A very happy new year; I wonder if it will be for our Weatherfield residents?
Top tip: never go driving when you're hungover. Fay(e) and Emma drive home from wherever they left the car and run over an old man coming back from the shops. Is Freshco open on NY Day? (for the purposes of this review, we're all pretending it's Saturday 1st Jan). He must be the robust-est man in Salford as he gets up, uninjured, and asks to be dropped off home. He doesn't even want his ginger nuts replaced. Imran spots that Emma is still drunk and says he should report her to the feds as she would be liable if they had an accident. Faye keeps schtum, although she's more talkative when Craig asks her to move in with him (she says yes). The two return to the scene of the crime, or at least Ted's flat, and find out that he's dead. The girls young women debate what to tell the police, but in the end promise to keep the accident a secret. I Know What You Did Last January?
Adam takes Harry to the Red Rec, and has a go at Lydia for talking to Sarah about their six month relationship. Sarah softens a bit as Adam reassures her that Lydia means nowt to him. I think we all know where this is going, don't we? Once she finds out that Adam is Lydia's baby-daddy, Sarah-Lou will leave him, and then will discover she is pregnant.
On the other hand, I don't know what will happen in the Abi/Kev/Imran/our Toyah love triangle quadrilateral. Since Abi has lost the twins and Seb, she might want to bring up a baby with Kev (given that Kev did try and foist his illegitimate child onto another man). On the other hand, we know how desperate Toyah was for a babby and since Elsie is mostly silent and unresponsive, then maybe she and Imran could bring this one up together? Anyway, that's a few months off yet - at the moment, the storyline is at the protagonists-meeting-clandestinely-in-parks stage. Kev overhears them rowing and Abi makes up some guff about Kelly and their NA meetings. Later, she tells Imran (in front of Toyah) that everything's alright. Does that mean she isn't preggers?
Despite Tim dropping his trews in front of Dr G, both he and Sal have passed their health check ups (Dr Gaddas is also open on NY Day? Wouldn't her wife have sommat to say about that?) with flying colours (one suspects that Sally's colours are more airborne than anyone else's). Although from Tim's expression, it looks like he's lying about a clean bill of health, and he later makes an appointment without telling Sal.
Oh, and Sam is still talking on the walkie to Hope, but no-one else. I do hope Hope isn't giving him arson tips. Sam is also interested in Roy and Mary's new year's chess game and Roy says he will teach Sam. This is like the beginning of The Queen's Gambit, but without the drug addiction (yet).
Apologies, no review again next Monday as I'll be on holiday. In Bognor. This is not a joke.
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