EastEnders airs haunting but sublime scenes in Sean and Jean suicide story

Eventually, he dropped the gun he was holding and Jean took her sobbing son in her arms. And his recovery process begins from here.

Rob sat down with me to talk about the storyline and told Metro.co.uk that Sean has by no means been fixed but by the time he leaves the Square on Monday, he will have taken the first steps.

He shared: ‘Ackowledging a cry for help is one thing – the danger you get is when people tell you what you need to do or you’re wrong to feel this way. It becomes dismissive or belitting. Or even worse, when they try to fix it. Trying to fix that shit is the worst thing – you can’t love someone better. What Jean does is empathises which is so different to sympathy.

‘Stacey has sympathy butJjean empathisies. It’s that hand through the clouds that says I hear you, I love you and it’s going to be okay. That’s what he needs in that place. She says to Sean a lot of things that he probably didn’t realise himself. She takes a tiny piece of the burden from him and that’s enough.’

So where does the character of Sean go from here? Rob admitted that he is not against revisiting the character down the line as there will always be a reason for Sean to return if Stacey and Jean are around. But he said that the Sean who leaves still remains haunted and has a long way to go.

He mused: ‘The Sean we say goodbye to is not in less of a dark place but he knows that he is in one and that’s where we leave him – with the recognition that he needs help and the fortitude that he is going to get it. He wants to get better. He knows he needs to deal with his depression and talk.

‘The Sean who leaves is so different to the Sean who arrives but also exactly the same. There is no resolution but just a recognition that they exist and that’s a huge part of the battle. Happy endings don’t exist in real life.

‘If Sean ever were to come back, the question would be – if he deals with these problems, is he still going to be a total dick? And I can’t help but think that unlike before, when he was dangerous and emotionally reactive, that he might be having fun with it for the first time. He might just come back and think “why not?” That might be a more entertaining Sean – he’s more emotionally in control and therefore maleficently out of control.’

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