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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 122186" data-attributes="member: 22">2011Lydia Simmonds: It was only a fall. Only put Ricky’s name down [as next of kin] because [the hospital] wanted something on their precious form.Pam Coker, speaking in 2014: My friend April, she did tights on Spring Lane, she had a double mastectomy a few years back. Said she couldn’t bear the thought of the cancer coming back. Chemo knocked the stuffing out of her. Awful it was. She had to give up her stall in the end. They did a lovely reconstruction. Paul Leese, speaking in July 2011: Dan [Pearce, Julie Perkins and Billy Mitchell’s biological son] used to live here but he don’t anymore. He died three months ago.Julie Perkins on Dan: Liver failure, you said, yeah?Paul: Yeah. He used to drink a lot of booze.Julie: Our son hated me till the day he died.Paul on Dan: I took on his name [after he died] to carry on the tenancy.Cora Cross to Tanya: I was surprised to get your [wedding] invitation.Tanya Branning: You might have called, told me you were coming.Cora: I wanted to surprise you.Shameem, Afia Khan’s maternal aunt: As soon as I heard about the wedding [between Afia and Tamwar], I couldn’t wait to meet the man who’d stolen my niece’s heart — and his parents of course.     Tyler Moon, mid-anecdote: So I’m standing on the window ledge wearing this thong and it ain’t doing the job of a more supportive undergarment, if you know what I’m saying. Anyway, the blonde, Sophie ...Eddie Moon: Sophie’s the blonde? I thought that was Gemma?Tyler: Oh, it could be. Well, anyway, she’s getting rid of her old man, right. We’re nearly in the clear when there’s this screaming. It’s the next door neighbour — thinks I’ve come to molest her!Tyler, mid-anecdote: ... And there she was, at the station with him. Smashed my heart like a dropped pint glass.Jodie Gold: Oh that is sad — but you did sleep with her sister.Tyler: Me and that hot brunette [from a lap-dancing club] got pretty busy, if you get my drift.Eddie to Tyler: First time I give you and Anthony some responsibility and look what happens.Tyler, explaining why he followed Eddie to Walford: I’ve been getting under Anthony’s feet and I miss me pops.Charlie Cotton, Jr: I had dreams once — being in a band, touring the country, a little festival or two.Lee Carter: Reading Festival, 2011. Me and you, kebab queue? Lucy Beale: I’ve never been to Reading. Lee: Shame. We’d have made beautiful music together.Linda Carter, speaking in 2014: How long have you known [you’ve had prostate cancer]?Stan Carter: Three years.Mick Carter, speaking in 2014 about an engagement ring he bought for Linda: Three years ago, I struck gold. Found it in a jewellers in Watford. It’s exactly like her Lady Di ring except the sapphire’s real. L, she’s like MI5 when it comes to sniffing out secrets so I made extra sure she couldn’t find it.Henry Mason, care home worker, to Billy Mitchell: I almost didn’t come [to meet you]. I had meself convinced you’d have a lynch mob. You know what these vigilantes are like. I suppose you heard about that ridiculous trial. You dedicate your whole life to the welfare of kids and that’s the thanks you get. Still, justice prevailed.Cora: I had a contretemps with a neighbour.Cora: This girl moved in next door and it all went downhill from there.Jude, Cora’s next-door neighbour: She [Cora] made my life hell. Music on every night, men around all hours. She poured bleach on my plants, glued my locks.Cora: I have nothing to apologise for.Cora on Jude: She got an ASBO.Local newspaper headline about Cora: “ASBO Granny in Dock”Cora: I got evicted. They’ve taken the flat off me. I packed what I could.Cora: You, Ava, you brought up a fine young man.Dexter Hartman to Ava: I was sorting out the boiler, sorting out the neighbours, all the things that [Sam] was supposed to be doing. Do you know how hard I tried for you to do his job?Dexter on his friends: Mum, you let Ash stay when he was getting grief from his mum and Reece when he got kicked out.Dexter to Ava: You said Ash’s mum was a mug for taking his dad