Overview
- Mark Fowler, under mounting pressure to raise cash, joins Sam Mitchell in setting fire to a car Lauren Beale planned to buy to push her toward his stolen-motors scheme.
- The debt climbed after Grant Mitchell confronted crime boss Russell Delaney, who refused extra time and increased the sum Mark owes.
- Russell intensified the pressure by confronting Vicki Fowler at home and warning the family that the deadline still stands.
- Phil Mitchell offered to help find the money but said it would take time because he is covering Nigel Bates’s care bills and funeral costs.
- Viewers flagged Bea Pollard sleeping rough near the area before the blaze and speculated online about possible fallout, though no harm has been confirmed.