Steve is doing a very good job of looking hungover/still drunk. Leanne is looking fresh but wants to start drinking again and when Steve turns her down, she goes to buy a half bottle of voddy from Dev's. Maybe she will end up with (her other nemesis) Carla in AA? She tries to make up with Sam but he's not interested, but he does accidentally spill to Abi that Toyah is concerned about Alfie and Abi puts two and two together to make six and a half about who dobbed her in to social services.
Amy still isn't home and Steve and Tracy - who seems to be back permanently now - are worried about her. She rocks up some hours later having walked the 13 miles back home (how would she even know the way?). Aadi wonders why Amy didn't look for the car keys and she explains about Aaron's stag night, but still Steve doesn't 'fess up as to why he didn't answer his phone.
David and Little My Shona are back at number 8 but are still wary of Harvey's gang and don't want to advertise the Platt whereabouts, specifically Sarah's party at the Bistro. She is having a ventriloquist at her bday party even though she's 38 (the Gen Alphas have to Google what a ventriloquist is (surely Voggle?)). Sarah cancels him/her as they've put it on the internet which leads to some slightly bonkers scenes with first Harry 2.0 and then Todd acting as the ventriloquist's dummy. Because it's a Platt family gathering, Shona and Sarah start squabbling over David's actions, who's absent because he's out getting ex-con Andy to help him see off Harvey/Logan/whoever the baddy is this week. It's too late though as someone is pushing a lit rag through the letterbox of the Platt house. The implication here is that it could be Leanne, it could be Abi, it could be the latest gangsters on the cobbles, but my take is that it's David to put Harvey's gang off the scent. I mean, if the gangsters want their money back, it seems a bad idea to burn down the main asset of the people who owe money
Waiting for the fire brigade, Nick, Max and Shona break in as they think Lily might be inside and Nick rescues Toyah but then we see Shona and Max struggling to get through the CGI flames as the house explodes. Shona is out, but Max is not. I guess Cait Fitton's ability to cry on cue is going to get an extra work out next week.
And there concludes Coronation Street's entry for Best Individual Episode at the Inside Soap Awards 2025.
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