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One storyline dominated events on the cobbles and will no doubt
dominate the update this week as Fred and Roy rallied their troops to
do battle on the red rec. There's a lot of great dialogue, some
wonderful costumes but best of all is the clash of egos and the
realisation by Roy that this time, perhaps, his obsessive behaviour
got a bit out of line. With pikes, sticks and swords, Roy decides he
also needs a musket and hires one from a fellow reader of Civil War
Journal. Deciding to unsheathe it in Freshco to do a test drill, Roy
gets arrested and kept overnight in the cells on charges of
endangering public safety and using threatening behaviour, "But I only
came in for shoe polish," he says in all innocence. As Roy's being
grilled at the station, meetings are called in the Street. In the
cafŽ we have Roy's team: Emma, Curly, Ken, Peter, Anextra and over in
the Rovers there's Fred's costumed cast: Shelley & Geena with full
supporting cleavage, Sam, Kirk and the wonderful Norris adorned with
pink ribbons and feathers. When Karen sees the costumes she wants to
dress up too and as fortune would have it, she can - the woman lined
up to play the part of witch has rung in sick, she's got trouble with
her corns. Unfortunately for Karen, she doesn't know she's the witch
until it's too late but the smirk on Steve's face is priceless. Back
at the station, will the police release Roy in time to do battle? Of
course they will and they do and then it's all systems go. At the red
rec it's party time. There's a Rovers beer tent, an ice cream van, a
tug-o-war team and the Bessie Street twirling kazoo band. Archie is
the compere and when the battle commences both teams stick to their
scripts, for a while at least, and the skirmish begins. Curly kills
Les, Emma kills Kirk, Sam kills Curly and Roy looks bemused. Ashley
kills someone, Norris kills Emma (with drama, passion and style),
Peter kills Sam and Fred kills Ken. And then, oh then, it's time for
Fred to kill Roy but Roy's got other plans. Fred's team has played
dirty, deviating from the agreed plan and bringing shame to the
skirmish with a pantomime horse and free pies. And Roy has had enough
- he refuses to die! The two of them argue and trade personal
insults. "I'd rather be a showman than an anorak!" says Fred. Ouch.
Then Roy bitches a remark about Fred's wives always leaving him.
Double ouch. Finally, somehow, the battlefield turns into real
fisticuffs with pies being thrown and egos being dented. But it
doesn't end there, oh no. Back on the cobbles the two teams repair to
the cafŽ and the Rovers to decide their next step. Roy comes out of
the cafŽ. Fred comes out of the Rovers. Think John Wayne, you get
the idea. The camera does a close up of Fred's face - then Roy's
face. Then an even closer upper of Fred's eyes - then Roy's eyes.
This is serious stuff. Both have been humiliated and neither will
admit defeat or apologise. Roy takes a pike, Fred stumbles and falls
and Roy raises the pike above Fred in his finery, lying there on the
ground. There's a manic look on Roy's face, has he finally flipped?
Will he plunge the pike? Of course not, but seeing Roy overtaken by
his obsession was disturbing nonetheless.
Joe Carter and Geena continue to get friendly and he takes her out on
a date, revealing nothing about what he's been up to for the past two
years. It was noted in our house this week (by someone other than me)
that after spending the last two years in prison, Joe Carter is a man
who must be dying for a shag. Mike leaves Joe in charge of the factory
as he goes off on his holidays for two weeks of sangria, golfing and
very sad pullovers.
Elsewhere on the street this week, Sarah's getting friendly with
Adrian Critchley and starts bunking off school with him. He makes it
clear to Sarah that he doesn't want to hang around with baby Bethany
but his aloof appeal makes Sarah like him all the more and Todd's
getting jealous. You just would not want to be that age again, would
you?
Dickie makes Gail his business partner in Kellett holdings which is
most odd indeed. He's not doing it because he's a good bloke and he's
not doing it to make any money off her, so just what is he up to?
Sally gets a cheque from the insurance company and it's nowhere near
the amount she expected. She'd already told the girls she was going
to take them onollider and has to untell them when the cheque arrives,
crying at the kitchen table. "Are you alright?" one of the girls asks
her. "Yes, I'm fine, everything's fine." Sally says, in a voice that
is anything but. She pays back Rita the money she owes her and while
Rita thinks about taking Mavis on a cruise, Sally is left with just
enough for a small tin of beans.
Betty's starting to feel a bit odd in her old age, wondering where her
future lies and what she's doing still working at the Rovers. It
starts when she sees Fred's name going up above the door (in a
touching scene where Fred takes off his wedding ring as Eve's name
comes down) and Betty comments she's seen more names up there than
she's had hot, er, pots.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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