List of EastEnders: E20 episodes

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EastEnders: E20 is a British teen drama Internet soap opera, available on BBC Online, the official website of the BBC. The series is a spin-off from the long-running soap opera EastEnders and was created by Diederick Santer. It is set in Walford, a fictional borough of London, and follows the stories of teenagers who arrive in an attempt to escape from various problems. To date, there are three series available. The first episode of the first series was made available on 8 January 2010 and the first series ran for 12 episodes until 25 January. Each episode is between 3 and 16 minutes in length. The second series was made available from September 2010 and contains 10 episodes of 14 minutes each,[1] following complaints from fans that some episodes in series one were too short. The third series, consisting 15 episodes of around 10 minutes long, was originally available from 21 September until 21 October 2011. All three series are still available on the BBC website.

The first series follows the characters of Zsa Zsa Carter (Emer Kenny), Fatboy (Ricky Norwood), Mercy Olubunmi (Bunmi Mojekwu) and Leon Small (Sam Attwater), who meet in the first episode and decide to squat together in a flat at 89b George Street. The second follows Asher Levi (Heshima Thompson) and his brother Sol (Tosin Cole), Naz Mehmet (Emaa Hussen) and Stevie Dickinson (Amanda Fairbank-Hynes), who move into the flat above the beauty salon at 10 Turpin Road. The series 1 characters all make appearance in series 2, and Fatboy is a recurring character. The third series follows Donnie Lester (Samuell Benta), Ava Bourne (Sophie Colquhoun) and Mercy's sister Faith Olubunmi (Modupe Adeyeye), as well as brief appearances by Sol and Naz, and recurring appearances by Fatboy. Additionally, many EastEnders characters make cameo appearances throughout the three series.

Three omnibus editions of series one were available on BBC Red Button and BBC iPlayer for one week each in January 2010, and the episodes were edited into three 30-minute episodes for BBC Three, broadcast in April and May 2010. Five omnibus editions of series two were shown on BBC Three, and this continued for series 3. The first two series were written by a team of thirteen writers from London aged between 17 and 22 who responded to a writing competition and attended a summer school in August 2009 as part of the BBC's new talent initiative, where they created the entire first series.[2] Different writers were brought in for series 3, including EastEnders actors Himesh Patel, Charlie G. Hawkins and Arinze Kene. John Yorke, along with Santer for series one, Bryan Kirkwood from series two and Sarah Miller from series 3, executively produces the series, and Deborah Sathe is producer. Michael Keillor directed the first two series, and John Howlett the third.

SeriesEpisodesOriginally available
PremiereFinale
1 12 8 January 2010 25 January 2010
2 10 7 September 2010 7 October 2010
3 15 21 September 2011 21 October 2011

Series 1

All episodes in series 1 were directed by Michael Keillor.

