Coronation Street weekly update - Goodbye Hayley

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“How on earth do I condense Hayley’s death into a paragraph?” I’ve just wondered aloud.  How can we say goodbye to one of the most important fictional characters that UK TV has ever had? How do we say goodbye to Hayley?  A re-telling of events just doesn’t seem enough,  but needs must for the weekly update - and so here we go as I try my very best to keep the grief brief.

Hayley tells Roy it’s time for her to go. But Roy’s not ready and begs for just another day. “We could start today again, better,” he cries. “Tomorrow. Do today again, tomorrow.” But Hayley is insistent, she knows the time is right. “I said it was today and I meant it. Sorry. Waiting’s just making this harder.”  And with that, Roy helps her to the bedroom where she downs a lethal cocktail, telling Roy he must, under no circumstances, touch the glass or her drugs otherwise he’ll be implicated in her suicide and that would never do.  Now, I don’t know how the law stands on this so I’m not sure what’ll happen. But just when Hayley has passed and she’s lying on the bed next to Roy, Carla and Anna force their way into the flat to find the Croppers together, lying on the bed.  Was this done so that Carla and Anna can be called as witnesses to Hayley’s right-to-die suicide? I’m not sure.  But Carla and Anna soon realise that Hayley has taken her own life although they keep the news to themselves for now.  

As Roy tries to cope with the enormity of what’s happened to Hayley, and to him, his grief overtakes him. But instead of conforming to what Carla and Anna and everyone else on the Street expects him to do in his grief (cry, scream, go into denial) Roy does what he has always done when dealing with difficult situations. He goes on as normal as best as he can, while Carla and Anna try to hug him and fuss him. Roy doesn’t want any of this, but it’s not yet clear to him what he does need. Hayley’s left him a list of things to do to prepare for the funeral and he takes comfort in the order and precision of the list while being forced into organising Hayley’s funeral. “It’s what needs to happen,” says Fiz. “You need to do it for Hayley.”

In other news this week, Chesney asks Sinead to move in with him and she agrees.  When Beth gets wind of this she gets herself, Kirk, Craig and Darryl the rat invited to move in with them too. I don’t think it’s exactly what Chesney was expecting but it could turn out to be fun.

Rita’s not best pleased when Gloria and Dennis get their heads together again to organise another band night in the Bistro.  She’s feeling left out, is Rita and when she puts this to Dennis he replies that he often feels like a spare part between her and Norris too.

Homeless girl Maddie steals into Sally’s house through the back door to try to nick Sally’s watch.  Tim’s asleep on the sofa and he wakes up when Maddie walks in, so she wallops him and gives him a bloody nose. The cops are called but Maddie’s long gone and Tim lies through to his teeth about his attacker to the cops: “He were a big ‘un. Six foot. Strong, a big bloke.”

And finally this week, Nick and Leanne split up, which to this fan is of little consequence.  Of more interest is that fact that Nick’s moved back in with his mum.  And Gail’s delighted to have her golden boy back.

And that’s just about that for this week.

This week's writers were Joe Turner, Debbie Oates, Chris Fewtrell, Susan Oudot.  Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

Glenda Young
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