And Ben is an evil psycho. Earlier in the episode shocked viewers watched as Ben tried to suffocate his dad by squeezing his oxygen tube as his life hung in the balance following last week's attack.
After Ben was cut out of his father's will and Keanu was hastily written in - Ben become determined to frame his rival. Meanwhile, Stacey has gone on the run with Martin and two of her three kids — little Arthur drew the short straw, staying in the Square with Kush Kazemi. Steve is prime suspect and is arrested. However, it was not Steve and after being discharged from hospital a month later, Phil confronts the real culprit, Lisa. She had stolen Steve's gun in a moment of madness.
Realising he drove Lisa to it, Phil decides to let her off and frames Dan for the deed with the help of Ritchie Stringer Gareth Hunt , who supplies Dan with the gun. Not realising he is being set up, Dan holds Phil at gunpoint, demanding money. However, the police arrive, arresting Dan for attempted murder. Steve is called as a witness at Dan's trial, and Phil persuades him to give a false testimony, further implicating Dan, but to everyone's astonishment he is found not guilty.
They work together to rescue Melanie but Dan escapes with the money. Phil begins a second relationship with Sharon, who has returned, and they run the Queen Victoria together. Phil wants children, but Sharon reveals she is infertile and tells him Lisa's baby, Louise Rachel Cox , is really his daughter. Phil ends their relationship and confronts Lisa, demanding to be part of his child's life. Steve offers to take Lisa to California, but when she is unable to leave, Steve absconds with Louise.
Phil is informed and chases after Steve in his car. Steve crashes into a wall and Phil rescues Louise but cannot save Steve, who dies when the car explodes. Phil knows he must win Lisa back to gain custody of Louise, and Lisa is easily swayed. Phil slowly begins excluding Lisa from Louise's life, so in desperation, Lisa flees to Portugal with Louise. Phil's nephew Jamie Jack Ryder helps her escape, earning him a beating from Phil. Phil goes to Portugal and returns a month later with Louise. Some of Phil's neighbours suspect he has murdered Lisa.
Phil falls for Kate Morton Jill Halfpenny , not knowing she is an undercover police officer, investigating Lisa's disappearance.
After gaining a confession from Phil that he manipulated Lisa into handing over Louise, Kate reveals her true identity, and says she loves him and will quit her job, but Phil threatens to kill her. Kate disappears, but several months later, Phil finds her while she is working undercover for gangster Jack Dalton Hywel Bennett. Phil saves Kate's life when Jack orders her dead, with Jack calling off the hit but telling Phil he owes him.
Kate then moves in with Phil. Phil and Dennis vow to keep their involvement in Dalton's murder to themselves, but Phil later tells Andy Hunter Michael Higgs , Dalton's second-in-command. Dennis is enraged by Phil's betrayal and demands that they settle the score with a fight.
Phil hires a group of men to deal with Dennis instead. Phil and Kate go on to marry, but Lisa arrives, demanding access to Louise. She plans to shoot Phil again but fails. She breaks down until Den Watts Leslie Grantham vows to get revenge on Phil for her and for having his son Dennis beaten. Den plans an armed robbery and coaxes Phil into joining him, but Den, with Dennis' assistance, sets Phil up and he is arrested. Kate is forced to give Louise back to Lisa and they leave Walford together and also sleeps with Dennis while he is in prison, Phil cannot forgive Kate and their marriage ends.
Phil escapes from prison and attacked Den and Dennis, and Den gives Phil money to survive on while on the run. Phil returns in need of money and attacks Ian, who leads him to believe he will help him escape, but calls the police and Phil is arrested again.
However, the case falls through after Grant pays a witness to change his testimony and Phil is released. Johnny Allen Billy Murray makes an enemy of Phil after threatening to harm his family. Dennis gets involved in the feud, not realising his wife Sharon has been threatened by Johnny and that he will be killed if he does not leave Walford.
