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Wheeler2Wheeler2 Posts: 613
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So in this weeks metro newsletter a couple of upcoming spoilers have been released . (These can relate to any soap so it’s just pure guesswork on my part , a theory , not a spoiler.

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One much loved character packs their bags to leave after being hurt once too often nut can their family change their mind?

Wanting to protect someone close to them, one character will tell a lie that will sacrifice their own happiness. Are they making a dreadful mistake?


So my theory is , Linda gets the blame for taking the 50k , I mean it looks a bit obvious doesn’t it her suddenly having 50k.

She can’t confess to taking the money off janine as she will be admitting she was willing to leave her kids ….

So seeing Nancy hurt and betrayed by her mum , Zack comes forward and “confesses” to taking the money , repairing Linda and Nancy but ruining his own relationship with her .

Random post , probably off the mark but just wanted to share it 😂

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    phil.cphil.c Posts: 2,023
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    In real life there would be a trail from Janine's bank to Linda's.

    £25000 of the money only went into Janine's bank after the scam by the estate agent.

    And the real estate agent could say who stopped the contract being signed as she would remember Janine.

    All Linda has to do is say she took it just to show what a scheming cow Janine is.

    But as it's a soap we know everyone will believe Janine over Linda.
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    Baldy_82Baldy_82 Posts: 1,241
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    Janine decides to leave Walford for good after Mick finds out the truth. Scarlett talks her out of it. Bad Scarlett! 😉

    I see Zack taking the fall for it. It's the type of thing he would do. But they make up after the Carters deal with Janine one and for all. 😈

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    Matt35Matt35 Posts: 30,131
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    Nice_Craig wrote: »
    Janine decides to leave Walford for good after Mick finds out the truth. Scarlett talks her out of it. Bad Scarlett! 😉

    I see Zack taking the fall for it. It's the type of thing he would do. But they make up after the Carters deal with Janine one and for all. 😈

    I expect Janine to leave anyway at some point so when the truth comes out then that would be a perfect time.
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    ZzlyonsZzlyons Posts: 2,048
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    edited 20/05/22 - 13:20 #5
    They said at the time that this is the start of a big story that will run through out the summer. I wonder if Linda ends up being framed for taking the money, Nancy reports her to the police and she ends up being sent to prison for a while. Different characters like Sharon and Shirley etc could work together to prove her innocence. Could even have guest returns for Lee and Johnny. Then when the truth comes out it leads to Mick either taking the blame or leaving after dumping Janine.
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    danyelldanyell Posts: 10,883
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    This is obviously going to happen. I called it last night. And stupid Linda won’t explain herself properly so everyone will believe scheming Janine and Linda will go back drinking again! 🙄
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    Matt35Matt35 Posts: 30,131
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    danyell wrote: »
    This is obviously going to happen. I called it last night. And stupid Linda won’t explain herself properly so everyone will believe scheming Janine and Linda will go back drinking again! 🙄

    It would be even more stupid that Nancy would think her mum would do that but obviously this is what happens in soaps, characters suddenly become completely dumb to fit the storyline.
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    MaksonMakson Posts: 30,488
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    If Zack takes the hit in order to protect Linda and Nancy’s relationship, I can see that being the catalyst for Linda to start becoming infatuated with him (she’ll hit the booze hard again out of guilt) as she’s flattered someone cares so much. Zack has a moment of weakness, sleeps with Linda, and boom she’s pregnant again.
    This is the final straw for Mick and he leaves the square for good.
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    vaslav37vaslav37 Posts: 69,553
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    I don't see Charlie Brooks leaving again so soon.
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    laceydawsonlaceydawson Posts: 3,673
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    With regards to Zack 'confessing' to save Nancy and Linda's relationship, I hope it doesn't happen because I can't believe that Nancy is so thick that she'd believe he'd set that up and pull it off. But then again, I can't believe she would be stupid enough to believe Linda was behind it either.

    I think Janine's been very very clever about the way she's gone about this. She's scammed Nancy out of £50k and set it up to look as if Linda has the money, and Linda, for all her threats, can't really say the real reason she has the money because then she'd have to admit she was willing to take £50k to leave her children. Although surely the police in the real world would be able to trace the scam property woman and find out what she did with the money, which will lead them to Janine.
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    Wheeler2Wheeler2 Posts: 613
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    With regards to Zack 'confessing' to save Nancy and Linda's relationship, I hope it doesn't happen because I can't believe that Nancy is so thick that she'd believe he'd set that up and pull it off. But then again, I can't believe she would be stupid enough to believe Linda was behind it either.

    I think Janine's been very very clever about the way she's gone about this. She's scammed Nancy out of £50k and set it up to look as if Linda has the money, and Linda, for all her threats, can't really say the real reason she has the money because then she'd have to admit she was willing to take £50k to leave her children. Although surely the police in the real world would be able to trace the scam property woman and find out what she did with the money, which will lead them to Janine.


