Hello and welcome to Friday's episode. This is like Lockdown 1, when characters on t'cobbles would talk about it being Wednesday but it was actually the other half of Friday's episode shown on a Monday. I was pretty annoyed there was no Corrie last Friday, to be honest. In times of national calamity, we need our queen (Jenny Bradley).
It's the morning after the storylines before: Peter discovers that Simon was dealing drugs and also that Carla lied to him when Leanne asked for help. Nick also finds out about the drug running from the chippie from Dev and from Imran that Leanne is his client. "What is going on Toyah?" he asks. It's a mystery! Well not for very long as he goes round to his flat and tells Ms Battersby that he wuvs her and she wuvs him and blah. She still says she's leaving the Street and no, he can't come with her, because she can't make him choose between her and Sam. This is a re-run of the time that Leanne was going to move to Leeds (as if) and Nick stopped her, so this is all a bit moot. I'm a bit more interested in Imran's lovely hair, which has grown somewhat during that two week filming hiatus. Anyway, Nick says he's coming with her as they go away "indefinitely" (or at least until Jane Danson has had a proper break), leaving poor Sam disconsolate in Gail's front room.
Peter's got other business - meeting with his consultant at the hospital. His liver hasn't repaired itself and the next step is assessment for a transplant. There's no guarantee that he'll get on the list and then no assurance that there'll be a donor. He tells Carla and they agree that they're still going to get married (in secret).
George is in his funeral home - that looks like Emily Bishop's front room - busy polishing his coffin (missus). Because Todd is unable to deal with people without manipulating them, he tells Georgie-boy that Eileen thinks he is "classy and dignified", and then tells his ma that George won't stop talking about her. He reveals his evil plan to Billy to get them together so that he can put the fun into the funeral business. I guess he could put a lot of business Billy's way? It doesn't work out though as George gives Eileen a bunch of flowers with an "in sympathy" card attached and she stomps off, offended. No pie for George!
As an aside, I've only just realised that Todd 2.0 resembles Paddy Considine, n'est-ce pas?
The trolled troll Cathy says that her sister Nessa has insisted Alex go to stay with her in Scotland. So I guess that's an explanation as to why he's not in the programme at the moment, unlike Izzy, Beth, Audrey, Rita etc. Steve asks Dev to stop selling greetings cards and newspapers, because he hates all the nastiness between the Barlow-McDonalds and the Packham-Matthews. Gemma also apologises, so it looks like things are looking up for Cathy - until she gets more vicious messages and threats. I guess one of the writers has been reading Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed.
And that's all for Monday Friday.
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