EastEnders fans were left horrified this evening as Phil Mitchell blackmailed his son by saying that he would kill himself if he didn't help him murder Sharon Mitchell's secret lover.
Ben, played by Max Bowden, was distraught as he tried to calm Phil down after almost killing Jack.
As alcoholic Phil shakily picked up a bottle of booze, Ben tried to persuade him that Sharon "wasn't everything".
"Oh ain't she?" Phil replied. "Ben, my mum's dead, Grant ain't coming back, my sister - who knows where she is these days. Who else have I got?"
Ben shouted back: "You've got me, dad! You've got Louise and you've got Peggy."
"This ain't about you, alright," Phil replied. "I can't let her get away with this, I can't, I won't!"
Ben tried to get Phil to sit down but his dad refused and said that he wanted to find out who Sharon was having an affair with and "make them pay".
"All we've got is that she lied about her parents' evening," Ben retorted and said that they should go for a drive and clear his head.
But Phil insisted that he "needed something to take the edge off".
This prompted Ben and Phil to grapple with one another for the bottle as Phil accused his son of not being on his side.
"I wouldn't be stopping you if I didn't care," an emotional Ben told Phil.
Phil then issued Ben an ultimatum: "I either kill someone - or I kill myself with this."
Holding the bottle of vodka with a shaky hand, Phil said that he "couldn't just do nothing".
Ben was then forced to say that he would help Phil kill Sharon's secret lover.
Poor Ben!
*EastEnders returns tomorrow night at 8pm on BBC One
