As Bex looks ahead to her 18th and realises she needs to move forward.
Carmel hosts a talk on knife crime at the Youth Club, but it doesn’t quite go to plan when she ends up embarrassing a teenager, Lewis. After she chases after him, he has some cold revelations for her.
When Kush learns that Carmel is going to give up campaigning, he talks to her and she gets an idea to help people remember Shakil.
Whilst Sonia and Robbie try to make a fuss of Bex on her eighteenth birthday, they're taken back when she’s nowhere to be found.
Across the Square, Carmel finds Bex and as they talk she reveals that Shakil bought her a ride in a hot air balloon for her birthday. Touched, Carmel offers Bex a sentimental item of Shakil’s.
Bex later opens up to Dot about what happened with Carmel and explains she doesn’t want to stay in the past and needs to move forward.
EastEnders continues Mondays (8pm), Tuesdays (7:30pm), Thursdays (7:30pm) and Fridays (8pm) on BBC One