back. Desperate, that’s what’s you said, no self respect.Ava: Dexter’s mate Jonno, they grew up together. Did everything together — girls, football. Then [Jonno] went and got himself some new mates.Bianca: And what happened to him?Ava: That’s his face on the post out there [a shrine on the Byron Estate].Dexter: When I used to live on that estate, [no-one] ever just “nearly” [died]. You go into hospital, you come out in a box. I’m not being dramatic. It’s a fact.Alexa Smith on Lola Pearce: When I knew she’d gone to live with her family, I was dead jealous.Andrew Cotton, speaking in August 2011: They run out of chicken [at the chicken-in-a-basket night at the Southend social club] last time.Carl White: When I was inside, they taught us to work through our problems — you know, write to someone, tell someone, work it through.Carl: I’d love to be an advocate for the prison system — rehabilitated, a shining example of their success process — but the truth is I just got nastier.Derek Branning: Ten years [in prison] does something to a man.Carl: I spent five years inside with screws going through my stuff like it was theirs not mine. No privacy, no dignity.Derek: When I got out [of prison, I wasn’t] sleeping at night. It’s the quiet. You know what I used to do? When I went to bed, I used to put the telly on and every night, I used to just turn the sound down a bit. That’s how I got used to it.Derek: When I got out, things had changed. Weren’t the same anymore. No respect. Streets crawling with Lithuanians — thought they were the boys, the top dogs, but we showed them a thing or two, me and Max, me and my brother.Carol Jackson: What have you done?Derek: Nothing. Just trying to earn a crust like we all have to.Max Branning: When Derek scooped me up, I was down. I was the lowest, lowest I’ve ever been. I was drinking. I was in a mess. That’s when I met [Kirsty]. She was in a mess and all.Tanya Branning: Exotic dancing, that’s your line, isn’t it?Kirsty Branning: Used to be.Kirsty: Life all went a bit wrong for me. Bad choices.Kirsty to Max: I didn’t think I’d get a second chance, but then I met you and I couldn’t believe it.Carol Jackson to Kirsty: You didn’t even like [Derek].Kirsty: I liked Derek. He introduced me to Max. We had our problems, but I loved him for that.Max: We were mates once.Kirsty: We were in bed after the first hour of meeting.Max: Well, that’s what I meant. That’s pretty friendly.Kirsty to Max: You always were a fast mover.Max: I’ve never had a first hour like that with anyone.Max on himself and Kirsty: We just sort of found each other, comforted each other. It just sort of went on from there.Tanya to Kirsty: You were just a fling, just a port in a storm.Kirsty to Lauren Branning: I’m not some sleazy home wrecker. Your dad was single. It’s like any two people who meet each other and that’s it.Abi Branning: Were you happy with Kirsty?Max: Yeah, maybe. I guess we had something.Max to Kirsty: Seriously, some of the best times I’ve had were in those months after we met.Tanya on Kirsty: You were in love with her?Max: I thought I was.Kirsty to Max: You’re the only man I’ve ever loved.Kirsty on Max: It’s like one of his party tricks — scooping up and rescuing. Has he bought you any pasta and a big chocolate cake? It’s like living with a feeder. Two months and I had to tell him I had cellulite on my ankles.Max on Kirsty: She wanted proof, she wanted a sign. I thought maybe if I took the plunge — because I was, I was involved with her.Tanya: How involved?Max: Enough to get married.Kirsty: As far as I knew, I fell for a single bloke and married him.Kirsty on herself and Max: We were in love. We were married.Kirsty on Max: This ring, he put it on my finger in a registry office.Max on Kirsty: I only married her because I was lonely and she was there. Stupidest thing I’ve ever done.Kirsty to Max: One minute we’re in love, married, shipping up to Manchester to start a new life, and the next thing I know, we’re done.Max on Kirsty: Things happened. I let her down, didn’t I? One minute I was there, the next I was gone. No phone call, nothing. I treated her badly.Kirsty to Max: All I got was