Evening Corrie fans, it’s Kelly here with your Friday night review.
Imran tells Toyah that he can’t meet her for lunch as he’s up to his eyes with work at the office. She decides to surprise him with a takeaway but finds out from Adam that he hasn’t been there all day. When she finally tracks him down to the Rovers beer garden he swears that he’s meeting a client…and definitely NOT Sabeen…oh no…nope...no way…don’t look behind you! Pro-tip Imran, if you’re up to something you shouldn’t be, maybe don’t pick a venue literally in your own backyard. Toyah knows he’s lying (she should take up poker) so he finally admits that he spent the night of Kelly’s trial at Sabeen’s but that nothing happened.
Not a woman to give up easily, our Toyah then lures Sabeen to the Bistro and tries to call her bluff by saying that Imran has told her the truth and she just wants to hear her side of it (seriously Ms Battersby sign yourself up for the next Poker World Championship, Victoria Coren-Mitchell is quaking in her stilettos right now). Sabeen repeats Imran’s story that nothing happened and fleshes it out with the nice detail that he was so half-cut he couldn’t even get his shoes off. You can see why she wins all her cases.
Meanwhile at No. 8, the Platt’s have decided to stage an intervention, which involves confiscating Audrey's car keys until she gets an eye test. Audrey steadfastly refuses, claiming there’s nothing wrong with her sight. Come on now Aud you’re missing a trick here. How are they expecting you to get back to Grassmere Drive? There’s no room for you to stay in Chez Platt/Rodwell so let them have the keys and then demand you’re chauffeured home, then chauffeured to the chip shop, then chauffeured to the off-licence. Make sure you sit in the back like the Queen of Sheba and have Gail wear a little peaked cap which will give her the sort of hat hair it will take three rounds of shampooing to recover from. Unfortunately Mrs Roberts couldn’t hear my words of advice through the telly, so instead she just got Max to nick the keys back for her.
In other car news, Sally berates a local councillor, who is parking his car on the Street before catching a tram. When he ignores her, she tries to get Fergus the traffic warden to join her crusade, but he says he can’t ticket cars that aren’t illegally parked. Which does sort of beg the question, what he was doing there if he can’t issue tickets?
In the café, Nina tells a besotted Asha that she has got into the fashion course at college, but the good news is somewhat soured by hearing that Corey has been promoted to the Wethie County first team. Kevin, Nina and Asha agree that his County teammates should be made aware of the truth about him. Kevin asks James to have a discreet word with the manager. When that doesn’t work, he and Tim accost manager bloke outside the ground, but he’s having none of it and reminds them that Corey was acquitted in a court of law. Later, Stefan calls at the garage to warn Kev off and is only saved from getting a wrench round the head by Tim stepping in and telling Kev to forget about the fight for justice. Bloody hell Tim you fold faster than a cheap deckchair.
Finally, Sabeen turns up at Imran’s office (for a busy lawyer she seems to spend an inordinate amount of time stalking her ex) to try to blackmail him into taking the Harvey Wotshisname case. She’s deduced that as he only stayed at her place for a short time but didn’t make it home to Toyah, he must have ended up in someone else’s bed? Place your bets on the lucky lady now – Abi, Laura? We will soon find out as it’s soap law that any one-night-stand has to result in a pregnancy. Maybe it was Alina Pop?!
And that’s it for this week. If you thought that the mention of No. 8’s sinkhole being immediately followed by a mention of Corey mean he’s going to end up in it, then tell me this any other bizarre conspiracy theories in the comments or on twitter @mskelstar. Though nothing about the moon landing being filmed in a carpark in Ruislip…everyone knows it was Croydon.
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