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Emotional: Linda
Carter (Kellie Bright) consoles her daughter Nancy (Maddy Hill) after
finally telling her the truth about her rape ordeal during Thursday
night's episode of EastEnders
She's finally come clean to the police about her horrific rape ordeal.
And
Linda Carter (Kellie Bright) and her husband Mick (Danny Dyer) decide
to tell their children Nancy and Lee the truth - that their uncle Dean
Wicks (Matt Di Angelo) was responsible for the crime - on the next
episode of the BBC One soap.
The couple sit them down for a difficult heart-to-heart and both teens have very different reactions.
Nancy (Maddy Hill) is totally devastated and breaks down in her mother's arms as they console one another.
But no one
could have expected Lee's reaction since the troubled teen, played by
Danny-Boy Hatchard, loses his temper and lashes out.
It's
up to The Queen Vic landlord Mick to calm his son down before his anger
spirals out of control and he goes looking for revenge.
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Tense: The Queen Vic landlady is
worried about her daughter's reaction, but it's Lee (Danny-Boy Hatchard,
centre) who finds the news hardest to deal with
Comforting: Linda reassures Nancy they will get through it by sticking together as a family
The emotional episode of EastEnders airs on Thursday 22nd January at 7:30pm.
The
latest installment of Albert Square action saw Linda give her statement
to the police after discussing it at length with her loyal husband
Mick.
Meanwhile, Dean continued to deny what happened and manipulate his mother Shirley Carter (Linda Henry) into believing him.
Lashing out: Doting dad Mick (Danny Dyer, left) is forced to stop Lee from doing something he'll regret
Kellie,
who will be competing against her on-screen husband Danny for the best
Serial Drama Performance Award at the NTAs, has been overwhelmed by the
public response to the storyline.
The
38-year-old star was especially humbled by one woman who told her how
the BBC One soap's plot had helped her deal with her own experience of
rape.
'She said she really thought it was important that EastEnders and other programmes show things like this', she told Digital Spy. 'It was just so utterly, utterly humbling.
'At
the end of the day, I'm an actor and this hasn't really happened to me -
but to be faced with someone who it has happened to just reiterated to
me the importance of these storylines and how much we owe to those women
to tell this story.'
Breaking down: The pair sob in each other's arms as they resolve to make Dean pay for what he's done