a phone call, just one phone call.Kirsty to Max: Why did you let me down? Why did you do that to me?Kirsty, speaking about Max in December 2012: I ain’t seen him for a year. Over a year.Max: She had to handle things. She had to deal with things on her own.Tanya: What things?Max: All sorts, like flat and job. She had some difficult times and I weren’t there.Max on Kirsty: The last place she was staying was with her ex’s brother.Kirsty to Max: I was pregnant and you couldn’t even be bothered to speak to me. I was pregnant with your baby. Derek told you, didn’t he? Derek said you weren’t interested. I begged him. “Just get Max to call me,” I said. “Get him to call me.” I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know if there was any hope, if you wanted the baby, wanted the two of us to have a baby together. I was just holding on, just hoping. But I got nothing — just Derek, end of the phone, “He ain’t interested, doll. Get rid of it. Send me the bill.” So in the end, I did. That was our baby.Max: You lied to me, Derek. You lied to me about the baby.Derek: I was protecting you. I told you she was no good.Max: She had an abortion because of you.Linda Carter: Abortion’s not something I’ve had a view on. I’ve had mates who’ve had them and I’ve supported them. It’s just something I never thought I’d be doing myself. Kirsty: That [baby] was a chance for both of us and you didn’t even know.Max: I needed to get hold of the divorce papers. Derek said I should give you money. He said it was the best thing to do.Kirsty: You set Derek onto me, trying to scare me off.Max: I didn’t set him onto you. He said he’d talk to you. He said he’d deal with it.Kirsty: By paying me off? Is that the way you deal with it — a bit money in an envelope shoved through the door? Is that the way you finish with me, is it? You think a bit of cash and that would make up for what I'd lost — you, the baby? Alice Branning, speaking on December 23rd 2012: This time last year, it was just me, my mum and Joey.Johnny Carter on Linda: She thinks she’s openminded because she bought a Joe McElderry Christmas album. Linda: I can hold a tune.Johnny: No, Mum, you can’t.Linda: Yes, I can. What about at Christmas when I do my Bernadette Peters?Johnny: Yeah, that’s in the house. Just us.Nancy Carter on Linda at Christmas: She does this every year. She’ll have everything planned to the second, when you’re allowed to burp, when you’re allowed to fart …Linda: I just like everything to be perfect, that’s all.2012Stan Carter, speaking about Sylvie in 2014: How long have you been keeping her in that dungeon of yours?Babe Smith: She’s lived with me the best part of two years. I’ve been her carer, if you must know.Shirley Carter: You should have told us.Babe: You know why I kept her from you, don’t you? To protect you.Lee to Mick: The closest you and Mum have ever come to a debate is whether to watch ‘Pointless’ or not.Linda to Johnny: I can’t remember the last time you had a girlfriend.Johnny: I like women.Nancy: I know you do. I’ve seen you dancing to all their hits in your bedroom when you think no-one’s looking.Linda You’re soft, Johnny. I made you that way because I thought you’d meet a nice girl who’d take over, who’d look after you for me. Nancy, speaking to Johnny in 2014: You have just spent the last two years lying to [Mick and Linda]. Why would you do that if they weren’t trying to control you?Linda on Johnny’s sexuality: All this time you’ve been lying to me, making out like you’re one thing when really you’re someone completely different.Johnny: I didn’t mean to lie. I just didn’t want the fuss. I kind of hoped you’d guess. Didn’t you already have a hunch?Linda: No. I just thought you were my Johnny.Lee on Johnny’s sexuality: I think I’ve always known.Elaine on Johnny’s sexuality: I always knew, bless him. I didn’t think it was my place to say.Elaine: How about that nice guy, that little lad, the one you used to pretend you were just friends with, what was his name — Gavin?Johnny: We were just friends.Johnny to Nancy: You’re the only person I ever trusted enough to tell.Johnny: I always thought it would be my dad