EastEnders live episode - shock, unused ending!

SCENE 3952/54E. BRIDGE STREET/SQUARE. EXT. NIGHT. 20.00.


LOT


WELL HARD


[GO TO THE GHOSTLY SPIRIT OF WELL HARD
MOVING AWAY FROM THE CROWD, INTO THE
DARKENED SQUARE. SUDDENLY HE’S CONVULSED
BY SOBS. ROBBIE APPEARS BEHIND, PERTURBED]


ROBBIE: Well Hard? I thought you were dead …


[WELL HARD TURNS, LOOKS AT HIS FORMER MASTER]


WELL HARD: [CHOKED] Ruff.


[WELL HARD LOOKS OVER, SEES MAX TRYING TO
COMFORT A DISTRAUGHT STACEY WHO IS NOW ON
HER KNEES, WEEPING HER HEART OUT

ROBBIE CROUCHES BESIDE WELL HARD. THE DOG
CAN’T BARK - A HISSED, DISTRAUGHT WHIMPER]


WELL HARD: Whimper.


ROBBIE: What’s that? Janine’s fallen down a mine?


[THE DOG GLARES AT ROBBIE: YOU PRAT]


ROBBIE: What you trying to tell me, boy?


WELL HARD: [MANIC WHIMPER]

SUBTITLES: It was me. I killed Archie. It was me.


[TAKE ROBBIE’S REACTION, STUNNED]


WELL HARD: [MANIC WHIMPER]

SUBTITLES: It was me!


[OUT ON A GRIEF STRICKEN WELL HARD]


FADE OUT