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The bitch is dead. Long live the bitch. No, not Tracy Barlow, but Eccles. She is no more and quite dead. Lady Freckles, as is her Sunday name, died in the vet’s surgery from a tumour that had spread. And she dies while Emma’s looking after her as Steve, Tracy and Amy are in Scotland and Ken’s in his new home at Stillwaters. Emma’s dilemma is does so let the vet go ahead with the operation to remove the tumour or wait until she can reach Ken by phone? Ken doesn’t answer and so the vet goes ahead with the op but poor Eccles dies. Oddly, Steve, Tracy and Amy then waltz into the vet’s although I thought they were in Scotland, did you? Ken turns up too and everyone is blaming Emma for killing Eccles. Ken can’t forgive her and Tracy’s just plain mean.
Meanwhile, Steve leaves his son Oliver with Summer while he goes to sort out Emma’s love life when she chucks Seb’s clothes from the window of the flat above the salon. But Oliver collapses and Steve rushes out to the medical centre with his child in his arms.
However, at the medical centre, Dr Gaddas is talking to Gemma and Chesney. Finally, Chesney persuades Gemma to seek medical help after she confesses that she’s having terrible thoughts towards the quads. She even leaves them on the bus this week and the Weatherfield Wayfarer carts off the quads while exhausted and spent Gemma doesn’t know what day it is. She really needs help, practical and physical help with those quads. Rita offers her a padded shoulder to cry on and Chesney rings Bernie and gets her back on the Street to give her daughter a hand. But neither Rita’s soothing words or Bernie’s skiving hands will be enough. Gemma needs H.E.L.P. and soon, poor love.
Over at Yasmeen’s house, Geoff is adrift when Yasmeen begins to assert herself a little. He leaves a trail of blood by a smashed photograph of him and Yasmeen and she frets about his whereabouts as he cruelly sits in a pub and watches her on his phone via the CCTV. He’s horrible, he really is. If 2020 was a year it’d be called Geoff Metcalfe. Alya’s at her wits end with Yasmeen and gives up on her as she refuses to see what sort of a man Geoff really is. But Yasmeen is harbouring doubts more than ever after logging onto Geoff’s laptop, and especially when she finds details of him contacting an escort agency. She calls the cops and speaks to them about finding out about Geoff’s past under Clare’s Law. He has a history of harassing another woman and having a fight in a pub, although all charges were dropped. What will Yasmeen do with the information?
Elsewhere this week four women of the Street get arrested. Nina, Evelyn, Mary and Toyah join forces on a protest against the council’s lack of carbon neutrality, or something. Roy and Imran go to the cop shop to collect them and amusing as this was, I’m not sure where it’s leading, or if it’s going anywhere at all.
Finally this week, over at Stillwaters, Ken’s dander is well and truly up when he hears Charles call Eccles “an incontinent animal”. Ken’s already considering running against Charles in the election for Chair of the residents’ association and the comment about Eccles is the last straw for Ken. He decides to run against Charles in the election. But is Ken’s heart really at Stillwaters? It became clear this week that he still hasn’t had his post redirected from No. 1 Coronation Street and that doesn’t sound like super-organised and pedantic Ken. Methinks he’s hanging onto his past home, just in case.
And that’s just about that for this week.
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I don't really understand what the point of Stillwaters is. It doesn't work as another set-up where an ensemble of characters congregate eg a rival factory. How long will it be before Ken and Norris escape back to the Street to share a flat? Now, that set-up might work.
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