Tracy-luv is pleased that Amy is glamming up to go out to Nina's 21st birthday do as she was worried about her. "Being a good mum's in my bones," she tells her daughter, conveniently forgetting about the time she tried to sell Ames to Roy and Hayley. The party has hit a snag though as the venue is double booked. Aaron offers the builders' yard flat, which seems like a bad idea as someone would probably see a load of teens carrying bottles of booze and dob them in to Ed, plus Aaron gets to snag himself a party invite. The Bistro was right there Asha - and it's a Monday afternoon! Hardly prime party time (and surely goths come out after midnight, as a rule).
Anyway, the girls decorate it with pics of Nina as a baby (wondering out loud if she was a goth back then. I'm not sure you can get black nappies, to be honest) and bat bunting and a banner that says Goths Never Age. Well, I was a goth 1987-1991 and I can tell you that I have aged more than I'd like. The party is going fine until Amy and Aaron butt heads and she screams at him and everyone leaves, except for Aaron and Aadi. I am liking this storyline, even though its upsetting, as it's not a horrible attack down a dark alley or a boyfriend or husband abusing his partner, but someone who genuinely believes it was a drunken fumble got out of hand, who thinks that he is the victim of a smear campaign. He points out to Aadi that he wouldn't be able to get a job in a hospital or school as he was interviewed under caution (not sure why a mechanic'd be working in a hospital but there you go). It's more subtle than, say, Frank raping Carla, it shows that a nice guy (or ex-nice guy) can be capable of sex without consent, the kind of thing that in the past would be as written off as a mistake, but young women are a lot more clued up nowadays, and rightly so. Aadi pretends to be in agreement with him, then writes GUILTY on Aaron's forehead in permanent marker pen after he passes out drunk. You can get rid of that kind of stuff with nail polish remove, Aadi. Also Aaron's gonna wake up and wonder what YTLIUG means when he looks in the mirror.
I don't quite understand this Rufus's stolen car thing, but anyway, Paul has to move it from one spot to another, but unfortunately his grip fails and he swerves just as a police car pulls up behind him and he's taken in for questioning. Deedee rocks up as duty solicitor just after Paul has confessed to TWOC-ing (but not murder) and he also confesses to her about his test for MND.
Also at the cop shop is Jackson, who gets drunk and shoves Craig in the Rovers and is taken in but Craig refuses to press charges. How magnanimous of him. Also in the Rovers, Craig has created a spreadsheet of venues for the big day but Faye is unimpressed, claiming it's not an orgy (!?) I've never known there to be a spreadsheet at any orgy. A database, maybe. By the way, Jackson should have not told Faye that he wanted her to move to Slough with him: that's enough to put anyone off. He should've said: "Just outside London", in my opinion.
In other love triangle news, Sam invites Eliza around to to the Stape/Dobbs house to teach her chess, much to Hope's disgust. Eliza should watch out that that ponytail doesn't spontaneously set itself on fire. Fiz and Tyrone, with their usual powers of observation re: their daughter, tell Stu that Hope enjoyed having Eliza over. Oh and Hope tells Eliza that her dad was a serial killer for a living? I don't think, unless you are an assassin, that serial killing pays the rent.
And finally, The Phantom Of The Rovers, Ryan, chats more with Cyrano de Daisy, believing her to be Crystal. Are they going to fall in love, or at least lust, via text?
What I want to know is: why was Steve wearing that baseball cap? Buzzcut gone wrong? Just For Men disaster? Enquiring minds deserve to know.
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