    Well that’s it isn’t it . In the “real world” you’d be asking shops for cctv , asking the property woman who it was who cancelled the appointment ,what she looked like etc , but I suppose this might be a problem if she just says blonde 😂

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    persipersi Posts: 21,689
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    With regards to Zack 'confessing' to save Nancy and Linda's relationship, I hope it doesn't happen because I can't believe that Nancy is so thick that she'd believe he'd set that up and pull it off. But then again, I can't believe she would be stupid enough to believe Linda was behind it either.

    I think Janine's been very very clever about the way she's gone about this. She's scammed Nancy out of £50k and set it up to look as if Linda has the money, and Linda, for all her threats, can't really say the real reason she has the money because then she'd have to admit she was willing to take £50k to leave her children. Although surely the police in the real world would be able to trace the scam property woman and find out what she did with the money, which will lead them to Janine.

    BIB: I think if I had the choice between saying 'I was having a hard time seeing Mick and Janine together, when Janine offered me £50k to move away it seemed like an opportunity for a fresh start' and 'I defrauded my daughter and ruined her dream business for no reason other than sheer spite' then I know which I'd rather admit to. Nancy's feeling might be a little bit hurt but I think she'd understand if Linda felt the need for a bit of distance from Mick.

    The main issue at the moment is that Linda had zero motive to steal the money. If Janine can come up with a reason then it'll look worse for Linda.
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    persipersi Posts: 21,689
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    Makson wrote: »
    If Zack takes the hit in order to protect Linda and Nancy’s relationship, I can see that being the catalyst for Linda to start becoming infatuated with him (she’ll hit the booze hard again out of guilt) as she’s flattered someone cares so much. Zack has a moment of weakness, sleeps with Linda, and boom she’s pregnant again.
    This is the final straw for Mick and he leaves the square for good.

    I don't think Zack is attracted to Linda. I also can't see him betraying Nancy like that, or sleeping with someone who's wasted (and I can't see Linda hitting on him sober).
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    ss147ss147 Posts: 1,613
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    persi wrote: »
    With regards to Zack 'confessing' to save Nancy and Linda's relationship, I hope it doesn't happen because I can't believe that Nancy is so thick that she'd believe he'd set that up and pull it off. But then again, I can't believe she would be stupid enough to believe Linda was behind it either.

    I think Janine's been very very clever about the way she's gone about this. She's scammed Nancy out of £50k and set it up to look as if Linda has the money, and Linda, for all her threats, can't really say the real reason she has the money because then she'd have to admit she was willing to take £50k to leave her children. Although surely the police in the real world would be able to trace the scam property woman and find out what she did with the money, which will lead them to Janine.

    BIB: I think if I had the choice between saying 'I was having a hard time seeing Mick and Janine together, when Janine offered me £50k to move away it seemed like an opportunity for a fresh start' and 'I defrauded my daughter and ruined her dream business for no reason other than sheer spite' then I know which I'd rather admit to. Nancy's feeling might be a little bit hurt but I think she'd understand if Linda felt the need for a bit of distance from Mick.

    The main issue at the moment is that Linda had zero motive to steal the money. If Janine can come up with a reason then it'll look worse for Linda.
    I'm sure she will.
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    Matt35Matt35 Posts: 30,131
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    vaslav37 wrote: »
    I don't see Charlie Brooks leaving again so soon.

    I don’t see Charlie staying long term. She prefers Janine to come in cause some chaos then leave. Once the truth comes out everyone will once again turn against her including her daughter and Janine will do what she always does and run away. Charlie won’t have any problems finding work.
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    phil.cphil.c Posts: 2,023
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    How can people think Janine has done a good job of making it look like Linda stole the money.

    The whole thing was stupid. How could the fake estate agent even know what amount of money was even talked about.

    Or what length the lease was to be worth 50k.

    Nancy's money would have left a trail to the fake estate agent who also left a trail to Janine's bank account.

    Janine sent the money to Linda's bank account leaving yet another trail.

    Janine has not even been in the loop when the subject of the building or it's rent.

    And the real estate agent met a woman in black, not pink.

    But as we know none of that matters when a soap wants to make a story fit.
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    Tanya1982Tanya1982 Posts: 17,419
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    edited 20/05/22 - 19:51 #17
    I hope this isn't what happens. It sounds incredibly convoluted and unrealistic. I don't want to see Zac needlessly taking the blame - as if anyone would brand themselves a thief if they were innocent. Only Janine and Linda know the money is in Linda's account, and only Janine knows where the money ultimately came from. Even without knowing that, if anyone else found out Linda had it Linda's bank could easily show it came from Janine's account.
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    Matt35Matt35 Posts: 30,131
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    If Janine gave Linda all of the 50k then how did she give the fake agent her cut and keep some for herself?
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    Tanya1982Tanya1982 Posts: 17,419
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    edited 20/05/22 - 20:12 #19
    Even if Janine tried to set Linda up as the culprit (I don't yet see how she can, with the facts as they are), all Linda would need to say in her own defence is 'I haven't checked my statement, I had no idea Ms Butcher transferred that money to me, or what for. I didn't even know she had my account details, she must've made some kind of mistake'.