Phil informs Dennis, who beats Johnny, but then has Dennis murdered, leaving Phil feeling responsible and vowing to make Johnny pay. Phil and Grant confront Johnny, but he escapes and a car chase ensues. The brothers' squabbling allows Johnny to capture them, and Johnny orders Danny Moon to kill them. Phil tries to build a relationship with Ben and they slowly begin to bond, eventually leading to Ben asking to live with his father.
Phil meets Stella Crawford Sophie Thompson and they begin a relationship. She moves in but Ben is unwilling to accept her. She uses underhand tactics to make him more obedient and they become rivals for Phil's affections. She starts psychologically and physically abusing Ben, and manipulates him into persuading Phil to propose to her. The abuse is revealed by Ben during the wedding, and Stella flees to an abandoned warehouse with Phil in pursuit trying to kill her, she jumps from the roof to her death.
Jack Branning uses his police contacts to trace Louise now Danni Bennatar for Phil, but Phil is incensed to discover that she calls another man "daddy" and that Jack has not warned him resulting in Phil punching Jack.
Jack tries to blackmail Phil regarding his involvement in a motor scam with Kevin Wicks Phil Daniels , which inadvertently kills Kevin.
Phil proposes to his girlfriend Suzy Branning when she tells him she is pregnant, but his friend and employee Shirley Carter tells him there is no pregnancy and Suzy is trying to con him.
However, Phil stays with Suzy until he discovers she has schemed with his uncle Archie. Peggy and Archie marry, but Archie's manipulation of his entire family is revealed, so Peggy asks Phil to kill him. However, Phil just forces him to leave Walford. Phil starts drinking again and starts an on-off relationship with Shirley but it soon ends. Archie returns to win Peggy back, and Phil's sister Sam Mitchell returns from Brazil after being on the run for her part in the murder of Den Watts.
Archie convinces Sam to flee, leading to the Mitchells struggling financially. Phil takes a loan from Ian on the condition that Ian gets The Queen Victoria if the money is paid back in two weeks, which Phil accepts.
Ian sells the loan to Archie, but does not tell Phil, saying there is no need to pay him back yet. Archie ejects the Mitchells from the pub and Phil turns to alcohol again. Archie is murdered on Christmas Day. Phil asks his now-girlfriend Shirley for an alibi, who tells police Phil was with her all day. However, she finds a blood-stained shirt, which she hides. Phil confesses that he found Archie dead and lost his balance, falling into the blood, but did not call the police because he panicked.
They then burn the shirt and replace it with a brand new one. Eventually, Bradley Branning becomes the prime suspect in the murder but falls to his death while being chased by police.
Phil and Shirley resume their romantic relationship. Phil's cousin Ronnie Samantha Womack tells Phil that Louise now Brittany Papple came looking for him but she sent her away because Phil was in a fight at the time. Phil smashes up the bar and shouts in Ronnie's face, just as Louise walks in to witness his rage. Louise spends the night under the secret care of Peggy and Phil, and pleads to stay permanently, to which Phil initially agrees.
However, Shirley finds out that Louise is hiding in the pub, and persuades Phil to do the right thing, so he then sends Louise back into care. He takes a DNA test to prove he is Louise's biological father, and custody is granted after Phil moves in with Shirley. Phil discovers that Ben has been burning Louise's arms and punches his son. The next day Ben explains that he is being bullied by Jordan Johnson, so Phil tells him to stand up for himself, leading to Ben attacking Jordan and leaving him in a coma.
Ben decides to confess to the police and is charged and bailed. Phil is told Ben could spend six weeks in custody, so plans to move to Portugal with Grant, but Peggy stops them as they are about to leave. Phil is outraged to hear Ben must spend five months in custody. He learns that Lisa has made an application to see Louise so he asks his solicitor Ritchie Scott Sian Webber to find a way to prevent her getting access. Ben tells his family never to visit him again, but Phil attempts to, and while he is there, Peggy tells Louise that Lisa wants to see her, but insults Lisa, leading to Louise running away.
