian as he has found something that he should know, but it soon becomes apparent that Phil and Billy have been followed by a mysterious man named Vincent Hubbard (Richard Blackwood). He approaches them in search for Ronnie Mitchell (Samantha Womack) before going to the hospital, leaving a single rose for her. It is also the day that Ronnie is due to be woken up from her coma following a car crash on New Year's Day; doctors are successful when she starts breathing on her own, and an overwhelmed Roxy Mitchell (Rita Simons) tells Charlie Cotton (Declan Bennett) not to breathe a word of their recent one-night stand; Ronnie awakens as the conversation happens. Meanwhile, Peggy confronts Dot Branning (June Brown) over her son, Nick Cotton (John Altman), framing Phil for causing the crash, only to learn that Nick has died. Peggy comforts Dot and invites her to move in with her and her son Grant Mitchell (Ross Kemp) in Portugal. Later, Peggy visits The Queen Vic and meets its new landlord, Mick Carter (Danny Dyer), who tells her to "get out of my pub" -