Rita and Dennis go off on their
honeymoon cruise while Tina growls at Tommy over the bar of the
Rovers, across the cobbles and down the Street. He wants her to
forgive him his trespasses and take him back but she's holding out
for now. She's far too god for him, you know.
All is not
sweetness and light at Eileen's house when Sean and Marcus argue
over Maria. Sean's a bit concerned, as we all are dear, as we all
are, that Marcus is spending too much time with Maria and Sean's
nose is put well out of joint. There's worse to come with Marcus
takes Maria to the Bistro on a date because he says he feels sorry
for her, and Maria spends the next day mooning about the salon
whispering Marcus' name to anyone who can hear over the perm
solution sloshing in their ears.
Desperate for another night
of sub-duvet shenanigans, Karl tells Stella he's off for a lads
weekend in Blackpool. She agrees, but isn't happy. "I don't want a
repeat of Scarborough!" she warns him. "I didn't nick that donkey!"
he replies. "They found it in your room!" she retorts. Meanwhile,
Sunita lies to Dev that's she's staying overnight in Liverpool with
her mate Lara but Dev gets suspicious because Sunita-no-mates has
never mentioned this Lara before. There's some powerful drama
between Sunita and Dev as she leaves him for Karl and moves into the
Rovers to be comforted by prayer with St Ella of the Back Room. When
Karl finds out Sunita's left Dev, he's not best pleased and tells
her he wants to knock things on the head, which wasn't what, or
where, Sunita was hoping for at all.
With Anna and Owen off
enjoying their romantic spa break in a luxury hotel, Gary and Izzy
look after little Faye and play house. It's a lovely little story
setting up for Izzy getting pregnant later this year and giving the
excellent actors who play Gary and Izzy a much needed chunk of
storyline.
Elsewhere, Simon's being used by Peter and Leanne
to bicker at each other and all their fighting takes its toll on the
little `un when he does a runner from school. He runs back to the
Street only to find his family looking for him all over the place.
So he hides behind a car and sneaks into the flat when no-one's
looking and then proceeds to get drunk on a bottle of wine that
Carla's hidden in th'utility cupboard. Peter finds his son out-cold
on the sofa and rushes him to t'hospital where he's kept in
overnight for th'observation. Peter and Leanne almost mellow with
love for the little boy as he's all wrapped up in his t'hospital bed
but then start arguing and fighting right over his head. Leanne
wants the social services informed and Carla Connor
hanged.
And finally this week, Gail gets promoted from Bistro
cleaner to waitress as an extra pair of hands are needed when Lewis
rings in sick. She's not great on the charm, isn't Gail, spilling
wine on a customer's trouser leg and when asked how the duck was,
she replied "Quacking!". I reckon we should see more of Gail acting
above her station in the Bistro, she's great fun. In fact, she's
quacking.
This week's writers were Simon Crowther, Mark Burt
and Peter Whalley. Find out more about the Coronation Street writing
team at:
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
Glenda Young
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