It's the battle of the battleaxes at number 9 as Evelyn accuses Mimi of faking her hip injury and wanting to sabotage the wedding. Fiz disagrees but Mimi has a point re: the dresses: Fiz is taking her life into her hands given that she hasn't let her 11 year old daughter choose her own bridesmaid dress, you know Hope is just going to set fire to it. She doesn't have to though as Mimi (or Cerberus) spills red wine over both frocks. Mimi says that she doesn't believe in "ruining good wine on cheap net", but she did send Evelyn outside to bring in the washing as she claimed it was going to rain ("like a poundshop Tomasz Schafernaker") just before the spillage. Phil(l) and Fiz have words about it and then Phill's ex-wife rocks up, She's called Camilla, so does that make Fiz the poundshop Diana? Evelyn continues the argument with Mimi and kicks away her crutches just as Phill and Fiz come into the house. Meanwhile, Kev tells Ty he needs to tell Fiz how he feels, and he tells her he still loves her, but Fiz is having none of it.
Activist-agitator Spider questions Ed on his property portfolio although
Ed turns out to be one of the rare nice landlords as he says Toyah can pay back rent when she has a new job. I suppose it
makes sense that Spider is back since Swampy is also back, although
protesting against railways (??) rather than roads this time. They go
dumpster diving outside Dev's for out of date produce, although I can't believe
Dev wouldn't just reduce the items by 20%.
Spider tells Toyah that he and his XR pals are going to occupy the old brewery as a base for an action that is in a "grey area" and he doesn't want Toyah involved as she's on bail. I have to say I'm liking New Toyah - no longer wafting around the streets trying to forcibly counsel people, instead she's stealing keys for the brewery from Debbie. Unfortunately, Kirk hears someone in the brewery and tells Debbie who discovers the activists moving in and kicks them out. Toyah says they can use the flat as a base, but then changes her mind as George rings to say Imran's ashes are ready.
Is Spider ever going to mention Aunty Em? And who exactly is running the juice bar in Streatham.
Amy's jeans have been destroyed by a leaky roof and Ed claims that the cowboy builder Steve used to fix the tiles at number 1 has also ruined his roof. Surely it's rained in Manchester since the beginning of this storyline? Steve decides to learn how to fix roofs from youtube videos and ropes Jay-kub in. This isn't going to end well, is it.
As an aside, does anyone else think Jay-kub looks like he could be in an early 80s synthpop band?
Talking of lookalikes, Aaron (Paul Mescal without the chain) talks about car radiators, or something, to Kevin, so we can assume he'll have a job at the mechanics by 8.47 p.m. He tells Summer that they can do all her spenny Barcelona excursions now that he has a job. Can't Summer ask one of her three dads for some cash? Anyway, hopefully they will be so taken with the Catalonian lifestyle that they'll get jobs as tour-guides and never come back.
And finally (there's an awful lot going on in these episodes), Audrey is discharged from Kate Oates Memorial and wants to go to the Rovers to celebrate, although Gail puts a two G&T limit on her mum's drinking. In the pub, Elaine's obviously after a toy-boy as she flirts with Stephen whilst chatting about the Italian lakes.
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