Armed
with the knowledge that her brother's a cuckold, Tracy decides to
shock her parents with the information, except of course they
already know and aren't shocked in the slightest. Tracy wants to
stir up trouble (let's face it, it's all she ever does, she's a one
dimensional character with no redeeming features whatsoever and we
don't love to hate her as the producers like to believe, we just
hate her and we want her off our favourite TV show because she's
spoiling it) by telling Peter about Leanne and Nicky but for once
Deirdre and Ken present a united front to their daughter and reckon
it's best to let sleeping dogs lie as it's all in the past and
Leanne has promised to be a good girl in future.
Meanwhile Nicky has decided to get out of
Weatherfield and go to work for his Uncle Stephen in Italy, despite
the fact that work is almost finished on The Joinery. Being
incredibly stupid and despite all evidence to the contrary, he
thinks that this would be a great chance for him and Leanne to start
a new life together so he buys her a ticket to Milan too. She makes
her feelings perfectly clear, again, and dumps the ticket in the bin
where it is found by Peter. He puts two and two together and manages
to wheedle the truth out of Tracy, who confirms his suspicions and
tells him that Ken, Deirdre and Carla know all about it too. He's
naturally seething but plays things cool as he devises a plan and
asks his saviour, Nicky, to be his best man at the blessing the next
day.
On the day of the blessing, Simon is dead
excited; he's made a Valentine's card for his dad to give to his new
mam; and declares that nothing would make him happier than to have a
little brother or sister. At the church Peter gets Simon to wait
outside, promising he won't miss anything special as he makes his
way inside and walks unaided down the aisle to await his wife.
Leanne arrives to the sound of 'Trumpet Voluntary' (it doesn't have
to be played on a trumpet says Roy) and the vicar gets on with the
blessing. Ken and Deirdre say how much Blanche would have enjoyed
the day and I guess they're right but probably for the wrong
reasons.
Peter interrupts the proceedings and presents Leanne
with a letter from his solicitor saying he wants a divorce and then
lets rip. He tells the congregation everything, decrying all those
who knew about the affair and didn't tell him and storms out of the
church as well as anyone can with dodgy legs and a crutch. Leanne
tries desperately to convince Peter that she loves him and
everything could be ok but he's having none of it, believing that
she'd only married him in the hospital because she thought he was on
his death bed and if he hadn't pulled through she'd be with Nicky
now. Ken and Deirdre are left to break the news to Simon who is
going to be heartbroken, the poor little mite.
"I am more than just a tomato", declares Rosie
in a metaphor I didn't quite understand when she complained about
being dropped by her agent, Alfie, and she's even been taken off his
website. She whines to her mother about the downturn in her career
but Sally is distracted by the attentions of a new man, Jeff, who
wines her and dines her at Drumson's, which looks like it's the new
Delphine's or The Clock. Meanwhile her other daughter's been missing
lectures and is down in the dumps because Sian is going on holiday
with her mam to get away from the chaos of the Webster
household.
Sophie tries to discuss things with her mam but as
usual, Rosie's problems are considered more important and appalled
that Alfie asked Rosie to do some sleezy topless work, Sally decides
to go round and give him a piece of her mind. Only it's not Alfie,
it's Jeff, they're the same person, let's just call him Jalfie from
now on, and surprise surprise, his version of events is subtly
different from Rosie's. He turns up at the factory on Valentine's
Day with a big bunch of roses and manages to sweet talk Sally, who
invites him round for dinner. He works his magic with Rosie too and
she's back on the books. Sally and Jalfie's romantic dinner is
interrupted by Kevin who's picked up a couple of prospective buyers,
in the Rovers, Lloyd and Cheryl, in full knowledge that Sally's
entertaining her new fella.
Elsewhere, Cheryl gives the cab office a
makeover and wants to get rid of our favourite chair but relents and
just covers it with a throw.
And that's it for this week.
This week's writers were: Mark Burt, Martin
Allen, Ellen Taylor and Chris Fewtrell.