EastEnders spoilers: Sharon Watts and Linda Carter both make shocking discoveries about each other ahead of murder
This article contains spoilers from Wednesday’s (December 13) EastEnders, which has not yet aired on TV but is available to watch now on BBC iPlayer.
Sharon Watts and Linda Carter (Letitia Dean and Kellie Bright) have been best friends for years, and yet they have still managed to shock each other in recent EastEnders scenes.
Following Dean Wicks’ (Matt Di Angelo) shocking act in the Queen Vic that saw him play Linda’s false confession about the rape, Sharon tried to contact Linda, unaware that she had been drinking.
Instead of speaking to her best friend, Linda confided in sponsor Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) that she had hit the bottle, but swore she didn’t want to go down the path again.
Phil gave her some tough love which seemed to do the trick, and soon she was ready to face Sharon’s hen party.
As the Knights got the Vic ready downstairs, Sharon and Linda started getting ready in her bedroom, and the conversation soon turned to Phil as Sharon questioned why he had come over.
Linda deflected by asking why she was so bothered, before jumping to the conclusion that Sharon still had feelings for him and reminding her that she was about to marry the father of her son.
Flustered, Sharon let slip that Keanu wasn’t Albie’s dad, before sitting down on Linda’s bed and discovering the empty bottle of vodka from the night before.
Before either of them could explain any further, the hen party was in full swing, and Sharon tried her best to avoid Linda. However, she couldn’t stay away for long, and soon an argument ensued between them.
When Sharon insisted that she didn’t want to talk about Albie’s real dad, Linda couldn’t work out why Sharon had suddenly become so closed off, until Sharon pointed out that she couldn’t trust Linda not to blab when she’d been drinking.
Devastated Linda soon turned to the bottle again, and a concerned Sharon later found her drunk in the toilets.
Linda still couldn’t understand why Sharon had kept the secret from her for so long, but was touched when Sharon explained that she hadn’t wanted to burden her when she had so much going on with Dean being back.
As she opened up to Linda, she made it clear that she didn’t want anything to change between her and Phil, and left Linda emotional as she pointed out that she was her best friend, before holding her hair back while she was sick, as a true friend would.
With the pair both set to be involved in the upcoming Christmas murder, will they continue to have each other’s backs, or will the pressure get too much for them?
