Viewers at home will know that Mick (who is played by Danny Dyer) and his wife Linda (Kellie Bright) used cash from a diamond ring Calum ‘Halfway’ Highway (Tony Clay) gave them to buy back the pub.
Halfway handed the couple the £220,000 diamond ring, which he had stolen off Ciara Maguire (Denise McCormack) after the failed New Year’s Day heist.
But resident bad boy Aidan (Patrick Bergin) will suspect the Carter’s stole the money from the heist to help fund the pub.
Aidan will have Mick bundled into the back of a car by a group of thugs after becoming suspicious about where he found the money to save the pub.
In scenes set to shock viewers tonight, Aidan will quiz Mick and his son Johnny (Ted O’Reilly) about how it was possible for them to find the money in time to stop The Vic from closing down.
However, he will be dissatisfied with Johnny’s response and will use untraditional methods to determine whether the Carter’s have, in fact, fed him a pack of lies.
Tonight, a furious Aidan will arrange for Mick to be kidnapped by his accomplices and brought to him for further interrogation.
Will he torture Mick to get to the bottom of it all? And if so, how will Mick respond?
Elsewhere on EastEnders, Tamzin Outhwaite, who plays Mel Owen, has hinted that her character’s teenage son Hunter (Charlie Winter) could be hiding a dark secret.
The 47-year-old actress made her return to the soap earlier this month after nearly a decade away from the show.
Her on-screen alter ego was last seen on Albert Square heading to Spain with her husband Steve Owen’s (Martin Kemp) baby.
Now, she has returned to Walford with her 15-year-old son but it would seem the child harbours some ill feelings towards his mother.
Speaking to TV Times, Tamzin shared: “My own kids are much younger, and we’re idiots and jokers together, whereas a 15-16-year-old boy is a very different dynamic.
“He’s resentful and angry – everything that teenagers are. It’s a lot less fun being a mum in EastEnders than it is for me in real life! Mel’s walking on eggshells.”
She later went on to admit that the reason she agreed to return to the soap was simply to do with family logistics.
“I was doing auditions and reading for stuff that wasn’t filming in London, and I wasn’t sure how I was going to make it work.
“Then [executive producer] John Yorke organised a meeting, and his plans made me very excited. I was like, ‘Oh yeah, I could do a lot more with Mel’.
“And then thinking, ‘It’s a 35-minute drive from your house, you can go home to the children every night and you get new scripts every day’, because EastEnders is very quick and I like that.”
EastEnders continues tonight at 7.30pm on BBC One.