Todd’s Machiavellian chickens finally come home
to roost as his efforts to make amends fall on deaf ears. Tony freezes him out
as he tells him he’ll deal with Fiz and Tyrone. While they initially refuse his
latest offer of £5,000 on the grounds that they’re doing things above board, a persuasive
visit from Eileen and Eva shows that their principles are as thin as the
plaster board they’re still hoovering off the bedroom floor and they agree to
take Tony’s money and forget about the whole thing. As all celebrate in the
Rovers, Todd makes an unwelcome appearance and knows to leave. I will duck for
cover when admitting I felt ever so slightly sorry for him.
Sally, unable to locate the source of barking
in her own house and attributing it to next door, either needs a hearing test or
a trophy for gullibility. The fact that she believes it to be Sophie’s
non-existent barking dog text message alert sees her win first prize for the
latter. Meanwhile Tim scratches and sneezes and gets a whiskey for his trouble
and Deirdre frets so much over missing Eccles that Tracy reckons she wouldn’t
be as upset if she were to go missing.
Maddie gets two week’s unpaid work from Carla in
lieu of her not contacting the police about stealing her car. Both are well
able for one another in the banter stakes, and I look forward to the
possibility of more spirited tête-à-têtes between them over the coming weeks.
Some top class cleaning from Anna sees her
deliver Steve and Amy’s visiting order straight into the hands of an
incredulous Liz. But her attention to detail and commitment to thoroughness doesn’t
end there as she turns her attention to the other side of the closed door. Her
split second fall through it and recovery as Tony opens it to leave, together
with Steve’s fleeting glimmer of puzzlement was comedy gold. But he has more
pressing things on his mind than Anna’s ear, and Liz warns him that if Jim
turns on Steve, Amy will be heartbroken. I’m not so sure. It appears of late
that Amy is fixing to be Tracy
Meanwhile things accelerate quicker than Deirdre’s
broken washing machine over at the prison. Jim is of the belief that saving Peter’s
life is a big motivator behind Steve’s visit and is afraid that Peter will
reveal where he got the alcohol from and ruin his chances to make amends with
his son. I’m not quite sure that Jim’s concerns are that well founded, as Steve
no longer has much time for his old friend. Nevertheless, he attempts to ply Peter with
a pending batch of booze in a bid to keep him quiet.
Peter tells him he doesn’t
want a drink, he just wants Jim to leave him alone and he won’t have anything
to worry about. What appears a simple request from a man with the upper hand is
interpreted by Big Jim as a threat, and he tears up Simon’s photo and roughs
Peter up. This gets the latter’s dander up and he tells Jim that he’s played
him from day one, and if he wants to see Steve again, it all stops now. “You
just made a really bad move” sneers Jim, and the absence of a ‘so you have’
means he really means business.
Peter and Eugene’s cell is trashed and the
latter is gutted to find a book from his Dad is destroyed. Peter admits that
it’s because he threatened to tell Steve a few home truths causing his cell
mate to blow up and tell him he has to tell Jim he didn’t mean it.
Next thing a shirtless Peter is raving in the
locked cell and begging to be let out to make an urgent call to Steve to tell
him everything before he lets Amy into Jim’s life. Eugene
And if all that wasn’t enough, Neil sullies the
name of Atomic Kitten and commits crimes against pop through an open car window
in the name of losing an already long lost battle. While Lloyd must stay away
from him to avoid being accused of harassment, Neil can apparently sidle up to
him reciting the spoken word section of Whole Again and thumping his chest without
any charges whatsoever. Where’s the fairness in that? If anyone deserves to be in a cell
with Jim McDonald breathing down their neck it’s this man. As he reminisces
about 2001, Andrea, firmly in 2014, tells him she’s filing for divorce. Undeterred,
he completes another chorus and pledges to ensure that Lloyd and Andrea will never be happy
together. Whatever comes of this one sided separation, I think it’s safe to say
there’ll be no disputes over the CD collection.
By Emma Hynes
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Yes I caught that with Anna at the door! Great move! I thought the scenes with Steve and Jim the other night were really good. Liz is worried Jim will turn on Steve or let him down but in the end, they're still father and son and Steve can make his own decisions.
ReplyDeleteI am absolutely sick to death of Neil and his stupid antics - why do Lloyd and Andrea stand there giving him the time of day, why not just walk away from him? It puts me in mind of "feeding the trolls" on t'internet!
ReplyDeleteIt is supposed to be a bit funny? Are we supposed to laugh? Hate the whole storyline and the sooner it's over, the better.
Neil is just getting creepy now.
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In reality Todd wouldnt be hanging around like a bad smell. He has no friends or roots in the Street apart from a miserable old mother that he lived away from for years and a half brother who hates him at the moment. All these "sad" little scenes with Todd looking forlornly at Jason and Tony who is not even Todd's father are becoming a bit dragged on now.
ReplyDeleteLast week,Deirdre agreed to have Eccles put down on Tracy's say so due to Amy's lie and now she misses him because he's 'missing'?!If Tracy had her way,|Eccles would be dead by now.As for Todd,he should be the one paying the 5 thousand pounds to show how 'sorry' he is instead of Tony.At least the Dobbs won't 'go hungry' now they can afford more meals at Roys!
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