Hollyoaks aired a shocking twist during Tuesday night's E4 episode, as young teen Ella Richardson became a killer.
A day earlier, fans finally learned Jordan Price was the unlucky New Year's Eve murder victim.
After confronting teens Charlie Dean and Ella at the restaurant, they believed the drug dealer was going to hurt them.
It appeared as though Charlie had stabbed him to defend himself, but a new twist aired in the following episode.
Ella was in fact the person who stabbed and killed Jordan, with Charlie covering for her.
Speaking exclusively to The Mirror, actress Sarah Jayne Dunn, who plays Ella's mother Mandy, has revealed her reaction to the twist.
She teased how far Mandy would go to protect her daughter once she learns the horrifying truth.
Sarah told us: "Much further than I ever thought! I don’t think there’s anything she wouldn’t do to protect her to be honest.
"She’s trying to hold everything together but what she’s doing is spinning a load of plates and trying to keep Ella under her wing at all times, but that’s never going to work.
"I think Mandy loses herself in it all as well and almost loses sight of things and people and priorities because all she can see is Ella."
On what the future holds for the teen and her loved ones, Sarah hinted at turmoil ahead for all those involved.
She explained: "Obviously not good, there’s a lot of fixing to do – I don’t even know when that would begin because there’s so much that happens and is still on going right now.
"I don’t know how Ella’s going to feel because Mandy does go to such extremes. There’s just going to be a lot of broken relationships to fix if that’s even do-able.
"But Mandy’s hoping that regardless of what happens there’ll always be the mother and daughter relationship there to salvage. If she loses everything else in the World I think she’d be ok, but it’s Ella that she can’t lose."
Hollyoaks airs weeknights at 6:30pm on Channel 4, with an extra episode at 7pm on E4.
