Ever since we realised James Willmott-Brown was behind Max Branning’s revenge plot to take down Walford, we’ve known a confrontation with Kathy Beale was coming.
And next week we finally get what we’ve been after when he turns up at the cafe and seeks out his previous victim.
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Kathy hasn’t seen him since 1992, but on Halloween night he decides to pay her a visit.
Yes, people, it’s still Halloween in Walford next Monday.
Kathy is closing up when Willmott-Brown, the man who raped her, arrives and reveals he wants to put the past behind them, but it soon becomes obvious he doesn’t accept the fact he committed the crime in the first place.
A terrified Kathy grabs a knife and conceals it to protect herself, but despite her fear manages to stand up for herself and remind him what he did to her.
He throws it back at her though, in that smarmy way of his, when he denies he did anything wrong and blames Kathy for being unable to move on.
After he leaves, Kathy is incredibly shaken, but she hides what happened from her loved ones and tries to carry on as normal.
Easier said than done though, because her family can tell she’s hiding something and she eventually opens up to son Ian about the terrifying encounter.
He knows exactly who can help them with this mess – Phil Mitchell.
By the end of the week (when Halloween is finally over in the Square) Phil is heading off to see Willmott-Brown.
We can only imagine the showdown between these two and what will happen next. Phil might have lost his edge recently, but we think this confrontation might be enough for him to find it.
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Speaking to Metro.co.uk about the scenes, Gillian Taylforth revealed: “In the beginning, she’s very frightened of this man who’s come back suddenly into her life.
“She’s still trying to get over it, all these years later. She went to South Africa, she wanted to become a different person and now it’s all come back again.
“But she does stand up to him and say: ‘this is what happened. I know what you did’.”
She continued: “She can’t stand the fact that he’s around and there all the time. The fact he might be in the Square for a while is terrible for her.”
But with Phil stepping in, surely that’s some comfort to Kath? “I think she’s pretty sure what Phil might do – what Phil normally does! But she’s also worried about Ben because of Luke so she tells Phil to do what he has to do…”