In the worst kept secret of modern times, tonight is the night when Denise goes on a one-way car journey with Lucas and lands up in the water. If this is supposed to be a secret, then the BBC hasn't done a very good job of it. Based on the number of characters in Eastenders who have died - it's about 80 (make that 81) in 25 years and there's a cast of around 60 that means that the avearge life expectancy is about 19 years, a quarter of the national average. So why do people want to live there when the only things they can expect are misery and death?
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The mortality rate in HollyOaks scares me more....they have killed so many people off 
who dies?? Denis, Lucas or both??? cant wait 
I don't think Denise dies. I think it's the prostitute and Lucas identifies her as Denise!! Not sure where Denise has gone, or how she got away, but that's my thinking anyway.
What about Midsummers Murders, fancy living in that village 
lol ok
This Lucas character has been one of the best baddies in a while. My sons can't wait to find out what happens.
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But isn't the prostitute white?
I'm not sure. Believe she was supposed to look like Denise. Anyway that won't matter if it's only Lucas that identifies her will it? I'm sure I heard (or read somewhere) that, as the saying goes, "things are not as they seem"!!!
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The mortality rate in HollyOaks scares me more....they have killed so many people off
Do you know how many poeple have died in Home and Away and Neighbours?
Emmerdale have got it right, they just wipe a whole load out periodically in one foul swoop.
According to Wikipedia, there have been 49 deaths since 1996 in Hollyoaks, 49 in Neighbours since 1985, and 72 in Home and Away since 1988.
So based on numbers of years and deaths I reckon there' about 3.2 deaths per year for Eastenders, Home and Away and Hollyoaks. Neighbours is "safer" at only 2 per year.
And by the way we have 123 deaths in 50 years for Coronation Street (just under 2.5 per year) and 80 in 37 years for Emmerdale (just under 2.2 per year). But with yesterday's news about the 50th anniversary episode of Coronation Street will involve several deaths in possibly the most spectacular disaster of any soap ever, we can expect the average of 2.5 to increase.
I'll have to give my calculator a rest now
So based on numbers of years and deaths I reckon there' about 3.2 deaths per year for Eastenders, Home and Away and Hollyoaks. Neighbours is "safer" at only 2 per year.
And by the way we have 123 deaths in 50 years for Coronation Street (just under 2.5 per year) and 80 in 37 years for Emmerdale (just under 2.2 per year). But with yesterday's news about the 50th anniversary episode of Coronation Street will involve several deaths in possibly the most spectacular disaster of any soap ever, we can expect the average of 2.5 to increase.
I'll have to give my calculator a rest now
I lust after love Lucas. Why did they have to make him a baddie?
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I lust after love Lucas. Why did they have to make him a baddie?
Baddie??? Nutcase more like...Reference:
Baddie??? Nutcase more like...
Well, I suppose he is a bit loopy, but he is gorgeous.
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Well, I suppose he is a bit loopy, but he is gorgeous.
He's scaring me a bit atm (and I didn't know all this was going to happen!!)
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He's scaring me a bit atm
He thinks he's the Messiah.
Oh I say - he's very, very scary
Don Gilet is a good actor. I will miss him when the character leaves.
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And tomorrow - splash
Wohooo Lucas 
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Don Gilet is a good actor. I will miss him when the character leaves.
He's great 
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He's great
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He's great
You two are weird ... he is right scary Reference:
You two are weird ... he is right scary
It's Don Gilet we like, not loopy Lucas.Reference:Yogi
It's Don Gilet we like, not loopy Lucas.
Next you will be telling me it's not real 
a friend of mine saw Lucas shopping in our local TK maxx If I'd have seen him I would have run away!
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Next you will be telling me it's not real
Of course it's real, Rexi.
And by now we know that what we assune is Denise's body has been retrieved from the canal by the police and has been identified by Lucas. There is no reason to suppose that it is not Denise not that we are shown her face as to show a corpse's face which had been in water for several hours would not be appropriate for pre-watershed television.
No doubt Lucas will try to pretend that Denise killed herself but he is forgetting that he has made a serious error. Unless the police are exceptionally incompetent they will discover that she cannot have killed herself by drowning as there won't be any water in her lungs, and of course there will be the neck injuries showing she was strangled.
No doubt Lucas will try to pretend that Denise killed herself but he is forgetting that he has made a serious error. Unless the police are exceptionally incompetent they will discover that she cannot have killed herself by drowning as there won't be any water in her lungs, and of course there will be the neck injuries showing she was strangled.