Until Masood says if he wanted to marry Zainab - he'd have done it months ago... but apparently she's rolling with the punches as they're fine later on. Oh and despite Mini-Masood now being able to speak, they apparently only JUST realised that all four of their children have never been in the same room together... Eh, I suppose Eastenders is at least avoiding the cliché of Asian families being closer...
Z shows Masood she is fun by apparently mastering the art of sorcery and conjuring from the aether, a games console complete with Guitar Hero guitar attachment but before we can see her attempt to beat AJ's score on Livin' On A Prayer (WE'RE HALFWAY THERE!), Masood unplugs the TV. You shouldn't do that... bad for electronics.
Cue lengthy discussion of feeeeeeeeeelings... wow, thirteen year olds writing about how their parents not letting them dye their hair black is the worst thing in the history of time is more emotionally articulate and nuanced than this trite nonsense. FINALLY, after what seems like more time than for an accretion disk around a sun to form a planet, that planet to cool, life to arise and evolve into bipedal lifeforms with aspirations of writing bad soap operas - Masood gets it over with and says he's not marrying her... which might have had SOME impact, if not for the fact he said it TEN MINUTES AGO!
AJ goes to tell Denise about THE CLEANING... and uses it as an excuse to ask her out for lunch. Which fails and so he decides to start drinking outside the Vic... and is apparently drunk enough to hit on Kat and Bianca? Both of them being below the poverty line are more than willing to start drinking at lunch time. It's not as if they have dozens of things to do to start their own business.
Oh and apparently Denise shows up... and she comments on his intoxication. Goodness. She puts together the imminent divorce of Masood and Zainab almost immediately. Funny how people are often incapable of putting anything together in Eastenders but sometimes they just INSTANTLY get something... like that one time when Abi became a human lie detector.
AJ apparently wants to buy champagne for Kat and Bianca... but hasn't the money... and uncharacteristically, Saint Alfie isn't even going to extend him credit... Drinking is an understandable (if unhealthy) reaction to this kind of situation but why on Earth would you want to get price gouged for overpriced low quality fizz in the Vic? We may never know as later, AJ is dead to the world with a death grip on his pint glass. No, seriously - Poxy has to pry it from his hand.
Tamwar goes to get cheered up by Arfuuuuuuuuuuur who asks what he's worried about - after all his parents have broken up lots! Perhaps he has some wisdom from DA STREET (as imagined by middle aged white men whose knowledge of subatomic particles greatly exceeds their understanding of young mixed race urban individuals). Nope. It was hard when his parents broke up... that's about it.
We almost escape the Masoods as the rest of DA YOUFF find out about Twitney & Tyler getting married. Tamwar sits in the back being sarcastic... and looking like a manikin .. if mothers ever want an example of "the wind will change and your face will stay like that", look no further than Tamwar as a cautionary tale. He also seems surprised that they're going to announce the engagement in The Vic... not particularly surprising he didn't get into Oxbridge if that comes as a surprise, he'd be lucky to get into a swimming pool with that lack of wits.
Dot offers some sagacious words to the perpetually tummy troubled Tamwar - they'll either sort things out or they won't. For some reason, when he returns home with his little brother in tow, he thinks it's a good idea for him to sit and overhear the "emotional" blow-by-blow of the breakdown of their parents' marriage. Yeah, that's going to give the boy a whole mess of baggage.
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