Gail
begs for her job back at the medical centre but it's already been
given to someone else, someone with Deirdre's glasses on and wearing
Deirdre's belted chain. Ok, yes, it's Deirdre who's temping in the
role while Dr Matt gives Gail a dressing down and throws her out for
breaking patient confidentiality. "I can fit you in a week on
Tuesday at five to six, if that's any good?" says Deirdre to Gail
when she tells her she wants to speak to the doc. "And can I get you a nice cup
of tea and a couple of Gypsy Creams?" she creams to the Doc. Oh go on, Deirdre, you're in
there, I can tell. How can any man refuse your Gypsy
Creams?
At
the factory, Trevor hits Nick after he calls him a moron, which
seems fair enough. Then there's bickering by the stitching between
Carla and Trevor and he walks out, leaving her to her new love
affair with a bottle of whisky she keeps in the bottom draw.
Realising she might be starting with a drink problem, she takes
herself to the Rita Tushingham Community Centre and walks into an AA
meeting, bumping slap
bang into Peter Barlow. "Sorry, wrong class" she says, excusing
herself, "I was looking
for Conversational Spanish".
Perhaps she was hoping they'd teach her how to say ?dos
cervezas por favor'. Anyway, as Trevor swans off
to Swansea, Carla whisks away the whisky and she's in a bad state.
Then young Nicky Tilsley me-laddo tells her he wants her to buy him
out of the company as he needs his 40% share of the knicker factory
to invest in his new bar at Turners Joinery. Nick's news knocks
Carla sick and she starts on the spirits again, slumping drunkenly
into her car as she tries to drive off to see her bank manager.
Peter Barlow spots her and stops her from driving off and killing
herself or anyone else, gives her his number to call and offers a
shoulder of support and a helping hand. Whether he'll offer any
other body parts remains to be seen but he lies to Leanne about his
whereabouts and thereabouts when he rushes to Carla's flat after she
calls for his help.
Meanwhile,
Sally struggles to come to term with Sophie's sexuality although she
defends Sophie and Sian's relationship to the headmaster at school
who threatens to chuck them out for running away. But it's clear
Sally's still not at ease with her lesbian daughter. "If I could
wave a magic wand and make you normal, I would." Oh, that was
nasty.
Over
at Tina's flat, she's a bit tipsy after an emotional day spent at
her dad's grave. She
ends up inviting David, who's being friendly, into the flat and when
he tries to kiss her, she pushes him away. But David doesn't want to be
pushed away and pushes himself back onto Tina. She's scared and
angry, unsure whether David intends to rape her. And there's a
flicker of something in David's eyes when she snarls at him to get
off her. Anyway, she
throws him out and he tries to apologise the next day but only in
that half-hearted nasty way that he has about him. Tina tells Rita and shows
her the bruises on her arms caused by David when he pinned her to
the sofa. Rita's of the opinion she should call the police. I can
only agree.
Now
that big Jack's moved back, baby Jack is left home alone when Molly
and Tyrone have their first night out. They get as far as the Rovers
before Molly insists on going back home, but she's only worried
because the baby's been left with Sally and Kevin who've offered to
babysit. Kevin wanders
around the Webster house with baby Jack in his arms and tears in his
eyes. And baby Jack's got poo in his pants.
This
week Ciaran announces he's got a new job in Glasgow and Michelle's
pretending like she's not bothered when really she is. Young Ryan starts getting in
touch with his feminine side after he buys a ladies' magazine from
Rita in the Kabin for his mum. "I dunno why she reads it, it's full
of women's problems," he moans to Rita who tells him to think on,
read and find out all he needs to know about cystitis. With Ciarian on the move up
to Scotland, Ryan tells him the only reason he's staying around
Weatherfield is because he doesn't want to leave his mum home alone.
Ciaran convinces him to go to Glasgow with him, an idea which
doesn't fill Michelle with glee but she lets Ryan go, warning Ciaran
not to think of himself as a father figure to her son. "I'm not," he
lied.
Elsewhere,
Anna and Eddie give Gary a last meal of his favourite food before he
heads to the Rovers for a heart to heart then spends the night with
Izzy. And then it's ta-ra as he goes off to war. What is it good
for? Absolutely nothing. I'll say it again. War. Huh. Good god. What
is it good for? Absolutely nothing. As Anna and Eddie wave off
Gary to war, they're approved for adoption which is good news for
them but upsets Becky and Steve when they find
out.
And
finally this week, it's been a good week for Kirk. He plans to help
Chesney become a man when he announces he wants to spend the night with Katy.
In the Rovers, Kirk takes notes from Owen and Dev to pass back to
Ches on the right way to woo a woman. When Owen finds out that
Kirk's taking notes to pass to Ches who wants to woo Owen's youngest
daughter, I don't think he's going to be best pleased, do
you?
And
that's just about that for this week.