Linda is shaken to her core when she discovers a gun in the Vic! How on earth can Mick explain himself?
Christmas Day in the Carter abode is set to be explosive when Linda discovers a gun lurking in the pub!
So far Mick’s wife Linda hasn’t had the slightest Scooby Doo that her hubby is planning to put himself in extreme danger and perform a heist with Irishman Aidan and his bunch of merry men including Keanu, Vincent and Phil….but she’s about to get an idea! Mick’s other half, L, is shell-shocked and shaken when she finds a shiny gift-wrapped package containing a gun lurking in the Vic. Not quite the festive gift she was hoping to unwrap eh?
As she squares up to her secretive hubby and demands answers, what explanation will a floundering and increasingly desperate, Mick come up with? And are there going to be terrible repercussions?
Linda Carter finds a gun in the Queen Vic and questions Mick
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The drama unfolds when Mick starts to regret saying yes to Aidan and tells him he no longer wants in on the robbery. Phew, has he finally come to his senses?
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However when Mick tells the Irishman, "I'm out", Aidan is secretly seething and is clearly not about to let the landlord wriggle out of things quite that easily.
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Later on the ex-con delivers a special present to the Vic: a gun in a gift- wrapped package. YIKES. He hands the special gift over to Whitney who innocently puts it under the tree.
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But as Christmas Day gets underway, Aidan pays Mick a visit at the pub and informs him that the package contains a gun before making a threat the landlord can't ignore.Poor Mick is sent into a terrible spin when the Irishman gives him a harsh ultimatum: either he go ahead and carry out the heist or he'll be a very sorry man ideed.But what will Mick do when his lovely wife L finds the weapon and demands to know what the hell is going on?
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As a terrified Linda tells Mick he needs to explain himself right now, what will her other half come up with?
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With pressure mounting on all sides, Mick doesn't know which way to turn.
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Meanwhile not surprisingly a scared Linda is left fearing for the future and speaks to her son Johnny. Not only are she and her family about to be forced out of the Vic forever but now she discovers there are weapons lying around in Christmas wrapping paper! With the situation growing increasingly desperate, will Mick go ahead with the heist in order to put a roof over his family's head? Or will he back out? Either way there are going to be deadly consequences...
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