Much of tonight centred around Jenny and Johnny who is sleeping in the spare room and to whom Jenny is not talking. She heads off to Audrey's for a trim and on emerging her hair looks just the same as above, although Scott compliments her on her new look and also gives her some marital advice reckoning that Johnny is a good 'un - and that he should be given a second chance. Once home she tries to get Johnny to talk - but getting him to open up is more difficult than most oysters. He obviously has a secret but when he might explain it to her the beer delivery turns up (odd seeing that they are not selling much at present) - Jenny goes to see to check it off. Scott visits the Rovers later and he chats with Jenny and Johnny. Scott is all sweetness and light and suggests he and Johnny have a chat in the back room.
Abi has promised to attend a meeting with Peter but Deb - Kev's sister insists on cooking lunch and wants to get to know Abi. Deb does the "are you good enough for my big brother?" and gets the answer (above) that Abi and Kev don't do complicated! Except that Abi's phone keeps going off as Peter is obviously trying to track her down. Abi goes for a walk and hopefully makes the meeting.
Yasmeen is recovering - the operation has gone well and it is clear to Alya that she sounds like her old self. Geoff has his comeuppance coming. When their paths cross later Alya spells it out for Geoff - he will have nothing and no-one left in his life (above). This seems to weigh on Geoff's mind as when the vacuum cleaner annoys him (has he cleaned up all those red crosses yet?) he gives it a right going over. Breaking inanimate objects rarely achieves very much!
Billy is not sleeping well as he is worrying about Todd. Stupid vicar - do you think Todd has even given you a second thought? Sean at least has an excuse - he is trying to get information for the absent Eileen. Sean has been told about a website where they have information on bodies of unidentified people - whilst they are chatting (with added Dirk in the background above) a new body has been reported found in the canal. No, of course it is not Todd - he will be living the high life somewhere having a face transplant.
Daniel is chasing the will o' the wisp - but Nicky is not taking his calls. We see Daniel at work in the solicitors' office (Tracy is Bertie sitting). When Adam comes in Daniel tries to get a half day, fails and is sent to the Bistro to fetch a takeaway so they can work over lunch. Whilst waiting for pulled pork and mash (I really can't think of anything less appetising) Nicky comes in to find out why her £500 date 'Baz' is keeping her waiting. Daniel offers to double it - before he knows how much it is and Baz tells her to get lost. Raymundo asks them to take the argument outside as the Bistro has just been refitted! Nicky seems most concerned about her feet (above). Baz is not paying - he thought he had sophisticated arm candy and calls her a dirty scrubber. For reasons which are unclear a police car comes around the corner as she threatens Baz with her high heel shoes. Nicky tells Daniel to get lost for Bertie's sake.
Scott and Johnny are chatting. It appears that Scott knows about Johnny's troubles in recent years. Scott reckons that Johnny's first thoughts on seeing Scott was "How the hell did that lunatic hunt me down?." So, something happened - but given what we know of Johnny's history he cannot have been that difficult to hunt down. No doubt all will be revealed on Monday. He claims (above) that he has no idea what Scott wants - but he is looking pretty worried about it all.
Tonight was clearly the first half with the second half following on next week on Monday, although earlier on in the virus period I was reviewing second half episodes. Which means at some point we have had an odd episode. Perhaps the BGT week of 5 episodes has knocked it out of kilter so to get back on track we are having a full hour on Friday 11 September when I will be back on duty.
Written by Mark Burt and directed by Audrey Cooke.
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