A familiar face returns to the village as Mercedes calls Freddie to help her in Hollyoaks

But why is he really back and does he have an ulterior motive?

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When Warren tells Mercedes he needs her to launder money through the garage, the conversation heats up when she refuses. Walking in, Prince tries to put a stop to it, but Warren lashes out throwing something at him.

Later, when flyers are circulated with Prince as the face of the McQueens carwash, some misleading wording leaves him receiving some unwanted phone calls.

After a message is left on the garage door, Mercedes tells Warren she’s not scared of him and even though Prince doesn’t want to let Warren get away with his threats, his family plead with him to stay out of it.

While creeping on Warren, Prince overhears a conversation about him plotting his revenge on Mercedes. But when his phone goes off, Prince is caught and locked in The Loft office.  Believing she’s in danger of Warren, Prince escapes and rushes to get Mercedes out of the garage.

After Warren leave the McQueen's fearful by invading their house, Mercedes attempts to give Warren a taste of his own medicine by smashing up The Loft, but things don’t go to plan when Warren turns on her.

Whilst Mercedes make a curious call asking for help from someone to protect her from Warren, a hurting Warren breaks down to his mum about feeling destined not to have a family and has made his mind up to move away. And she tries to convince him to stay and make it right.

Pulling the family together, Mercedes tells them that they need to raise some money to pay for new locks.

After seeing the McQueens unite to help one another, Warren apologises to Mercedes for scaring her but is left stunned when she reveals that Freddie Roscoe is back. 

As the past gets brought up, fighting talk ends with a physical altercation between Freddie and Warren, which Mercedes manages to stop. And the McQueens tell Warren that Freddie is back as she needed a mechanic and that their baby has no father.

Happy to see his his brother has returned to the village, Darren has a quick catch up with Freddie at The Dog and discovers Freddie handed himself into the police and has served his time.

Bringing Freddie home to meet the twins, Darren tells his kids how important family is and how they should stick by each other.

Meanwhile, wanting to let off some steam, Warren messages Marie to come round and he later bumps into Ste who pleads for him to not hurt his children.

With Freddie acting suspicious, Mercedes has agreed to let Darren use the garage as headquarters for his cab business.

When Lizzie catches Freddie trying to get into her house, he shows her a picture of when he lived there claiming he just wanted to look around

Hollyoaks continues Mondays to Fridays at 7pm on E4 with first look episodes available weekdays at 7.30pm on Channel 4 streaming