EastEnders Live Week
five-part episode of EastEnders
EastEnders Live Week (also known as EastEnders: The Week of Revelations) is a set of five EastEnders episodes including live elements, which was broadcast from 17 to 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 second 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. 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's (Matt Di Angelo) rape of Linda Carter (Kellie Bright) and the shock return of Ian's mother Kathy Sullivan (Gillian Taylforth), who was presumed dead in 2006.
Plot
All episodes were set on the day of Ian (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.
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