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It's the day of Ken and Deirdre's wedding but it doesn't go to plan when
Deirdre's past catches up with her in the shape of ex-husband Ray Langton.
Yes, Ray's back on the street after 27 years to say his goodbyes to daughter
Tracy now he's found out that he's dying of cancer. As he drives
his car along the cobbles, he bumps the car into Amy's pram as Tracy is
crossing the road. Neither recognise each other but Tracy gives the
stranger an ear bashing for knocking into Amy's pram and takes her straight
down to the A&E. Ray follows her there and the two of them start
chatting, still not knowing who the other one is. Tracy tells Ray
the accident has caused her to miss her parent's wedding. "Looking
to make an honest woman of you, were they?" he asks her. As Ken and
Deirdre brace themselves to enter the registrar's office to repeat their
vows, Tracy rings them to tell them about the car accident. The wedding's
off and everyone troops to the hospital, concerned for the baby, who turns
out to be fine but Ken and Deirdre are shell-shocked at the sight of Ray.
Deidre introduces Tracy to the father who abandoned her when she was two
years old and it all starts getting ugly when Ray has a heart attack right
there in the hospital foyer. As he recovers, Ken worries that Deirdre
has unfinished business with her ex and won't want to marry him now.
Blanche spits vitriol in Ray's general direction and Tracy says she wants
nothing to do with him. It's left to the old-timers - Rita, Emily
and Betty to show some compassion to their old mate and Emily lets Ray stay
at her place while he's around on the street.
But the big storyline this week has been a particularly painful patricide.
Yes, Katy killed Tommy after she found out that Martin wasn't having an
affair after all, it was a just a nasty rumour put about by Tommy to break
up her and Martin. She's beside herself with anger and does him in
with a monkey wrench in the garage just as Angela walks in to see her husband
killed. They decide to keep quiet about it and leave the body where
it is, Angela's sure she can keep Katy out of an episode of Bad Girls if
they all pull together, be strong and tell fibs to the cops. It's
a good storyline, a bit overdone at the beginning but I began to warm to
Angela's acting and was almost emotional a couple of times. But Katy
as an actress seems to have been given more than she can handle with this
storyline, I'm not impressed. Maybe you are, and who's to say who's right,
but I'll be glad when it's all over and done with and the Harris' are no
more. Martin, of course, is suspect number one when Tyrone and Kev
find the body the next morning and Martin isn't best pleased to be taken
in a cop car for questioning. David and Gail look on in horror as Angela
and Katy quiver by the privets.
Elsewhere on the street it's been pretty quiet because the dead Tommy
storyline has taken all the scenes. However, there has been a little
more action when Danny tells son Warren the only way he'll start scoring
goals for Weatherfield County is to stop scoring nookie points with Candice.
A bet is made that if this plan works, then both Warren and Jamie give up
nookie with their girlfriends until Warren's goal-scoring reign is over.
And finally this week, Sean met up with his ex once more when little
dog Shandy died. Shandy had been Sean's dog but the ex had been given
custody when they'd split up. In the pet cemetery, Sean sings for
his lost dog-love beside an extravagent floral tribute and throws chewy bones
in with the coffin. Anyway, it turns out his ex is a hypnotist as well
as a scaffolder and hypnotises Eileen to get over her addiction to eating
crisps.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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