EastEnders fans could be about to prepare for a double exit following the dramatic ending to Tuesday night’s episode. Viewers of the BBC soap have been keeping up on all the goings on after Nugget (Juhaim Rasul Choudhury) was hospitalised with a bleed on the brain following a mystery attack.

Earlier this week, pregnant Nicola Mitchell and her son Harry spiked Ravi Gulati (Aaron Thiara) as an act of revenge for his part in running a drugs operation, but it all went catastrophically wrong when he began to experience intense hallucinations and, whilst completely out of it, ended up attacking his teenage son.

Over at The Vic, Ravi overheard Barney telling Zack that Nicola was “panicking about being found out” and he put two and two together as he realised who was behind his spiking. All this time, Nicola was indeed worried at home, as she told Harry that they would likely have to flee Walford to go and stay with Aunty Gemma if the truth came out.

Harry explained: “Even if he don’t think we did it, we still put him out of action jsut when his boy gets beaten up. He’s gonna be out for blood, mum,” which prompted Nicola to organise provisions for a quick flit whilst she handed Harry’s Barn over to George to look after for “a few days” while she was away. As night fell on the East London borough, the mother and son were just getting ready to leave when Ravi stormed over, baseball bat in hand.

Ravi smashed his way through the door and gave a menacing look, as Nicola and Harry stood frozen to the spot. It was then that the show’s iconic “doof doofs” came in to signify the end of the episode, and fans raced so social media to react to the intense scene.

One fan wrote: “Ravi’s worked out Nicola spiked him. I’m ready for all the drama now!” and another said: “Haha that doof doof. Love it! roll on tomorrow’s ep”

A third wrote: “Intrigued to see how tonight’s Duff Duff is going to play out and how Nicola will get herself out of this situation? [curious eyes emoji] We know George shows up so he might end up giving Nicola an alibi – there’s also no proof that she spiked Ravi.

“Unless Nicola forgot to wipe the CCTV but she’s cleverer then that. If Ravi knew about Nicola’s baby he wouldn’t hurt her so if ends up hurting anyone it could be Harry again which may trigger a 3rd relapse for Harry which will be devastating.”

A fourth said: “oh he’s totally looking at harry HE IS GETTING BEAT” whilst a fifth said: “Harry and Nicola just standing there staring at Ravi. Grab a knife & run yall. (Tho if Nicola wasn’t pregnant … I wouldn’t mind Ravi tripping her a**. Justice for Shireen!” One enthusiastic fan posted a tweet that read: “That ending…” and inserted a clip of X Factor icon Rachel Lester saying: “That was good, wasn’t it? Let’s face it…” during her memorable audition.

This all started when landlady Nicola seized the chance to offer mourning Patrick a complimentary beverage and decided to extend the same courtesy to Ravi. Nicola laced Ravi’s drink with a deadly amount of drugs and served both Ravi and Patrick their beverages, whilst Harry observed his enemy consuming the perilous mixture of narcotics and alcohol.

Before long, Ravi was stumbling out of the bar, crashing right into with George , the father of Niola’s baby, and making his way towards the Square when an entertained Harry intercepted him. Nish (Navin Chowdhry) returned and reunited with his son Ravi, who had managed to escape from The Arches.

In his hallucination, Nish tried to strangle Ravi, so he hit back and brutally attacked his dad. But of course, Nish wasn’t really there, and Ravi had instead unwittingly attacked his son Nugget .