There's only room, with social distancing, for one warring couple at a time in the pub living room. Peter and Carla have made up and are going on lunch dates (although Peter's still playing detective, trying to find out who was in the hotel bar with Carla (he should get D.I. Tinker on the case)), so it's Johnny and Jenny's turn. He is still in turmoil about Grant, the security guard who drank himself to death following Scott and Johnny's car accident that left him injured. Jenny hasn't changed her position; she doesn't think Johnny should turn himself in, but she does fill Carla in on the storyline. Carla says she has done some bad things also, but she means sleeping with Adam, rather than knocking St Stella down whilst drunk or that corporate manslaughter incident that she covered up.
Talking of changing positions, a couple of weeks ago Sarah was trying to get back with Adam and he was giving her short shrift. Now, it's Adam trying to talk Sarah into renewing their relationship, even picking up the kids for her. One favour and Sarah is willing to ask him out for a drink and talk about reconciling. Such a pushover!
Tim's another one who's changed his mind, visiting Yasmeen to tell her he'll be a witness for the defence, much to Ghastly Geoff's horror. Imran will now have some time on his hands to work Yasmeen's case as he and Elliot have decided not to support Battling Battersby's new coping technique of wanting to sue the hospital for negligence, quoting the heroic work of the NHS. In the meantime, Steve and Nick are snipping the doll playing Oliver's hair as a keepsake although we don't see them taking hand prints of the doll's hands. Leanne rings Posh Paula, but she refuses to take the case as do several other solicitors, leaving Leanne to have her tenth meltdown of the week, and it's only Monday, accusing Toyah of stabbing her in the back when she finds out that her sis knew that Imran was going to drop the case.
Todd hasn't changed, still trying to get Billy back by being an arch-manipulator, crashing the Mayhew-Foreman's games night at Speed Daal, and reminding Summer (and Billy) of great times they had (PG rated things only) and buying Summer gig tickets for some Gen Z-er I've never heard of (and anyway, what gigs? Tier 3 still applies after lockdown, Weatherfield).
Oh, and there was some guff about Shona wanting to do the school run in a clingy red dress, but it was a bit irritating to be quite honest.
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4 comments:
I've got a sneaking suspicion Peter's going to die. There's been so much foreshadowing with the doctors giving him the 'Drink again, you'll die' speech, Peter admitting rather eerily that he doesn't want to die, and Carla saying to Johnny that she's as good as killed him. Hope I'm wrong though.
Maybe Chris Gascoyne wants to leave for good. I am sure I heard him say a while ago he didn’t want to keep doing the hopeless drunk story over and over again yet it looks as though we are heading that way.
Peter's definitely going to hit the bottle when he finds out about Adam and Carla and we've been told that one more drink will kill him. It would pretty cruel for Simon to lose his dad as well as Oliver... surely the show wouldn't do that? That would be three major losses the Barlows suffer in less than two years - Sinead, Oliver, and now Peter. They wouldn't, would they?
A re-write of the Johnny/ Carla scene last night:
Johnny: So you see, your old man’s got blood on his hands...
Carla: Stop being so flamin’ dramatic. We’ve all done things we regret. Like the time I covered up a factory worker’s death to save my own skin (which I’ve shown absolutely no remorse for). Or the time I drove Tony to kill Liam. Or the time I got drunk and ran over Stella… and Cathy, come to think of it. Oh, then there was the other time I got drunk and thought I’d left a candle burning which resulted in a huge fire that killed two innocent people… but hey, that turned out to be Tracy so my conscience is clear on that one! Oh, but I guess Rana was kinda my fault…
*A guilty pause*
Carla: What I’m saying is, none of us are innocent, we’ve all got blood on our hands.
Johnny *looks aghast*: Yeah, some more than others by the sounds of it!
End of Scene.
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