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March
18 2017
Greetings and welcome
to another week of words from Weatherfield. I’ll be on holiday next
week and Richard Whitbread has kindly volunteered to step into the
weekly update office while I’m away. A million thanks and a plate of
Betty’s hotpot go his way. I’ll be back the week after next. And so,
without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation
Street update.
Each week the grooming
of Bethany ramps up a little more and makes for even more
uncomfortable viewing. This week, Nathan comes to tea at the Platts
with Sarah and Gary, who are shaken at how old Nathan is. Gary
susses Nathan out straight away and knows there’s summat not right
about a man older than him and Sarah going out with someone as young
as Bethany. Sarah doesn’t want to cause a fuss, afraid she’ll lose
Bethany. But she does insist on Bethany going on the pill and books
an appointment to see the doctor. Bethany’s already had a
contraceptive implant so goes through the motions of pretending to
ask the doctor for the pill, just for appearances sake for Sarah.
Worse is to come when Bethany goes to Nathan’s flat and he’s got his
mates there to check out his new acquisition. “When she’s ready,
you’ll be the first to know,” Nathan tells one of his mates. It’s
horrible to watch as Bethany gets sucked into Nathan’s rotten world.
She also gives a fake alibi to the cops this week after Nathan is
arrested for a serious assault. Bethany lies and tells the copper
that Nathan was with her at the time of the assault.
It’s Faye’s birthday
and Anna gives her a hundred quid after Roy gives her a bonus. And
what does Faye go and do with her birthday money? She persuades Seb
to have a tattoo, the pair of them are going to have ‘his and hers’
tattoos, or at least that’s the plan. But it’s only Faye who gets
inked while Seb chickens out. When Anna finds out about the tattoo,
she fair throws a wobbly. She’s already incensed about Seb working
for Pat Phelan. Anyway, Faye’s tattoo gets infected and she has to
go to hospital, but she doesn’t tell Anna. Izzy and Gary go with
Faye to A&E where, in a soap coincidence, Faye’s baby Miley
comes running into the waiting room with her dad, Jackson.
Jackson and his family are in the UK from Canada for a couple of
weeks and there’s a wonderful scene when Jackson – now a confident
father – and Faye – still the reluctant mother - reunite with their
baby. Faye takes Jackson and Miley back to visit Anna and Tim,
which defuses Anna’s wrath when she finds out about Faye’s infected
tattoo.
Chloe continues to
stalk Peter Barlow and using the tracker she installed in his phone,
she ‘accidentally on purpose’ bumps into him in town. She’s in tears
and tells Peter that an ex-boyfriend of hers is stalking her.
Peter takes her back to her house with its hideous flamingo print
wallpaper. And if that isn’t a sign of a very crazy mind, I don’t
know what is. Run, Peter. Run.
Maria’s freed from
prison this week, she’s got a tag on her leg which means she’s under
a 7.30pm curfew and has to be back in her flat or alarms will go
off. It’s Johnny Connor who meets Maria at the prison gates
with a lift back to Weatherfield and a warning to stay away from
Aidan. When Maria’s back at work, Gail watches in the salon as Maria
and David joke about and when she sees David give Maria a friendly
hug, she assumes there’s chemistry between them. “Mum thinks you’re
giving off all the right signals,” laughs David. “That’s my security
tag,” Maria replies. But Gail has convinced herself that Maria and
David are becoming an item (they’re not) and playing up to his mum,
David invites Maria for tea.
Toyah’s not happy to
have Maria back on the street and the two of them exchange words in
Roy’s Rolls. If you cast your mind back, way back, there’s history
between these two. When Toyah was dating one of her college
lecturers called John, Maria slept with him and ended up pregnant
with his child, before suffering a miscarriage.
Elsewhere, Gail tells
son number one, her golden boy Nicky, that he’s better off without
Leanne. She’s never liked Leanne and tells Nick in no uncertain
times that he should dump her and forget about the baby. This comes
about because Michelle sends Nick a picture that Leanne had taken of
Steve and Liz with the baby. Nick’s incensed that Leanne has given
Steve access to the baby without his knowledge. Worse is to come for
Nick when Steve storms into the register office while Leanne is
registering baby Oliver’s birth and she ends up putting Steve’s name
on the birth certificate as the dad. Nick drowns his sorrows in the
Bistro, aided and abetted by Michelle who’s out for revenge on
Leanne. She invites Nick back to her flat and goes in for the kill,
snogging him on the sofa, but when she wants more, Nick pulls away
and says he still loves Leanne. We see him sitting on Maxine’s bench
later in a right old state with tears in his eyes.
And that’s just about
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This week’s writers were Susan Oudot
(Monday double); Ella Greenill (Wednesday); Mark Burt (Friday
double). Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at Coronation
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