Whitney's waiting by the sink with tears streaming down her face and her make-up smeared across her face, while Ricky questions Tony as to what he's playing at. Ricky insinuates that Tony's reaction to 'catching Whitney sneaking out to a gig' was way over the top, but Whitney pleads with him not to tell Bianca about what's happened. Agreeing, Ricky threatens Tony - if he lays one finger on any of the kids again, he'll have him to deal with. Later, Lucas calls Tony to arrange a meeting. He wants him to talk to Lauren as she's dropped out of the youth club and thinks he can persuade her to rejoin. As he heads across to see Lauren, he bumps into Whitney, who apologises for last night.

Tony's looking for Lauren but he can't find her anywhere. As he's searching, he receives a message from Whitney saying she can't wait to be with him tonight. Later, while Whitney's waiting for Tony, Tony finds Lauren on Arthur's bench with a bag of chips. She eventually starts to talk about her family problems. She's finally found someone who'll listen…
Meanwhile, Heather insists to Phil that Shirley loves him but Phil refuses to listen, while Heather suggests that the revelation changes everything between them. When Phil later receives another message from Heather, he decides to 'pop out to do a bit of business'. At Shirley's house, Phil hands over her outstanding wages, while Suzy's back at the house looking through Phil's phone. She looks on, a plan formulating in her mind. Later, as Suzy tries to seduce Phil, Heather turns up again to talk about Shirley.
Later, Phil turns up at Shirley's to talk about her moving away. She's cool with him and suggests that she has no reason to stick around. Goading him into making a move, Phil and Shirley eventually become embroiled in a passionate embrace and they move to the bedroom. Afterwards, Phil makes a speedy exit, leaving Shirley sobbing on her bed. Who does Phil want? Shirley or Suzy?
Elsewhere, Lucy comes clean as to how she managed to get her hands on the £1,000, leaving Ian thinking his daughter's a genius; Denise has arranged another date with Lucas; Chelsea and Libby help Denise prepare for her date; Phil reassures Ricky that he probably read too much into the situation with Tony and Whitney; Ben's upset when he hears that Shirley's leaving Walford; Lucas and Denise head to the club for their date; Tiffany's upset when Whitney causes her to speak during her sponsored silence; after returning all of the money, Lucy tells Ian that she's going to run against Peter in the school elections;