Watch Me, Daddy!
Well, Stella’s bullying ways were exposed in last night’s Eastenders when Ben managed to tell his dad that all was not well. The blood seeping through his shirt was a major clue also. And after a few laps of the snooker table, and Stella trying to pin it all on Ian, Phil finally twigged that Stella was nuts.
As Ben poured his little heart out, Peggy asked if she had abused Ben in other ways. “No, nothing like that” said Ben, showing an impressive understanding as to what was being alluded to for one who had previously confused his dad’s pep talk on puberty with the idea that getting ritually bullied and tortured was normal for little boys growing up.
Phil - egged on by Peggy’s rallying cry, “make her pay” - tracked Stella down to a disused factory (in a city of 7 million people, it’s still amazing how useful an A-Z can be) before cornering her on the rooftop. Stella’s last words were “watch me, daddy” before plummeting to her death on the bonnet of her wedding car. It reminded me of the climax to the fantastic political drama, “House of Cards”, in which Mattie Storin asked Francis Urqhuart, “Can I trust you Daddy?”, before he threw her to her death.
But did Stella jump or was she pushed? In a little Eastenders mystery, the vital scene wasn’t shown, but we saw Phil looking at his hands. Was he looking at the hands of a killer? Or making a mental note to buy some Fairy washing up liquid? I’m sure well find out soon.