With Reiss Colwell (Jonny Freeman) still harbouring his killer secret, the reading of his murdered wife’s will reveals a secret that could change everything in EastEnders next week.
Earlier this year, viewers saw Reiss smother a comatose Debbie to death in her care home bed, and his fiancée Sonia Fowler (Natalie Cassidy) has since been wrongly locked up for her murder.
Last week, her sister Bianca Jackson (Patsy Palmer) returned to Walford to demand answers from Reiss, and has since started manipulating him in an effort to get to the truth, moving back into No. 25 to keep an eye.
After spying him with a mysterious letter, Bianca manages to get her hands on it and is shocked when she reads its contents.
But there is a further bombshell in store when Debbie’s parents Brenda and Hugh Collins (Nichola McAuliffe and Michael Bertenshaw) arrive for her will reading.
While Bianca is soon ushered out of the room, she listens in on the other side of the door and is stunned when it’s revealed Debbie has made a series of shock requests in her will – but what are they?
Debbie’s mum Brenda had previously revealed to Reiss that her daughter had been planning to leave him before suffering a life-changing stroke – could she have cut her husband out of her will altogether?
It would be a devastating outcome for murderous Reiss, who killed Debbie in a bid to solve his money woes and had been banking on pocketing her life insurance to pay off his debts to Teddy Mitchell (Roland Manookian).
Speaking of the discovery Bianca makes while earwigging on the will reading, actress Patsy Palmer says: ‘She starts to wonder if Reiss is slightly delusional. There’s a switch in his behaviour that she jumps on straight away.
‘Put it this way, just as Bianca is ready to give up, something else comes out and spurs her on…
EastEnders airs these scenes from Monday 30 September at 7.30pm on BBC One and from 6am on iPlayer.
