The Six (EastEnders)

"The Six" is a storyline from the BBC soap opera EastEnders. The storyline began in episode 6649, broadcast on 20 February 2023, which featured the show's first flashforward sequence at the end of the episode. The scene showed six female EastEnders characters, Denise Fox (Diane Parish), Linda Carter (Kellie Bright), Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth), Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean), Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner), and Suki Panesar (Balvinder Sopal) in The Queen Victoria public house on Christmas Day standing around an unidentified male body lying on the floor, who they presume to be dead. Events leading up to Christmas that year put each character in the frame to be the potential murderer and several male characters to be the victim. The storyline was intended to be written a different type of "whodunit" mystery, as both the victim and the murderer were kept as a tight secret.

When Christmas Day 2023 arrived, the victim was revealed to be Nish Panesar (Navin Chowdhry) with Denise having struck him in defence of Suki. However, Nish survived and Keanu Taylor (Danny Walters) was fatally stabbed by Linda with a meat thermometer in defence of Sharon later that same night. Following the crime, the remainder of the storyline followed The Six's attempts to cover it up.

The storyline came to a head in episode 7006, broadcast on 31 October 2024, which saw Nish taking the fall for the Six, falsifying a story that he was the killer after he accepted Suki didn't love him anymore and that he was dying, this leading to his arrest and allowing the six women to initially escape punishment.