SHOCKING SECRET FOR YOU!! Bea’s utterly bizarre plan for Honey’s stolen money revealed in EastEnders
Just when you thought Bea Pollard (Roni Ancona) couldn’t get any stranger.
The sinister newcomer’s obsession with Honey (Emma Barton) reaches a new level of eerie in tonight’s episode of Eastenders, where her twisted plan to swindle the Mitchells is revealed…
Bea Pollard is an odd one. Viewers saw her manipulation and intensity on full display when she rocked up to the Square earlier this in January for a school reunion.
Not only did Walford’s Weirdest new resident manage to persuade Linda Carter that she bullied her when they were kids , but successfully guilted her into giving a place to stay. Luckily for Linda, Bea soon developed a new fixation.
When she landed a job at the Minute Mart, Bea worked alongside Honey Mitchell, with whom she soon developed a bizarre fixation.
But when her scheme to treat its formidable owner, Suki Panesar-Unwin (Balvinder Sopal) like a personal piggy bank went pear-shaped, she managed to charm Vinny Panesar (Shiv Jalota) into giving Honey her job back. But Bea was still without a job, prompting a guilt-ridden Honey to ask her new friend to house sit while she and the Mitchell clan went on holiday.
That’s when it all went south. A nasty feud with Elaine Peacock (Harriet Thorpe) over cash lead Bea to apply for a credit card… using Honey’s identity.
So began the ballad of bunny-boiler Bea going full Single White Female on Honey and the Mitchells.
When Billy Mitchell (Perry Fenwick) returned, he was immediately uncomfortable just how much Bea had got their feet under table. Although Honey reluctantly agreed with her family that was time for Bea to move out, she quickly changed her mind after finding out that Bea had nowhere else to go.
Big mistake.
Bea has a major dark side, when she revealed her desire to kill a Walford resident – unaware they were already dead.
That dark side is on full display in tonight’s episode of EastEnders, where Bea steps up her plan to cheat the Mitchells out of every penny to crazy new heights…
The episode finds Bea in a generous mood, having just treated Honey and Billy to a slap-up meal out. She offers to make a regular thing of it. But while Honey mistakes a letter from the credit card company, there’s more to Bea’s generosity than meets the eye when she opens the letter – which reveals she’s already run up an eye-watering amount of credit card debt in Honey’s name.
In a desperate attempts to erase some of her debt, Bea pays a visit to the market and tries to take back some clothes she brought for a refund. However, Penny Branning (Kittle Castledine) bluntly explains that they don’t do rentals. Turning nasty, Bea insists that the clothes are poorly made… and even rips an outfit and has the cheek to act like it was already damaged! Penny is having none of it, leaving Bea frustrated…
Returning to Honey, Bea admits her money problems (to an extent) and looks genuinely repentant as she a shaky, yet somewhat genuine, version of the truth ‘Sometimes, I just do things.’ She laments. ‘Just stumble into them, really. It’s because I genuinely want to do something nice for someone. So I close my eyes and just do it, pretending that my bank account will magically sort itself out. It’s so deluded of me.’
Can’t disagree with a single word of that!
But if you think Bea’s about to do the right thing and confess her fraud, you haven’t watched enough EastEnders. What she actually does is reveal that she’s found a flat… only she’s a little bit short for a deposit. You can guess where this this going. With some subtle manipulation , Honey promises to convince Billy to put his hand his pocket and help Bea out of her dire financial situation…
… which doesn’t seem quite so dire later in the Vic, when Minute Mart’s answer to Fatal Attraction flirts with Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) and offers to treat him to wine tasting, glass blowing, and even a helicopter ride over the city!
That’s her real plan for Honey’s cash! Not a flat, but the kind of bizarre montage of random dates that would make Married At First Sight In Australia blush!
Understandably, Ian is a little taken aback by Bea’s intensity, as they have only been on one date so far. Bea responds with a worrying mantra’Seize the day and squeeze the joy out of it. That’s what I always say.’
Blimey. Sounds like the sociopath’s version of Live, Laugh, Love.