that would have the problem with me being … you know.Lee: I never did like showering on me own.Dean Wicks: Good job you had thirty geezers to keep you company then.Nancy to Lee: You know, when you left [for Afghanistan], I didn’t clock you’d gone because you look so much like the dog.Lee: Before I went out there …Mick: Afghanistan?Lee: … the boys wound me up, said the locals we were training were high on hash, a bunch of trigger-happy insurgents in waiting.Mick: You hear stories.Lee: Not the lads I was with. They ain’t the Taliban. There was this one lad, Kaseem. Same age as me, right laugh, got on like a house on fire — apart from him supporting Arsenal. Some stoner had given his dad a shirt in the seventies and Kassie had followed them ever since. So one day we’d been out cleaning this section of road, usual stuff, when Kassie spots something. Top lad — spot a section of disturbed land a mile off, proper talent. It was baking. We’d already dealt with four RARDs so at that point, we’re knackered, but Kassie, he insists. His call. So we all take a step back and watch him take the long walk. He bent down, brushed the earth away. Enough explosives to blow up a mastiff and he’s using little more than a paint brush. And I see this rock to his left. For some reason, my eyes keep … and I see his hand reach out to move it. And I knew. They put a secondary device underneath. Didn’t hear a thing. I’m just … I’m … suddenly, I’m on my back. There was so much dust in my eyes, in my mouth, and somebody screaming, “Nobody move!” because one of them’s already gone off, right, but I just want to get over to him, see if there’s any chance … Then the dust settles. You want to know what I see? Kaseem, half his body gone, but I weren’t going to leave him, not out there, so I pick him up and take him back to camp. My mate.Lee: Kaseem’s dad came to camp. Wanted to wash the body down before burial. I had to tell him. Try explaining that through an interpreter. He shook my hand. He was so proud. Lee: When I was out in Afghanistan, we all used to pretend we weren’t scared of dying. Used to say that if we get blown up at least we’ll be heroes. Even joked about what we was going to put on our tombstones, but when you see one of your mates get blown up right in front of you, just snaps you straight back to reality and that’s when the fear really kicks in. Lee: When I was out searching for mines, I couldn’t put one foot in front of the other sometimes. Just stood there, frozen to the spot, but it was the boys either side of me that got me through it.Dean to Lee: Have you ever killed anyone, shot them?Stan: He was in bomb disposal. Lee: Yeah, but if we were shot at, we shot back, cover each other and that.Lee: I’ve served alongside people who have [killed] and they’ve never been the same again since.Lee: We used to have these little sparring matches back at camp, nothing serious, just a few bouts in the ring. There was this one bloke, Craig — been winding me up all day, banter mainly, but he really knew how to push me buttons, you know? He started getting a bit mouthy so I just went for him. I hit him and I couldn’t stop. It took four blokes to get me off him.Linda: It’s the army that’s done this to you, everything they put you through out there.Stan to Lee: We used to follow your division on the news, find out what you were up to. Not ashamed to say I said a prayer or two for you.Dean: What about me? Ever pray for me?Stan: Been mentioned, time to time.Linda: I had this group of mates back in Watford and they understood when I needed to just blot it out [her fears about Lee’s safety].Linda: We used to have ladies’ nights all the time at my mum’s pub.Nancy to Linda: You had a week of parties for your thirty-fifth [birthday]. That’s not even a thing.Nancy: I never even got near a uni.Johnny: No, you couldn’t read the application forms.AJ Ahmed: My ex-wife, she really wanted kids. She’d been pushing me, wanting me to commit. She wouldn’t back off, but then I got scared. I can’t even take care of myself, let alone be responsible for someone else.Zainab Masood: So you ran away.Frank Driver on fellow policeman Ollie