EastEnders spoilers follow.
Phil Mitchell faces a dangerous fate over a fire in his kitchen in EastEnders.
In Friday's (September 10) episode, the race was on to find Scarlett as Kat continued to suspect that Janine had somehow kidnapped the young girl.
This turned out not to be the case because Billy Mitchell was meeting with Janine at that time, and when Billy informed her about her daughter's disappearance, she was horrified.
Janine rushed back to the Square, where she actually joined forces with Kat to help find Scarlett. The truth was that Tommy had been hiding Scarlett upstairs.
Meanwhile, Phil was in the middle of a row downstairs with Shirley over his budding friendship with Gray Atkins. Shirley had a baseball bat in hand as she tried to explain how Gray hasn't helped find Tina.
"I haven't even spoken to her, but I would give anything, anything just to hear her voice again," Shirley insisted.
When Phil quipped Tina was "too stupid" to face her problems, Shirley whacked him across the back of the head with the bat to leave him unconscious.
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At the same time, the children crept downstairs at the same time as Janine barged in! Janine tried to get Scarlett to leave with her, but a scuffle with Tommy broke out.
Janine accidentally pulled off Scarlett's coat, and as she chased them out of the room, she tossed the coat behind her — onto the open flame of the stove Phil had lit before being knocked out.
Phil was still unconscious as a fire started to engulf the kitchen. Will everyone manage to get out of the house before a tragedy occurs?
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