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EastEnders Iconic Episodes:- Pat & Peggy

Tuesday 21st July 2020

Hello again folks! As promised, I am back again today following up on last night's iconic episodes. This episode is all about two of main iconic, legendary characters in the soap! Pat Evans and Peggy Mitchell! What an iconic pair these two made, every time they were on screen together their would be an epic toing and froing of insults to one another. I'd like to think deep down, as much as they sometimes came across as hating each other's guts, there would be deep friendship between them also. I never realised it, but this episode would be a two-hander between the two vixens. This iconic episode was first aired on 27th October 1998!

As I was born in the early 90s, I don't recall watching this episode when it first aired and I only have a small idea as to what was going on between these legendary women. As far as I know, Pat and Frank had been lovers many many years ago, in their younger days, I believe they still held a light for each other. But over time they had gone their separate ways. Now Peggy was married to Frank and Pat was married to Roy, although now Pat has been accused by Peggy of having an affair with Frank. 

Wow, okay! So the episodes start with a car flying towards Pat, Peggy and Frank. Luckily they all leap out of the way before it hits any of them. Behind the wheel is Roy, it seems that he has become aware of some form of rumours or evidence that Pat and Frank have been having an affair. Pat is desperate to get to Roy and talk things through, but Frank forces Peggy to take her home and stay with her while Frank goes after Roy. Pat admits that the night before she was with Frank, but it was innocent. She explains that she and Frank were talking about Peggy about how Frank was going to ask Peggy to marry him and how Pat hoped that she would say "Yes!" and how happy Frank was. 

It looks as if Peggy can't understand the need Pat has to keep running back to Frank whenever something goes wrong. It's true Pat and Frank have always loved each other, I think that was always known between everyone involved. I feel sorry for them both in a way, Peggy finding out her friend and husband betrayed her, and yet Pat and Frank are desperately in love and yet can't bring themselves to leave each other alone while married to other people. The dynamic between Pat and Peggy has always been epic, and it always come back down to this story-line. Frank is the man that they both have in common, they both loved him and they both married him. 

I loved the scene where they are both talking at the kitchen table, Pat comes to the realisation that Roy is wanting to leave her and Peggy is there to persuade her that it's all words and that he doesn't mean it. When Pat reveals that she and Roy don't have sex, it comes as a surprise to Peggy. I feel in that moment she genuinely does feel sorry for the woman, and she can understand how upset she feels about not being wanted. Pat truly believed that she had everything in Roy, it was horrible hearing her talk herself down, telling herself and Peggy that every time she finds a man she brings them down. I feel perhaps this is the moment they realise they're both not that different from each other, which what makes their friendship so brilliant and iconic! 

Oooo the phone has rung and no one appears to be on the other end of the line. Pat makes a sarcastic remark claiming Roy might be waiting outside to run her over a second time. Then suddenly, the doorbell rings and the police emerge. They reveal to Pat that they have found Roy's car left abandoned in a car park with the key still in the ignition. It looks as if the car has been in some form of incident and the driver has been taken away or left on his own accord. Could it be that Frank has caught up with him and taken him somewhere privately to talk? Peggy reveals to the police that Frank did go after him after he drove out of the square, the police then tell Peggy privately that there had been some blood found on the driver's seat too. Had Frank caught up with Roy and had they had a fight and left the scene? 

Another scene I love where they are sat together in the living room drinking a bottle of wine together, waiting to hear news from the police. Pat is reminiscing about when she met Roy, she's worried sick that her husband has been injured and or left for dead somewhere. Peggy is there, sat by her side, trying to persuade her that that is not the case and both Roy and Frank will be found. I love how, even while believing her friend has had an affair with her fiance, Peggy is still being the strongest woman and being there to support her friend ... it's only when Pat makes a slip of the tongue that Roy reminded her how much she loved Frank, Peggy then starts to say that that doesn't matter, it's all in the past and now Frank was hers. As Peggy describes how Frank makes her feel, you can see Pat look incredibly uncomfortable, or perhaps jealous? It looks as if Peggy is enjoying making a slight dig at her friend, saying how she and Frank are made for each other. 

It's amazing how the whole scene has done a whole twist of compassion and then envy and jealousy and both of them trying to score points. Now this is where it all heats up! Comparing each other's weddings to the same bloke. I think it's brilliant writing, This the moment you realise how each of them are strong and powerful in their own way. They throw dig and after dig to each other, claiming that they are both jealous of each other. Peggy making a comment on her brilliant her sex life is compared Pat's. Pat then states that Peggy will never have what she and Frank had, she believes Frank came back for her, only to find that she had remarried. Was Peggy just a rebound? I love how they really are like two school children fighting over the same bloke, but then again, it's incredible how epic it really is. The writers have managed to make it so brilliant that everyone knows that this was the moment they began an utter hatred for each other, due to the fact that they both loved the same bloke! AHHHHHHH and there is the iconic moment, throwing wine glasses at each other, "I'll flaming well kill ya!" .... throwing the table across the room, "You bitch!" , "You cow!" those epic, memorable slaps across the face! 

How many years did this go on for? Many as I recall! It was always something that was revisited between the two characters. One of them would always mention it to the other or make a dig in the street and they would always use the same insults over the years, "You bitch!" , "You cow!". Even that moment in the Vic where Peggy confronted both Pat and Frank and slapped them both behind the bar! ... I want to applaud both Barbara Windsor and Pam St. Clement for creating such iconic characters on this soap. It devastates me that they are both no longer on the square, each of their character's death was such a tear-jerker. It's true that they had some brilliant moments together, getting drunk in an ice cream van together, and then confronting another man, Harvey, together, who was taking them both for mugs, while on a London tour bus. One moment i'll always remember is Peggy's death, when Peggy feels it's time to end her life, the ghost of Pat appears to her. She's talks to her about ending her life and how terrified she is, Pat's ghost is there to see her through to the other side. They both give each other that last epic insult, softly "You bitch!" , "You cow!" and then Peggy make her decision. I remember the words they both spoke to each other, so heart-wrenching:-

Peggy:- "Oh my friend, my dear friend. You won't ever leave me will you?

"Pat:- "No sweetheart! Not for one single second!" 

And Peggy takes it upon herself to end her life, as Pat's ghost watches over her.  I remember watching that moment and feeling slightly emotional. It's as if they both leave Walford together. I'd do anything for them to return, but they both left their mark on the Square, they will both be remembered as such iconic, legendary vixens of Walford! I'm thrilled that they have been chosen as one of EastEnders iconic moments, you don't get any more iconic than those two! I believe that possibly next week we will be revisiting the death of Lucy and the reveal of who was her killer! That was another brilliant episode, am I right in thinking is was another live episode? Or was it one for an anniversary? Either way, it was a moment that millions of people were waiting for! I'm looking forward to reliving that moment! 

I hope you all enjoy the rest of your week, keep yourself busy and looked after yourselves. I'll be back next week with another post! Love to you all xXx

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