Meanwhile, Phil found a date painted on his cell wall with the abbreviation ‘RIP’. He spoke to Ravi and offered to pay him a huge sum in return for back-up in the fight that could claim his life. After asking Kat to transfer money from their joint business, she agreed – but with Sam’s manipulative words in her ear over Phil’s poor treatment of her, Kat visited Phil to tell him their relationship was over.

The next piece of bad news wasn’t far behind, as Keeble warned Phil that the help he had arranged wasn’t coming – Ravi was now in solitary confinement. Yet again, she dangled her offer of freedom at a price, adding that all he had to do was send a signal on his burner phone and the cavalry would arrive.

Craig menacingly told Phil his time was almost up, and Phil’s ex-wife Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean) arrived, at which point Phil furtively passed her some letters for her and his loved ones.

“I ain’t gonna see tomorrow,” Phil revealed to Sharon, who begged him to fight and declared her love for him. Screaming, she was taken away by the guards; and she later called Phil’s brother Grant (Ross Kemp), leaving him a desperate message.

In his prison cell, Phil was resigned to his fate as he stared at a photo of his mum Peggy (Dame Barbara Windsor). “You’d better be waiting for me,” he said, full of emotion. There was a tense cliffhanger as Craig and a group of inmates appeared and launched themselves forward.

In the last instalment of the week, Sharon called the prison and, as the screen cut to guards rushing to the cell and a body being taken away, she was given the news that Phil was dead. She sobbed for him, but tried to follow his instructions not to tell anyone until the launch of Peggy’s bar was over. It wasn’t long, though, before Sam found one of the letters and confronted Sharon.