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May 20 2017

Shona doesn’t know whether she’s coming or going. Should she stay or should she go? She tells Roy not to colour code her in on the staff rota for Tuesday a she’s not sure if she’s sticking around in Weatherfield. Gail wants her gone and gives her £400 to do a runner, but Roy has a quiet word and she decides to stay, as you knew she would. I didn’t like Shona when they first brought her in as it felt like she was being shoe-horned into the Becky McDonald role of waif and stray taken in by Roy. But she’s turned out to be a lot more complex and her interaction with David and Gail (and with evil Nathan, we’ll soon discover) is intriguing, to say the least. And yes, she gave Gail (almost) all of her money back.


Toyah wakes up after spending the night on Eva’s plump cushions and although she’s got a hangover, I can’t have been the only one who went “Aye-Aye!” when she dashed to the bathroom to throw up. Is she pregnant? Peter’s not best pleased with Toyah’s behavior, going behind his back to have the IVF implant without his knowledge. He moans to Leanne that he doesn’t even think Toyah believes that he didn’t attack Chloe. Leanne takes it upon herself to storm round to see Chloe and give her what-for, telling her to leave off Peter and stop telling lies that he attacked her. Just as Leanne’s in full flow, there’s a knock at the door and Toyah turns up. The Battersby sisters give Chloe a verbal battering. It’s enough for Chloe to go to the cops and get the charges dropped against Peter. Mess with the Battersby girls at your peril.


Leanne lies to the cops and tells them she saw Peter in his flat on the night that Ken was attacked. She and Peter are getting very friendly again, don’t you think?  But Nick knows Leanne is lying to save Peter’s skin. He reveals to David that on the night of Ken’s attack he saw Peter in his car on Clitheroe Drive, smoking a fag. So, Nick knows that Leanne is lying to save Peter and now everyone knows that Nick kept the truth from the cops so that Peter was in the frame for Ken’s attack. Still with me? So far, so good.

 

Nick also arranges, at short notice, to spite - ooh - everyone, a naming ceremony for baby Oliver. It’s like a christening without the church. A celebrant is arranged and everyone’s in their best bib and tucker but Nick doesn’t show, he’s at home getting drunk. Steve and Liz storm in, angry at not being invited and the whole thing goes into meltdown.


Elsewhere, Anna goes bananas when she sees Faye getting into Phelan’s van, where Faye’s waiting for a lift to see Seb at the young offender’s unit. Anna jumps into the van, incensed about Faye and Phelan being friendly, and zooms off in the van, giving Faye a right ear-bashing. She returns the van when she’s cooled down but has some explaining to do to Kevin. He’s booked a night away in a hotel for them both as he feels they’re growing distant as a couple, but Anna’s not interested and refuses intimacy with Kev.


Over in the flower shop, there was a wonderful moment between Mary and Tracy. Tracy’s checking her bank account and finds out that Ken’s deposited the money so that she can buy the shop from Peter, who still owns it. She squeals with delight which brings Mary rushing to her side, concerned. “What’s the matter? Is it your Moroccan kidney?” she panics. A wonderful line from writer Damon Alexis-Rochefort.

Mary has some explaining to do when Norris turns up wearing a neck brace after his break in the Lake District with Mary. He was injured in an incident involving a sausage roll and a slip on a cow pat, for which he pins the blame squarely at Mary’s door and insists she look after him until the neck brace is off.


Also this week, Audrey had some lovely scenes. Firstly, in the Bistro at the naming ceremony, Robert asked her: “More bubbly, Audrey?” and he offered her a top-up of her glass. “I couldn’t be more bubbly!” she replied.   And then there was a long scene in the salon between her and Billy the vicar as she trimmed his hair. Audrey shared her wisdom with Billy over whether he should be taking in Drew’s daughter Summer. She advised Billy that Todd might not want to be a father and not ready for parenthood. She reminded Billy that Todd lost a baby once: “He was a Billy too,” she said in a wonderful scene.

Meanwhile, evil Nathan tells Bethany he’s throwing one of his parties and expects her to sleep with one of his mates, again. Nathan buys her a new outfit to butter her up and she plies on the make-up and gets drunk. Back home on the Street, Sarah is waiting for Bethany as the two of them were supposed to be going to a wedding fayre together and when Bethany doesn’t show, she storms round to Nathan’s flat. She finds her daughter drunk and unconscious on the sofa, rings Gary and the two of them drag Bethany back to the Platts.  When Bethany comes round, she’s furious with her mum and Gary because she knows that Nathan will be expecting her at the party. She rants and raves, throws things, chucks stuff. Glass breaks and both Gary and Bethany are bloodied and hurt. Bethany runs off into the night and we see her under a bridge by the canal, crying and hurt.

Rosie takes it upon herself to turn detective this week to help Adam prove that Daniel is the one who attacked Ken. Adam’s as confused as I was as to why Rosie would want to help pin the blame on Daniel, but it’s a nice pairing between these two. It shouldn’t work, but it does, as friends for now.

And over at Underworld, Sally’s sister Gina starts work and becomes one of the girls.  Kate’s worried about Johnny who has another fall and tells Kate his legs have been bothering him so he’s seeing a masseur. Kate also takes a call at the factory from a posh hotel confirming an overnight stay for Mr. Connor. She assumes her dad was taking Jenny away for the night, but the Mr. Connor in question wasn’t Johnny, it was Aidan, who had booked a night of nooky for him and Maria. But when Kate tells Aidan about the phone call, in front of Eva, he has no choice but to pretend he’d booked it for them both. Aidan and Eva set off for the hotel where Aidan spends the night on Eva’s plump cushions.

And that’s just about that for this week.
 
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This week’s writers were Jonathan Harvey and Carmel Morgan (Monday double); Damon Alexis-Rochefort (Wednesday and Friday first); Jayne Hollinson (Friday second).

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Glenda Young
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