Warning!! I mention next week's spoilers below.
Whenever any character in soapland cautiously walks down into a dark basement alone you just know something isn't quite right. Especially in the case of murderous preacher Lucas Johnson (Don Gilet), who in EastEnders last night visited his 'dead' wife Denise (Diane Parish) and offered her food from her own funeral!
In a spoiler-free twist but a twist-that-you-could-still-see coming crazed Lucas (who often gives a darker rendition of Dot's Bible-quoting ways) popped to see his wife Denise after presiding over her funeral.
A dishevelled Denise appeared from the dark after being held captive in a basement by her husband Lucas for weeks. What she (and the audience) don't know is that poor Denise is currently hidden away next door from her own house!
But this twist surely raises the question how exactly did Lucas get his wife from the canal, through the Square and into the basement of the house next door to his own without anyone seeing?
Lucas has already killed a man and buried his body in the middle of the gardens without anyone noticing! The residents of Walford must be so used to suspicious activity that they simply close their curtains and go to bed when they see the local priest dragging a body through Albert Square.
But onto next week where Denise will make an unlikely return to her family. Spoilers say that Denise wants to try and fix her broken family, how exactly she hopes to do that when her current husband and father of her eldest child tried to kill her, killed her previous husband and father of her youngest kid as well as letting the mother of her step-son die. That is a complicated family tree even for soapland!
But the return of Denise will also inevitably lead to the sad departure of evil holy man Lucas, whose magnificent reign of terror has made Walford a much more dangerous and exciting place over the last two years.
Picture from bbc.co.uk/eastenders
