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Lucy Beale's killer revealed and Twitter loses it...

The killer was unmasked after a week of live episodes. Spoilers, obviously.

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LAST NIGHT WAS the big night in Eastenders’ “week of revelations”, with the culmination of the ten month-long Lucy Beale murder storyline. (It even managed to bump Taoiseach Enda Kenny from his scheduled live TV interview.)

Yes, Lucy’s killer was finally revealed, after numerous twists, turns and funny line fluffs.

People were shocked, to say the least.
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So – who’s the murderer? Did you guess?

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Er… it was 11-year-old Bobby Beale, Lucy’s step-brother. A pretty decent shocker, no?

In ultimate creepy child-mode, Bobby grips a jewellery box (presumably the murder weapon) and tells a devastated Jane:

Whatever she says, she started it. She made everyone unhappy.

Shudder. Here’s how Twitter reacted to the twist.

People were mostly unimpressed

The ‘Damien from The Omen’ comparisons were made

Lots of people came out with the inevitable Maggie Simpson joke

And the Ian Beale cryface got a good airing

Well – what do we all think? Share your reactions in the comments. 

Originally published DailyEdge.ie

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    Mute Dublinguy2013
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    Feb 20th 2015, 9:34 AM

    Biggest let down since who shot JR.

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    Mute Tom Red
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    Feb 20th 2015, 9:38 AM

    Jesus I was only killing time when I was 11 years old. …

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    Mute JakeTheMuss7
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    Feb 20th 2015, 12:45 PM

    I can’t remember, who did shoot JR.?

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    Mute Aaron O Connor
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    Feb 20th 2015, 12:54 PM

    I still don’t know who shot Phil Mitchel a few years back.

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    Mute martina
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    Feb 20th 2015, 2:27 PM

    It was Kristan – Sue Ellen’s Sister lol!!

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    Mute Alan Walter Gallagher
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    Feb 21st 2015, 1:02 AM

    Wasn’t it pams sister?

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    Mute Patorikku Reen
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    Feb 20th 2015, 9:48 AM

    Wasn’t that much of a shocker really… He was the 5/2 favourite in Paddy Powers for most of the week!

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    Mute Con Manne
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    Feb 20th 2015, 3:58 PM

    The part I find most difficult to believe is that he didn’t kill the fvcking lot of ‘em.

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    Mute Mark White
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    Feb 20th 2015, 9:43 AM

    Eh – first I’m hearing about this – apparently I have a life :-)

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    Mute Al Beebak
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    Feb 20th 2015, 9:45 AM

    And obviously no women in your life. Lucky bas***d

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    Mute Ian Costigan
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    Feb 20th 2015, 9:46 AM

    Not enough of a life to avoid reading & commenting though.

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    Mute TheDoctor
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    Feb 20th 2015, 9:50 AM

    And what a life it must be. A single man who trolls the Internet looking for stories about things he doesn’t like just so he can comment on them.

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    Mute Mark White
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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:07 AM

    Aw shucks – thanks guys! If I watch Eastenders will I get girls? ^

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    Mute Charles Mcdonald
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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:17 AM

    You will but they will be head wreckers.

    Nah man pick girls like like breaking bad and sons of anarchy. A girl with a proper tattoo not a tramp stamp and do shots in Mexico not in the country Irish pub.

    Then my friend you will say life well lived.

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    Mute Mary Lyons
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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:27 AM

    @ Mark. No I don’t think you would! You sound too uptight!

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    Mute Mr Phil Officer
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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:31 AM

    If you consume to much extreme melodrama, you will become a drama queen unbeknownst to yourself.

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    Mute Mick Rooney
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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:06 AM

    Bobby even remembered to wear his combat-style pyjamas before carrying out the take-down of Lucy!

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    Mute Derek Cullen
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    Feb 20th 2015, 9:46 AM

    Tripe

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    Mute Tony Skillington
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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:08 AM

    Thank Christ it’s over…talk about milking a story line.

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    Mute Sean Murphy
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    Feb 20th 2015, 12:32 PM

    It’s very frustrating when you see so many people care about such trivial things as who killed a fictional character on a soap opera. Especially when there is such pressing issues going on in the world right now, like Kate Middleton’s hair turning grey.

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    Mute Mary Lyons
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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:23 AM

    @Captain @ Rodgers what is wrong with you both? Are you suggesting that people who watch tv have no life ? Are you saying that people who watch soaps on tv could not care less about what is going on in the world? Such ridiculous thinking!
    Are the 2 of you running around saving the world and haven’t a minute to spare to do something as time wasting as sitting down to watch the odd soap on the telly ?
    I think its time for you both to chill !

