EastEnders

Talk about karma! Newly widowed Stacey Slater admits to Max Branning that she killed Archie Mitchell in tonight's EastEnders. And dopey Bradders is still bleeding on the pavement after a rooftop fall!

The big question for me is one of intent - did Bradley jump or did he just lose his grip and fall off? My partner-in-crime, Lisa, thinks that Bradley killed himself to allow Stacey to escape. Now, the only way that happened is if Stacey told him the truth in the bedroom before they made their run for it.

Of course, Stacey got caught by the police and dragged back to the Square. And as she and Max recoil in horror from the sight of a dead ginger, she confides in him that she was Archie's killer. If you tuned into the EastEnders Live: The Aftermath episode on BBC Three, you'll have seen how the rest of the cast found out. What a well-kept secret - even Charlie Clements (who played Bradley) got told a few moments after the live episode finished!

Yes, it's been 25 years of misery for the residents of Albert Square, and tonight we're celebrating with the live episode. Is it uncharitable for us to hope somebody forgets their lines, falls over their feet, or (possibly the best result) Owen claws his way out of his shallow grave at the middle of the Square and rampages around in zombie form, biting the necks of the regulars in the Queen Vic?

Hell, Ronnie would probably still sleep with him in the hopes of getting knocked up.

In addition to the excitement of a live episode, there's the conclusion to the big whodunnit: Who Killed Archie Mitchell?

It begins with accusations flying left right and center. Roxy blames Ronnie for killing their toxic father. Phil interrogates Lucy Beale, while Jack tries to convince Bradley to run like hell out of Walford. Janine j'accuses Peggy for framing her. Arghhh! Whodunnit?

Samantha Janus gets the line of the night as Ronnie: "Yeah, I topped him. Now I'm off to dance on his grave." Meanwhile, in the Queen Vic cellar, Babs Windsor is overacting her little heart out. Funnily enough, for a half hour episode, the plot meanders quite a bit, but most of the action centered around Ronnie's revelation of sexual abuse at Archie's hands, and Bradley's escape from Walford.

It's not quite a Richard Curtis movie, but tonight's EastEnders packed in a wedding (possibly the shortest in the show's history) and what looks like a potentially fatal accident for poor Danielle. As tonight's episode ended, the undertakers were already moving in to take measurements.

Lording it over the whole episode, sinister Archie striking terror in Peggy for daring to wear a plunging neckline to her own wedding, and skulking around as Danielle tried to reveal everything to a baffled Ronnie. He had all the hallmarks of a modern day Dracula.

I'm not normally a soap watcher, but I'll tune in for special occassions like this. Samantha Janus and Lauren Crace put on an emotional rollercoaster of an episode. Up to this point, Danielle (played by Crace) has been mildly annoying with her perma-constipated expression and fumbled attempts to reveal her secret to Ronnie. In the lead up to tonight's thrilling episode, Archie has been trying to suppress Danielle's secret, once with electrical wire.