Mary has convinced herself that Freda has done away with Norris and just as she is threatening her on the cobbles, a taxi pulls up and out pops Norris himself. He explains to Mary that the urn on Emily’s sideboard contains the ashes of Freda’s hearing assistance dog; that he is engaged to Freda; and he was too scared to face Mary directly about him and his fiancé moving up to Edinburgh. While going through some old photos, deciding what’s to be kept, donated to charity and taken to the tip, Norris unearths some old letters addressed to Mary.
He thinks that Freda
hasn’t spotted them but while Norris is out she finds them and
takes them to Rita. One of them is open and so she reads it to find a
letter from Mary’s old admirer and ex-editor of “The
Inexplicable” magazine, Brendan Finch. Instead of giving the
letters back to Norris with an ultimatum to tell Mary (as you would
expect from St. Rita), she and Freda steam open the rest and find out
that Brendan was so in love with Mary that he’d left his wife and
was proposing marriage to her, enclosing an engagement ring in the
final letter. Mary catches Freda with the letters and sets about
reading them all before confronting Norris who insists that he was
only doing what was best for his friend and wife.
Mary finds an old
mobile number for Brendan and leaves him a message on his voicemail
accepting his proposal. In reply she receives a text telling her they
have to talk. Brendan’s brother Bernard then turns up to inform her
that Brendan had fallen off Striding Edge on Helvellyn 6 months
earlier while on a UFO hunt. She’s distraught and takes herself off
to the community garden to read the letters from the man who loved
her and have a good cry. While there a Robin sits on a post
chirruping and she is convinced it has the spirit of Brendan. Freda
later dumps Norris and Mary initiates divorce proceedings.
Bethany thinks Ryan
should start spinning his ones and twos again and persuades Alya to
let him DJ for a couple of hours one evening at Speed Daal. Ryan
tries to kiss Bethany but she shies away and he thinks she’s not as
interested in him and he thought. Really, she
tells her mam, she does like him but she’s frightened of getting
involved as there’s been nobody since Nathan. At the “soundcheck”,
Ryan is clearly over his rebuff from Bethany as he agrees to meet
Alya after his “set” for a drink. Bethany explains her feelings
to Ryan who is very understanding and so sleeps with her.
Ryan is late for his
DJing performance only just arriving in time to avoid his spot being
taken by Geoff and a copy of “Hi Ho Silver Lining”. Quite what
Ryan was doing in Ibiza I don't know but he certainly wasn’t DJing. His
technique seemed to consist solely of crashing the cross fader from
one deck to the other with absolutely no attempt at beat matching. He
wouldn’t have lasted five minutes as a DJ in Ibiza. At the end of
the set Alex puts on “Don’t Look Back Into The Sun” by The
Libertines and Alya runs off in tears. Ryan catches up with her in
the community garden and she explains it was Luke’s favourite song
when he was going off car racing. In return Ryan tells her that he
and Bethany are now an item and Alya’s livid as she thought they had
arranged a date and threatens to tell Bethany. She doesn’t need to
bother as Alex tells Bethany that Ryan’s gone off with Alya and so
Bethany gives Ryan the slap he probably deserves.
Robert goes to lunch
at a hotel in town rather than in his own restaurant with his
estranged partner Michelle, and bumps into a confused and scared
Carla. He manages to get her back to the Street but she runs off
before he can hand her over to the Connor family.
Tim wins the
heart-age bet he had with Dev and Steve but he’s probably spent
more than he’s won on designer spandex, sorry, polyester elastane
weave, training clothes. Asha misses a test at school so Dev
confiscates her phone, though she has another one. And Paula and
Sophie are friends again so go off pony-trekking in Spain.
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(Wednesday); and Ellen Taylor and Owen Lloyd-Fox (Friday). Find out
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2 comments:
Very funny. " Ryan is very understanding so he sleeps with her" - priceless!
It takes 2 to tango.
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