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The big story this week has been the death of Pat Phelan. Yes, the Corrie villain’s gone at last. It starts when Phelan takes Eileen away from Weatherfield after he finds out that the concrete pillars on the building site where he’s working need to come out as he’s not done them properly. The problem is, that’s where Phelan buried Vinny and Andy’s bodies. (I thought they were in a lake or somewhere but maybe I’ve missed something?) Anyway, the cops find the bodies, Gary’s arrested because he was on site at the time looking for the gun that Phelan killed Luke with. Meanwhile, Phelan and Eileen are miles away from it all by the sea. Eileen thinks that Phelan is treating her to a seaside break in Whitehaven but Pat has plans, he’s packed his passport ready to scarper to Ireland. Back at the building site, Phelan’s got a mole who’s keeping him up to date with what the cops are doing there. And when he hears that things have turned nasty he determines to sail away to sea in a boat from the harbour. But his plans are thwarted by Eileen who follows him and demands to come with him as she thinks he’s going fishing. They argue at the boat and Eileen loses her picnic hamper, cuts her finger and hurts her foot. Phelan’s concern for his wife stops him from leaving and so he gets off the boat and follows Eileen to the shore. 

Meanwhile, back at Weatherfield’s cop shop, Gary calls in Adam Barlow as his brief. Once Adam knows about the cop finding the dead bodies, he rings Tim to tell him to warn Eileen about Pat, wherever she is. Eileen picks up the message and horror strikes her heart. She tries to pretend everything’s ok and lets Pat go back to his boat, but he knows something’s up and follows her as she tries to escape – all the way along a pier that leads nowhere but the sea. Now, I’m no Miss Marple but I think Eileen made a mistake there.  Phelan rips the phone from her hand, hears Tim telling her that Pat’s a killer and he chucks the phone into the sea. They argue and under the beam of the lighthouse they circle each other where Phelan reveals all to Eileen, that he’s killed not two but four people (Michael, Andy, Vinny, Luke), he boasts, he smiles, he tells her he loves her. She cries, walks backwards to the railings that are rusty, threatening to throw his keys into the sea. He lunges for the keys in Eileen’s hand but she’s too quick for him and he hurtles through the railways to the sea below, but he’s not gone, not yet. He hangs on for dear life to a rope over the side of the pier and begs Eileen, begs her to help him up. Instead she stamps on his hand, over and over, so that he loses his grip and falls to the foaming seas below.  Tim and Liz arrive along with the cops and Eileen’s in bits, in shock, but she can’t tell them what’s really happened to Pat, not yet.
Martin Platt’s brief return to Corrie ended this week when he left son David and headed off to his new life in New Zealand. David puts his plans on hold to emigrate with his dad after he finds out that he needs a visa and things aren’t as straightforward as he might have thought.  There was a lovely little scene in the Rovers when Gail and Brian shared a drink and a chat. I’d love to see him back permanently, it would have bene great to see him interacting with the likes of Kevin, Sally and Gina, his mates from back in the day.

In the hair salon, Audrey gets Rosemary the Clairvoyant to return because Roy and Brian want to out her as a charlatan. However, when Rosemary gest wind of what Roy and Brian are up to, she refuses to perform and walks out. 

Audrey ends up in hospital this week after she gets caught up with a gang of kids on the cobbles, one of whom is Simon, who mugs Audrey for her handbag. She’s in a bad way with a fracture in the Tony Wilson ward (nice touch, ITV) but falls for the hospital’s radio DJ, a really nice fella called Geoff.  He asks her what her favourite song is so that he can dedicate it to her. But instead of Patsy Cline’s Crazy he plays her Shaddap You Face …. which was very funny indeed. It continues in a light-hearted way when Audrey gets locked inside the DJ booth with Geoff locked outside and she has to take over the radio show, dedicating a song to Pauline Urology. Wonderful stuff indeed, even if it was yet another hospital scene.  Anyway, the good news is that Geoff the hospital DJ turns out to be Tim’s dad and turns up at Sally’s house for tea, so it looks as if we’ll be seeing much more of him, which pleases this fan and no doubt will please the fragrant Mrs. Roberts too.

Simon, however, gets a ticking off from Peter and Leanne for his behaviour and he swears he won’t hang around with the gang again, but he does. Meanwhile, Carla takes it on herself to help Simon and after a heart to heart in the factory office, she offers him work experience on their IT systems. I’ve always liked the relationship between Carla and Simon and felt this was done well this week.

Over at the Rovers, there’s a family day to celebrate the pub trying to attract more family custom. It doesn’t really work as holy war breaks out between Fiz, who’s there with her daughter, and Tyrone, who’s there with his. Fiz and Tyrone aren’t speaking. Worse still, they’re at each other’s throats.
Steve gets a surprise in the pub when an old teacher of his, Mile ‘Puddles’ Thornberry turns up. Mike needs a job and gets one quick-sharp working at Streetcars as their new cabbie. Liz likes the cut of his jib and flirts outrageously, which is always good to see. 

Elsewhere, Johnny is too busy with Aidan and Carla to notice that Jenny is getting upset. And getting Jenny upset is not something that Johnny should do. She wants to head off to Spain, to live the life on the Costa that Johnny said he wanted too, but he seems to have forgotten all about it. Jenny asks Liz to have a word with Johnny, which she does, and has to break the news to Johnny that Jenny’s only gone and put down a deposit on a villa in the sun.
And finally this week, no-one seems to have noticed that Eva is seven, yes seven, months pregnant. She can’t feel the baby move and so has a scan at the hospital  (another hospital scene, groan) where all is proved well. Shedding tears of relief, she rings Aidan.

And that’s just about that for this week.  

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