Tonight opens with Carla pretending to be a PA answering the phone, using a dictating machine (and who will transcribe that seeing as Sarah has been dismissed?) when in this day and age Carla would write her own emails! Nick is nowhere to be seen and when he does turn up he and Carla do nothing but bicker - even when being watched by their super new customer Jo. It turns out the latter is a business whizz kid and has written clause 8.5 into the contract meaning she can advance the delivery date if she wishes. Nick and Carla get the whips and torture mechanisms out and tell the stitchers to get stitching. New deadline achieved (just). Quality approved by Jo. Kirk makes the delivery on time and Nick and Carla are now on the same side. Over at the Rovers during all of this Sarah gave Carla a piece of her mind and did not intend to return to work; Beth nearly gets the PA job! Then Sarah is praised by Johnny for standing up to Carla as he listens in to the phone call but Cathy also reminds her it is almost Christmas and well the money is useful. Sarah saunters over to the factory, says she would like her job back but wants next week off (above). Carla and Nick both, with relief, agree the terms for Sarah's return.
Somewhere along this story Nick agreed to give Elsa her money back and sadly I think that is probably the last we shall see of Elsa (she is leaving in the above picture) who agrees to keep Leanne's name out of the divorce proceedings. Nick later tells Leanne that he thinks it will all work out for them with a new client coming on board next week. She asks Nick to move into the flat with her and Toyah!
Any school capable of a school production is so deep into rehearsals that the kids know their parts and the scenery is being painted with final dress rehearsal any minute. Only Bessie Street would still be struggling with a new script every day. Cathy has it summed up in seconds (see above). So clearly Phil is trying to play some game which makes no sense. The only cheerful aspect was when Maria decided that Liam should have a lead role and kept trying to convince Brian of this. He was so taken with the idea that he went to sleep in the Rovers' booth. Brian stops Cathy from talking to Phil. Brian is also popping pills to keep himself going. Not good.
It appears that for some months there has been a package taped to Eileen's u-bend under the kitchen sink which when released falls open on the floor revealing £5k of used notes which presumably Pat Phelan left there at some point. Eileen is not at all sure what to do with it, but after a few drinks in the Rovers with Liz and Sean (both of whom nicely apologise to each other for earlier upsets) the two of them talk Eileen into keeping the money and using it for a holiday on which she generously insists they join her - on one condition - they all travel as singletons - no pining after partners left behind. Look out Tenerife the terrible threesome are on their way to your shores. Mount Teide will pale into insignificance compared to these three on the rampage!
The story taking centre stage tonight was however Sinead and her illness. Earlier on somehow she works out that Ken is giving Carla money for her acupuncture and Carla points out that she would not have taken it direct from Ken. Sinead already distressed by this is not feeling well and Billy takes an interest in a parishoner who tells Billy that she has been skipping her chemotherapy sessions for the sake of her baby Osbourne. Billy does his level best to convince Sinead to go for treatment but he fails. Billy is so distressed by this that he has to tell Daniel that Sinead has not been attending her sessions.
Sinead gets her own wake up call and I do mean call. You know that Star Trek cast members you had never seen before wearing the red shirts were always going to die once they had beamed down to the planet surface. This week that cast member is Steff, as (above) we see Sinead getting the phone call telling her that Steff is ill and probably only has a few days left.
After a long wait Sinead gets to see her oncologist at short notice. Tests on Monday but they need to find out if things are worse. And when she gets home she has to face Daniel who is crying his eyes out.
A bit ho hum this week. You may have gathered I am not impressed by the saga of Bessie Street or to be honest the cancer storyline, perhaps because I do not think that Sinead would have been swayed by Steff in the first place. Nice that three of them will get a holiday on Pat Phelan's ill gotten gains but it was odd it had not been spotted before. Whilst I suspect it is the last of Elsa Tilsley, I do wonder if we have also seen the last of the new client Jo Lafoe at the factory of if the magic clause 8.5 will continue to be a problem. Talking of new people I am a little surprised that Imran's wife Sabine was cast and used in a single episode - I wonder if she will return and make life hard for R'Toyota soon?
Writer: Ellen Taylor, Director: Karl Neilson
See you in two weeks' time - it will be nearly Christmas.
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I am no stranger to a glass of wine but they don't half stick it away on Corrie. Liz and Eileen had 3 bottles between the two of them ( AND in the middle of the afternoon at pub prices). Leanne and Toyah always have a bottle on the go no matter what time of day, not to mention Carla swigging whisky in the factory at the slightest excuse.
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