Joanne Ryan (East Enders) - Dave Roberts

When Peggy Mitchell needed a bar manager for her pub, The Queen Vic, she only had one candidate left to interview; a man named Dave Roberts. He won Peggy over by claiming to know her son, Grant, and started the job on 28 October, inviting his dodgy friends to the pub, worrying Peggy about the type of customers he may attract.

He made it up to her by offering to check the fire alarms in The Vic, but annoyed her further by going through a drawer full of her personal documents and asking her about her daughter Sam's love life. He went on to question Sam about her relationships with Trevor Morgan and Ricky Butcher.

He later berated Sam for cancelling the pub's bonfire party in the aftermath of the deaths of Tom Banks and Trevor Morgan, but praised Peggy for the cancellation. Sam became suspicious of Dave when he allowed one of his friends to smoke cannabis in the pub.

After one of Dave's friends barged into Patrick Trueman in the pub, Peggy threatened to bar anyone who upset her regular customers.Later that night, Sam caught Dave scheming with his friends to have a lock-in after hours. She threatened to call the police when they didn't leave, but Dave grabbed her and started to pull her shirt off. Sam kneed him in the groin and ran away. The next morning, the pub and the living quarters above were trashed. Peggy was angry, but couldn't get rid of Dave until his contract ended. Sam urged her to sack him sooner. Later in the bar, Dave started getting close to Sam, at which point she told Peggy what had happened the night before. Peggy told her daughter that Dave wouldn't get away with it.

After Dave's friends caused more havoc in the pub, this time upsetting Roy Evans, Dave claimed that Walford was "soft" without Phil and Grant Mitchell around, which enraged Peggy further. Peggy confronted Dave and told him that she would be terminating his contract with immediate effect. When Dave refused to leave, Peggy tried to round up some of Phil and Grant's associates, but to no avail.

When Dave's friends trashed the floral tributes to Tom, Roy stepped in and tried to stop them, after Sharon became distraught at the sight. The rest of Walford's male residents united to drive the thugs out of town, and they were closely followed by Dave, who had tried to steal some money from The Vic's till, but was stopped by Sam wielding a baseball bat.