Mick Carter makes surprise return in fresh Christmas blow for Linda in EastEnders
Months have passed since Mick Carter vanished at sea - could he be alive?
VIEWERS have been hopeful to see Linda Carter reunited with her husband Mick.
The EastEnders favourite played by Kellie Bright gets a huge surprise ahead of Christmas as he reaches out. Is everything as it seems?
In late 2022, Mick Carter made plans to tie the knot with Janine Butcher and he was over the moon when he learned she was pregnant with his child.
Once he figured out she had been scheming behind his back to drive a wedge between him and ex-wife Linda, Mick finally faced reality and admitted he still wanted to make things work with the latter.
The couple were on the verge of giving their romance another shot but this chance was taken away from them as Mick seemingly died at sea on Christmas Day.
One year later, Linda is struggling to move on but ready to celebrate her best pal Sharon Watts’ wedding in upcoming scenes of the BBC One soap.
While they’ve had some rocky beginnings due to their romance starting off as an affair while she was still married with Phil Mitchell, Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean) and Keanu Taylor (Danny Walters) have finally decided to commit to one another.
Many Walford residents, most particularly Keanu’s mother Karen, have been opposed to their love story.
But despite their toxic mechanisms and penchant for scheming against one another, Sharon and Keanu have remained inseparable, forming a close-knit family with their son Albie.
However, as viewers will remember, Keanu has no idea the tot isn’t even his biological son as Sharon recently found out he had actually been fathered by her former husband Phil.
Sharon has been desperately trying to keep Albie’s parentage a secret but the guilt is clearly gnawing at her.
She thus decides it’s time to push Phil as far as she can away from Albie by allowing Keanu to be legally recognised as the young boy’s father.
The pair head to The Vic to celebrate finally putting Keanu’s name on Albie’s birth certificate – a victory for the hunk who has also been trying to be as involved as he could in the boy’s life.
With only a handful of days before her big wedding day, Sharon later collects her dream wedding dress with her pal Linda Carter.
But once back in the Square, Tommy Moon (Sonny Kendall) accidentally sends the dress flying into the road and Sharon is left devastated.
While Sharon is considering cancelling the wedding as she interprets her misfortune as a strong sign, Linda is shocked to receive a text message from a number she thought she’d forgotten.
After a run-in with Dean Wicks (Matt Di Angelo), Linda is tempted by the bottle again when Mick’s name appears on her phone.
She is later comforted by her mother Elaine Peacock (Harriet Thorpe) who reasons that Dean is behind the mystery text from Mick.
In other scenes, Linda decides to confront Dean herself – but how will it play out?
Could she decide to lash out at him, making him the mystery Christmas Day murder victim?
EastEnders airs from Monday to Thursday from 7.30pm on BBC One.
