After helping her out last week, Whitney was keen to return the favour by befriending Lauren Branning. In a rare moment of social classes and stereotypes being thrown out the window, Lauren accepted Whitney's offer of friendship and the pair went in search of a DVD to watch.
Whitney's brother Ryan soon turned up and this time she was more than happy to reveal to her new best friend that he was in fact her sibling and not her friend.
Suddenly, as Ryan turned, he clashed with Ian, who seemed to be in a rush. The pair not only exchanged words, but glances too.
Is this the start of a new feud? Whitney, constantly impressed by her brother, thought it was the funniest thing she'd seen all day. Lauren however was not so sure.
"He's alright when you get to know him." She said of her boyfriends father.
At Janine's flat, Ryan literally dropped the girls off before heading out once more. Promising Whitney he'd be back soon. After some time sat on the sofa and after Janine had left them alone to go to Dawn and Garry's engagement party, Whitney began to seek out some "fun". The fun inevitably led to alcohol and considering Janine regularly attempts at getting free drinks in the pub, she does like to keep her cupboard well stocked. Feeling let down by Ryan and having her tongue loosened by her self titled cocktail 'Whitney's Wobbler', Whitney soon began to talk about Tony.
"He gets me." She tells Lauren, before asking if she ever thought of what he tried to do to her. Lauren pulled no punches and reminded Whitney just what Tony was like. Rather than fly off the handle, Whitney conceded that she shouldn't have brought up his name and apologised to Lauren. This was a nice moment of a blossoming friendship between the two and suggests Lauren has gained Whitney's respect.
In the cafe Bianca and Heather discussed the flyer for the Speed Dating night that had been put on the notice board. Bianca was both shocked and clearly disappointed to hear that "My Ricky" had signed up. On a side note, Heather seemed completely happy to talk about the prospect of Ricky finding "Miss Right", which surely crosses him off the list of potential fathers to her baby.
Also in the cafe, Dot and granddaughter Dotty aka Kirsty (but Dot doesn't know that), sought refuge after discovering their toilet was blocked. Too skint, as Dotty put it, to go to the cinema and concerned with the cost of a plumber, Dot reluctantly wrote out a card advertising a room to let. The room is of course the one she's been doing up ready for Jim's return and so she did this with a great sense of desperation. Anyone who remembers the money Bradley gave her, it's still under the sink and she seems to have no intentions of using it right now.
Ronnie called Joel and invited him to Dawn and Garry's party.
Despite them both having a connection, Joel has a hard time remembering all these perfect memories Ronnie seems to have of their youth. Ronnie, clinging to her childhood, is definitely causing Joel to have second thoughts about having her back in his life, especially since the intimidating Mr Mitchell is always towering over them watching on.
Archie also turned up at the party, as it was an open invitation you see. Like an unwanted vampire with an invite, Archie strode into the middle of an empty dance floor as everyone watched in anticipation. Dawn urged Garry to ask him to leave, but Hobbs wasn't prepared to get involved. After all, he'd already escaped the wrath of one Mitchell recently, no need to push his luck.
Archie had come with a bottle of wine he'd purchased earlier in the day. Which doesn't seem that out of the ordinary, except when you remember what he had on his drinks counter on Thursday, when he and Roxy threw a party that nobody came to. I know Roxy can put it away, but I can't believe there wasn't one bottle left from the stash that Archie couldn't have brought with him.
Elsewhere on the square, Dot and Heather's boss Mr. Opodopolous turned up unexpected and unrevealed as the camera ensured we never saw his face.
Heather, running full speed round Walford trying to find Mrs Branning, seemed to forget she was pregnant and not only did several laps, but did it on an empty stomach.
And Mo took her plan to fleece the people of Walford with Tarot Card reading a step further by getting into costume and setting up a gazebo in the middle of the square. An increasingly optimistic Ricky was a perfect sucker for Mo's mumbo jumbo, as he looked for a sign that the Speed Dating night would go well for him. After clumsy Ricky knocked down the tent, Mo was forced to return to the pub where Phil had previously banished her. There she gatecrashed Charlie and Brenda's date by demanding her son-in-law not only pay for her services, but buy her a drink as well.
Ryan, torn between monitoring Ronnie's date Joel and keeping an eye on his landlady Janine berating his sister, opted for the former. Laying into Bianca, as Whitney was slumped over the table drunk, he reminded her she was her responsibility and that he barely knew her.
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