Coronation Street double episode review, Monday March 5

So dastardly Frank was finally dispatched to that great knicker factory in the sky - as Sean and Julie discovered as they arrived at Underworld that evening to confront him over the job losses, only to find Sally with bloodied hands crouching over his dead body. As you do.

Sally, scorned in love and business, is surely not the murderer - it would be just too obvious, nor for similar reasons will it be the back-on-the-booze, whisky for breakfast Peter Barlow, who earlier had been loudly slurring to all and sundry in Coronation Street that he wanted to "kill" Foster.

Nor, I think, is the murderer Carla, despite her obvious motivation - Frank chillingly confessed to her that he had indeed raped her and she realised that he had double-crossed her over her share of the factory in collusion with the mysterious Jenny  - another possible killer? 

Not that anyone exactly got  the kid glove treatment from Frank  - after all, he then  unsummarily threw his own mother Anne (who many think will turn out to be his killer) out of his life. 

And Michelle - who has been rather clumsily thrust prominently into this storyline from seemingly nowhere (which must mean she'll feature more in the post murder episodes, as apparently does Kevin) -  tried to stop Carla signing the contract to give up the factory but arrived too late.

She later turned up to see Frank alone but was rejected when she tried to persuade him to keep the factory open. - with her help. "There'll never been another knicker sewn in that factory again," he smirked. Thank goodness for that, the undies always looked cheap and nasty, but I suppose that's not the point.

Andrew Lancel has really come into his own these last few weeks as the chillingly polite psychopath  Frank. 

Meanwhile Carla's back on the bottle too  - and who can blame her. As she and Peter squabbled, Carla tried to grab the whisky bottle out of his hands, only for a horrified Leanne to appear and tell Peter she was going to fight for custody of Simon.

Lesley's Alzheimer's Disease took a new downward turn as for the first time she failed to recognise her own husband Paul, whose somewhat morally dubious equation of caring for her has been to move her in with his mistress Eileen.  

On a lighter note, Karl installed an extra large chav-style flat screen satellite TV in the Rovers so that male punters could watch loud sport but regulars  Emily, Norris and Rita were, rightly, not impressed, nor, most importantly, was Stella. Its days, like Frank's, are numbered.

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