Get Johnny Week
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"Get Johnny Week" was a week-long storyline the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, which occurred at the end of March 2006. The storyline involved the characters of Johnny and Ruby Allen, Grant and Phil Mitchell, and Jake and Danny Moon.
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[edit] Phil and Grant's day out
The day began when Phil woke up from a nightmare in which he has blood on his hands, and soon realised that he was seeing images of the recent murder of Dennis Rickman. Phil and his brother Grant decided to go and play a round of golf, but stopped at a roadside café in Essex where they sat and discussed their problems, namely Phil's struggle to avoid a relapse in his alcoholism, over lunch. A strange man walked into the café and made a sarcastic joke about Phil and Grant's bald heads, remarking: "Right Said Fred have reformed."
The stranger followed Phil into the toilets and started singing "I'm Too Sexy". Phil reacted by punching the stranger and knocking him out.
When they left the café, Grant told Phil that he had been seeing a therapist in a bid to confront his demons. They passed a large house in the countryside and Phil ordered Grant to stop. Phil announced that he was ready to confront his demons and that they had arrived at Johnny Allen's house.
[edit] Phil demands a confession
Phil scoured Johnny's house in a bid to break in, while Grant begged him to stop being stupid. Phil explained that he was keeping the promise that he made with Sharon to avenge Johnny Allen for Dennis's murder, which Johnny had ordered.
Johnny spotted Phil on his CCTV system and quickly found him before beating him up. Grant soon arrived on the scene and found Phil being threatened by Johnny and his accomplice, Danny Moon. Grant beat up Danny, while Johnny re-entered his office and started arguing with his daughter Ruby, who was angry with him for being an alcoholic. Phil finally intimidated Johnny into admitting his involvement in Dennis's death, and gave him a beating for it.
[edit] The Mitchells at war
Phil's anger towards Johnny got more intense and he threatened to shoot him, but Grant stopped him from pulling the trigger just in time. Danny then received a beating from Phil, and stayed at the house while Johnny fled in his car. Phil and Grant gave chase to Johnny and followed him to a deserted goods yard, where Phil almost ran him over. Grant then insulted Phil for being a bad father and almost got run over himself, but Phil smashed into a pile of skips instead. The skips collapsed on Phil's car but he was unscathed.
[edit] Johnny reaches the end of the road
Armed with a gun, Johnny frogmarched Phil and Grant to a soundproofed cell back at his house. Grant soon established that Johnny was intent on killing them both. His fears were confirmed when Johnny later ordered Danny to lead them away into the nearby woods, and vowed to kill them both. Phil heard a gunshot and opened his eyes to see Danny lying dead on the floor.
Phil turned his head to see Jake (Danny's brother) standing there with a gun. Jake was devastated at killing his brother, as he only wanted to stop him from killing someone. After the Mitchells left, Jake buried Danny's body in the woods.
Meanwhile, Ruby discovered mobile phone footage of Dennis's murder. She announced that she had informed the police about Johnny's crimes and that they were on their way to the house. Johnny was arrested and immediately confessed to the police that he murdered Andy Hunter and ordered Danny Moon to kill Dennis Rickman.
Johnny was eventually convicted of killing Andy Hunter and ordering the murder of Dennis Rickman. He received a sentence of life imprisonment and the judge recommended that he should spend at least 27 years behind bars before being considered for release, but he suffered a heart attack in prison and died in hospital the next day, just six months into his sentence.
