In the dead of night and making sure that he's not seen,
Steve posts an envelope full of used tenners through the Alahan's
letter box. Dev and Sunita soon work out that it must be from
whoever looted the shop after the tram crash and it must have been
someone they know. But having the money back isn't enough for Dev,
he wants justice so the pair of the um and ah and ah and um for what
seems like an eternity over whether to call in the police. When
Steve tells Becky what he's done, she points out that his DNA will
be all over it and if the police get involved he'll be bang to
rights in no time. Faced with the prospect of another spell in the
big house Steve goes to see Dev and Sunita and owns up to the theft
and then after telling Becky, she does the same and gets thrown out
of the newly refurbished shop. There are then some very harsh words
from Steve to Becky as he gives her one last, final, never again, no
absolutely not, chance ? again. All very tedious for this viewer. I
like Steve and Becky as a couple, there's great humour and affection
there but we just seem to be going round in circles with
them.
When he isn't finishing the corner shop in double quick time,
Owen's plotting revenge on Eileen. Knowing that Eileen's going to be
out, he pinches Jason's house keys while he's in the toilet and
breaks in to Eileen's to look for the dodgy dossier. Back at the
yard he puts his books in order and shreds all the incriminating
evidence before calling in the police. Eileen is arrested for fraud
and taken in for questioning where she immediately confesses all and
is very contrite, all of which means she gets away with a caution.
When she gets home, she finds that the dossier is missing and when
she confronts Owen he admits he took it but there's not really
anything she can do about it except tell everybody, including Izzy,
what a scumbag he is.
Over
in the hairdressing salon, David is getting all high and mighty.
He's now calling himself "Creative Director" and is nicking all
Maria's clients, so she quits. Meanwhile Carla is all disorganised
in the Underworld office since Michelle left. Hmmm, I wonder where
this could be leading. Carla says that all she needs is someone with
common sense, so why she offers the job to Maria, who can't walk and
chew gum, when Julie and Sean are both angling for it is anybody's
guess? When it comes to dealing with fishy Frank, we find out that
what Carla was after was not common sense after all, but a pretty
face and a pair of breasts.
As well as bigging up his job at the salon, David is in love
with a girl, Candy, who he met on holiday in Tenerife. So enamoured
is he, that he proposes to her by text and she accepts. His mother
and grandmother are absolutely horrified that he should propose to
someone he hardly knows. If they think that's bad, just wait until
the meet her and find out who she really is.
In other news, Julie was worried that something might have
happened at Tyrone's when she woke up the morning after on his sofa,
without her bra on, but it turns out it was just a bit of Dirty
Dancing brought on by too much red wine and the pair of them
eventually make their peace. And what's happened to Graeme? Since he
took up with Tina, his spark seems to have gone. It's about time he
had a look down the back of the sofa.
And that's it for this
week.
This week's writers were: Damon Rochefort, Mark
Wadlow, Peter Whalley and Jim Cartwright.
Written by Barry
Smith