Monday 8th July 2013

Dexter gets the week off as it means to continue as he shouts at Sam until Ava suggests he leave.

Ian is trying to say he can pay for the damage to the restaurant despite the fact Evil Lucy knows full well he hasn't got two pennies to rub together. Then it turns out the police are coming to visit!

Ava tries to explain herself to Dexter but he's too shouty to listen to reason, insisting that his mother end things with Sam.

It seems Dexter is taking time out from work to hassle his mother and unfortunately, the ever changeable Phil is not in a forgiving mood!

Meanwhile, Ian - thinking that Carl was trying to send him a message - assures him that it wasn't his idea to get the fuzz involved as he looks suitably baffled... which causes some concern for Jean. Although, apparently not quite enough for her to curl up into a ball on the pavement. Shirley just tells her to keep quiet though.

Ava explains that breaking up with Sam is quite difficult and Dexter does some more shouting. At least he's consistent.

At the restaurant, Ian does one of his more subtle guilty acts as he tries to deflect everything regarding the fire in as obvious and as suspicious a manner as possible. Fortunately, new head Peter is on hand to give some useful information.

Michael seems to be involving Half-Day Alice in his game.

Dexter doesn't seem too happy to find out Ava knew about his mother's philandering but she's having none of it.

Bianca's attempts to climb the greasy pole of Walford's worst woman resume as she gives another few choruses of "poor me, poor me" to Shirley. Their loud chat comes to a stop when Peter comes in to the cafffffffff and when Shirley tries to reassure Bianca by inquiring about the investigation, it seems Peter is out for BLOOOOOD! Then Evil Lucy says that Ian's apparent obliviousness to the event was how his illness started last time.

Before King Phil comes to drag Dexter to his job - a truly shocking occurrence in Walford - Ava tells him that his constant shouting isn't going to get him anywhere... That advice is likely to fall on deaf ears in Walford.

Bianca pleads some more for Jean to lie just as the fuzz appear.

Oh, goodness - a mention of Lauren!

It seems that Peter has become something of the amateur detective and it looks as if he's favouring Twitney as his prime suspect. This logically leads him to Bianca, who is understandably defensive on the topic and her own alibi further confirms Peter's suspicions and when he runs off to tell the police about this Bianca shouts out that it wasn't Twitney... oops.

King Phil is still in mother hen mode again but gives Dexter the advice everyone should have given him by now - shut the hell up about your father, no one cares.

The police are putting the pressure on Twitney but she's unable to explain why Bianca might have said she  was home when she was out. DUN DUN DUN!

Ian is apparently so stupid that despite now having a crime number, he isn't even going to claim on the insurance... why? Even if he thinks this was Carl putting "the frightners" on him, why wouldn't he claim on his  insurance? How does a police investigation create bad PR? Why doesn't he tell anyone about Carl?! All of these questions and more will never be answered!

Peter - having just told the idiotic Ian - suspects Twitney and marches around for the standard shouty confrontation. For some reason Ian pops in, presumably to stop fisticuffs between Peter and Tyler.

Dexter pops in the Vic to call out Sam for a final shouty battle.

Ian FINALLY comes clean to Peter about the blackmail about damned time.

Speaking of confessions, Bianca confesses to Twitney that she was responsible for the damage at the restaurant... Twitney is not best pleased.

Sam appears at Dexter's house and is greeted by what else but Dexter shouting. That's about it. No doubt this will be happening again several times though, so no need to worry if you missed anything!

Shirley, Bianca and Jean all breathe a collective sigh of relief at the fact Ian has dropped the case due to extreme levels of idiocy and then Bianca tries to rewrite history by saying that she did it because Ian was trash talking Twitney... which is a lie and also doesn't really excuse letting Twitney take the blame.

Max gets the wedding ring back from Kirstie... so much for that relationship.

Sam tries to schmooze the eternally shouty Dexter but just when it seems things are going well, the shouty one ends the episode as he began it - shouting. The shouting of an ultimatum - Dexter or Sam... given how insufferable Dexter has been, that seems like a no-brainer.