So two Mondays ago I said that you can't have a terminally ill child storyline without the child and last week I complained about the storyline revolving around Hope and Jack without featuring Hope and Jack. So this week, the main storyline is about Michael, Grace and Tianna - apart from Tianna isn't in it. Hard to have a Kramer vs Kramer tug of love without the actual baby. Anyway, Michael is salesperson of the month and wants to treat Tianna and Grace, and this somehow means an engagement ring. I don't think this is going to go well, is it? Michael's been watching too many romcoms featuring grand gestures during lockdown. A leather trousered Grace comes round and Michael goes down on one knee but she tells him he's two years too late and she's moving to Spain. Spain! Do you know what the R rate is there!? Michael is understandably upset and Grace does a Leanne-style stomping off, not before saying she's met someone else. Blimey! To be honest I hope we never see her again as she's an irritating character, but I can see a long storyline playing out. Meh. When Alina Pop! gets back from Romania (I assume she's there as everybody else seems to be abroad), I hope TPTB put her and Mikey-boy together as I think they'd make a cute couple.
Geoff approaches Danny-boy and Ad-rock in the corner shop, fully masked up, gangster-style, and demands his money. Geoff would be an anti-masker wouldn't he? Daniel takes a break from becoming a member of the metropolitan liberal elite (he's making hummus) to meet the woman he just told Adam he was never going to see again. Turns out the £5K/violent punter story wasn't a scam and Nicky tries to give him some of the money back - in plain sight of Ghastly Geoff. Adam fools Daniel by telling him they have CCTV in the office and then Daniel fesses up to his crime. He says he's going to give Geoff the money back but then Craig turns up to arrest everyone. D.S McKinnon and D.S. Bob must be self-isolating as D.S Blond Crop questions them and Daniel cracks after two questions, telling him he took the dough. Geoff says he wants Daniel punished as strongly as the law will allow but then - as he sees Tim - he turns on the charm and says he'll drop the charges if he gets the money back. Craig has Beth's genes and starts having a go at Daniel, saying he won't let him mess up Bertie's life, but he then offers to lend Daniel the money to repay Geoff.
Sarah is the runner up in this week's competition for cracking under pressure as David just says "What's going on with Nick?" and Sarah blabs about Nick's Secret Son,
Talking of Kramer vs Kramer, it's Barlow vs Connor as Carla refuses to forgive Peter for his unkind words. Abi decides she's The Fixer and goes to see Ms Connor and tells her that Peter is heading for the bottle if she doesn't cut him a bit of slack. I see Debbie's interfering has rubbed off on Abi (although hopefully not literally, that would break social distancing rules). Carla and Peter talk and both agree that they've grown apart. Is their relationship going to be a casualty of lockdown?
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4 comments:
It didn't take Sarah long to open her big mouth with another family secret did it?I bet she'll be the one who'll tell Leanne about Sam,[it definitely won't be Nick].
As for Adam,I don't think he was harsh,he was honest as Sarah only married him on the rebound from Gary,she never loved Adam only the attention.
I’m confused as to how Carla’s suddenly become the bad guy in all this. Yes technically Peter didn’t do anything wrong with Abi but he did make that outrageous comment about Carla sleeping with Jordan (which in my book was rape), so she had every right to be upset with him.
And yet we’re meant to think Carla’s anger is unjustified, that she's being unreasonable. Abi so much as told her this in the factory; ‘Maybe Peter and I aren’t to blame, maybe you are.’
I'm sorry but how the heck did Abi reach that conclusion?
It's Peter who’s been sneaking around behind Carla’s back helping an ex-flame, it’s Peter who’s been keeping secrets. All Carla did was rightly call him out for always trying to be everybody’s hero. Then he went and threw her assault back in her face!
And yet Carla’s the one in the wrong? She's the cause for her and Peter's relationship problems? It doesn’t make any sense.
I can see where this storyline’s going and I don’t like it one bit. They’re going to turn Carla into an unsympathetic, unlikable nag who’ll end up driving Peter into Abi’s arms... yay, can't wait!
I think that was the longest bit of dialogue I’ve ever heard with Craig. Well acted I thought.
In agree. I was really impressed by Craig's speech too. Every word he said to Daniel was true. And really deserved
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