Hollyoaks ' most terrifying serial killer Silas Blissett is returning for the soap's 25th anniversary.
Silas, who has killed six women and tried to kill six more, fled the village in 2016 but will be sensationally revealed tonight as the mysterious assailant blackmailing the McQueen family.
The McQueen family, Mercedes (Jennifer Metcalfe), Theresa (Jorgie Porter), Goldie (Chelsee Healey) John Paul (James Sutton), Sylver (David Tag), Nana (Diane Langton) and Cher (Bethannie Hare), have recently been watched and blackmailed for their deadliest sins by a creepy doll.
This even resulted in Sylver’s arrest for murdering his mother, Breda McQueen.
Silas has had a very rocky relationship with the McQueen family, particularly Mercedes.
His decade-long twisted entanglement with her started in 2011, when she was engaged to his grandson, Riley Costello, but was also having an affair with Riley’s dad, Carl.
He disliked her promiscuity, and thus began his attempts to get rid of her by any means necessary.
This led to him kidnapping her whilst she was heavily pregnant after the revelation about her affair with Carl, but before he could finish the job, he was arrested for other murders, but that didn’t stop him as he escaped prison to finish what he started.
He teamed up with fellow serial killer, ‘The Gloved Hand killer’, Lindsey Butterfield, as they planned to get rid of Mercedes once and for all. This resulted in Silas getting talked out of it by Mercedes, and him killing Lindsey instead.
He then fled the village and has not been back since.
But something that could put a spanner in Silas’ plan this time round is Mercedes’ announcement in tonight’s episode that she’s pregnant.
Could Mercedes being with child stop him from causing her harm?
Silas actor Jeff Rawle revealed: “I am thrilled to be returning to be a part of Hollyoaks’ 25th anniversary – I think Silas has had a big following over the last ten years, and even when Silas has not been onscreen, we always know he’s out there somewhere…”
Asked why Silas is back, he replied: “One word – the McQueens, unfinished business with Mercedes - she is ‘The Queen’ of the McQueens, the most elusive piece on his chessboard.
Mercedes’ son, Bobby, is Silas’s great-grandson.
"It has long been a cause of dark disquiet with Silas and the time has come to put things right.”
* Hollyoaks' birthday episode airs Wednesday on E4 at 7pm
