Episode 8774 (8th April 2020)

==Plot==
In the cafe, Will is shaking drinking his coffee and Harriet apologises for urging him to get out of the house. At the police station, Billy loses his temper, insisting he hasn't done anything. Malone starts the interrogation and makes it clear he has set him up for the assault of a man who works for him and he has witnesses who will all say Billy did it. Lydia and Belle come to the lingerie party while Jamie watches. Paddy is relieved to find Chas with Eve and gives her the toy he's found. Chas questions why he's been rushing around the village just for that and questions if he's okay. At Dale View, Bob tries to cheer Wendy up after getting her handbag robbed. He offers to stay for a bit but things turn awkward when he tries to bring up what he told her earlier. She asks him to just forget about it. Victoria and Luke are still struggling with Wendy's map. They are overjoyed when they spot the box with an ex on it but soon realise it's empty. Marlon and Matty poke out from behind the building and gleefully reveal they've already found it. They read the letter stating they'll get their prize back at the pub. In the salon, the lingerie party gets underway but things turn awkward for Belle when Andrea alludes to her and Jamie's great sex life. Malone turns on the tape recorder and starts interrogating Billy. Malone tries to pin the assault on him. Will goes to Cain who angrily fills him in on the situation. Cain questions why he torched the car but Will tells him he was trying to stop things from getting any worse. Meanwhile, Malone continues to put pressure on Billy, telling him he could get up to ten years in prison for this and provoking him by mentioning what that would do to Dawn, banging on about her addiction and saying she could lose Lucas. Billy then attacks him before being dragged away by police officers. In the cell, Malone tells Billy he can make all this disappear if he just cooperates but Billy refuses to work with him. Jamie drives up to Belle and angrily asks why she was at Andrea's party but Belle tells him to act normal and stop trying to control her. Priya tells Al she want to give them a go but asks it to between just them until they're sure. They kiss. Wendy opens up to Bob about having lost a key ring she got from Lee in the robbery and how she doesn't know how she will be able to cope without him. They share a moment but Wendy tells him that after getting her heart broken by her ex-husband, she's happier on her own. Luke interrupts them and tells Wendy that he and Victoria are over and she apologises for trying to set them up. In the pub, Chas questions if Paddy is okay and tell him he needs to stop thinking he's always getting things wrong with Eve. Marlon and Matty arrives and excitedly shows of their winning envelope but are disappointed when they are given the prize of a meal for two in the pub. Billy returns to the Mill and tells Cain and Will that they all need to work for Malone again. Jamie tells Paddy he's gone through the accounts and states the only way they could sort the financial issues is to let Belle go but Paddy is reluctant. At the Mill, the group are joined by Malone but but Cain insists that they're done with him. He tells them all he's asking is one more job and then it's done with and he will leave them and their families alone. Cain says they'll do it. 
==Cast==
===Regular cast===
*Will Taylor - Dean Andrews
*Harriet Finch - Katherine Dow Blyton
*Dawn Taylor - Olivia Bromley
*Lucas Taylor - Dexter Ansell (uncredited)
*Billy Fletcher - Jay Kontzle
*Lydia Hart - Karen Blick
*Belle Dingle - Eden Taylor-Draper
*Andrea Tate - Anna Nightingale
*Jamie Tate - Alexander Lincoln
*Kerry Wyatt - Laura Norton
*Nicola King - Nicola Wheeler
*Leyla Harding - Roxy Shahidi
*Chas Dingle - Lucy Pargeter
*Paddy Kirk - Dominic Brunt
*Eve Dingle - Bonnie & Billy Clement (uncredited)
*Wendy Posner - Susan Cookson
*Bob Hope - Tony Audenshaw
*Victoria Sugden - Isabel Hodgins
*Luke Posner - Max Parker
*Marlon Dingle - Mark Charnock
*Matty Barton - Ash Palmisciano
*Cain Dingle - Jeff Hordley
*Priya Kotecha - Fiona Wade
*Al Chapman - Michael Wildman
===Guest cast===
*DI Malone - Mark Womack
*Police Officer - Matthew Canny
==Locations==
*Café Main Street - Interior
*Hotten Police Station - Interigation room and Billy's cell
*Pear Tree Cottage - Front garden and Beauty & Bernice salon
*Church Lane
*Dale View - Hall and living room/kitchen
*Field
*Apartment One, Mill Cottage - Living room/kitchen
*Hotten Road
*Hawksford Outdoor Pursuits - Office
*The Woolpack - Bar and back room
==Notes==
*This episode was originally due to be broadcast at 8:00pm on 2nd April but pushed back due to the programme reducing its weekly output from six to three episodes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
*Viewing Figures: UK broadcast - 6,443,542 viewers (12th place).
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