I know I am normally here on Friday but with t'Street on every night this week I am here a little early with the update for Thursday night.
We are in some previously unseen den inside the builder's yard where Pat all tooled up (with a gun) has turned the tables on Gary and Sarah forcing the latter to use Gary's phone to summon Nicola to the yard with the baby. Sarah sounds cool on the phone telling Nicola (above) that she and Gary have a surprise for her. Pat has somehow managed to get them both tied up - we didn't see it but have to accept that they could not overpower him as he did it! When Nicola does not turn up Pat points the gun at her and she admits she called Tim instead.
Daniel has told Michelle that either she or Steve knows why Robert has done a runner and Michelle catches Steve emerging from Dev's so she gives him an earful and tells him to get Robert back now for the wedding. Steve realises that Robert has a head start but asks Tim to ask Geoff (his father) for help.
Kevin had answered Tim's phone in the pub when Sarah called and tells Tim it was not Gary but Sarah who thought she had called Nicola. They play darts instead of bothering to tell Nicola or do anything useful.
Under some amazingly brutal (joke) police interrogation (above) Josh - who must have a better lawyer than Street criminals normally get - manages to stonewall every question correctly with a "no comment" and inevitably he walks free. David with Shona by his side gets around to telling Gail and Audrey what happened and admits that he knows why Aidan did what he did. Gail has to ask before getting to hug her son.
Rosie, Gemma and Olivia have bought a lot of icing sugar. They are going to swap most of the drugs leaving enough for a taste test and planting the rest on Antoine for the sniffer dogs to find the next time he goes through customs. Seems like a good plan to me. Sally is all dressed up for mayoral do and she really does look quite smart.
Pat locks the yard of "Gary Windass Construction", dropping the phones in a flowerbed outside the salon and Kev does not notice him as he leaves the Rovers whilst as we see above Pat is walking alone along the Street with gun cocked and ready to kill, with his destination being Eileen's and his baby grandson as family is everything to him. Nicola opens the door and Pat says "Boo". He is quickly inside as he waves his shooter around. Nicola stands between Pat and Zach and possibly predicts her demise when she says that she will protect her baby until her very last breath. And finally Pat reveals to Eileen that he was only ever with her for cover; she disgusts him and he felt physically sick whenever he had to touch her. Seb is upstairs and we see him slowly coming downstairs and we all hope that he will head out of the front door to get help. Pat threatens Nic with the cocked gun - he wants to hold and kiss his grandson.
On the dual carriageway heading south Robert is listening to the radio and luckily he is listening to a station where the Geoffster has a mate on air at this particular moment so that Michelle can phone in and appeal to Robert to return as it is all a big misunderstanding and that she loves him really and not Steve. (This must be the biggest set of coincidences of all time).
Back at the yard Sarah and Gary get themselves unbound - but the door is locked and they can hear noises outside. Thinking it is Pat they retreat from the door but when it eventually opens Anna is revealed as she appears to have been released from prison at last.
Michelle cannot believe she has put her faith in Steve and a radio phone in and then she says it is not all about Steve is it? It is all about ME (and Robert) - doomed , we are all doomed she says. Carla tells her that disaster is not predestined - but Kate and Jenny turn up to pour on more cold water. Robert however also arrives and he and Michelle are able to put things right. They agree to get married.
Seb however is stupid and creeps into the room behind Pat's back, Pat is going on about his legacy - his grandson. Seb jumps on to Pat, Nicola and Eileen also jump onto him. However Pat is made of stronger stuff and he jumps up pushing them all off him and Eileen falls backwards onto the floor knocking herself out.
In the Street outside three people are rushing to Eileen's house and are taken aback as they hear a shot ring out - so who will Sarah, Anna and Gary find who (if anyone) has been shot when they reach their destination?
All this and more will be revealed when I return tomorrow night! (Well so I hope - I have not seen it yet either).
Kosmo
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8 comments:
Totally loved the return of Anna and the playing of Joy Division's Atmosphere. Well done Corrie, I wasn't expecting either. Also noted the playing of New Order's True Faith whilst driving past "Joy Division" bridge in Hulme. Made this Manc lady very happy
Oh, just the opposite, this fan is very disappointed. David’s confession was a truly wonderful character scene, the air in Eileen's sitting room was tenser than a warp core breach, and that they were in the same 22 minutes was amazing. But there were so many horribly stupid and pointless moments, the whole thing deflated like a soggy soufflé. Michelle didn’t ‘tell’ Steve anything, she shrieked it. Like a pissed off gorilla in white lace. Blech. Kevin’s a neighbor; you get a weird call like that from the someone you’ve known since she was a kid, you check it out. Tiny Seb thinks he’s going to overtake a 6’ tall known killer? I don’t think so. Rosie has a daft plan and a former drug runner from the estates thinks it’s a good idea? And it goes on. And as a non-fan of contemporary music, after drowning out the morons in the tool shed, the montage-y effect was only distracting. Nope, not thrilled yet but I am hopeful.
Some good observations that I wouldn't have thought of, abbyk. Other than the many implausible occurrences that keep cropping up, I've managed to enjoy this week so far. Maybe cause I know Phelan is going out? That last scene with Gary, Sarah and Anna reminds me of something out of The Sarah Jane Adventures for some reason.
Still hate guns, anywhere, any time.
I have just lost all sense of what is driving Pat Phelan, what / who he is angry about and why. I appreciate a prime-time soap can't necessarily create the space to examine the inner lives of its characters where thrills and spills are the order of the day, but it just renders so many of his actions random and meaningless much of the time. The writers seem to be going for 'jump' moments, but these inevitably lead to diminishing returns. The scenes with David, and previously Aiden, show what is possible, and were well acted, but the depth of those scenes made the 'action movie' sequences all the more jarring'
Of course Josh gets released, because on this show villains can always outsmart the police (who have the combined IQ of a turnip). Anyone else gets accused of murder if they live within 100km of the scene of the crime.
I'm honestly hoping that he gets caught in Phelan's crossfire and killed because I'm not looking forward to more dragged-out court scenes.
Also, I think Anna is going to be killed off since it's never been said that she's "coming back".
I agree with abby about several things, but I can see why Seb would try to stop Phelan instead of get help. He's a kid (17 maybe?) and I think we all thought we were invincible at that age. The audience knows that won't end well for him, but he's had a rough life and Eileen and Nicola are the closest thing he's had to a stable homelife and he wants to protect them.
I agree with you Tilly. Your comments were very positive on the the parts of the episode you were discussing. I thought the music was haunting and represented the ambience of that scene in the show perfectly. I am a fan of contemporary music, so I enjoyed it. I don't just undermine different genres of music that aren't too my taste. I thought we could provide positive feedback on this blog, not just negative and I welcome your thoughts Tilly
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