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After foster girl Fiz set fire to the cafe, things went from
bad to worse for the Croppers. Mr Hartnell comes out to see them
and tells them Fiz has complained that Roy has been violent towards
her. As if. Poor Roy, the only thing he'd ever batter are pancakes,
the only things he'd ever whip are eggs, the only time h'd give
a good roasting is to a chicken dinner (you get the picture so
I'll shut up), but Mr Hartnell is duty bound to remove Fiz and
investigate further. Sarah Lou comes to the rescue when she tells
Hayley that Fiz had said she'd been planning to get Roy into trouble
because she didn't like him. Everything gets settled in the end
but not until Roy's been beset by doubts about fostering ever
again.
In the Rovers, Mike buys Frank a drink and congratulates him
and Alma on their announcement about moving to Shropshire together.
"Look after her," he tells Frank, "she means a
lot to me, that lady" and then he raises his glass to Alma,
murmuring to himself: "be 'appy darlin' ". Unfortunately
for Alma, my favourite of them all, things aren't looking rosy.
As the ladies of the street are recalled to the clinic for their
cervical smear tests, there's bad news for Alma when Doc Ramsden
tells her she's got a growth at the neck of her womb. Having already
told Audrey that she was going to live happily ever after with
Frank, Alma's now going to have to tell her friend much less happy
news.
While Audrey's been away sunning herself, sorry, on council
business in Spain, Curly and Emma started campaigning on her behalf.
Not totally sure why they're doing all the hard work for Audrey,
Emma wonders why Curly doesn't stand for council himself. Now
there's an idea.
Now that Danny's gone, Sally realises she needs another pair
of hands on her hardware. After much cajoling from Dennis, she
finally puts Jason on the job.
Mike returns Adam to his old school in Scotland and takes Ken
along for the ride. At the school, the headmaster assumes that
as Ken's Adam's grandfather, he therefore must be Mike's dad..
oh dear. This puts a smile on Mike's face and he starts calling
Ken 'gramps' and asks him if he'd like to use the toilet before
setting off back for Manchester. When they get back to Weatherfield,
Ken tells Mike that as he obviously has Adam's best interests
at heart, he won't be challenging the court order. Not that it
bothered Mike anyway, he didn't expect to lose.
Gail and Martin get their decree absolute through the post.
Lucky things. I had to make an appointment (chargeable) with my
solicitor to get mine (for which there was a charge) and then
he sent me a letter (another charge) followed by his invoice.
So it's official and legal and they're single again, so the first
thing they do is go to the Rovers for a drink together and decide
to tell the kids.
And finally, Charlie goes to see Toyah, who's still at Janice
and Les' house, rarely venturing outside. She confides to Toyah
that she too had been raped, years ago, and this makes Toyah become
more determined to find out who did it and see justice done. Charlie
takes Toyah back to the scene of the rape which upsets Toyah tremendously,
especially when kindly but unthinking Sam follows her in there
to make sure she's okay. Anyway, there's a phone call late at
night when Toyah's alone, a voice on the phone, breathing heavily,
then the camera pans to a face in a phone box that we can't quite
make out. Whoever it is has dreadful taste in shoes.... and they're
the same shoes we see Phil Simmonds wearing the very next day.
He calls on Toyah to make sure she's okay and trustingly she invites
him in for tea and biscuits. After confiding in him by the fireside,
she turns to go the kitchen for biscuits and it's then, with her
back towards him, that he calls her name. She knows in an instant
where she's heard that voice before. Upset and angry she turns
on him, confronts him and tells him she knows he's the one who
raped her. Phil tries to cover her mouth with his hand and they're
struggling in the front room just as Peter's at the front door,
hoping to apologise to Toyah for his earlier behaviour. Hearing
Toyah's screams, Peter kicks in the door as Janice looks on from
the factory, horrified. Phil lets go of Toyah and does a runner
for the back door but Peter chases and catches him before giving
him a good thumping as Toyah and Janice dissolve in tears in the
living room.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda ;-)
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