Janine makes her presence felt as she refuses to let Mick slip through her fingers (Picture: BBC / Jack Barnes / Kieron McCarron)

Janine Butcher (Charlie Brooks) makes it quite clear in EastEnders later this month that nothing will stand in her way of becoming the next Mrs Carter.

The show’s resident schemer is set to marry Mick (Danny Dyer) after she successfully schemed her way into heart, obliterating his marriage to Linda (Kellie Bright) in the process.

With a wedding on the cards and a baby on the way, Janine has everything she ever wanted and therefore should be on cloud nine, but she knows that Mick’s heart simply doesn’t lie with her, as he continues to pine over ex-wife Linda.

Determined to ensure the wedding goes to plan, Janine does everything she can to get rid of love rival Linda, hoping Mick will buy her out of her pub, but when Mick refuses to do so, she’s livid.

Instead, the landlord resolves to get a place elsewhere with Janine, who’s upset at the prospect of leaving the Vic, but she soon has other fish to fry when Shirley (Linda Henry) starts to suspect that she’s harbouring multiple dark secrets.

Shirley’s investigation leads her to a number of clues, as she overhears Janine on the phone to a mystery man named Steve, and after listening in on a private conversation between the schemer and her daughter, she begins to quiz Scarlett (Tabitha Byron) hoping to get to the truth.

Will Janine get the wedding she’s after? (Picture: BBC / Jack Barnes / Kieron McCarron)

Scarlett, however, keeps shtum, but when the photograph of Frankie (Rose Ayling-Ellis) – which contains proof of Janine’s role in Linda’s car-crash – falls out of the Die Hard DVD case, she starts to suspect that there is more to this than meets the eye.

Janine, meanwhile, receives a visit from Sonia (Natalie Cassidy), who assists her with her wedding dress. Sonia tells her that she doesn’t need to get married just because she’s pregnant, but Janine claps back, asserting that she will become the next Mrs Carter – and nothing will stop her.

A dark threat if there was ever one.

Shirley is on a mission to take Janine down (Picture: BBC / Jack Barnes / Kieron McCarron)

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Little does she know that Shirley may well stop her, as she continues to watch her like a hawk, later spotting her meeting a man at the pub.

Who is Janine meeting? And what’s more, just how far will she go to secure her future with Mick?

One to watch: Wednesday December 21 at 7:30pm on BBC One.

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Janine makes her presence felt.