EastEnders has released a chilling preview that confirms Walford is entering one of its darkest chapters in years. A violent attack leaves Nugget Galati in a coma, Ravi Gulati is forced to confront an unthinkable truth, Jasmine Fisher’s carefully guarded resilience collapses under pressure, and the show itself mourns the loss of a beloved Slater patriarch. This is not chaos for shock value — it is devastation with consequences.

What makes the coming week so harrowing is not just the scale of the drama, but its emotional precision. EastEnders is stripping away bravado, denial, and survival tactics, exposing what remains when people are forced to face their worst selves. In hospital corridors, family homes, and places of mourning, Walford becomes a community stretched to breaking point.

The nightmare begins when Ravi Gulati becomes the target of a calculated act of revenge. Drugged by Nicola and Harry Mitchell for his past involvement in an illegal operation, Ravi is lured to the Arches and subjected to deliberate psychological torment. When Harry is suddenly called away, Ravi is left trapped in the pit and locked inside the garage, defenseless as the drugs begin to take hold.

What follows is pure psychological terror. Ravi is plagued by vivid hallucinations of his late father Nish, who appears to mock and torment him relentlessly. After managing to escape, Ravi collapses outside, convinced Nish is attacking him, choking him, pushing him toward the despair he barely survived the year before. In that fractured state, Ravi lashes out in blind terror.

The truth is catastrophic. The person he assaults is not his father — it is Nugget, his own son.

Nugget is rushed to hospital in a critical condition and placed into a coma as a devastated Priya looks on helplessly. Doctors confirm he has suffered bleeding on the brain, and the images released by EastEnders show loved ones keeping vigil by his bedside, suspended in unbearable uncertainty.

Back on the Square, Ravi collapses, completely unaware of what he has done. When he later regains consciousness, there is no immediate memory — only a phone filled with alarming messages that force reality back into focus. As fragments return, the possibility that he is responsible crushes him.

Ravi races to the hospital and makes a decision that changes everything: he tells Priya the truth.

Priya is left reeling, struggling to comprehend that the man she loves may have caused their son’s life-threatening injuries. Her devastation is compounded when police investigating Nugget’s assault approach her for answers. Ravi can do nothing but wait as his future rests entirely on what Priya chooses to say.

It is a moral cliff-edge. Tell the truth and destroy Ravi. Lie and live with the secret. EastEnders offers no easy answers — only consequences.

As Ravi’s family battles in hospital, Jasmine Fisher’s world unravels elsewhere. Long defined by cool confidence and emotional distance, Jasmine’s façade finally cracks as years of buried trauma surge to the surface.

Her life has been shaped by abandonment: left in hospital as a baby by a mother who believed she had died, later rejected by her adoptive parent. Aligning with the ruthless Chrissy Watts in a revenge plot only deepened the chaos, before the revelation that Anthony Truman was her biological father — and that he had been murdered — shattered what little stability she had left.

Zoe’s choice to protect Jasmine by staying silent about Chrissy’s role in Anthony’s death has left her facing decades in prison. Jasmine is left carrying the emotional wreckage alone.

Living with Kat and Alfie Moon offers little comfort as old suspicions resurface, particularly with Jean’s mental health relapse casting Jasmine as a threat. Encouraged by Oscar, Jasmine reaches out to her grandfather Patrick Truman, only to be pushed away by a man paralysed by grief.

When the Trumans are later allowed to visit Anthony at the Chapel of Rest, Yolande urges Patrick to reconcile. Their bond gives Jasmine a fleeting sense of belonging — until it collapses over a faulty baby monitor, a crying child, and Lily Slater’s furious confrontation.

Patrick offers Jasmine a place to stay but privately admits unease about her erratic behaviour. That fear deepens when an argument with Oscar sends Jasmine spiralling into alcohol, culminating in a brutal row with Chelsea Fox. Chelsea’s revelation — that Anthony was far from the saint Jasmine believed — rips away her final emotional anchor.

Across every storyline, one theme dominates: isolation. Ravi is alone inside guilt too heavy to carry. Jasmine is shut out by every family she longs to belong to. EastEnders suggests the most dangerous moments come not from malice, but from people left without support when trauma finally demands payment.

Amid the on-screen devastation, Walford mourns a real-life loss. Actor Derek Martin, beloved for his portrayal of Charlie Slater, has died aged 92. EastEnders paid tribute with a heartfelt post celebrating a man whose warmth and devotion mirrored the character who became the backbone of one of the show’s most iconic families.

Fans flooded social media with grief, remembering Derek as a true EastEnders legend whose legacy will forever be woven into the Slater story.

As the week closes, Nugget remains in a coma, Ravi waits for the law to close in, Jasmine teeters on the edge of complete isolation, and Walford mourns a patriarch who stood for family above all else. EastEnders is not offering comfort — it is asking how much loss one community can endure before something breaks for good.

When truth destroys and silence corrodes, which choice leaves the deepest scars — confession, or protection at any cost?