Corrie weekly update – Funeral, Phelan and a Fly Swatter

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This week was Luke’s funeral and his sister Steph returned in tears. But distraught as she was, she let Phelan know that she’s keeping her beady eye on him because she knows he had something to do with Andy’s disappearance. The vultures are circling around Phelen.  Eileen’s suspicious of her husband but defends him to the hilt, so much so that Tim sacks her from Streetcars because he can’t trust her. Tim’s afraid of Phelan for what he’s done to Luke and he moves away from the Street, taking Faye with him. Sally’s at her wit’s end with Tim gone, and he’s not answering his phone either. Sally refuses to believe what Tim says, that there’s that much evil in Phelan. Ah, how little she does know.   In an effort to further bring Phelan down, Nicola tells Gary to suck up to Phelan to get a job working with him at the mill. That way, Gary gets access to the mill where they all know Phelan is hiding something. What they don’t know is that there are two dead bodies (Andy and Vinny) that Phelan is protecting there.

While Alya continues to mourn Luke for longer than she ever dated him, Zeedan comforts Rana who has a few tears at home after the funeral. But it’s not Luke she’s crying for, it’s for her feelings for Kate and she tells Zeedan she’s in love with someone else. It’s left to Kate in the Bistro to tell Zeedan that she’s the one that Rana has fallen for, not Robert, as Zeedan suspected.  Zeedan, who has never touched a drop of alcohol in his life, buys a bottle of Scotch and gets hammered to down his sorrows. Now, the first time I touched a drop of alcohol when I was younger I bought a bottle of Martini when my mam and dad were away on holiday. I had two glasses, danced around the living room then collapsed in a heap and threw up. I have never touched Martini since. Zeedan, however, is made of harder stuff for he swigs almost the whole bottle of scotch and he’s still coherent and able to walk himself up the stairs. I don’t think so, mate.

In order to remember Luke as the gentle, kind fella he was, a fight night is arranged. Ah well. Newcomer Josh is taken on at the garage by Tyrone and sets to arranging the boxing match between all on the Street. Shona is paired up to fight Maria and there’s a wonderful scene where Maria tries to hide her fear, and can’t.

Eva goes to the clinic to have her abortion but Toyah turns up at the last minute saying “I’m not here to tell you what to do with your body…” and then goes on to tell Eva what to do with her body.  And that is to have her baby and give it to Toyah and Peter so they can live happily ever after.  In order to do this Eva knows she’ll have to leave the Street and have the baby somewhere private so that no-one knows the baby’s hers. 

Daniel tries (and fails) to make up with Sinead with his offer of a platic venus fly-trap and then he chats to Carla in the Bistro. Carla’s bored, she wants a plaything and she finds it in Daniel who entertains her under his duvet in the flat. As they leave the flat, they snog and Sinead sees them at it. Later in the Rovers, Daniel and Carla have a drink together, under the watchful eye and jealous mind of Peter Barlow, who’s wonderful in this scene. He snips and snipes at Carla, clearly rattled by her having a fling with anyone, not least his half-brother.  And as Peter’s having a go at her, in walks Beth who, protective of Sinead, also has a go at Carla and Daniel together. It’s wonderful scene, really funny and biting too.

Speaking of Carla, she finally tells Aidan and Kate about needing a kidney donor.  Johnny Connor has been absent from Corrie for a while now and I’m not sure where he is. But Aidan and Kate get tested and one of them will become Carla’s kidney donor. 

THIS WEEK’S HOSPITAL SCENE:  Carla and her kidney when Roy tells her he’s been tested but has proved not to be a match.

Amy and Steve’s digital detox ends badly when Amy says she’s going to the pictures. Steve tells her he’ll pick her up, but Amy’s really at a house party where everyone’s on their phones texting each other, or whatever they do. Steve and Tracy finally find out where Amy is and barge into the party only to find Amy in full snog with some boy from school.  

And finally this week, Gina’s not taking her medication properly and her bipolar condition gets the better of her. She takes on the mantle of chief mechanic at the garage after Sally needs a tyre changed and while they’re there at the garage, offers to do an MOT on a customer’s care. It’s left to Sally to call the woman back and tell her she’ll have to take her car elsewhere as Gina’s not qualified to do it. 

And that’s just about that for this week.
  
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This week’s writers were Chrie Fewtrell (Monday); Ella Greenhill and John Kerr (Wednesday); Simon Crowther (Friday).  

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