    It's entirely believable that an alcoholic and homeless single mother wouldn't be going through her bank statements regularly, if at all. Then it would be up to Janine to explain, which she really can't do, because other than something fraudulent, there isn't a reason to be transferring fairly large sums of money you can provide no source for.
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    persipersi Posts: 21,689
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    Matt35 wrote: »
    If Janine gave Linda all of the 50k then how did she give the fake agent her cut and keep some for herself?

    Janine already had £25k in savings.
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    keeping_it_realkeeping_it_real Posts: 3,090
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    phil.c wrote: »
    How can people think Janine has done a good job of making it look like Linda stole the money.

    The whole thing was stupid. How could the fake estate agent even know what amount of money was even talked about.

    Or what length the lease was to be worth 50k.

    Nancy's money would have left a trail to the fake estate agent who also left a trail to Janine's bank account.

    Janine sent the money to Linda's bank account leaving yet another trail.

    Janine has not even been in the loop when the subject of the building or it's rent.

    And the real estate agent met a woman in black, not pink.

    But as we know none of that matters when a soap wants to make a story fit.

    Maybe the bank details on the bogus contract were for Linda's bank account, so the money went directly to her from Nancy?
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    Brummie Girl Brummie Girl Posts: 22,689
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    edited 21/05/22 - 02:48 #22
    phil.c wrote: »
    How can people think Janine has done a good job of making it look like Linda stole the money.

    The whole thing was stupid. How could the fake estate agent even know what amount of money was even talked about.

    Or what length the lease was to be worth 50k.

    Nancy's money would have left a trail to the fake estate agent who also left a trail to Janine's bank account.

    Janine sent the money to Linda's bank account leaving yet another trail.

    Janine has not even been in the loop when the subject of the building or it's rent.

    And the real estate agent met a woman in black, not pink.

    But as we know none of that matters when a soap wants to make a story fit.

    Maybe the bank details on the bogus contract were for Linda's bank account, so the money went directly to her from Nancy?

    But Janine needed to make sure that Linda agreed to leaving Walford first. I can’t see the money that Zack & Nancy transferred going instantaneously straight into Linda’s account without Janine first checking that Linda was going to stick to the plan

    Remember we saw Janine meeting Linda in the cafe after the fake lease deal had happened and say to her she could get the money transferred to Linda’s account straight away if she agrees to go. If Linda already had the money then this conversation didn’t need to happen.

    The only way there would be no trace back to Janine was if the money was held in some kind of holding account first where Janine’s name is not connected rather than Janine’s own bank account
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    persipersi Posts: 21,689
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    phil.c wrote: »
    How can people think Janine has done a good job of making it look like Linda stole the money.

    The whole thing was stupid. How could the fake estate agent even know what amount of money was even talked about.

    Or what length the lease was to be worth 50k.

    Nancy's money would have left a trail to the fake estate agent who also left a trail to Janine's bank account.

    Janine sent the money to Linda's bank account leaving yet another trail.

    Janine has not even been in the loop when the subject of the building or it's rent.

    And the real estate agent met a woman in black, not pink.

    But as we know none of that matters when a soap wants to make a story fit.

    Maybe the bank details on the bogus contract were for Linda's bank account, so the money went directly to her from Nancy?

    But Janine needed to make sure that Linda agreed to leaving Walford first. I can’t see the money that Zack & Nancy transferred going instantaneously straight into Linda’s account without Janine first checking that Linda was going to stick to the plan

    Remember we saw Janine meeting Linda in the cafe after the fake lease deal had happened and say to her she could get the money transferred to Linda’s account straight away if she agrees to go. If Linda already had the money then this conversation didn’t need to happen.

    The only way there would be no trace back to Janine was if the money was held in some kind of holding account first where Janine’s name is not connected rather than Janine’s own bank account

    That's what happened. The woman working with Janine said that she'd transferred Janine's share to Janine (less her commission), so she must have received the money in a different account.
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    Baldy_82Baldy_82 Posts: 1,241
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    Linda isn't going to prison. Nancy wouldn't do that. Plus, she still has the money. Give it back. Problem solved.
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    Wheeler2Wheeler2 Posts: 613
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    Nice_Craig wrote: »
    Linda isn't going to prison. Nancy wouldn't do that. Plus, she still has the money. Give it back. Problem solved.

    That’s what us normal folk would do , but the people of walford are a different breed ! They like to get resolutions the long way round , they ignore all common sense .
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    EastEnders2009FanEastEnders2009Fan Posts: 4,609
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    edited 21/05/22 - 07:39 #26
    Could Linda not easily prove who the bank transaction came from if she does get accused?
    Then again, she didn’t bother to get the CCTV from when Janine didn’t just come to Elaine’s pub but bought 2 bottles of wine and sat down drinking with her.
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