EASTENDERS fans were left in shock tonight as Keanu Taylor was murdered – with the help of his furious girlfriend Louise Mitchell.
However, many were convinced he is still alive after an explosive Christmas episode saw him shot dead.
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What many viewers failed to see coming was that Louise would be complicit in getting Keanu killed.
She led him to believe she would forgive him for his cheating, gushing: “You’re the father of my child, I’m not having anything happen to you.”
However, just before they made a run for it, Martin Fowler dragged him away to be killed.
But before he did, she told him: “Never, ever take a Mitchell for a fool.”
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His demise was heralded from the start, with Ben telling dad Phil Mitchell: “Keanu Taylor won’t make it to the mince pies.”
Nodding, the hulking hardman replied: “And then I’ll deal with Sharon.”
He later left his wife reeling when he stormed into the kitchen and roared: “You can stop laying the table, because no one’s coming.”
Furious, Phil added: “Worth it, was he? Was he? Keanu Taylor?”
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But her protests that Keanu had thrown herself at him failed to impress Phil who replied: “Your knickers just fell off by themselves did they?”
Sharon protested: “He made me feel wanted. Sexy. He made me feel like a woman. Everything we’ve been through. Your drinking. The operation.
“Sometimes I feel like a carer and I want to feel like a wife. He threw himself at me – and it felt good.”
She then begged him to stay: “I didn’t want his baby. I didn’t want any baby but when I thought it could be yours, I did.”
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However, it cut no ice whatsoever with Phil.
Meanwhile, across the Square, Louise asked Keanu: “Are you the father of Sharon’s baby?” to which he replied: “Yes.”
He added: “I love you, Lou. You’re the only one I want. I want to be your husband.”
Seemingly, full of forgiveness, she agrees to skip Walford, saying: “Let’s do it – let’s go.”
They kiss, with her telling Keanu: “You’re the father of my child, I’m not having anything happen to you.”
He tells her: “I really don’t deserve you.”
But it turns out she had been playing him all along, when Martin Fowler appears at the window on the orders of Ben Mitchell.
She tells him: “Never, ever take a Mitchell for a fool” before opening the door and walking away.
