Evening Corrie fans, it’s Kelly here with your Friday night review.
Oh Toyah, Toyah, Toyah, have you never seen a disaster movie? Never spend the first five minutes telling everyone who will listen how lucky you are to have found true love. This is the equivalent of a soldier on a final mission into no man’s land showing the whole squad a picture of his sweetheart. Congratulations mate, you’re dead in the next act! Despite Spider reciprocating her devotion by gifting her a picture of them in a truly awful handmade frame, (she must really love him because, honestly, you wouldn’t give it house room), we all know this is going to end badly.
Over at the Bistro, Debbie is playing hardball by getting in a broker to get her a better offer than Nick and Leanne can come up with. When Leanne, (who seems to have turned up dressed as a surly Christmas present), has a bit of a strop, La Webster tells her that nought cheap is worth having. I’m with you on that Debs, though admittedly I usually apply that rule to shoes. Nianne/Lick’s day gets worse when they hear that Harvey has agreed to see Sam.
Meanwhile at Speed Daal, Alya sees that Griff’s pound store SS have filmed the attack on Daryan and posted it online. Not sure how she found it? Her algorithms have gone seriously awry if she’s getting racist videos in her feed. She shows the video to Toyah who immediately recognises a masked and nervous Spider and shops him to the police.
At the café, Roy, Brian, and David watch the doctored video of Griff’s speech and David decides he needs to intervene. Finding Max and Lauren at the bus stop, he accompanies them to the Berghof Griff’s flat. Griff and the other one who looks like an extra from Braveheart try to charm him, but as they both have about as much charm as a bag of toenail clippings it doesn’t work and David tells them he thinks they’re just violent racists. He orders Max out, but the thicko refuses to leave. Later, with Griff out of the room, Max accidentally finds the video of Daryan’s beating. Amazingly this still doesn’t turn him off. But as he’s about as bright as a 5-watt bulb, this is unsurprising.
At the police station, Blonde Cop tells Spider that they need to get the racists on something big and that Spider has to get Griff to trust him. He lies to Toyah about where he’s been and when she tells him she recognised him in the video, claims its mistaken identity. She tells him he fiddles with his beads when he’s nervous. Ooh bad tell Spidey.
In the Rovers, he tries to convince Griff of his loyalty by taking his side over Toyah’s and sprouting loads of crap about the planet being full to capacity. Toyah says it’s hate-speech so, for Griff’s benefit, Spidey tells her that they can’t be together. Permission for lip to wobble sir? Still, it makes Griff trust him again.
In other news, Eliza and Stu visit her mum in prison, Bernie moves out of Dev’s, much to the kid’s delight and Alya decides to take Dee-Dee’s job offer.
Back on the Street, David ties to get Max to explain what the attraction to Griff is, but Max tells him to stop trying to get inside his head. I mean, there’d be plenty of room in there. And a heartbroken Toyah goes over the top to certain death smashes the hideous photo frame.
And that’s it for this week. Gotta say I’m really not enjoying the Britain First storyline. I’m sure there are extremist gangs who groom vulnerable teenagers, but I would have thought that to do so they would have to be at least a little bit charismatic and persuasive, rather than a bunch of numpties sitting around in a bedsit drinking cheap beer. They’re hardly aspirational mentors are they.
Feel free to convince me otherwise in the comments or on twitter @mskelstar. Though I refuse to listen to anyone sporting this type of hairdo.
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