For the past week writers have been letting the viewers know that Lucy is running out of money to feed her and her half brother (who I think has been played by the same actor for the last 10 years, despite the fact he's still meant to be about three, and has yet to utter more than three words in any one scene) because of course she's a teenager/student (or whatever she was before Beale-O ran off on a post-Mandy mental flip out) and doesn't have ready access to cash - to the point where she's even had to sell Bobby's toys to the sons of David Essex* to scrape together some money for Fig Newtons. Fair enough likes, we geddit. Not every kid has a brother called Buzz whose shelving unit you can merely shimmy up in search of a spot of quantitative easing.
And yet at the same Lucy has been clearly shown to be running two bustling eateries when not worrying about where she's going to get the money from to feed her and her little bro! Argggghhhhh! Ah say ah say ah say Eastenders writers - after building her up to be such a selfish scheming cow, shirley she'd have the gumption to take a few kopeks out the Kaff till to pay for Bobby's breakie?
* Oh yeah! Where the bloody hell did he ever go? I really hate it when they sign up these once-famous half-names who get moody steamy ident ads played all over the place and then scarper off after three months. How the hell did they write that one into the script? Must have missed that one. "Alright boys, do you like it here in Walford even though you'd never been here before I brought you here last week? Well that's good because I'm going to open up an antique shop and then disappear."
In fairness, he's probably rushed off to Charlie's sick bed. Ask any Eastenders writer what Charlie's illness is, they'd probably stutter, vomit, then cry uncontrollably.
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