Walters: It’s enough to shake anyone up, isn’t it? I mean, you think you’re walking into a bog standard domestic, get there, you find one kid dead on the floor and the other one ... He does his best for them, but it’s too late. Their mum was a nutter. She just went off on one.Emma Summerhayes: I remember I did a police driving course once. It was a complete disaster. They took us down these country lanes …Sam James, speaking in December 2013: A year ago, I found out that my kidneys started to fail.Abi: How did you even know how to find us?Dexter, her biological cousin: The address was on the back of a Christmas card your nan gave my mum.Kirsty, speaking to Max in December 2012: Your lovely brother, he finally came through after all this time. After thirteen months, he finally told me where you were. I’ve had a long trip [to Walford] all on my own, Christmas Day in the dark.2013Linda: Mum usually makes [Mick’s birthday cake]. Always start the day with cake and bubbles, right? Mick: Yeah, then it gets double messy, don’t it, Lee? Remember that time a couple of years back? We come back proper slaughtered. I just could not get that key in the door.Lee: And by the time I did, you’d conked out on the doorstep. Linda: Not your finest hour. Mum thought you were burglars. Lucky you didn’t get a crack round the head with a cricket bat!Mick: Yeah. Still got a right-hander though, didn’t I?Ava to Sam: You had been on the transplant list since March.Ava to Sam: You knew that you needed a [kidney] transplant before you even came here [Walford].Ava: Please tell me that you didn’t just come to Walford to get your hands on my son’s kidney.Sam: I wasn’t thinking straight. I was ill. I didn’t know what else to do. I was scared that I’d never find a donor.Ava: You couldn’t just wait your turn like everybody else?Sam: I was running out of time.Ava: And then you remembered, “I have a son.” So you thought you’d just come and find us and take what you wanted?Sam: No. I knew Dexter could be a match, but I waited on that list as long as I could. Coming back here was the last thing I wanted to do.Sam, speaking in May 2013: My dad died. The funeral was yesterday. I haven’t slept. I’ve just been walking around thinking about everything, how he walked out on me, how I did the same [to my son]. It brought it home. I couldn’t get this voice out of my head and my heart. It felt like it was going to burst if I didn't see [Dexter].Sam to Dexter: It hit me — I had to be there for you even if you hate me.Tosh Mackintosh: Every year, I’ve spent the [fireman’s] ball sat with the lads pretending to flirt with them, just to get them in trouble with their missus.Carl White: I’ve just come out of a five-and-a-half year stretch.Carl: You come out from inside and everybody thinks they’ve got the right to judge you.Carl to his brother Adam: I asked you to do two things while I was inside. One, look after Mum. Two, keep your eye on Kirsty. I get out — Mum’s in a home, Kirsty’s married to someone else. You don’t even have the bottle to tell me when I get out.Adam White: I was going to meet you at the prison.Carl: I had to find out from the neighbour why there’s a family living in Mum’s home.Adam: Well, she wasn’t well and once she was out, the council ...Carl on £10,000 owed to him by Derek Branning: That money was my fresh start, a chance for me to start a new business.Carl: There I was, trying to get a hold of Derek, when my mobile rings. It’s a woman called Bianca.Nancy, speaking in 2014: Me and Wayne used to be proper friends and now obviously we’re not, and it was exactly the same with my boyfriend before that and my boyfriend before that.Nancy to Linda: You never liked Wayne.Linda to Nancy: You only went with Wayne to upset us.Linda on Nancy: She didn’t love [Wayne]. She never loved him.Tosh on Tina’s family: They’ve never liked me. They’ve pushed you [Tina] down. They’ve kept you the baby. “Let’s all have a laugh at Tina, the funny lesbian.”Shirley Carter, describing Tina when she was living with Tosh: Black and blue and looking for an escape route.Tina, speaking in February 2014: Six months ago, I had no-one.Shirley: