EastEnders’ Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) is shaken to the core next week when she makes a worrying discovery on the family computer and believes partner Alfie Moon (Shane Richie) is to blame.
The pair are all loved up after Alfie pops the question to his ex-wife in forthcoming scenes, but their happiness could be short-lived.
Next week begins with Kat planning to open a rival business when she gets wind of the fact her former employee Harvey Monroe (Ross Boatman) is planning to start a limo company and is trying to recruit some of the drivers from her taxi firm.
After Kat signs a deal, Alfie arranges a fake wedding shoot to promote their limo services, which gets him feeling all romantic.
He later opens up to his pal Linda Carter (Kellie Bright) about his desires to propose to Kat, which the Queen Vic landlady encourages.
Back at their flat, Alfie gets down on one knee and pops the question to an overcome Kat, who swiftly accepts.
As the residents of Walford rally round to celebrate the happy couple, Kat is brought crashing back down to earth when she finds something disturbing on the Moons’ computer and blames Alfie.
Will Kat’s discovery derail their wedding plans?
While Alfie is left with some explaining to do, other spoilers for next week suggest the couple’s troubled teenage son Tommy Moon (Sonny Kendall) may have something to do with it.
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.
When Tommy is hanging out with his friend Joel Marshall (Max Murray), Joel encourages him to use Alfie’s credit card to watch adult videos online – is this what Kat has stumbled upon?
Kat and Alfie rekindled their on-off relationship last year, six years after they last split up.
They were originally married on Christmas Day 2003, and after splitting and getting back together several times, they had a second wedding in 2014.
