EastEnders' Keanu Taylor and Tiffany Butcher finally returned to Walford on Monday (March 25) – but one dropped a bombshell that their life is in danger!
Keanu (Danny Walters) has been MIA ever since Sharon (Letitia Dean) had an unsuspecting Phil (Steve McFadden) ship him off to Spain on a job that ultimately caused him to be viciously beaten – all to avoid Keanu exposing his affair with Sharon.
His homecoming was anything but happy in Monday's episode when mum Karen (Lorraine Stanley) scolded him for not reaching out while in Spain.
A distant Keanu was equally frosty when he received a text from Sharon asking to meet. Instead, he played a nasty trick on her by sending Phil instead to surprise his wife!
"What's with all the cloak-and-dagger?" Phil asked his wife when he surprised her at the cafe.
Sharon scrambled and came up with the excuse that she wanted to have a late breakfast with Phil, seemingly pacifying him.
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But, the trouble for Phil continued mounting when his old associate Danny Hardcastle (Brookside legend Paul Usher) arrived on the Square to threaten that he keep up their money-laundering scheme, in order to pay off money they lost in Spain.
Their tense meeting was eventually interrupted by Sharon stealing a moment alone with Keanu to insist on some answers about where he's been. A furious Keanu lashed out at Sharon, blaming her for what happened to him in Spain.
"I wish I could... scare you as much as I was scared," a teary-eyed Keanu seethed. "The person I used to love, the person who I used to live for. Now, I hate you."
He then insisted: "You're dead to me."
After a distraught Sharon stormed off, Keanu approached Phil with a potentially dangerous offer: why not work together to make back the cash?
"I help ya. I do whatever you need me to do, but I want my share. Because I earned it," Keanu insisted, before promising not to tell Sharon anything.
The mood at the Taylor house grew even more tense with the simultaneous reappearance of Tiffany Butcher (Maisie Smith). Bernadette (Clair Norris) was shocked to find her friend sneaking into Ted's flat for a wad of cash weeks after Tiffany supposedly moved back to Milton Keynes.
When Bernadette tried getting to the bottom of what was really going on, Tiffany hesitated at first because she spotted the man who'd previously attacked Evie (Sophia Capasso).
Tiffany finally revealed the truth after a heart-to-heart with Bernadette: Evie is deep in debt and now both of their lives are in danger!
"She says they'll kill us," Tiffany warned. "They're not afraid of police, anyone."
A desperate Bernie begged her friend to get help before it's too late, but a panicked Tiffany ran away instead — leaving Bernadette no other option but to come clean to mum Karen once and for all about Tiffany's ties to drug dealer Evie!
EastEnders airs all of the fallout on Tuesday (March 26) at 7.30pm on BBC One.
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