Max Branning’s (Jake Wood) takeover of a car park in EastEnders has hardly gone smoothly.
He and his daughter Lauren (Jacqueline Jossa) share a relationship that is fractured at the best of times, and both of her recent returns caused major headaches.
His first appearance at her surprise wedding to Peter Beale (Thomas Law) had people scrambling to separate him from revenge-hungry Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins) before she threw a grenade into the lives of the Slater family.
His second return saw him involved in an anonymous Christmas party with the aforementioned Cindy, a blowout with his brother Jack (Scott Maslen) and a christening that blurred the lines between family party and MMA fight.
However, when Lauren learns that Jay Brown (Jamie Borthwick) plans to sell the car he relies on for income, she has little choice but to ask her father for financial support.
Although he initially rejects it, gentle encouragement from Cindy makes Max fail and decide to invest in the business, guaranteeing he will keep his job.
But there was further friction, when it became very clear that Max wasn’t going to stand by and let Lauren run the business as she wished; he would run the day-to-day operations as the boss.
They continue to bicker as colleagues until Oscar Branning (Pierre Counihan-Moullier) throws down a challenge for both of them, pitting them against each other to see who can make the most sales. Max upped the ante again by offering him half of his business if he could sell a car worth £80,000, a challenge that is still ongoing.
Next week Max is very troubled when he finds out that the car from the car park has been found, burnt out in a mine. When he turned to Lauren with a question, she headed straight for Mark Fowler Jr (Stephen Aaron-Sipple), who had previously tried to ensnare her with a dodgy car racket.
Mark denies all knowledge, and with the help of his aunt Sam Mitchell (Kim Medcalf), manipulates Lauren into believing that Max is behind what happened. When Lauren accuses her father, he is deeply hurt, having been prepared to sign away his promised share of the business.
Lauren, however, is determined to do it produce that, and when he later heard from Peter Beale (Thomas Law) that a place for Jimmy had opened up at a specialist nursery they were having trouble affording, he told Mark that he was involved in a stolen car scheme.
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Meanwhile, Max has his copper brother, Jack Branning (Scott Maslen), investigate Mark, who digs deeper, but recommends that he not confront Lauren just yet. Mark then tries to vacate the car park, but a text message from Lauren convinces him not to, and he drops his keys before leaving.
Later in the week, Max honors his deal when Lauren gives him £80,000 from the sale of Mark’s stolen car, but gently asks where the car he sold came from, imploring him to be careful. He then finds Mark’s keys and presses Priya Nandra-Hart (Sophie Khan Levy), whom Mark had previously recruited to help, for answers about what happened.
With a feud brewing between Max and Mark and the wily Lauren caught in the middle, is there serious trouble on the horizon for the Branning family?
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