Alfie Moon (Shane Richie) was left heartbroken by ex-wife Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) on Monday’s EastEnders amid hopes of a romantic reunion for the pair.
The former Queen Vic landlord had finally been ready to admit his feelings for Kat when he spotted her flirting with two men in the pub.
The pair have been spending more time together in recent months after Kat and their children moved in with Alfie following her split from Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden).
However, recent weeks have been particularly testing for them, after social services found out their son Tommy Moon (Sonny Kendall) had been abusing Kat and hurting his younger twin brothers.
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Kat was devastated when Tommy was taken into care, and all-out Slater war erupted when Jean Slater (Gillian Wright) later confessed she’d been the one who called the social.
On Monday, Alfie sought to try and get Kat’s relationship with her relatives back on track, plotting with Jean’s daughter Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner) to arrange a chance meeting in The Vic.
Kat eventually decided to hear Jean out, who explained she’d made the call knowing how hard it was to parent a troubled teenager after her experiences with son Sean Slater (Rob Kazinsky).
After things further thawed between Kat and Stacey, Kat tenderly thanked Alfie for helping them to resolve things.
Kat and Alfie: A complex EastEnders love story
On-off EastEnders couple Kat Slater and Alfie Moon have a long and complicated history, which began when they were part of a will-they-won’t-they storyline while working behind the bar of the Queen Vic in 2002.
After finally getting together, they tied the knot on Christmas Day 2003, but were ripped apart a year later by Kat’s jealous ex, gangster Andy Hunter (Michael Higgs), who threatened to kill Alfie unless Kat slept with him.
Realising their feelings for one another were still there, they gave their marriage another shot and left Walford for pastures new at the end of 2005.
Five years later, they made a bombshell comeback when it was revealed Kat had been having an affair with Alfie’s cousin Michael Moon (Steve John Shepherd) and was pregnant with his son.
They eventually reconciled, with Alfie agreeing to bring Tommy up as his own. However, they were heartbroken when their baby ‘died’ – before it was later revealed Ronnie Mitchell had actually swapped their baby with her son James, who had died from cot death.
After a joyous reunion with baby Tommy, the pair were torn apart again when Kat’s subsequent affair with Derek Branning (Jamie Foreman) was exposed.
But a reconciliation eventually followed – as did their twin sons Bert and Ernie – before Kat and Alfie swapped the Square for Spain in 2016 after winning big on the lottery.
Two years later, a broke Kat returned to Walford having split from Alfie again, after cheating on him. When he later followed home, the couple had a short-lived reunion before Alfie was revealed as the father of Kat’s cousin Hayley Slater’s (Katie Jarvis) baby daughter Cherry.
With their relationship in tatters, Alfie did a bunk from Walford in 2019 after scamming £50k out of Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden), who Kat later went on to have an unlikely relationship with.
When Alfie returned to Albert Square again three years later, he sabotaged Kat’s wedding to Phil, but it wasn’t enough to split them up and they rescheduled their nuptials.
However, after Kat discovered Phil had cheated on her with Emma Harding (Patsy Kensit), the pair split and she moved in with Alfie.
Witnessing Kat touching Alfie’s face, Freddie Slater (Bobby Brazier) remarked to Alfie about their undeniable chemistry.
A grinning Alfie couldn’t hide his delight, as he admitted he’d previously thought their relationship was firmly in the past.
But he was then saddened as he turned around to see Kat and Stacey chatting up two men across the pub.
‘Sometimes, the timing just ain’t right,’ Freddie told Alfie.
Is Kat and Alfie’s reunion over before it’s even begun?
EastEnders airs Monday to Thursday at 7.30pm on BBC One and from 6am on iPlayer.
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