Phil finds Louise and confronts Peggy, slapping her and leaving her bruised. Phil attempts to keep Louise locked in the house, but Peggy sneaks her out and takes her to Lisa, finally allowing her to stay there.
Phil throws Shirley out of the house, accusing her of helping Peggy. He goes to Lisa's house to retrieve Louise but finds it empty and abandoned. Phil starts drinking again after two months of sobriety, blaming Peggy for the loss of his two children, so Peggy orders him to be ejected from the pub. At an all-time low, he approaches Rainie Cross, a drug addict, and is tempted to try some of her crack cocaine after she says she needs it to block things out, as he wants to forget his children.
Phil and Rainie get high on drugs at Phil's home, and when Shirley comes in to check on him, she finds them naked together on the floor. Phil takes money from The Queen Victoria to get more drugs, but Rainie is mugged when she tries to buy some, so Phil tries to take money from The Arches. They get Shirley, who calms Phil down and offers to help him get clean, throwing Rainie out when they return home. She tells Phil to choose either her or the drugs, and he walks away, having chosen the drugs.
When Peggy decides to make up with Phil, she finds him in a drugged-up state on the floor so leaves in disgust. She visits him again to say she will get him some help but slaps him when he insults her for her nagging. She regrets this but he throws her out and tells her to go away. When Shirley visits later, Phil is gone.
A few weeks later, Phil's relative Billy Mitchell finds Phil and takes Peggy to see him in an estate. Peggy wakes him and tells him he is coming home and that Sam has had a baby. Phil says he does not care and that Peggy has made him this way. She leaves in tears after telling him if she had a gun, she would give it to him and tell him to shoot himself as he would be better off dead. However, Peggy realises she needs to get Phil off the drugs, so she enlists Minty and Billy to help get him back to The Queen Victoria and lock him in the upstairs living room, where the windows and door are boarded up so he cannot escape.
He is so angry he starts trashing Peggy's living room and smashes the mirror. He begs to be let out as he is suffering withdrawal symptoms and says he needs a doctor. Worried he will die, he convinces Billy to open the door to bring him some water, promising he will not try to leave. When Billy enters, Phil grabs the crowbar from him and Billy runs out and boards him back in.
Phil uses the crowbar to escape. He confronts Peggy, and after a huge argument, throws a match on the floor and sets the entire room on fire. Within minutes the entire pub catches fire, causing mass panic and putting everyone in the pubs lives in danger. Phil tries to grab boxes of alcohol from the cellar, but cannot carry it out. When he tries to steal money from the till, the roof collapses on him.
Peggy and Billy manage to save him and get him out of the pub. Peggy departs Walford the next day when she realises that Phil is better off without her. When police come to the house, Phil runs and goes to Shirley's. Shirley is angry until Phil admits he needs her help to change, but soon realises that Phil started the fire and says she cannot trust him as he did not tell her. However, she later tells Phil to lie to the police and do everything she tells him to from now on, and moves in with him.
Billy shouts at Phil that he needs to get himself sorted, and Phil does not get angry. Shirley tells Phil she will find something for him to do and eventually finds an investor and buys back the garage from Pat. A few weeks later, Phil rents the Queen Vic to former landlord Alfie Moon and his wife Kat and they begin to refurbish it.
In , as they cannot pay the rent, Phil reclaims the Vic from Alfie and Kat but when they pay the rent back, he gives it back. Ben returns from youth offenders just before Christmas, he is frosty with Phil at first blaming him for how his lifestyle turned out but he and Phil eventually clear the air and Ben moves back in.
On his return party he attempts to kill Glenda mitchell whom had been having an affair with Phil by pushing her down a flight of stairs.
