Is this the end of Rainie Branning?

Tanya Franks (Rainie Branning) and Ricky Champ (Stuart Highway) have been spotted filming on location as their ongoing storyline takes a horrifying twist.

In a scheme to fleece men of their money, Rainie teams up with Stuart and will pretend to be a prostitute, but after receiving the money in advance, Stuart will intervene and scare the punters off.

Although the pair are making a sizable amount of money, things soon turn ugly when two men approach Rainie, but it's not long until they realise she's a scam artist and subject her to a horrific beating. By the time Stuart arrives, he finds motionless on the ground.

A source told the Metro: ‘Stuart and Rainie started off as enemies but they are far more similar than they first realise and create and exciting but troubling dynamic. They can both be as impulsive as each other so it was inevitable that their idea was going to go wrong.

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‘But there’s going wrong and there’s this. After Rainie is left in this situation, it could be the end of the line. The scenes are harrowing and will leave viewers in shock and Tanya and Ricky really threw themselves into the filming so it looks authentic.

‘But whether this spells the end for Rainie remains to be seen. It would certainly impact Stuart if she were to die as part of of this and send him spiralling into his darkest place yet – which is certainly saying something!’

It has been revealed that Stuart will return to his villainous ways this summer after being accused of being involved in Bex Fowler's disappearance.

EastEnders airs weeknights on BBC One.