This article contains spoilers for tonight’s episode of EastEnders, which airs at 7.30pm on BBC One or can be streamed now on iPlayer.
Suki Panesar-Unwin (Balvinder Sopal) and wife Eve (Heather Peace) have come to blows over a plan to take custody of Avani Nandra-Hart’s (Aaliyah James) unborn child.
As viewers know, Avani confided in best mate Barney Mitchell (Lewis Bridgeman) that she thought she could be pregnant with twisted Joel Marshall’s (Max Murray) baby.
Her worst fears were realised when a test gave a positive result.
Adamant that she wanted an abortion, Suki dropped a huge bombshell and proposed raise the child as her own. This was without addressing the situation with Eve first.
When the idea was raised, Eve remained insistent that she never wanted children of her own, partly down to her mother’s homophobic comments in her youth that made her believe that she wouldn’t be a good mother.
Suki urged her to put those concerns to one side, and just as she warmed to the idea, Avani burst in and assumed she’d agreed.
In today’s instalment, Eve was under the belief that Avani had purposely got pregnant in order to provide a child for Suki. She was furious at the thought of being deceived, and struggled to find a way to explain it.
As tensions began to rise, she branded the behaviour as abuse.
Suki was incredulous to see her wife escalating the row, comparing her attitude to wicked ex-husband Nish (Navin Chowdhry).
With no resolution being found, Suki boldly announced that she would raise the baby on her own. After all, Avani was her family, not Eve’s.
A devastated Eve then headed to the pub to drown her sorrows, and a heart to heart with Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner).
At one point, she considered telling Avani’s parents Ravi Gulati (Aaron Thiara) and Priya Nandra-Hart (Sophie Khan Levy) about the unfolding situation, but decided instead to go home and face Suki.
Avani staged an intervention, with Suki offering a heartfelt apology.
But what will Eve do next? You’ll have to tune in tonight to find out, or stream now on iPlayer!