Yes, you did. You had Tosh and a couple of black eyes.Tina: Yeah and I’d sit in that flat, get a call from Zsa Zsa every now and again … Shirley: I don’t know why she bothered.Tina: Because sometimes kids remember that they’ve got parents. I ain’t ever going to forget that day you turned up out of the blue.Shirley: I went out to get some fags. When I got back, I found Tina’s girlfriend getting a bit handy.Shirley: Who sorted out the mess with Tosh?Tina: Well, I did actually.Shirley: And who sat up with you all night when you’d been beaten up, when you were bawling?Tina: It was both of us. We fell out. I can get handy and all.Tina to Tosh: When we used to row, I used to think it was passionate.Linda: Do you know what I made your dad do last time we had a row? Sit with me and watch ‘Frozen’. He hated every second of it.Lee: Bet he cried though.Linda: I lost him at ‘Do You Want to Build a Snowman?’Lee: What a wuss!Johnny Carter: I could have got into loads of uni’s but I chose the one where I could live at home.Johnny on he and his mother: It’s like we need to be near each other. That’s why I didn’t go into halls. I was worried she’d be too upset.Mick, speaking in May 2014: If you’d have told me six months ago I’d be living with my old man …Mick on the Queen Vic: I wanted this pub because I want my sisters with me. I haven’t had that in years.Mick on the Vic: I was the one who hurried the sale through.Mick on the Vic: I spent me last bean buying this place.Linda to Mick: “A new start,” you said, “a new adventure.”Mick: Nancy has invited you [to her wedding], Linda.Linda: Only so she can throw a strop when I don’t go.Linda: We have given our daughter everything. Everything. And it still ain’t good enough. So what do we get back? Grief, dramas, Little Missy Hissy Fits. Mick: That’s not true.Lee: The whisky smuggled inside the shampoo bottles — genius! Best package ever. Who thought of sending that?Johnny: You had to have something to drink with your Christmas lunch, didn’t you? I was rinsing out bottles for ages.Linda: Did I send out enough socks?Lee: I could open up a shop, Mum.Lee to Mick: I take it the DVDs were from you then? Been passing them all round camp in a ‘Top Gear’ box. The boys were like, “Jeremy Clarkson’s got a lot bendier.”Mick: Christmas was terrible, mainly because your mum cremated the turkey. I missed watching the footy with you. And Mum, she really missed you and all.Nancy: One good thing about spending Christmas with strangers is they ain’t jumping down your throat every five seconds.Pam, speaking in 2014: My friend April, she did tights on Spring Lane, she died last Christmas.Linda: Working in my mum’s pub for twenty years, getting the Vic was like getting out of prison.Mick Carter to Elaine: We was getting on top of each other at the other place, you even said so yourself.Elaine to Linda: Mick found [the Vic] and before you could even sneeze, it was bags packed, out the door. The girls couldn’t believe it. They said, “After all you’ve done, sacrificed, brought up your family.” I thought, “No. It’s their chance to find their own home.” I just wish I’d known you were so keen to leave mine. Elaine to Linda: It really hurt. You abandoned me. Elaine to Mick: You stole all my bar staff when you abandoned me.Elaine on Linda’s lipstick: Pink Fizz? I wondered where that had gone.Linda: You said I could have it.Linda: Do you know how long it took me to clear out Nancy’s bedroom at the old place? You know I wanted to skip it. If it was down to me, I’d’ve binned the lot. Linda on Mick’s old leather jacket: I could have sworn blind it had been thrown out.Mick: Must have snuck its way back in.Mick to Linda: I did tell you to label the [moving] boxes, didn’t I?2014Mick Carter on Elaine: She’s been itching for an invite [to the Vic] since we moved in.Linda Carter: You know you’ve always been welcome.Elaine: I had to get through some stuff, Linda. Stan, speaking in July 2014: I did my time in [hospital] a few months ago.Mick on Lee’s army career: Four years’ good service.Mick, speaking in April 2014: How long you been back [from Afghanistan]?Lee: A week.Nancy: You what? You’ve been back for a week and you ain’t even called us? You realise every day we’re scared the phone’s going to ring?Linda to Stan: [Lee] was at yours and you never said?Stan on Lee: I didn’t make him come to me.  