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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:16 AM

    I thought I’d entered an alternate universe when I switched on RTE last night at 9.30pm – popcorn in hand waiting for ‘Endof’ Kenny and Miriam. I was faced with Ian Beale playing a young Enda Kenny cruising for girls, Miriam O’ Callaghan playing a coked-out Lucy Beale. The Irish political world is more messed up than I thought it was!

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    Feb 20th 2015, 9:52 AM

    He should join the Islamic State next.. sure fire ratings winner..

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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:11 AM

    Years ago they did a who shot Phil Mitchell story and the joke going around was that it was his infant son just like Maggie in the Simpsons, looks like the soap writers are passing off a joke as a ratings grabber

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    Mute Roger Burke
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    Feb 20th 2015, 9:51 AM

    Love how this is distracting people about the real problems in the world. Nobody gives a toss about rising income inequality or climate change, they’d rather go on about who killed Lucy Beale.

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    Mute TheDoctor
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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:03 AM

    Spot on. I can only assume you don’t ever do anything you enjoy. You never watch TV. Or play sport. Or hang out with friends. Or play games. Or do anything other than help humanity. We thank you for you dedication.

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    Mute Ian Costigan
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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:25 AM

    Wow, Roger – no flaws in that logic.

    Out of interest – why are you on the internet when there are people starving in Ethiopia?

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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:28 AM

    There’s always one !!!

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    Mute Mark Byrne
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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:37 AM

    You’re spot on Rodger. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to log off the journal and go cure cancer.

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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:40 AM

    Good news Roger: global income inequality is falling, mainly due to emerging middle classes in large developing countries like China, India and Indonesia.

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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:35 AM

    ‘Eastenders’ happened to be on when I arrived home after a later shift and I caught it by chance, as I don’t follow soaps I might never have known about it. Who remembers the sheer ‘hype’ over ‘Who shot JR?’ all this years ago?

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    Mute David Nolan
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    Feb 20th 2015, 12:26 PM

    Eastenders is a load of shite anyway.

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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:05 AM

    Get a life the lot of you !!

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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:18 AM

    Get a tri-colour suit capt. Ireland your very Yank in yer pic lad

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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:58 AM

    Captain Ireland! Gets his special powers from the eucarist and helps drunk people cross the road at his local.

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    Mute Jake Race
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    Feb 20th 2015, 2:23 PM

    @Paulie Who are you to point fingers at anyway, you’re wearing the face of an Englishman!

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    Feb 20th 2015, 3:34 PM

    I’m anon mofo

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    Feb 20th 2015, 3:38 PM

    And also the fact he’s captain Irish & wearing nothing of Irish affiliation in his pic and at least I threw up a pic…

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    Feb 20th 2015, 3:49 PM

    I’d say the writers of eastenders are having some laugh at ye dumb wits .. String ye along for 10 months then the killer was an 11 year old .. Seriously they don’t think much of your intelligence

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    Feb 20th 2015, 3:52 PM

    Fawkes is the only honest man ever to walk into English Parliament.. Pity he didn’t succeed in blowing it up .. Cool pic !!

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    Feb 20th 2015, 4:06 PM

    Breaking news .. It was all a dream by Ian Beale .. Writers want to string all ye dumb wits first for another 10 months .. lol

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    Feb 20th 2015, 12:24 PM
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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:56 AM

    Shite <- still not giving one.

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    Mute Mary Lyons
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    Feb 20th 2015, 12:08 PM

    You will have to take a dose of salts soon you will be so full of the shite!

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    Mute fuve
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    Feb 20th 2015, 12:44 PM

    I said better not be him or Ian or Jane. Complete shi at. Their stories used to be somewhat entertaining. That was a complete let down. Now did the pub owner kill his rapist lunatic brother. Dot gives on trial. And Ben’s whiny mother ( who looks great for a dead woman I might add) will be whinging can I come back Phil for next 10 months. Is there no one they can’t bring back to life in this show

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    Feb 20th 2015, 4:38 PM

    Well it isn’t entirely clear he was the killer. He just said it was her fault “whatever she says’, implying he thought she wss still alive .

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    Feb 20th 2015, 10:56 AM

    I decided to watch TV last night to find out who like I did to Dallas ‘who killed JR’ TV years ago..& thought to myself Oh sh*t when it was a little boy who killed his troublesome stepsister!

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Feb 20th 2015, 12:12 PM

    Fiction means more than reality now…

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