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No. in
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TitleWritten by[3]LengthCharacter cameosOriginal air date
11"Episode 1"Alex Oates15m 40sZainab Masood, Lucy Beale, Lucas Johnson, Mo Harris, Masood Ahmed, Chelsea Fox, Sam Butcher, Sally McDonald8 January 2010 (2010-01-08)
Zsa Zsa arrives in Albert Square on the run from her stepfather, Andy, who thinks she is inside 89b George Street. He leaves her belongings outside and waits for her. Leon is inside with Lucy Beale. He hears Andy shouting outside and when Lucy points out where Zsa Zsa is hiding, Leon defends Zsa Zsa, causing Lucy to leave. Mercy and Fatboy leave the community centre where Fatboy's attempts to encourage more young people to the church by setting up a website called godlypodly.co.uk has left them both humiliated. Zsa Zsa's clothes catch Fatboy's eye and he and Mercy take the bags. Andy catches up with Zsa Zsa but Leon fights him off her. Zsa Zsa runs off and Leon searches for her. He bumps into Fatboy and Mercy and persuades them to help look for Zsa Zsa. They find her but Andy's car comes round the corner and the four run to 89b George Street, which Zsa Zsa accesses with a key. Mercy then goes to the bathroom to take a pregnancy test. Leon tells Fatboy his alcoholic father has kicked him out of the house and Fatboy says his parents were killed in a drive-by shooting. The four then decide to stay in the flat.[4][5]
22"Episode 2"Emer Kenny11m 56sSally McDonald
Lucas Johnson
Heather Trott
George Trott
Lucy Beale, Jane Beale
Chelsea Fox
9 January 2010 (2010-01-09)
After spending their first night in the flat, Mercy has 12 unanswered phone calls from her grandmother. Worried that her grandmother will not fund her university place, she takes Fatboy to a bible class to help with ideas for the website, but he decides to leave when he sees Benjamin, the church's youth minister. Zsa Zsa wakes up and dumps Leon's things outside as she wants the flat to herself. She leaves the keys inside and gets locked out. Fatboy and Mercy return, and Fatboy sees Lucy and comes up with a plan. Mercy acts drunk in front of Lucy, and Leon asks for Lucy's help to get Mercy into the café. Lucy drops her bag and Fatboy takes the keys, throwing them to Zsa Zsa. On her way back to the flat, Zsa Zsa bumps into Heather Trott and recognises her baby George. In the café, Fatboy flirts with Jane Beale before Zsa Zsa returns Lucy's keys to her bag while she is in the toilet.[6][7]
33"Episode 3"Florence Vincent9m 37sHeather Trott
Chelsea Fox
11 January 2010 (2010-01-11)
There is no food in the flat, so Mercy says everyone should put in £20. Zsa Zsa suggests anyone who does not make the money has to leave the flat. She goes to the launderette where Heather works, and steals her purse while she is in the back office. Fatboy tries to collect money, claiming it is for charity, but nobody will donate. He challenges Leon to strip in the launderette, which he does. Mercy meets Benjamin in the café and asks to borrow the money. Fatboy makes a call to someone and asks if they can lend him £40, and later gives half to Leon. After finding a photo of George in Heather's purse, Zsa Zsa returns the money. In the flat, she tells Leon she has not got the money, so he gives her his £20 and tells the others it looks like he is leaving. He then receives a call from his father and, worried he could be arrested for GBH, says he will think of something.[8][9]
44"Episode 4"Kashman Harris8m 23sIan Beale
Chelsea Fox
13 January 2010 (2010-01-13)
Leon's father, Malcolm, leaves the police station and calls his son but Leon ignores it as he has boxing practice. Mercy and Fatboy go the café to work on the website project, and then the chip shop where Fatboy accuses Ian Beale of racism because he does not serve the food they want. Malcolm turns up at Leon's practice and Leon asks him to leave but he says he will only go when Leon gives him his money back. Leon does not know about any money, but takes his father back to the flat. Leon picks up the jar of leftover money the gang collected, but refuses to give it to his father. Malcolm punches Leon in the stomach and takes the money. Zsa Zsa goes to see Leon at practice but finding him gone, returns to the flat where a man is waiting outside. Ian, the owner of the flat, brings the man inside. Leon and Zsa Zsa hide in a cupboard where they overhear Ian saying the man can move in next week. Ian moves a chair, putting it in front of the cupboard doors and trapping Leon and Zsa Zsa inside.[10][11]
55"Episode 5"Abigail Pahnke6m 41sShirley Carter, George Trott Chelsea Fox14 January 2010 (2010-01-14)
Fatboy pays Leon and Zsa Zsa to give him some time in the flat with Mercy. He asks Mercy to sit and talk but she says she has to go. Leon and Zsa Zsa go to an Indian restaurant and order the hottest thing on the menu. Mercy goes to a clinic to discuss abortion, while Fatboy cooks for her at home. On the way back from the restaurant, Zsa Zsa bumps into Shirley who tells her there is nothing for her in Walford. Leon gets a call saying that his father is in hospital and goes to see him. When Mercy gets home, Fatboy's meal is cold. He is angry as she promised to be there but then she tells him she is pregnant.[12][13]
66"Episode 6"Muge Ahmet4m 38sHeather Trott, George Trott
Chelsea Fox
16 January 2010 (2010-01-16)
