Welcome to trial week! That actually started last week! Let's just say trial couple of days. Anna is quietly (noisily) optimistic after Seb went from prosecution to defence witness. Roy is on the stand, telling the court that Anna is
Gemma is organising a fancy dress party for the caddish Henry and the other residents discuss their costumes. Steve is going as himself because the party is pub themed and he used to run a pub, which is even less effort than putting a sheet over your head on Hallowe'en. Toyah reminisces about the time she went to a student party as a fish without a bicycle (pity that feminist sentiment didn't come into play last week, Battersby!). (Queen) Liz even cleans out the pumps in honour of the honourable Henry (didn't she get out of dirty work with the fake Ridley story a few month's back?) and the birthday boy, despite being a bounder, enjoys himself and gets into the swing of things. Could it be that in rom-com style, our 'Enry will fall for Gemini for realsies?
TBH, I thought Toyah was already in fancy dress; she appears to be wearing the fleeced pelt of a black swan. Miss Swan-Killer asks Peter if he's going to AA today. Funny how there's always a meeting when Peter needs one. Talking about the upcoming baby-by-surrogate, Peter says it's been a long time since he was up at 3 a.m. with a bottle. I don't think Peter was ever up at 3 a.m. with a bottle! Lucy left for Australia by the time Simon's baby bottles were involved, as I remember. Unfortunately, this is all moot as Jacqui, the surrogate, has lost the baby. Toyah tells Eva (not Leanne?) about this sad state of affairs and her step-step-sister comforts her, which makes me wonder where this is going:- will Eva give up her baby to Toyah, but then take it and run off with Aidan?
Anyway, Toyah turns up to Peter's AA meeting but can't tell him about the baby, because he says he's feeling stressed and he doesn't want to crack and turn back to the booze. He tells the group that he wants to call the baby Suzie Barlow, and that she's going to be a lifebelt, not a dead weight and Toyah can't bear to tell Peter the truth.
Oh god, we're back to "Tassels". The club must be making 50% of its income from cobbles residents turning up looking for Bethany or Sam. Gary follows the latter in but finds his sort of step-daughter, but is beaten up and thrown out by Scott, the bouncer. I thought Gary was private security, he should have some better moves. Bethany confesses all to Sarah, who goes off to visit Gary in the first of this week's hospital scenes. Gary and Sarah seem to be getting back together (for the 867th time), but Bethany threatens to move out if they do so.
Billy, ever helpful, is shelving books in the community centre. He falls from his chair and is in a lot of pain. Adam turns up and Billy asks him to get his pain-killers. Later on, Adam comes round to the Phelan's to offer stronger painkillers and takes a pic of Billy's actual pills for some nefarious plan. But Billy later reveals that Todd has phoned him and they are all going to go away together. Hmmm.
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