Corrie Review - Monday 5th December 2011

Writer: John Kerr
Director: David Kester

Karl is off to work earlier to help Lloyd until Fat Brenda arrives. Stella says she'll pop and see him later to see how he is copying with the paperwork and receipts. Karl agrees to help Stella later at the Rovers as there is a hen party. When Stella arrives at number 13 she finds Lloyd not coping at all well and the house in a tip. She manages to sort out all the receipts and paperwork ready for Lloyd to send off to the auditors. Meanwhile Karl has dropped off a fare at the casino and he can't resist going inside with his earnings and having a flutter. Despite his phone ringing Karl keeps on betting and winning. He then takes all his winnings to the roulette table and puts it all on black. However he is horrified when it lands on red causing him to lose everything.

Sophie and Sian are planning their wedding. Sally reminds them that she'll be the one footing the bill and that all the preparation is far from romantic. Sophie jokes that they'll be wearing matching dungarees. Sally turns around in a look of horror and Sian tells her that Sophie is joking. Sunita tells Sophie she'll sort her out with some extra shifts at the corner shop and that'll she make sure they don't clash with Amber's shifts.

Tyrone is eating healthy cereal for breakfast much to the amusement of Tommy when Tina arrives downstairs and asks if anyone has seen her perfume as it has gone missing. Kirsty admits to accidentally breaking it and gives Tina forty pounds for a new bottle. When Tina tells Tommy she's taking Rita's car in, Kirsty looks shifty and leaves the room. Tommy volunteers to come into town with her as he needs to pop to the bank. As they leave the shop they are horrified to find Rita's car is being towed away. Tina speaks to the police officer and nearly gets arrested as she argues with him, determined that it's a set up. A phone call to the clamping company later means that Tina and Tommy have to travel all the way to Rochdale and pay a £170 fine. Tina voices her suspicions that it was HER car that towed away and suggests that Kirsty had something to do with it. She's extremely late getting the car back to Rita, who isn't impressed as she was going to give a lift to Dennis to see some old friends.

Kirk reveals to Carla and Michelle that the material for Frank's Laydon order has arrived at Underworld by accident and wonders whether he should take it to Frank's factory. Carla tells him to leave it and that she'll sort it. Meanwhile Frank has noted his material hasn't arrived and after a phone call to the suppliers he learns it's gone to Underworld. Sally and Anne go to collect it but Carla and Michelle deny all knowledge of the delivery and Kirk has accidentally and very conveniently forgotten all about it. While in the Rovers, Anne and Sally are horrified when they see Sean flouting a piece of Frank's expensive material around his arm as a hankerchief. Sally argues with Carla and calls a liar in front of everyone. Anne says that in a few weeks after the trial she'll be outed as the liar in public. Carla quietly turns around and walks straight out of the pub.

Frank is calm about the theft of his material and he'll call Laydon to get the order delayed. He offers to take Sally and Anne out to dinner but Sally declines preferring to stay at the factory to get some work done. Later Sally hears footsteps and finds it's Frank come back. He reveals to Sally that Anne told him about how she tackled Carla in the Rovers over the Laydon order. He tells her that he really appreciates her support. She is quiet when Frank asks if she believes Carla's accusations of rape. He realises he shouldn't have asked and tells Sally she should get home. Before she walks out of the door, she turns around tells Frank that she does believe him over Carla and she doesn't believe he raped her. When she gets home she gets a simple text from Frank thanking her leading her to smile quietly to herself.

Emily is organising a memorial service to mark one year since the tram crash that killed Ashley and Molly and which also led to Peter nearly being crippled. She asks Peter whether he'll be able to make a speech. Peter's reluctant but with gentle persuasion from Leanne he agrees. Later while Emily is having tea with Ken, Deirdre, Peter and Leanne she recollects the night of the tram crash and how it was the sounds of what happened more than anything else that she still remembers. With it all weighing on Peter's mind, he feigns a headache and makes an exit. Bumping into Carla, he reveals his fears about his speech and how it is leading him to want to drink. Carla reveals that she's still trying to pick herself up after Frank's rape. Later on her own in the flat, Carla hears the door downstairs and she quickly bolts her doors before reaching into the fridge to settle her nerves. Meanwhile Peter is in his flat struggling to write the speech. Leanne asks him to come to bed but a clearly distracted Peter declines. Leanne tells him that everything will be alright and goes off to bed but as she leaves the room, Peter rips the page out of his notepad and crumples it up.

Sunita has booked the church hall for the kids nativity and her and Leanne meet to decide who should play each role. Both ladies want the best parts for their kids and unable to agree with write names on pieces of paper in the corner shop and randomly allocate roles. Faye gets the role of Mary and Asha gets Angel Gabriel much to Leanne's delight. The smirk is wiped off her face when she picks the piece of paper that gives Aadi the role of Joseph which means that Simon is the innkeeper. They ask Carla at Underworld to make the costumes, to which she agrees and the scene is set.

With Karl missing and Tina pre-occupied with getting Rita's car back, Stella is on her own in the Rovers with a hen night on. Lloyd steps in to help behind the bar and soon it's running smoothly. However the hen, Mandy, starts choking on a nut and Kirk uses his skills to get her to cough it up. He hits it off with Mandy and revealing that she isn't looking forward to the wedding that much, she asks Kirk to walk her home. She's soon quickly dragging him out of the door. At the end of the night Stella and Lloyd lock up and stay in the bar for a drink where Stella bemoans the missing Karl and tells Lloyd about the times in the past when he played away. Lloyd gets the wrong signals from Stella and thinks she is coming on to him and he leans in for a kiss. Horrified, Stella backs away and Lloyd feels a fool and he makes a quick exit when the door knocks as a now skint Karl arrives back who lies about running out of petrol on a taxi job. Walking slowly back home, Lloyd feels an absolute fool for what's happened - but what will happen now?

Highlights

Leanne: "Deirdre got the sherry out. Hey, I'll tell you what. Emily doesn't half liven up once she's had a few."

Stella (on the phone to Karl: "Actually I don't care where you are. Just as soon as you get this message get your useless backside back to the pub, understand?"

Tina: "I'm looking for my bottle of perfume, where's it gone?"
Tommy: "Hey, don't look at me, ask Tyrone. Got something to tell us mate?"

Lowlights

The smug look on Michelle's face when faced with Anna and Sally. It's stooping down to Frank's level. They should have just thrown the silk in a muddy puddle outside of his factory instead. How much did I want to smack Michelle during the scene?

Sean: "Bye darlings, don't be strangers." HOW ANNOYING WAS THIS DELIVERED???

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