EastEnders newbie Oscar Branning (Pierre Moullier) lands himself in hot water next week when he attacks one of his own.
As viewers of the BBC One soap know, Oscar has recently returned to Walford having been released from a three-month stretch in a young offenders institute.
He’d been locked up for joyriding and subsequently thrown out of mum Tanya’s (Jo Joyner) house when his associates – who he’d tipped off the police about – attempted to petrol bomb her house.
With nowhere else to go, sister Lauren (Jacqueline Jossa) was forced to take him in.
One of the lads, Mike (Tai Hilferink) has been sending a number of threatening messages since, determined to track him down and get revenge.
In episodes that air this week, we’ll see Mike turn up on Oscar’s doorstep when he’s babysitting nephews Louie (Jake McNally) and Jimmy, leaving a firm warning that he’s not to be messed with.
By next week, Lauren discovers the altercation, and insists that her brother ask their uncle Jack (Scott Maslen) for protection.
Oscar is adamant to handle things himself – but of course, it doesn’t exactly go to plan. Mike and his crony Harrison show up, and things kick off!
Jack steps in, and Oscar is handed a final warning from Lauren. But that night, with his nerves growing, he hears a suspicious noise in the house and goes to investigate.
Spotting a hooded figure, he lashes out – not realising that it’s Lauren’s fiancé Peter Beale (Thomas Law), who orders him to leave.
Lauren tries to get to the root of her brother’s problems, and gets him to open up on why his first instinct was to attack. During their conversation, she learns more about his time in the youth offenders.
Determined to help him, she has a huge row with a reluctant Peter, before storming off to Jimmy’s first support group alone. Meanwhile, Oscar encounters Mike again.
