You’re probably still processing EastEnders’ New Year’s Day flashforward special.

It’s cool, we are too.

A wedding that almost certainly won’t be going ahead. Max Branning (Jake Wood) waking up after a night with his pregnant paramour to take a phone call from his bride-to-be. A gunman. An absolute ton of coppers. A new baby. Solicitation to murder. Lauren Branning’s (Jacqueline Jossa) big secret. Four potential brides. Max’s ultimate choice between his two children.

That’s certainly a lot to digest. But don’t worry, we’ve worked tirelessly to list everything that ‘Enders teased in the episode, coming up with a comprehensive guide before the many (many, many) mysteries begin to unravel over the coming months.

We’ve even got subheadings. You’re welcome.

Max’s wedding

Fifth time lucky? Apparently not, as Max kicks off his wedding day in bed with another (pregnant) woman before he’s met with an army of police, forced to jump out of a window, betrayed by his daughter, arrested for solicitation to murder, interviewed by the police and returns home to discover a gun-toting mad man has kidnapped both of his children and is asking him to choose which one dies.

Not only that, but the tuna tartar that Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) had demanded has been swapped with pulled pork. Eugh.

I mean, soap weddings rarely go off without a hitch or three, but this is taking the biscuit!

Baby Ethan

Jack apparently has custody of baby Ethan. Who is baby Ethan? We’ve absolutely no idea, though a later discussion reveals that Max has apparently saved his (and Jimmy’s) life at some point in the previous year.

Is Ethan Jack’s? Or, more importantly, is he not Denise’s? Is that what’s driven them apart?

Could it have driven her all the way up the aisle with his brother, who she’s previously had no time for?

What is Lauren up to?

It’s established early that Lauren and Max aren’t on good terms. She’s willing to attend his wedding, but husband Peter Beale (Thomas Law) certainly isn’t, especially after ‘what happened’. While brother Oscar (Pierre Counihan-Moullier) is clearly in a much better place with their dad, Lauren’s steely.

While buoying her uncle Jack (with the mysterious baby Ethan), Lauren receives a text asking her to meet in the ‘usual place’, and as she’s (briefly) hiding Max at her house following his escape from his own home, he informs her that he knows exactly what she’s been up to.

She’s later incredibly edgy in the presence of a mystery man while being comforted by husband Peter Beale (Thomas Law).

Back at home with Oscar, she receives another text, telling her it’s ‘decision time’ and as she goes to leave, she’s stopped by the same gun-toting man from before.

Is the person she’s meeting connected to the mystery man we meet later? When Max proclaims that he knows what she’s doing, is he aware of an affair between the two? Is the decision she needs to make between mystery man and Peter?

More importantly, is she more like her dad than she wants to believe?

The gunman

As with baby Ethan and mystery man, the gun-toting villain offers no clue as to his identity, but unlike the former, we also don’t see his face. Does this indicate that he’s someone that we know? Besides Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) and Ravi Gulati (Aaron Thiara), who else that lives on Albert Square has easy access to a gun and is proficient at kidnapping?

Surely neither of those would then later make Max choose one of his children to die? I mean, they’ve both been bad, but not that bad!

Clearly Max has made a terrible enemy…

Max’s ties to crime?

After being arrested for ‘solicitation to murder’ (ordering a death, basically), the policeman in charge of the investigation asks Max about his ‘criminal contacts’. The swarm of armed police who earlier came to collect him also indicate that the authorities think Max is incredibly dangerous.

Has Max stepped into the void left behind by Phil and Ravi as Walford’s face of gangster-ism? Honestly? I hope not…

His earlier proclamations to Lauren, though, that he’s mixed up in something bad but is totally innocent suggest that he’s gotten in way over his head and hasn’t inexplicably become a crime lord.

The ‘incident’

Something big is going to happen, and Max is going to be seen as the bad guy, clearly. Lauren can’t believe the wedding is going ahead given ‘what happened’, Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth) is equally shocked, and whatever happened had an impact on Ian, who’s also had dealings with the bride.

It’ll also drive Jack and Max further apart and make Max and Peter’s relationship even worse.

With his reputation still in tatters, what more could happen to solidify Max as the black sheep of his family?

Who’s the bride?

While the lucky (?) lady isn’t confirmed throughout the entire episode, four candidates are revealed when Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) calls said-bride to inform her of Max’s arrest.

Chelsea Fox (Zaraah Abrahams), Linda Carter (Kellie Bright), Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins) and Denise Fox’s (Diane Parish) phones suspiciously ring at the same time, and the reveal that Denise’s daughter and Chelsea’s sister, Libby Fox (Belinda Owusu) is back lends credence to the theory that Max is marrying a Fox.

Chelsea described Max as fit in yesterday’s episode when the pair shared some seriously flirty eye contact. Linda has a child with Max, and was the reason he decided to stay in Walford. Cindy has previously slept with Max. Denise is the wild card here, though it’s stated earlier that she and Jack are on bad terms.

Who’s in the bed?

Knowing Max, it could be anyone! The person he’s spent the night with, though is pregnant, and with a sonographic video shown yesterday, we’re lead to believe that Max is the dad.

As Max’s wedding is hardly being kept secret, we also assume that whoever the pregnant lady is, she’s fully aware of Max’s other life.

Fingers crossed it isn’t Jasmine Fisher (Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness), who’s grandad, Patrick Trueman (Rudolph Walker), confirms that Oscar is a ‘Trueman’ now, with the implication that they’re still together.

Surely Max wouldn’t sleep with another of his children’s partners?!

How did Nicola break her ankle?

No idea, sorry.

Maybe she tripped?

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