Denise is on the floor behind the bar listening to music. There are CDs all tossed on the floor. She is crying as she listens to music. At Kevin’s desk, Carly looks at the program for the funeral. Shirley puts a bottle of vodka in her purse. Bradley picks up a photo of him and Stacey on their wedding day. Denise turns the music off. Libby comes in and wonders what she’s doing. Denise tells her that she’s just going through Kevins CDs. Denise tries to find the right music for the event. Libby tells her it’s called a wake. Denise wonders if he will like it. Libby says she doesn’t know. Denise hugs Libby.
Tanya is on the phone with her solicitor trying to get Max out of the house. She tells them he’s not violent. She wonders if they’ve been listening and why she’s paying them. Max speaks, and Tanya tells him she doesn’t want to hear his voice. He tells her he was talking to his kids. She tells him to write it down. She’s opening mail and stops talking. Abi wonders what it is, but Tanya tells her it’s nothing.
Dot runs out some of Bradley’s jumpers to Rachel as she’s packing. Rachel tells her she can come to visit them anytime. She tells Dot its the right move and would be best for him. Bradley asks best for who? He tells his mom and Dot that he’s not leaving. Rachel reminds him they discussed it. Bradley tells her that she talked and he listened. He tells them he’s not sure anything she thinks is good for him.
Carly sits at Kevin’s desk when Shirley comes in. She says that Pat told her she would be in there. Shirley asks if she’s heard from her brother. Carly says, “yeah we spoke for hours last night. What a stupid question.” Shirley wonders if she’s heard any news on when Dean will be arriving. Carly tells her the Hearst will be coming at 12 and Dean at 12:30 or the other way around. Shirley asks her to let her look after her today. She’ll get her a bacon roll and even toss in a tea.
Sean is speaking with Stacey when his phone rings. It’s Tanya. He tells Stacey he has to go. Bradley walks by, and Stacey calls after him, but he doesn’t stop. Stacey asks Steven to watch the store for half an hour. He doesn’t want to but agrees in the end. She runs off towards Bradley.
Jack shows up at the Vic and invites Ronnie out for lunch. She wonders what for. He tells her it’s business stuff. She smiles and says oh, yeah as opposed to other things? She tells him she will see him at 1 pm. Ronnie walks out, and Phil asks him if he’s had any news on Louise. Jack says no, not yet. Phil wonders why he’s in there chatting up Ronnie. Jack says he’s not chatting her up. Phil tries to get Jack to give him the informants information, and he’ll pay him to find her. Jack refuses and says he won’t because he’s a standing police officer and he’s not doing it for money he’s doing it for him.
Carly gathers the mail as she comes in and spies the trip information.
Stacey finds Bradley at the park. She wonders if he would like to talk. He tells her no because he’s not feeling very talkative. Stacey goes to sit down.
Max is leaving the house and finds a paper pinned to the door. Sean and Tanya are in the kitchen, chatting and flirting. Max barges in and asks her who she thinks she is? Martin Luther? Tanya tells him she knows that is a joke, but she is too stupid to get it. She asks Sean if he gets it. He tells her nope; he’s too stupid too. Max says, “Oh, Sean’s here! What brings you round?” Sean tells him it’s the biscuits. Max wonders if she is disappointed? She says no, why? He tells Sean that he’s being played. She was hoping he would come in, see him, see red and end up in court. He tells him to enjoy his biscuits. Max slams out. Sean asks Tanay if she is using him. She tells him maybe a little bit but not half as much as she’d like to.
Stacey and Bradley talk. Stacey asks him not to go. She tells him that she can go stay with Lil Mo and Freddy. She says it would give him time to think. He says that is all he needs is more time to think about his dad rutting up against his wife. Stacey tells him if he’s going to be like that. He apologizes. He tells her that he doesn’t feel anything anymore for her. All he sees is a pretty mess of hair and makeup. He doesn’t feel anything or anything in between. He walks off, and she wonders where he is going.
Carly comes in and startles Denise. Carly shows her the travel tickets and says she wants to talk to her about them. Denise wonders why she thinks this is the time to talk about it. Carly tells her it is.
Bradley walks up to Rachel and tells her he will come with her. Rachel sees Max, and she tells him she knew he would screw it up and it was only a matter of time.
Keith tells Masood and Zainab how he wants his time to be simpler as they walk up to the hearse. Darren is standing at the back end, looking at the casket. Dawn comforts him. Libby comes up, and Darren tells her it will be ok and he will look after her. Shirley finishes drinking and walks over and wonders if Dean is there yet. Phil pulls her to the side and asks her how much she’s had to drink. She tells him not to pull that pot and kettle thing with her. She says no one cares and she doesn’t count today. He wonders why they should? She tells him because she loved him first, and she loved him the most.
Denise and Carly walkout and she tells Carly they may have to go without Dean. Shirley walks up and asks the guard if he has to be in cuffs. The guard just nods, and she tells him that it’s his father’s funeral.
Everyone is loaded up, and they are leaving for the funeral. The hearse breaks down.
Ronnie arrives for the working lunch. She is a bit disappointed as she thought it was going to be more. Jack sends her into the office to get a folder, and she finds a romantic lunch for them. He says there isn’t an egg sarnie insight.