Heather asks Zsa Zsa to look after George. In the café, Fatboy asks Mercy who the father of her baby is. She gets annoyed with him and the laptop gets knocked onto the floor, breaking it. When Fatboy asks again who she slept with, Mercy walks out in anger and goes to the community centre to pray. Zsa Zsa asks Leon to help look after George and it brings them closer together. Heather collects George and Leon helps her with the pram, then comes back in and kisses Zsa Zsa.[14][15]
77"Episode 7"Charlie George Weedon6m 41sShirley Carter
Chelsea Fox
17 January 2010 (2010-01-17)
Mercy and Fatboy work on their project but he is still annoyed about the laptop breaking. Fatboy asks Mercy how she will pay for a child and says her parents will go crazy. They argue and she leaves. He runs after her to apologise. Leon visits Shirley who asks where Zsa Zsa is. He says she is visiting her father and Shirley reveals he is dead. Zsa Zsa is tidying her father's grave when Leon arrives and they flirt with each other, but then start talking and he says he visits his mother's grave. They kiss again, this time passionately, and have sex in the cemetery. Afterwards, Zsa Zsa says it was wrong and Leon says love makes people do funny things, but Zsa Zsa says it was just sex.[16][17]
88"Episode 8"Matt Williamson7m 22sTamwar Masood
Chelsea Fox
20 January 2010 (2010-01-20)
Mercy meets her grandmother in the community centre, who says Fatboy is a bad influence on her. Tamwar Masood offers to help Mercy with the website. Fatboy talks to Benjamin, saying Mercy is in trouble. Back at the flat, Fatboy and Mercy argue, and she leaves. Mercy goes to Tamwar for his help and Fatboy walks in thinking that Tamwar is her baby's father. Mercy walks out in tears, Leon comforts her and Fatboy sees them holding hands. Mercy then tells Benjamin she is expecting his baby.[18][19]
99"Episode 9"Nicôle Lecky6m 59sShirley Carter, Heather Trott, Patrick Trueman, Libby Fox
Chelsea Fox
21 January 2010 (2010-01-21)
Leon finds out his father has discharged himself from hospital. Fatboy says Mercy is "just another baby mama" and she says he should be more mature like Leon. Shirley pays Zsa Zsa to leave Walford. In the flat, Leon mentions that Mercy was the first girl he met in college, prompting Fatboy to leave. He convinces Patrick Trueman to sell him alcohol and then finds Zsa Zsa. He reveals he knows her father is dead and blurts out that Mercy is pregnant and Leon is the father. They go back to the flat where Leon is giving Mercy a boxing lesson and Zsa Zsa believes what Fatboy has told her.[20][21]
1010"Episode 10"Dionne Farrell3m 59sRicky Butcher
Chelsea Fox
22 January 2010 (2010-01-22)
Zsa Zsa starts throwing Leon and Mercy's belongings out the window and reveals that Fatboy told her that Mercy is pregnant by Leon, but Leon knows nothing about it. Mercy is collecting her things from outside when Benjamin arrives to talk but she sends him away. Fatboy is upset with Zsa Zsa for talking and he apologises to Mercy. Zsa Zsa says Fatboy is doing well for someone whose parents are dead and Mercy reveals they are alive. Angry at Fatboy's lie, Zsa Zsa throws his laptop out of the window. Mercy then doubles over in pain and asks for Benjamin while Leon calls an ambulance. When Fatboy comes back to the flat with Benjamin, Mercy, Leon and Zsa Zsa are gone and he gets a call from Leon to say he is with Mercy.[22][23]
1111"Episode 11"Joyce Lee and Nadia Gasper10m 22sShirley Carter
Chelsea Fox
24 January 2010 (2010-01-24)
Mercy, Zsa Zsa and Leon are in the hospital, where it is revealed Mercy had a miscarriage. Zsa Zsa suddenly leaves and when Fatboy and Benjamin arrive, Mercy asks to be left with Benjamin, so Leon and Fatboy go to look for Zsa Zsa. They find she has packed her bags and left the flat, so Leon continues to look. Benjamin tells Mercy it has worked out for the best, but then apologises and says not to worry about the website. Mercy returns to the flat where Fatboy looks after her. Zsa Zsa is on a bus when Leon forces it to stop. Zsa Zsa tells him to leave her alone after getting off the bus. Leon says he wants her to stay as he has feelings for her but she says she means nothing more to him than Lucy Beale does, and he uses people. He says if she comes to his boxing match, he will know how she really feels.[24][25]
1212"Episode 12"William Hunt9m 35sShirley Carter, Ian Beale, Mo Harris
Chelsea Fox
25 January 2010 (2010-01-25)
Mercy and Fatboy watch Leon's fight, where Fatboy says he has arranged a party for their last day in the flat and advertised it on the Internet. He says he has to go and gives Mercy a flash drive with the completed website project on it. Zsa Zsa is at her father's grave but returns to Albert Square to find Leon. Mercy finds the flat full of people and Leon turns up and is upset that Zsa Zsa is not there and was not at the match. Zsa Zsa goes to the community centre where Coach Roberts tells her Leon has already left. Leon goes outside and Zsa Zsa finds him and he tells her he won the fight and they kiss. Mercy and Fatboy join them just before the police turn up to stop the party. Fatboy invites the other three to stay at his house so they walk off. They find a milk float, which Fatboy hotwires and Zsa Zsa, Leon and Fatboy drive it away, while Mercy says she is going home to her grandmother.[26][27]

Series 2

Series 3

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