During one of Phil sexual encounters with Glenda he suffers a heart attack, Ian walks in and finds them he sends Glenda away insisting he will get the ambulance, when Ian realises Phil is also sleeping with Glenda he leaves him to die but later comes back as he cant go though with it and calls the ambulance. Phil is rushed to hospital and survives his heart attack, Ian then apologises for leaving Phil to die, Phil then ends things with Glenda and proposes to Shirley which she accepts.
However days before their wedding Ben tells Shirley about Phil's affair with Glenda, she slaps Phil before dumping but Phil still wants to marry her, They reconcile on their wedding day but dont marry due to Phil's recent infidelity. Months later Ben leaves walford to go live with Peggy, Phil punches Ian when he calls Phil a bad parent.
When Ben eventually returns he tells Phil hes gay, Phil does not hate gay people but he doesn't understand them and hes not comfortable with his sons sexuality, he leaves walford for a few weeks. Phil goes over to the vic and threatens Christian who punches Phil when Phil calls him a nonce, Phil is now even more angry and plans to kill Christian with a baseball bat he goes to Christian's house smashing it up and attacking Christian only stopping when Ben admits he lied.
In late early Phil is being stalked and blackmailed leaving Phil cryptic messages and images, Ben is revealed as the culprit he some how found out about Phil's Manslaughter of Allan Hall , he also stole a file from Jack Branning which contained all Phils crimes including a dodgy car scam which killed Kevin Wicks, Ben gives the Phil to Kevin's wife Denise Fox till his death.
Phil is released from prison months later after Ian tells the police Ben fabricated his story to get Phil put in prison, Ben however thinks Heather Trott is the one who grassed on him so he and Jay go round to Heather's to talk to her but in a fit of rage Ben hit Heather over the head with a photo frame killing her instantly.
Phil arrives angry at Ben putting him in prison but when he realises Ben's killed Heather his parental instincts kick in so he makes it look like a buglary gone wrong and gets rid of all evidence of linking Ben to the crime. Phil cannot cope with Heather's death as Heather was Shirley's best friend so Phil has to try and support her knowing his son killed her and he also blames himself for the way Ben has turned out, he briefly goes back to drinking and throws Shirley out and breaking up with her.
Shirley then has a one night stand with Derek Branning who had been feuding with Phil for months after he tried to kill Phil's cousin Roxy they had also clashed multiple times on dodge jobs with Alfie moon, Derek took great delight purposely bragging infront of Phil in the Queen Vic about bedding Shirley, Phil loses it after Derek throws Shirley's knickers at him, Phil punches Derek and they prepare to fight but Shirley breaks it up before telling Phil they are done.
Phil and Shirley agree to give thing another go but break up for good when Shirley discovers Ben is Heather killer and that Phil had covered up the crime. In when Alfie jilts his new wife Roxy at the church to reunite with ex-wife Kat, he punishes Alfie by announcing he is selling The Queen Vic. In , Phil also reunites with his ex-sister-in-law and lover, Sharon Rickman , and they open a new bar called The Albert. Phil hires thugs to smash up The Albert so Sharon would agree to have bouncers on the door but things go wrong and Sharon is left beaten in to a coma.
Sharon and Phil eventually make up and Sharon becomes a Mitchell again by marrying Phil. At their wedding reception, Sharon learns of Phil's affair with Shirley and plans to flee the country but he persuades her to stay and talk. After Phil is shot by Shirley, Sharon agrees to give their marriage a chance but warns Phil if he does anything like that again, she will divorce him and take him for everything he has got.
In December , ex-cellmate Aidan Maguire knocks on his door. They share a drink and catch up. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info. Having walked in moments after the confrontation, Ben Max Bowden has been doing his best to pin the blame on Keanu Danny Walters after telling the Slaters he would deal with the fallout.
Wanting to see his daughter Lexi Pearce Isabella Brown grow up, Ben may have been wanting to give the police further motive to investigate Keanu after he was released by the authorities.
Is that what you want? You want Phil dead?
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