The cops are all over the cobbles this
week questioning the good folk of Weatherfield about Tracy Barlow's
attack. "Did you do
it?? Steve asks Becky. "Did you?"she replies. Over at the Websters, Gail
and David have much the same conversation. "I thought she'd done
it,"David tells Audrey about Gail. Gail nods to her mum, "And I
thought he'd done it.?
But who has done it? Even Norris and Mary, the peripatetic
newsagents, are questioned.
And the copper's got an eye for a face when he recognises
Mary from somewhere in his past. Mary pulls her hat down over
her eyes to stop the cop from remembering where he's seen her
before, but it's too late. "I remember you!"he says to which Mary
retorts: "It was a very long time ago and I haven't touched a
chainshaw since!?. So
who did attack Tracy? My money's on Claire Peacock but when Tracy
regains consciousness in th'ospickle she pins the blame on Becky who
gets banged up in the cop shop. Then Claire confesses all the
cops and worries that her kids will be taken into
care.
Over at the Websters, there's fists
flying when Daddy Bear Kevin finds out Tyrone's been sleeping in his
house. But did he eat the porridge? Kev's jealous and turns nasty
when he thinks Sally and Tyrone have been consoling each other just
a little too much. And although they haven't, you know, done the
deed, Sally lets Kevin think they have so he gets himself worked up
into a rage, enough to want to hurt Sally and the girls the only way
he has left to him now. He gets in an estate agent to value the
house before he puts it up for sale, freezes Sally and Kev's joint
bank accounts and files for divorce. When Sally reveals that she
never slept with Tyrone, Kev takes this a sign that Sally wants him
back and he offers to move back in with his family, bringing Molly's
baby too, but that's not what Sally wants at all and so it looks
like divorce number two coming up for the
Websters.
Elsewhere, Owen takes Gary on as a
labourer but when Gary accidentally ends up locked in the back of
the van, he has a panic attack. He bangs on the inside of
the van long enough for someone to hear him and come to let him
out. And unfortunately
for Owen, that person is him. Gary goes for him with a piece of four
by two and tries to attack him, convinced that he'd locked him in
the van on purpose. Izzy's upset when Owen tells her what's happened
but she consoles Gary who reveals that his panic was brought on by
the smell of the van bringing his ordeal in Afghanistan right back
to him.
Meanwhile, for some bizarre reason out
of a misplaced sense of guilt, John helps Colin Fishwick's mum Joy
with her shopping and spends time with her at home. He lies, again,
to Joy and tells her that he's got Colin's mobile phone number so
Joy calls and leaves a message but it's John's own phone number he's
given her. She doesn't yet know that her son Colin is dead, that he
died in a fight with John over Charlotte and his body is buried
under the knicker factory and that John murdered Charlotte. At least
she doesn't know until John tells her and she has a heart attack and
dies. He leaves her, dead in her chair, and rushes to th'ospickle
where he and Fiz get to hold baby Hope for the first time.
At the Barlow's, Leanne and Peter
return from their romantic break and it's clear by the way they're
bitching at each other, that it didn't quite have the desired
effect. Janice asks Leanne if she's regretting marrying Peter and
Leanne gives her an unconvincing
?no'.
And finally this week, Lloyd chauffers
Chris and Maria to the red rec and back as part of the raffle prize
Chris won in the Rovers on New Years Eve. I'm only putting this bit in,
dull as it was, as it gives me cause to mention the wonderful
Renshaw twins who were in Audrey's salon when Chris picked up Maria,
having their hair done at the same time, and very possibly, in the
same style.
And that's just about
that for this week.
This week's writers
were David Lane, Joe Turner and Simon Crowther.
Find out more about
the Coronation Street writing team.
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
Glenda Young
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