Deedee sleeping with Joel was a bit ret-conned into the last episode and as we know, any heterosexual shenanigans on the Street ends in pregnancy. She confides in Sarah, who coincidentally had a baby with a bad 'un, but not in Lauren who waxes lyrical about how Joel almost ended her life but, ironically, gave her a reason to live (i.e. Baby Frankie).
Deedee meets a client in the Bistro, but when the woman starts talking about not being able to see her kids, Deedee suffers a panic attack and rushes out and into Kit who tells her (re Joel) to: "Put it into a box. It's done". Has Kit thought about going into counselling? She decides not to take his advice and get some spiritual guidance from the Arch Deacon. Never seen her down Billy's church of a Sunday, but then again, we don't usually see what happens on t'cobbles at the weekend. She is still undecided at the end of the episode as she drinks orange juice with her family, but doesn't tell them about the baby.
Meanwhile in the wayward sons household of no. 8, David's worried about Max, Shona's concerned for Clayton. To be honest, even though David's behaved abominably, you can see why he wouldn't want his second wife to have anything to do with his first wife's murderer. Shona checks her junk mail and finds an email from the prison and gets annoyed with David for not being bothered that she missed it, rather than for what David actually did. Nick advises David to come clean, so instead, David starts gaslighting Shona, telling her that her brain injury makes her forget thing and implies she put the email into junk by accident. Oh, David.
Talking of wayward, Mason may have rules about ice-cream eating, but his brothers have no rules and rock up whilst Betsy is attempting to flirt with him. What's a bit of wrongful imprisonment between friends? Older bro threatens Mason until Tim turns up and tells Big Bruv that he (Tim) was the one who dobbed him in to the cops.
Ken has come back from Porto without any pastel de nata for his progeny. He's also decided to sack Cassie, who is looking a lot more glam since she got her hair dyed in Portugal. Is Cassie hoping to be the Anna Nicole Smith to Ken's J Howard Marshall? Since Wendy Flamin' Crozier and Our Lady Of the Narrowboat, Martha, disappeared, Ken's love-life has been a bit quiet. Perhaps not, as we later see her crushing up pills and putting them in Ken's drink.
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I thought Billy came on a bit strong making his feelings about abortion clear. In fact everything Dee Dee was told was one sided, Sarah going on about not seeing Callum in Harry and Lauren saying Frankie was her reason for living.
Who would want moral advice from a vicar who is an ex drug taker and goes about the neighbourhood getting drunk whilst wearing his dog collar anyway?
Great wrap up again Rachel. Kit should definitely go into counselling :-D They are giving that actor some great bits and he delivers them well. I'm glad he's always immune to Bernie's wackadoodle nonsense. I'm over the Billy/Bernie grieving nonsense. Both haven't got the sense they were born with. Lord luvaduck, if you can't be civil, stay away from each other for a bit. Oh hang on, it's only a TV show LOLZ!
what's with the crushing pills for Ken? Please don't kill off our only original character left! Not our Ken! Let's start a protest!
David's gaslighting of Shona was a welcome diversion from the very unsurprising twists in other storylines. I didn't expect it and no doubt it will all blow up when Nick lets something slip. Of course, soap characters never 'delete forever' which is quite easy on a laptop; there would be no catastrophic outcome. Regarding Dee Dee, and I'm not being facetious here, how women used to deal with unwanted pregnancies was to throw themselves downstairs to bring on a miscarriage. Then Dee Dee could perhaps say the choice had been made for her. Other than that, Dee Dee could be on her way out with the child, maybe going to live with her mother.
David gas lighting Shona was unnecessary, as sometimes email messages do slip into the junk file - it's no big deal.
Why is Cassie drugging Ken? She could try and find another job as a carer, using his reference. Well, maybe it wouldn't be enough for an agency, with her background.
I don't know why Tim and Sally have got drawn into Mason and his brothers. Tim took over the father role for Mason when Stuart left but (sorry) this teen/ family trouble is quite tedious.
We've got the Swarla romance soon (yawn). However, I'm looking forward to the return of Tracey and Allyah.
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