Written by Jan McVerry, directed by Durno Johnston
Maria is back to being a salon girl and getting sarcastic about David and Kylie thinking they run the place. Although, she is right about David and Kylie. Maria’s trying to style
her customers and David accuses her of being “rusty” and to go and make his coffees. Maria responds just as immaturely and makes Kylie get the coffees. Both Kylie and David leave the salon just when they arrived to go to the salon. Is Maria wondering why she quit to begin with? Maria ends up leaving David and Kylie with a supplier who’s going to keep them all night long. I guess she got one over on David. Do we really have to watch more salon wars?
Mary and Norris are still trying to figure out who’s been moving the camper van, by conducting an all-night-stake-out. I hope they were drinking coffee and eating pizza like the coppers do. Mary figures the thief knew they were watching. Or perhaps, he was sleeping? 
Norris thinks she just needs to go back to sleeping in the motor home. Mary is against that, but Norris is adamant since he can’t stand Mary’s snoring. Well, mystery solved for us viewers, my suspicions were correct and it was indeed Tommy D. who has been playing with Mary’s mobile home this week. Tommy lets Tyrone in on the joke, and Tyrone thinks it’s silly. Even more so, when they find that Mary’s mobile home has now been vandalized by someone asking them to park it elsewhere. Now what’s he going to do with the van-dalized-van?
Claudia asks Audrey for her advice, since she’s going to ask Marc to move in with her? Audrey and Claudia meet for lunch and Claudia
thinks she could be crazy for letting Marc live at her place. When Claud goes to the ladies, Audrey spots Marc, er, “Marcia” waltz into the restaurant with what looks like two other cross-dressed ladies. Audrey wants to know what he’s doing there. She tells Marc/Marcia that Claudia’s in the loo and he hides his face while Audrey pretends that the other two cross-dressers were old clients and they leave. Audrey tries to dissuade Claudia from moving in with Marc. Is Claudia going to find Marcia’s knickers in Marc’s suitcases?!
Steve calls Becky after her (umpteeth) drunken night of rage out saying he’d like her to come home so he can talk to her face-to-face. Steve accuses Tracey of putting that photo of their “happy family” in Amy’s bag. Tracey denies it and blames it on Amy, typically. Steve tells her how Becky’s left, but she’s coming back. He lets her work the bar since he’s got no one else. Tracey seems upset to Steve’s face but smiles behind his back, as per usual. Becky arrives looking like something the cat wouldn’t even drag in, and somehow looks like she ransacked whatever was left of Liz’s closet.
She makes it known that she was partying with some guy named Stephen Gerrard, how believable. Becky wears into Lloyd how he always lies for Steve and creates another drunken floor show in the Rovers. Becky sees Tracey behind the bar and freaks out, making herself look worse and Tracey better. David and Kylie watch this floor show and David points out to Kylie that Becky doesn’t look like a fit mother to him. Becky is acting like a spoiled child in the back room with Steve, always playing the victim. Steve tells her to take a shower, so Max doesn’t see her like that. Steve lays down the law: Amy 
comes first. Finally! When is Steve going to get rid?
In the cafe, Deidre and Ken take James for a meal. James goes on about his charity work feeding the hungry and asks Roy if he can bring the leftover food portions from the cafe to the soup kitchen to feed the hungry. Sylvie hears
this and thinks that he’s just being greedy and wants the food for himself, and that his “mother” (Deirdre!) would be happy she doesn’t have to feed him as much. Deidre of course immediately corrects Sylvie that she’s not his mother. Sophie and Sian overhear James’ feed-the-hungry plight and are interested and want to help out. The only other thing Sophie’s got going on 
is looking for a raise from Dev, and who knows what Sian does. Is James going to stay around for the long-run?
Sylvie continues to annoy Roy, and Hayley just stands there stunned like usual. Hayley tells Sylvie about Anna’s adoption issues and Sylvie wonders who on earth would want to adopt these days. Anna tries to have a conversation with Sylvie but gets snark back, rubbing her the wrong way, as she does with most people. Sylvie can feel that Hayley and Roy are trying to help out her and perhaps she’s comfortable there?
HIGHLIGHTS
- Claudia rolling up in her red convertible, with big Jackie O. sunglasses. Where does this woman think she lives?
- I like seeing James on the street. Especially since he has a unique focus (a young person interested in charity work etc.) to bring to the table. At least, for now! Wait until he’s here a little longer and it’ll probably be all sorts of dramas instead. The kind we like.
- Marc and his cross-dressing club cronies! Especially when one of them thinks that Audrey is another cross-dresser! The short one in the blonde wig looks quite convincing whereas that “red head” needs to hang up her stockings.
- I like the addition of Sylvie to Corrie. We need an old lady curmudgeon.
LOWLIGHTS
- Maria swaning around the salon. Y’know, it used to be “her domain” on Corrie and I was okay with that but now I find her just so irritating, even there.
- As if Steve still has the patience to talk with Becky for all she’s done. Tracey’s a nasty piece, but if you ask me she’s doing Steve a favour here.
- Claudia wants Marc to move in with her? They’ve been dating for all of two minutes, add the fact that she thought (and accused) him of cheating on her. How is this a good idea? How old do you get before you start to develop good judgement? Oh, boy.
- Becky’s “it’s all about me” t-shirt. No kidding!
