August already. I know I sometimes have to face the inevitable and report events but tonight I was disgusted so I am going to ignore all subtlety and record the facts. Joel gets a ne'er do well scrote to mug Lauren and steal her bag containing phone and keys. Following the mugging she uses Max's phone to call a cab - hence revealing her location. Joel then prepared some recuperative soup which he liberally laces with a drug intended (I think) to induce her labour. He then locks her in the apartment (as he needs to get new keys cut) without a phone and abandons her to her fate. Luckily Max and Bobby are concerned and Max decides to turn up outside the locked flat whilst Lauren writhes in pain. We next see Lauren in a hospital bed with Max and a nurse both looking super concerned. Later Dee Dee turns up with Joel at the hospital. Max reveals that the 24 week baby (so tiny says Lauren) is receiving specialist care.
At 13 Coronation Street Debbie Webster is the official responsible adult (questionable) to attend Jack's interview at the cop shop. DS Swain tries to get answers to her questions which revolve around the video evidence showing a person entering the reception whilst he was loitering around outside in a no doubt suspicious manner. Given therefore that the evidence is against him he is to be charged with arson with intent to endanger life. Can't see Adam getting him off that one in a hurry. Adam is all for Jack pleading guilty to minimise the sentence.
Along at Underworld the underhanded overlockers get their comeuppance when Kirk takes the unlabelled box of "knock-off" T shirts to a customer and delivers them - much to their surprise. Carla therefore receives a phone call asking why they have it and she is unable to explain. Although when she came in early this morning she found Beth, Izzy and Betsy (LOH) also at work very early. The penny drops and she wants answers (and is even harder than DS Swain). Beth realises the game is up when Carla tells them she knows they are not stupid enough to use her hardware to make knock off T shirts. Beth and Carla argue and in consequence Beth storms out of the office and her job, thinking she has another job - but without the T shirts no job either.
Back across t'Street at Number 9 Fiz is looking at a holiday in Barmouth as a way of keeping Tyrone from falling under that trollope Alina again even though he does not know she is on her way back to town. Ruby meanwhile has a blackhead and is therefore not on screen this evening. Fiz later undertakes some deft marketing to Ty to convince him of the benefit of a holiday. They fall to discussing Jack and his charge and unobserved and unheard Hope descends the stairs to hear them talk about matches, fire starting, Hope's history and that Jack is not a bad lad. Is there more to this than meets the eye?
Paul continues his campaign to donate his corneas (the MND association say that this is not possible) - which continues to discombobulate Bernie. In the precinct Alya confirms to Summer as they head out for the day that Paul cannot donate - they have to find a way of telling him. The girls later confirm that whilst they cannot go to another person his organs might be used by MND Research and he is prepared to settle for that. Bernie is not yet ready to face his absence and that is why she wants the talk about his demise to be at the root of every conversation. Bernie talks and Paul admits he was ready to go and changed his mind. She also grasps that he wants to leave a legacy when he does go. They are reconciled. She flushes the tablets which had been stored.
I am wondering if Hope helped Jack set the fire - but the videos DS Swain talked about made no reference to him being with someone else - and neither did she say that the video recording showed who set the car alight - if they had that video evidence then it would be cut and dried. I am not sure Paul wanted Bernie to flush the tablets - does that mean he can no longer get Billy to help him? And Beth has drifted into shit creek without a paddle. Given the length of time since she was given a positive story this is hardly a surprise.
