Welcome to tonight as Bernie wakes in her cell in Weatherfield police station where the police force currently believe that she attacked and left Mal Roper the worse for wear. She has an early morning visit from Kit who is absolutely convinced that she did not do it. Initially she answers no comments, however she eventually volunteers she was getting rat arsed in the Corner Shop rather than rampaging the streets to deal with the unlovely Roper. The police then go off to check the CCTV.
At Shuttleworth's Damien Ripley arrives - they were doing his aunt's funeral and he is Joan's son - who passed away in the undertakers in the Thursday episode. He would like them to continue the family tradition as so far he has not heard the vicious rumours floating around that George is bumping people off for the inheritance! As Damien leaves the undertakers Adam and the angry Mrs King appear and start abusing George and his business ethics, calling him a conman. Mr Ripley backs out of having anything to do with Shuttleworths. At the police station Kit takes details from Mrs King but Kit can see no reason to pursue any investigations. However Adam reminds Kit of Christina's murky past and so sticks in a poisoned quill to get Kit to take it further. Sarah and Sean tittle-tattle over the dead sisters in the Rovers later. Tim comes in and reports that Mrs King and Adam felt they had a good meeting with Kit. Christina pooh poohs the whole thing but George is seriously worried.
Jodie pours away the milk and unloads the dishwasher of dirty plates and loses the list of jobs left by Shona who arrives back from the hospital as David falls downstairs late for work. Shona tells him off for what he has not done as cleverly orchestrated by Jodie. Later Jodie is working in the cafe and Bethany is picking up some food and queries how Jodie managed to find Shona's lost ring down the back of a sofa at the Platts when Shona was convinced she lost it in Audreys. As Bethany leaves the cafe Shona comes in still completely worn out and in need of caffeine and admits she snapped at David earlier which was wrong. Bethany turns on her heel and asks Jodie to take Lily to the cinema tonight so that Shona and David can have some one to one time. Jodie is less than amused by this turn of events. However she goes along with it and David and Shona just about have five minutes to themselves and are about to unmake the bed when Jodie and Lily return - turns out the film was an 18. They had to come home as there was nothing on for an hour and Lily has football training in the morning. Jodie consumes the brownies which David was about to enjoy.
Steve spoke to Andy last night about Big Jim and as a result he is not going to let his father get under his skin. He is going to forget he has a father. Steve reckons everything is going well, he loves his job, Amy is doing well and he has the perfect girlfriend. Mary comes in and tells them she is off to the BRIT Awards tomorrow - Ben Shephard is back in Manchester. Well he might be there. Steve goes and Mary seeing things are going well for Cassie and Steve remarks that it is a pity it is not a leap year. You can almost (it is very slow) see the cogs clicking in Cassie's head. Later in the cab office Cassie reveals to Mary and then to Tim that she is going to propose to Steve and they are getting married. Tim just hopes Steve will say yes which plants a seed of doubt in Cassie's mind.
Kit catches up briefly with Sarah as it looks like Bernie is going to be charged. However Kit knows that Bernie did not have anything to do with it because, as he tells Sarah he did. He claims he grabbed Mal and gave him a shove. Then Mal had a heart attack which is why he is in the hospital. Sarah-Lou tells him he has to go to the station and report himself - he would lose his job of course. At the station just as Kit is about to end his career Bernie is released from incarceration as the CCTV in the shop proved to the police that she was getting drunk there when Mal was attacked and so she is off the hook and at least for now so is Kit. Once home Dev welcomes Bernie back, but she wants to know how Kit knew about the CCTV as she did not think anyone knew where she was. He lies. She knows there is more to it than that.
Lisa has attended Professional Standards - no case to answer, off desk duties and with Bernie in the clear Kit is back on the Mal Roper case. He protests he is too busy but Lisa is sure he would like to know who attacked the man who had been harassing Bernie - his mother? Lisa wants to get back to catching the bad guys, Kit rather looks like there is one crime on the books which he would rather prefer remains unsolved.
Many years ago I took my younger sister to see "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". A fine film and the first time I have ever experienced the audience applauding in the dark. However it was not until we were sat sitting watching the film startup that I realised it was an "X" and as she was about 5 years younger then me she was not then 18. I am not sure it did her any harm.
Written by Alasdair Morrison and directed by Katie Fenton-Green.
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