It’s raised eyebrows all round as
Lloyd and Andrea spend the night together, but both are delighted and happy to
flaunt it. Jenna’s irritation at Andrea’s “chainsaw laugh” is nothing compared
to Steve’s disappointment. He weakly calls Lloyd a “dirty old dog” before
playing gooseberry over a cosy cuppa. With Andrea’s father in waste management,
Lloyd’s mafia joke is outstripped by Steve asking if he’d ever mentioned a tortoise;
a brilliant reference to Mandy’s long lost pet.
“Congratulations on showing no
restraint? It’s not really one for the old greetings cards is it” is Andrea’s
response to unimpressed Eileen’s good wishes. Steve is told Andrea was born 50
yards from the County penalty spot, but he’s sadly learning that introducing
her to Lloyd was something of an own goal. Excited at the news that her Dad can
get match tickets, he’s deflated to learn he’s not included.
Steve feels he’s being left out by
his two “best friends”, Andrea albeit a late contender for the title. “Who am I
left with?” he asks a wounded Michelle who replies, “Me”. She blows her top when
Steve reveals he’s jealous, calling him pathetic, and saying the fact that it’s
a meeting of minds is worse than if he just fancied Andrea. Steve follows her
to Carla’s but is told to bog off. He’s not exactly Cliff Richard, observes
Michelle, but Steve’s calendar of gurns would surely brighten any month.
Steve tells Andrea he likes
things the way they were. She pleads with him not to be jealous of Lloyd, that “he’s
a sweet guy but compared to how I feel about you…” Steve instantly interjects
to point out what great friends he and Andrea are, and they both laugh at the
thought of getting together, but he’s left despondent as she departs with
Lloyd. In fact, Andrea sleeping with Lloyd is a
disappointing development if herself and Steve are destined to have a future together.
After telling Steve that there’s
a sleeping bag on the sofa for him, Tina observes, “There’s so many angry women
on this street.” Perhaps because she’s weirdly spent the day trying to palm a
plant off on them.
To make amends, Rob sweetly invites
Tracy to a Barlow's Buys works do, but she’s having none of it. While Deirdre’s main concern
is that wine isn’t the same without pork scratchings, Tracy’s is that there’s
no going back from Rob’s infidelity. She tells him, “if you’d have still been sleeping
with me, I’d have had a kidney away”, and while she may have sold a number of
his valuables in Barlow’s Buys, his response is gold; “for what? Profit or
personal use?” Have it your way, he
tells her, I’m not spending my life apologising.
Despite being called the town
bike, Tina tells Tracy she’s an idiot if she lets Rob go. Tracy later tells
Deirdre she loves and misses Rob, and knows he misses her, but she doesn’t know
how to forgive him.
Carla is terse with absent minded
Anna at the café, and it’s as if they never shared the intimate discovery of
Roy and Hayley in what should be a painfully short time ago. Still out of pocket, deluded Owen
reckons he should have followed his instincts. However, Phelan surprises everyone
by turning up. Anna lets him have it, calling him a conman, but is left red
faced when it transpires a banking error was to blame.
She calls round to apologise, but
Phelan makes her uncomfortable, leaving her in no doubt that he fancies her. All
are delighted to hear of her success at smoothing things over, but she later
confides in Izzy and says that Owen can never know.
Sophie reveals to Tim that she
knows the recent intruder was girlie, not burly, and as neither want Sally to
find out it was Maddie, agree to keep it secret. Sophie subsequently blackmailing
Tim by threatening to reveal all if he doesn’t drive around looking for Maddie makes
no sense considering neither want the truth to out, and it’s a wonder he doesn’t
call her bluff. While Sally watches that
“fella with the glasses and the teeth”, AKA Gok Wan, Sophie admits to Tim that
she fancies Maddie.
Scenes of hilarity unfold in Audrey’s
Salon as Deirdre, Stella and Rita have their barnets coiffed. “It’s a den of
iniquity that Bistro” roars Rita from beneath the drier as she tells Stella she’s
on to Gloria. Deirdre reckons Rob and Dennis could do with a “This belongs to…”
tag, while Audrey observes that there are seven women to one man in Ecuador; it
certainly feels like that in Weatherfield at times.
The man to woman ratio is reversed
where Gloria is concerned however, and she’s loving it. “They’re fighting over
you like a couple of randy old stags” notes Stella, and Gloria is delighted. Hyde
Working Men’s Club is the venue for the gig, which is fitting, as the
excitement and attention brings out the worst in Gloria who, with Richie, cruelly
leaves Dennis to drive the gear home as they go drinking, and mocks him about a
bedtime cocoa. She could certainly do with showing her Dr. Jekyll every now and
again.
By Emma Hynes
Twitter: @ELHynes
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NO NO NO trice NO.
ReplyDeleteWhy is Roach returning?
Please NO.
He was 'proven' not guilty, but he did not contribute anything to Corrie. Just humph........
He should gracegully or otherwise retire.
ANON