Mick: Why d’you go to [Stan] and not me?Lee: I didn’t want to let you down.Lee on Stan: Don’t blame him. I made him lie. Me nut was all over the place.Linda: A whole week of your leave gone already. Why didn’t you want to see us?Lee: It was here [the Vic] — a boozer full of strangers asking questions. It was all I needed. I just wanted to sit down with a few beers in peace.Nancy: You didn’t think about what we needed?Mick: Lee, when you stayed the night at your granddad’s, did he wet the bed?Lee: No. Why?Mick on Lee: Him staying at me dad’s, it wasn’t because he needed time to himself. He was going to go AWOL.Stan on Lee: I’d never have helped him if I’d known.Pam Coker: We bought the lease on the charity shop.Pam: How could you afford Turpin Road?Les Coker: It cost us an arm and a leg, but a bit of compensation on the way …Charlie Cotton, Jr: My dad, he turned up out of the blue, just crashed back into our lives. For Mum especially, it wasn’t good, it really wasn’t good, but he’s still my dad. The police were after him.  Dot on Nick: He got himself in some awful trouble with some gangsters and they was after him.Charlie on Nick: He was on the run. He turned up with all this money, stolen money and gold. Said he needed to get away.Nick: I was in a mess when I went back there this time. Charlie on Nick: He was desperate. I couldn’t not step in.Nick: I wanted to turn meself in and then Charlie, he came up with this idea I could take all the cash abroad.Nick: Charlie’s bright. He’s got the gift of the gab. He kept saying, “Fake your own death and vanish.” Carol Jackson: You pretend he’s dead?Charlie: That was his idea. I only agreed to help because I wanted rid of him. I thought, “If everybody thinks he’s dead, he can’t come back.”Dot: Whose idea was it that my son should fake his own death? Who decided that he should die?Charlie: It was me. I just wanted to give him a chance to turn his life around once and for all, to get him away from my mum.Dot: For whose sake was it then — was it for your father’s or your mother’s?Charlie: Both. He’s my dad and I love him and even though most the time he’s not been there, in all my life, I just wanted him to love me back. If he can’t even do that, then …Dot: Then what?Charlie: This was his chance — just leave it all behind properly and start fresh.Ronnie: And you pretended to be a policeman because?Charlie: Because Dad said people would believe everything that I told them.Charlie to Dot on pretending to be a policeman: I just thought someone in authority and you’d know that it had to be true. I needed you to believe Dad was dead so people wouldn’t ask any questions. I mean, the guys he did the job with, they were pressuring him to do more and the police were closing in and if he hadn’t got away, if he’d have carried on and got caught, with his record …Dot: What about the money?Charlie: I took a cut. My car. I shouldn’t have, but I grew up with nothing.Charlie to Nick: You agreed that you’d take your share of the money and go.Elaine: I didn’t say anything at the time, but I was really worried when you came to stay at mine.Linda: I was looking after you.Elaine: I had a sprained ankle. I wasn’t bedridden.Elaine to Stan: Came as a big shock when Linda told me you and Mick had reconciled.Elaine, speaking to Linda in October 2014: When Mick called, I thought it was a ploy to finally get me to come and see you. Elaine to Linda: The minute Mick said you had a migraine, I knew you were palming him off with a lie. I mean, you’re like me. Sprained ankle, migraine — you carry on like a trouper. Elaine: I was in that much of a rush to get here [the Vic], I forgot [my lipstick].Peggy Mitchell: “We can keep on doing this till the cows come home - going back over what's been done and dusted - but in the end, all that really matters is not what happened then, but what happens now ...”</blockquote>

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