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January 30
2016
Rita signs up to Facebook and is over the moon when one of her old school friends gets in touch. Then she gets another message from the past which doesn’t cheer her at all. It’s from Jenny Bradley, reaching out across the cybernetwebdotcom. Rita goes to meet her in the park, and Jenny makes out she’s doing fine, living in a flat by the Quays and has fully recovered from her breakdown. But it’s clear she’s still on shaky ground, both accommodation-wise and mentally too. She’s really living in a nasty hostel and when Rita finds out she gathers her up in a taxi and takes her back home to her flat. “I’ve come to take you home, sweetheart,” Rita coos. When the taxi arrives on the cobbles with Rita and Jenny on the back seat, the whole of Weatherfield is Not Best Pleased. Sophie, Kev and Sally are furious with Rita and Norris thinks she’s gone and lost her marbles too. It’s only little Jack who raises a hand in a welcome wave as Jenny sets foot on the Street. Kev asks for a word, quick sharp, with Jenny and the two of them have a heart-to-heart, much to Anna’s disdain. Over Kev’s kitchen table, he remembers his dead son – the one he forgot last time Jenny was around. A tentative bond is forged between Jenny and Kev, but Sophie flounces out and wants nowt to do with her. “I thought you were supposed to be a Christian?” Kev reminds his daughter. Indeed.
Carla’s
still in hospital covered in bruises and fresh mascara. Steph goes to
visit her and tells her about Jamie and his mate, how they were looking
for her in the Bistro, not Carla. “You’re very strong,” she tells
Carla. “It’s all smoke and mirrors,” Carla replies. And just a bit of
lippy.
As if Kevin
hasn’t got enough on his plate, Anna wants him to sack Phelan from the
garage job, but he won’t. Phelan’s a good worker, and Kev knows the value
in having him around. Anna hasn’t yet told Kevin everything he needs to
know about Phelan – about how she prostituted herself to pay off Owen’s
debt. Gary’s back this week and isn’t too happy to see Phelan again.
He throws himself at Phelan by the garage, trying to give him a good
kicking. Phelan cries out, so everyone can hear: “Don’t hit me, Gary! Not
again!” and pretends Gary bashed him up badly last time around. Ooh, he’s
a slippery one, that Phelan.
“Sometimes
life isn’t very nice,” Audrey tells Gail this week. “You don’t have to
tell me that, I was married to a serial killer,” Gail replies. And
so it goes that Audrey’s week hasn’t been very nice, not nice at all. She
has an angina attack when she’s alone in the salon, just at the moment
when Ken’s passing by. He rings an ambulance and comforts her while they
wait for help to arrive. Audrey, in the throes of the attack and thinking
she may be dying, professeses her love for the Kenster. “I love you, Ken
and I have done for months.” She recuperates on Gail’s sofa once the
hospital are sure she’s fine and she has a duvet day in front of the
telly. She holds court to male callers including Luke with a box of
chocolates and Ken with a bouquet of flowers and hope in his heart. Hmmm…
I’m not sure about Ken and Audrey together… not sure at
all.
Mary and
Brendan make the most of an empty house when Dev takes the kids out
cross-country running with school. But the weather turns against Dev and
the kids and they head back home, only to find Mary and Brendan up to all
sorts on the sofa. Mary’s embarrassed, so embarrassed that she resigns
from her live-in job at Dev’s. She mopes in the café, calling Brendan over
and over, wanting someone to speak to. But there’s no reply. In the
pub later, Brendan’s wife Bridget arrives and slaps Mary across the face.
(Why she didn’t slap Brendan instead is beyond me, but hey). Bridget tells
Mary she’s one in a long line of floozies that Brendan has on the go,
she’s not as special as she thinks. When Brendan comes in and sees what’s
going on, Mary demands that he save her honour, but he does nothing of the
sort, telling his wife: “My hobby attracts some very strange
people!” Mary had a wonderful line from writer Damon Rochefort this
week. In the pub with Sally, Erica and Liz she opines about her mother,
who by all accounts is a bit of a prude. “There was a time when she
wouldn’t even be seen eating a banana in public.”
And finally
this week, it’s the news that Fiz and Tyrone have been waiting for. Little
Hope is in remission. There’s celebrations all round and now they just
need to figure out a way of repaying Tyrone’s massive debt.
And that’s
just about that for this week.
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This week’s writers were Martin
Allen and Ben Tagoe (Monday double); Jonathan Harvey (Wednesday); Damon
Rochefort and Mark Wadlow (Friday double). Glenda
Young
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