EE: next week- is Cindy back from the dead?

carmelina · Joined: 12 May 2006 Location: Estonia

Ian is spooked when he receives chilling death threats, seemingly from beyond the grave. But can his late wife Cindy really be responsible?

Cindy supposedly died nine years ago in prison, where she was locked up for attempting to murder Ian. But when he finds himself being stalked, Ian starts to believe his ex might still be alive - and trying to finish him off.

“Someone is out to get Ian!” says Adam Woodyatt, who plays him. “Ian knows Cindy is supposed to be dead, but he starts to believe anything could be possible.”

The drama begins when a bouquet arrives for Ian, with a card marked ‘RIP’. Then, Peter tells him Lucy has run away to live with her mother - Cindy!

Ian finds his daughter in the park and accuses her of playing pranks on him.

“He thinks Lucy has been winding him up,” explains Adam. “But she insists Cindy has been in touch by e-mail.”

Ian is aghast when Lucy races off towards a blonde woman, who looks just like Cindy. But it isn’t her and Ian laughs at himself for believing such a daft story.

However, as father and daughter walk away, someone IS watching them!

Later, Ian logs onto Lucy’s computer and, pretending to be Lucy, tries to contact the person claiming to be Cindy.

Suddenly, he gets a whiff of his late wife’s favourite perfume and tracks the smell to hallway. Written on the mirror are the words, ‘I’m back, Ian!’

“At that point, it’s no longer a joke,” says Adam. “Ian knows someone got into the house to do that.”

Desperate to get to the bottom of the mystery, Ian visits Cindy’s sister, Gina, who he suspects is behind the spine-chilling events.

He sneaks into Gina’s home through an open door, only for Gina to mistake him for a burglar and point a gun at him!

“Gina is as nutty as Cindy!” says Adam. “But she denies sending the messages.”

Ian returns home and is shell-shocked when Jane opens an ominous letter with a picture that appears to confirm his worst nightmare.

Surely Cindy can’t be about to return from the dead? Then again, Dirty Den did!

the Mirror:

Short of waking up with a horse’s head in his bed – and no, that isn’t an unkind reference to wife Jane – things couldn’t get much spookier for Ian.

For although his first missus, the infamous Sinful Cindy, died in prison during childbirth in 1998, she is now taunting him from beyond the grave with the help of her wayward daughter, Lucy.

On Monday, white lilies arrive for Beale The Squeal with a black-bordered card marked: ‘R.I.P.’ A wreath of white roses for ‘Dad’ follows. And then comes a gory special delivery in a cardboard box – a pig’s heart.

‘It’s sick an’ it’s twisted,’ Ian declares, believing Lucy is responsible, ‘an’ fer the life of me, I can’t think why she’d do this to me.’ But if only it was that simple. His 13-year-old has been in touch with someone via email and, she tells twin Peter, she’s meeting her.

‘Mum. She’s comin’ for me,’ she reveals. ‘She’s taking me away.’

What starts off as being a bizarre series of ‘pranks’ quickly turns into a chilling mystery. And from at first laughing at the idea of Cindy being raised from the dead, by Friday Ian is a terrified wreck.

He catches a whiff of her familiar perfume in his own home, and sees a message daubed in red lipstick on a mirror. ‘Ian,’ it reads. ‘I’m back.’

Still, he refuses to believe that there’s a ghost in the house, and he’s determined not to be grabbed by the ghoulies in this sinister tale.

So he tracks down Cindy’s sister, Gina, with whom he had a brief dalliance and, he logically argues, might now want revenge. But has he been lured into a trap as she pulls out a shotgun?

While Ian’s in danger of joining his dead wife, there are two more twists – and he has every reason to be afraid. Very afraid…

ALSO
Sean’s released from clink on Monday and he has his revenge on the cowardly liars who put him there. He hurts Deano, and chops off some of Chelsea’s hair in the dead of night. ‘I feel raped,’ she sobs. ‘Don’t be such a drama queen,’ her mum snaps. ‘A bad haircut doesn’t amount to rape.’

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