Carly is looking over the engine but says that car is not going anywhere. Chelsea calls the funeral directors the chuckle brothers and aks them if they have another car. Denise starts laughing hysterically. Libby, Pat, and Carly wonder what she’s laughing about. Denise tells them Kevin wanted to get away and he couldn’t even on his funeral. Chelsea is worried about her mum laughing. Denise tells them to all go back to the house, and she will wait there with Kevin.
Max tries to talk Bradley out of leaving. He tells him that he doesn’t need to be locked up there. Max apologizes and tells him his sisters will miss him. Bradley tells him that he used to think about hearing his Dad say he was sorry when he was a kid. But now, now this apology it doesn’t mean anything. Because the only part of me that cared about an apology you cut out with a chisel the day you slept with my wife. Bradley tells him he doesn’t care about him, Max’s family, nothing, not even himself. Max tells him if he doesn’t want to listen to him he understands but living with his mom is a bakcwards step
Patrick brings Dean a drink and says it must have been a terrible shock to hear about his Dad. Patrick wonders if there is anyone he could talk to in there. Dean tells him that there is but the counselor is in the worst shape. Mickey wonders how he’s coping in there. Keith tells them about someone who lived near him as a kid. He was in and out of the nick, but every time the guy came home, his mum had him a case of lager, steak, and kidney pie and a prostitute.
Phil offers a job on the car lot to Darren.
Dean wonders how it must feel to Chelsea not having cuffs on. He says they probably wouldn’t be color coordinated. She tells him it’s not the time for a fight. He tells her he doesn’t want to fight. He wants to thank her for all the visits, gifts, and things she has done for him since she has been out. He tells her he will be repaying the favor when he gets out.
Ronnie and Jack finish lunch, and he goes to kiss her, but she stops him. She tells him she wonders if he’s playing her, and Phil. He says he’s not guilty. She wonders what he is doing to help Phil. She says he saw a weak spot and went for it. She wonders if he’s the kind of guy who promises the world to get what he wants.
Carly welcomes everyone. She tells them to go ahead and eat and drink as it looks like they’ll have the wake before the funeral. She says she’s not much for public speaking although her Dad would say it was one of the best things she did, shouting in public. She says that her Dad was just a normal bloke who had this thing inside of him that made him think he needed to be somewhere else or to be something else. He shouldn’t have been selling crappy cars in Walford. He should have been tramping up some mountain or something. But the thing is he never did. The post came this morning, and there was the pair of tickets for a trip around the world that he had planned for him and Dean. And it made me really sad, she says. She says that she and Denise have decided that they are going to go and take Kevin’s ashes on the trip. She tells them all that they are going tomorrow. Everone looks around as if they are shocked. She asks them to raise their glasses in a toast to her wonderful Dad.
Jack gets a text.
Dean comes in and asks her if she was going to tell him. Does he wonder if he thinks that their Dad would want his ashes scattered in Hackney or Honolulu? He tells her that he doesn’t feel like there is anything for him to come back there for with their Dad gone. She tells him that she and Denise have talked about it and they want him to join them. He tells her that is a little hard right now as he raises his cuffs. She tells him when he gets out, and he can link up with them. Dean wonders how he can afford that? Carly tells him she has some savings from her divorce from Nicco. He hugs her. Pat calls out to Carly that they have to get her Dad to the crematorium within the hour or it will have to be put off until tomorrow.
Bradley says goodbye to Dot and tells her he will come to see Granddad soon. Dot tells him that he loves seeing him. Bradley leaves a note for Dot.
Max comes home and finds a note to leave the girls alone. Tanya tells him to leave them alone as they are upset. He asks her what that is supposed to mean? Tanya tells him it’s pretty clear, isn’t it? He asks her what right she has to tell him what he can and cannot do with his own kids? Tanya tells Max that it was right about the same time he slept with his sons’ wife. He throws her, bringing Sean into it. He wonders about what will happen if she starts sleeping with Sean Slater? She asks him what makes him so sure she hasn’t> He tells her, “what? Can’t I talk to my own kids? My sons just told me he’s leaving and I have to come home to this?” Lauren runs down and tells them to stop. Max apologizes and says they will calm down. Lauren tells him he has to go, and he has to go now.
Dot catches up with Rachel and asks if she’s seen, Bradley? She says he’s upstairs. Dot tells her no, he left earlier and left this note for her. She tells Rachel he’s gone off on his own. The note reads that he’s so sorry for not going with his mum. He says he is going to spend some time on his own. He can’t think straight in Walford and hopes she can understand. He apologizes for leaving her on her own, especially with Granddad being ill. He tells her to send Granddad his love. He tells her to not worry about him, and he’ll be back very soon.
Chelsea yells at the funeral director asking why they haven’t got a contingency plan for this kind of thing. Denise tries to calm her down. Chelsea tells her that she’s surprised she isn’t packing her suitcase! Denise looks at Pat and asks what she’s done now? Pat tells Denise that Carly announced the trip. Carly apologizes.
Jane looks at Ian and tells him if this is going to work then he’ll have to bunk with Peter and Bobby. It’s not fair on Lucy to share her room. Ian is confused. She tells him she knows it’s what he wants.
Jack pulls Phil away. Phil tells him that he’s in the middle of a funeral. Jack tells him he’s found his daughter. Ronnie smiles.
Darren solves the issue and tells them they are going to carry Kevin to the crematorium. Denise wonders what they are doing. He tells her. Dean, Patrick, Mickey, Massood, Darren, and Steven carry Kevin’s casket through the square.