It’s a Carla heavy show tonight as we see her inching ever closer to a nervous breakdown. Being holed up at Number 1 with only Ken and his six-volume collection of literary platitudes for company would be enough to drive anyone a bit doolally, and Mrs C becomes convinced that she is being watched and plotted against. When she hears Ken on the phone to Peter telling him that he thinks her mind is disturbed she reaches breaking point, lashing out at Ken and running into the street with no shoes on. As an aside I should point out that for a woman on the edge of sanity she did have a very professional looking pedicure.
When Peter finds her, she is staring at the remains of the factory. He realises she needs help and takes her to the medical centre. Unfortunately, they meet an implacable Moira who, as doctor’s receptionist of the old-school, clearly takes every single patient who successfully manages to see a doctor as a painful personal defeat and is more concerned with them trying to jump the queue. Luckily Saint Toyah of Battersby is on hand. She gives Carla’s her very best soft-voiced counselling and discovers that she is in the grip of extreme paranoia and believes that Rana is still alive. As Toyah leaves the room to tell Moira and Peter that Carla needs to see a mental health specialist her patient escapes out of the window.
Elsewhere Imran discovers that it was Alya who sent the threatening messages from Rana’s account, but rather than be angry he hugs her, telling her he wants Carla to suffer. Anyone else think a grief stricken one-night-stand might be on the cards for these two? Heading over to the Community Centre/makeshift factory he walks right into Sean making an unsavoury joke about a rooftop protest and storms off followed by Nick. Keeping up his good Samaritan act, Nick tells Imran about the death of Brian and how he has never really got over it. Which I’m sure was news to all Corrie viewers who haven’t heard Nick mention his dad for about 20 years.
Meanwhile Gary’s woes continue. Not only does he have a hairdo weirdly similar to Kim Jong Un (might be just me), but it also transpires that Alex has used the money he borrowed from Rick to buy Cathy a very expensive bracelet, meaning he is now inescapably in the loan-shark’s debt.
Over at the cab office Dev, Steve and Tim are playing on an app which claims to tell you your heart age. When Steve finds that his heart is ‘older than he is’ (I mean living with Tracy will do that), the three decide to have a £100 wager on who can lower their heart age the most over the course of a month. I’m not a massive gambler myself but this must surely count as one of the most boring bets in history. Granted there may be a Rovers punter out in the beer garden betting on which fly will drown in their beer first, but at least he/she has the decency to keep it to themselves.
Back on the Street the police call in at the factory/Community Centre looking for the Underworld accounts, which Sarah helpfully hands over. Then they’re called to Number 1 where Peter reports Carla missing. Nice to see them earning their money. When Nick finds out about the accounts it’s almost enough to wipe the smug grin off his face as he tells David that if the police start digging there’s a good chance they’ll find Audrey’s stolen money.
And that’s it for tonight. How far will Carla get without shoes? Will Nick be exposed as more crooked than an £11-pound note? And does anyone know where the heck Liz is? We’ll have to wait until next week to find out!
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