56 EastEnders spoiler pictures for next week confirm tragedy as dead body ‘unearthed’

It’s Easter in the Square! (Picture: BBC)

Yolande convinces Nige to don the Easter bunny costume (Picture: BBC)

EasterEnders, if you pardon the pun (Picture: BBC)

Nigel hopes it will prove to Phil that he’s still capable (Picture: BBC)

He has his reservations (Picture: BBC)

Gina is shocked when Teddy approaches the family (Picture: BBC)

He has an update on The Vic rebuild (Picture: BBC)

The Knight-Carter clan take in the news (Picture: BBC)

Kojo takes it badly (Picture: BBC)

Priya encourages Avani to reach out to her friends (Picture: BBC)

She and Barney make amends (Picture: BBC)

A McKlunky’s solves everything! (Picture: BBC)

Zack encounters Ravi in the Minute Mart (Picture: BBC)

What are they talking about? (Picture: BBC)

Barney doesn’t want to help Tommy and Joel (Picture: BBC)

At the egg hunt, Nigel becomes confused (Picture: BBC)

He mistakes Hope for Clare, and Harvey is angry (Picture: BBC)

Phil orders Nige home (Picture: BBC)

Questions are asked about his condition (Picture: BBC)

Phil comes clean to Harvey and Jean (Picture: BBC)

Nicola is scheming (Picture: BBC)

She’s heard that construction work is starting at Shireen’s burial ground (Picture: BBC)

Benji is summoned to Harry’s Barn (Picture: BBC)

This looks tense! (Picture: BBC)

What does she ask him? (Picture: BBC)

Phil has learnt that Nigel intends to take his own life if his condition worsens (Picture: BBC)

Jean is on hand for support (Picture: BBC)

The two have recently got to know one another (Picture: BBC)

Nige opens up to her (Picture: BBC)

He declines to tell her of his suicidal contemplations (Picture: BBC)

Kojo says he wants to live alone (Picture: BBC)

George is unsure (Picture: BBC)

Gina does her best to persuade her dad (Picture: BBC)

Phil is shocked when Nigel goes missing (Picture: BBC)

He’s left a goodbye letter (Picture: BBC)

He forms a search effort with Linda (Picture: BBC)

She makes some calls (Picture: BBC)

…but he’s nowhere to be seen (Picture: BBC)

Phil is distraught (Picture: BBC)

Where has Nigel gone? (Picture: BBC)

Yolande explains that she hasn’t seen him either (Picture: BBC)

Their concern grows (Picture: BBC)

On her birthday, Nicola is distracted (Picture: BBC)

She summons a meeting with Ravi (Picture: BBC)

She offers him a job, in exchange for 10k (Picture: BBC)

Nic then heads to the garage (Picture: BBC)

She secures a van for her job (Picture: BBC)

What does she want Ravi to do? (Picture: BBC)

Kojo lands himself some work at The Arches! (Picture: BBC)

He and Harry get along like a house on fire (Picture: BBC)

He’s even invited to Nicola’s birthday bash (Picture: BBC)

Barney is nervous (Picture: BBC)

Avani has accepted his invite to the party (Picture: BBC)

With Nige home, he and Phil sit down for an important chat (Picture: BBC)

Nige is overwhelmed by his caring approach (Picture: BBC)

Phil tells Kathy that Nigel can no longer work at the caff (Picture: BBC)

The scales well and truly fall from Nicola Mitchell’s (Laura Doddington) eyes in EastEnders next week as she learns of a development plan that could land her in prison, as confirmed in our new spoiler gallery.

Husband Teddy (Roland Manookian), as viewers know, is in cahoots with Junior Knight (Micah Balfour) and they’re working on a business opportunity in Dartford using the location of Paradise Park.

Nicola remains in the dark about such a thing but she overhears a conversation next week that leads to Teddy telling her all about the endeavour. The matriarch is left beside herself and swiftly tries to put a stop to it.

Why? Because Paradise Park is the very location of Shireen’s body. Shireen, as viewers will remember, was an ex-girlfriend of Harry’s (Elijah Holloway) that vanished without a trace a number of years ago.

Nicola confessed to having Shireen killed in an unexpected twist. But with the site now the subject of Teddy’s new venture, will Nicola’s big secret be unearthed?

Elsewhere in the Square, Nigel Bates (Paul Bradley) is feeling suffocated by Phil Mitchell’s (Steve McFadden) overprotectiveness and thus, when asked to dress up as the Easter bunny, he accepts.

But things soon take a turn, with Nigel confusing Hope for Clare (Gemma Bissix). Having her suspicions about Nigel after their interaction the previous week, Jean Slater (Gillian Wright) questions Phil, who reveals Nigel’s dementia diagnosis.

Later in the week, it becomes apparent that Nigel, struggling with his diagnosis, is intending to end his own life.

Kojo Asare (Dayo Koleosho), meanwhile, isn’t thrilled at the prospect of moving back to the Vic – as building work starts on the ruins of the pub – and he expresses his desire to live alone to George Knight (Colin Salmon).

Determined to prove himself, Kojo sets out to land himself a job, and he successfully secures a trial shift with Harry at The Arches. He proves so good that, by week’s end, he has landed a full time job.

It’s going to be a big week in Walford!