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Roy's in a dilemma thinking he's got a secret admirer after Bev chatted
him up for a laugh in the Rovers last week. He seeks counsel in the
caff from those in the know about such matters - Fred and Harry. Harry gives
him a copy of "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" (which my friend
Emma refers to as 'Men are from Earth, Women are from Earth, deal with it'
and I couldn't agree more). But not Roy, he needs some advice. Meanwhile,
Hayley finds out the joke played on Roy and gives Bev a ticking off for being
so cruel. So when Roy turns to Hayley with the news that Harry has advised
him to confront his paramour in case her crush festers, Hayley relieves Roy
by breaking it to him gently but firmly.
After the girls night in the Rovers, Bev and Shelley have hangovers the
size of Liverpool and it occurs to Shelley that she's short-staffed behind
the bar now that Maria's walked out. Lying through her teeth she tells
Maria she wants her back. "You're my best barmaid" Shelley tells the young
strumpet. "Am I?" says Maria. "Yea... a...h" replies Shelley,
with every fibre of her being yelling a big No. Anyway, Maria's back behind
the bar but the bitching and cat flights soon start between her and Bev. When
Bev tells Maria she keeps her brains in her knickers, Maria throws a pint
over Shelley's mum but ends up soaking Shelley instead. And this time
ladeh, she's out, sacked and told to collect her cards. Why do people say
that? What cards? Leaving cards? Don't you get a P45 through the post
when you leave a job? Anyway.
The factory girls have a whip-round for the Nelson's and collect the grand
sum of £52.04. Only Baldwin would be mean enough to donate the
4p but it don't matter, Angela's in tears when Hayley, Janice and Fiz spend
the money on a furniture voucher and tek it round there for her.
Elsewhere in the factory, Steve tries really, really hard to win Karen back
this week and there's a beautiful speech he makes to Karen in front of Joe,
Baldwin and the girls. It was the sort of speech that women like to
hear every now and then (well, I do) and the sort of speech that brought tears
to my eyes and a lump to my throat (or that could have been the spaghetti
bolognaise I'd just made). But does it do the trick? Well, almost.
Karen melts when Steve gets to the bit that goes something like: "I love being
your husband and I'm rubbish without you. Please take me back". She
gives him the key to the flat and tells him to wait for her there while she
has a chat to Joe. Steve does what he's told and waits, and waits, and
waits until he's waited too long and he's on the phone to her, wanting to
know what she's playing at. What she is playing at is trying to fend off Joe
in the office, who's begging her for a chance (aka shag). And as the
episode ended, Karen and Joe are taking that chance on the office table as
Steve bangs on the factory doors. "Karen, open up!" which is much like what
Joe was hoping she'd do too.
Audrey re-opens the salon with that flipperty gibbert, that will o' the
wisp, that clown Maria helping out and Candice, not having any exams to do,
there on work placement. Taking advantage of a half price hairdo, Blanche
finds it within herself to complain about something while she's there:
"I always get a cuppa tea at Maison Renee". Vera makes her mouth go
at Audrey about losing all her life savings to that Richard Hillan bloke
but even she's placated by the offer of a half price cut and blow job.
Eileen's missing Jason who's staying with his dad Tony who's girlfriend
Merle ("can't forget your name, it ryhmes with girl" says Eileen) doesn't
want Jason there. Eileen wants him back home and eventually gets him
back there through some clever manipulation from Tony although Jason doesn't
yet know what's hit him. And let's face it, who cares?
Tracy thinks Dev is ready to propose but Peter tells Shelley who tells Tracy
that Dev told Peter that Tracy wasn't marriage material, although she was
good in bed. So an enraged Tracy cuts up all Dev's designer clothes. This
was worth it just to see Dev in old jeans and a t-shirt he last wore in 1987.
As Dev's stacking the shelves in the shop, Deirdre walks in on him and slaps
him across the face for being so mean to Tracy - which made him drop his biscuits.
As Dev's in his old clothes, Tracy's in a posh hotel with Dev's credit card
as Deirdre and Blanche try to work out what to do with their wayward family
member. Mind you, the best scene by far this week was Dev and Steve
in the Rovers. Dev in his scruffy old clothes is drunk at the bar and lets
slip to Steve that he slept with Deirdre. "You slept with Deirdre?"
says an incredulous Steve. Dev waffles on about life, women, women,
life and some more about women and a bit more about life and all Steve can
do is sit there saucer eyed and ask again in disbelief: "You slept with Deirdre?"
An excellent scene.
Les is back working on the cabs and he's convinced that what he needs is
a witness to keep him out prison. Someone who saw what happened on the day
of his beating and can give evidence in court. Someone like a tramp that was
sleeping rough in the area, perhaps. With Kirk's help, Les recalls a
dog was barking on the day of the attack and Kirk puts together a photo-fit
so Les can identify which type of dog it was - brilliant stuff. As Kirk
goes back to the area looking for the dog, a Jack Russell, and its owner who
may be a witness for Les, he's caught by a copper for wandering around in
a red-light district - as a tramp that's sleeping rough in the area walks
away from them both, his little Jack Russell by his side.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda Young
, writer of
Coronation Street Weekly Updates
for the internet since 1995.
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