This Year They're REALLY Gonna Spoil Christmas...

Poor, confused Nanna wanders into the Vic on Christmas day thinking she still lives there.

But who comes in after her and burns it down with her still inside?

Runners & Riders:

#1 Johnny Allen- It's Phil and Peggy's pub now that Ian's deal has fallen through on the technicality of Chrissie not actually owning it, and Sharon not wanting it. What with the business with Ruby, not getting control of the pub himself, and having to put up with the Mitchells back on form, Johnny wont be a happy guy...

#2 Jake Moon- Will just killing Nanna be enough for the joysuckers in the script department? An ironic chaser could be that in attempting revenge on the Mitchells, Jake accidentally kills his beloved Nanna. Filled with remorse he'll either hand him self in or top himself, ensuring that, when Alfie leaves, every last reason to go has a big tick beside it.

#3 Ian Beale- Having found out that due to giving a murderer money for a pub she never owned, he's without a pub and tens of thousands of pounds out of pocket, and having had to put up with months of Phil's special gloat/intimidate cocktail (and lets say losing the Arches to Phil for good measure), Squeal Beale finally flips and torches the place.

#4 Phil Mitchell- Either because by some convoluted scullduggery he and Peggy have managed to lose the Vic again by Xmas, to Johnny for example, who is leaving around then and might go feet first, or more likely for an insurance scam in order to re-launch the Mitchell Empire's Strike Back. Perhaps a little unlikely, as the spoiler about the fire has it set by 'an anonymous figure', and you're unlikely to confuse Phil with anyone but his brother or Minty.

#5 Chrissie- Having escaped or got off on a technicality, the Killer Poodle returns for revenge, hoping to be the last woman in the Vic as well. Due to Nanna's presence she not only fails, but gets busted for murder for the second time in a year.

#6 Tina - Loony with rage after being dumped by Johnny then erased with Stalinist thoroughness from his life, Tina goes on a month long stalking campaign, then sets fire to the Vic because she knows Ruby and/or Johnny is inside. Ruby dies, and the police when questioning him about the events of that night remark on the fact that the M.O. of the Vic fire exactly matches that of the fire that killed Scarlett and Tina's Mum. Because of this they suspect Johnny, but we know it was Tina. He may go down, he may just leave with his life in tatters.

#7 Ruby- This one depends on Johnny getting the Vic. Having become slowly more and more unhinged after her discovery of Daddy's secret life, Ruby totally loses it and burns down the Vic after finding out how he got it.

#8 Zoe - In an overdose of irony Zoe finds out that when she aborted Den's baby, what ahppened to Sharon happened to her, and now she can't have children. She goes mad and becomes convinced the Vic curses all those who sleep under its roof, and returns to Walford to stop the curse at all costs...

#9- Jake Moon, back to see Nanna one last time. He just likes to set fire to things.