Evening Corrie fans, it’s Kelly here with your Friday night review.
The fall-out from Wednesday’s drama continues the Street. In the Rovers both Peter and Sarah storm out having learnt the truth about Adam and Carla’s one-night-stand. Adam is unrepentant, blaming Carla for coming on to him and calling her a needy cougar. It’s almost like he’s asking for a smack…
Meanwhile Gary goes to see Ray in the Bistro but finds the office door locked and Faye inside pleading with Ray to stop. When the door opens Ray is doing up his trousers and Faye flees in tears. Now Gary is a man with very few talents but one thing he does excel at is mindless violence, so personally I was hoping that he’d rip off Rapist Ray’s Christmas baubles and give them to Maria as a pair of earrings. Instead in an uncharacteristic show of restraint he merely rips up the factory contract. Weird?
Back at the Rovers, Carla finds Peter in the backroom. As their argument escalates, he takes a swig from a bottle of whisky, knowing full well that it could kill him, and tells it’s her fault. Distraught, Carla pleads with him to stop, telling him she loves him and that Adam isn’t worth it. But he’s beyond reasoning and takes the bottle to Victoria Gardens. As he sits on the bench drowning his sorrows, Simon finds him. Poor Si is crushed that his dad apparently cares so little for him that he would drink himself to death but Peter rages that’s it’s all Adam and Carla’s fault. Just at that moment his nephew nemesis appears and winds him up. It’s almost like he’s asking for a smack…
At No.6 Yasmeen is still on the roof, Geoff is still dead, but miraculously the house has stopped being on fire. Yasmeen clings to the roof convinced that no one will believe Geoff slipped, and that she’ll go back to prison. Sally and Tim both get up to the roof (thanks to the fire helpfully putting itself out) and finally Tim convinces Yasmeen to crawl back through the window. This all seems a bit daft. Is there really no one in the whole street who owns a flaming ladder? Didn’t Tim used to have a window cleaning business?
Anyway, once she’s safely off the roof Yasmeen is comforted by Elaine who tells her that her ordeal is over and that Geoff won’t be able to treat anyone else like he treated them. Then Detective Neat Bob turns up to interview her. To Yasmeen’s relief Neat Bob tells her that she’s not being arrested that she believes her story. She’s changed her tune. Wasn’t she fully Team Geoff last time we saw her?
Back at the Bistro, Adam is being an arrogant twit. He bamboozles Ray into letting him have full run of the Bistro for the night and then tries to persuade Sarah to join him there for a drink, some chips and a listen to his music collection (is he 13?). When she tells him where to shove his playlist, he mocks her, telling her she doesn’t know what she wants. It’s almost like he’s asking for a smack…
At Maria and Gary’s place a distressed Faye tells them that she doesn’t want them to call the police. Seething with rage Gary goes back to the Bistro to confront Ray but instead finds Adam. They have a spat with Gary jeering at Adam for having the shortest marriage in history. Adam retaliates by saying he’ll tell the police that Gary killed Rick. It’s almost like he’s, oh you know.
In other news Sam tries to persuade Leanne’s to stay in Weatherfield by reciting a list of reasons why she might grow to like him. Eventually she misses her plane to France but says she might stick around anyway as at least Weatherfield has distractions. Also, Debbie tries to talk Kev round, but he tells her to pack her bags and get out. With nothing left to lose, she meets up with Ray and tells him to do whatever it takes to push the deal through.
Finally, as Adam treats himself to another bottle of wine from Ray’s bar, a mystery attacker creeps up on him and smacks him around the head with a blunt instrument leaving him in a pool of blood and chips. Who could it be? Peter, Carla, Gary and Sarah are all in the frame but I think my money might be on Simon. Simply because it will lead to either Peter or Carla taking the rap for him and then everyone being forgiven. But what do you think?
And that’s it for the 60th anniversary week. I’ve enjoyed it. After the Oliver drama which seemed to drag on for years, we had storylines resolved, villains getting their comeuppance and Ken, Rita and Audrey finally being let out of their underground bunkers to rally the Street and deliver some killer lines. Although I suspect Ken only emerged because he heard that Carla was working her way around all the Barlow men and didn’t want to be left out.
Did you enjoy it? And who’s your top Barlow bashing suspect? Let me know in the comments or on twitter @mskelstar
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