Good evening. I am hopeful that the various displacements of recent weeks are at an end and we are back to regular programming. We open in the Accident & Emergency Department (it is nice to know that Weatherfield, unlike my local hospital does not consider an Accident to be an Emergency) waiting area where Shona is waiting as Daniel slouches in with his hands in his pockets, alongside Jenny. They have repaired David's artery and given him a transfusion whilst Daisy has a broken arm but no-one is allowed to talk about the potential abruption. Ere long David is waking up and is no doubt pleased to hear from Shona that he is going to be alright once they catch the toerag who did this. Nick and Sarah-Lou sit beside the bed saying nothing. Max is in Durham in isolation. Shona departs and Sarah tells David they know it was a setup and give David the suicide note he wrote. Nick points out that the plan had more holes than the colander in our kitchen. Sarah says they need to stick together and say nothing to anyone else. David insists that no-one should tell Shona - no please do not tell her and make it worse.
Along a corridor somewhere else in the hospital Daniel tells Jenny that the money has reached Daisy's bank account, just before Daisy awakes and confirms she is OK. However Daniel has to break the news that another ultrasound is needed - which Daisy has some trouble believing. However the ultrasound confirms it is the case and she will go into labour with medication to assist and she will be discharged tomorrow. [My resident medical expert, aka the good lady wife intimated that this is not what the hospital would normally do so presumably there is to be further stress before an advert break shortly].
Carla is re-instating her face and is going to work for a couple of hours where there is a welcoming committee of Sally, Sean and Izzy who express that they are chuffed at her return before she reminds them that the Wentworth order needs to ship TODAY! Bobby dares to put a foot in Carla's office and apologises again. Carla tells him she will be civil - she can manage that. After a couple of hours, just before leaving, she upbraids Betsy for staring at her phone which is reporting that Rob has been sighted in Brighton. Except Carla returns to her flat to find it has been raided - the cash and painkillers are gone so she knows it must be Rob. Later Carla and Lisa are clearing up the mess and Lisa tries to convince Betsy not to go out - but Betsy knows better and when she leaves we see a shadowy hooded figure following her.
Julie is meeting the palliative care nurse at the hospital and of course the minute Eyelash is in earshot they are talking about something completely different. George and Todd are both trying to maintain their cool in the light of Julie still being unable to tell Eyelash. On Julie's return from the hospital she wants an early evening and refuses Eileen's invitation to a meal at Speed Dahl. Eileen cannot understand why Julie is avoiding her.
Along at Roy's Rolls an outing is being organised to see Evelyn and Alya's conscience is finally starting to kick in as she is defending a coercive controller in court, as she says everyone is entitled to a fair trial! Later in Speed Dahl Roy and Yasmeen report that Evelyn is well and enjoying her course. Yasmeen however has news - she has been offered a job - which raised absolute incredulity in this house. As a reminder she is 71 (Shelley King is younger). The job is somewhere near Zeedan in that London, with a charity dealing with modern slavery and she will have to sell the house and Speed Dahl. Roy talks her into going. I know there is no longer a retiring age in this country but frankly I doubt a charity would consider it appropriate to offer what I assume is a full time job to someone needing to relocate at that age. So having decided she also has to break the news to Alya that she will be homeless shortly. Alya has her own problems as she tells Adam; her employer Fabians gave her two choices when she raised her problem - defend the client or quit. She quit. And now she has quit she has to repay her training costs (she would have signed a document to that effect or it is not legally enforceable). On top of which Adam refuses to employ her - he wants to keep his personal and professional lives separate (that is a new one). Alya is however happy for Yasmeen when the news breaks and wishes her well with her new challenge.
Dylan is "settling in" - his new "best friend" is introducing him to prison ways. Sadly Dylan is not prison wise and is talked into getting himself in debt and we all know what that means.
Kit pops in to see David - they know the car was stolen, the driver was Andrew Garland, identified from CCTV - David's alibi and best mate? - but David is saying nothing. Shona however recalls his earlier phone call and wants answers. (Money reminder - it was Carla's money stolen by Stephen, recovered by Daisy to buy into the Rovers which the brewery had bought and then sold when it had new owners). David comes clean to Shona once Kit has gone and admits it was his idea to get the money from the life insurance to pay off Harvey. Shona does not know that Daisy has spent the money on the Rovers and dashes down the corridor to the grieving pub owner and demands money to solve the Platt problem with Harvey. Shona storms into Daisy's room and demands £40k from Stephen/Carla's money and blackmails her over Debbie's car which she crashed (and hit Shona). Daisy tells Shona that she has just lost her baby. Daisy soon realises that she has to give £40k of Bertie's money to Shona to buy her silence and she will return the rest to Daniel. Daisy tells Daniel that this whole mess is over. But she will never be over losing her baby. However this still leaves Daisy and Jenny with the need to pay money to Carla - BUT Daisy no longer cares much for Jenny giving that she told Kit he was the father.
You may have gathered that aspects of this episode did not ring true with me - possibly because it was mainly mopping up after Wednesday.
In passing can I record that I thought the episode on Wednesday was a complete mess as part of a continuing drama in Weatherfield being more suited to Walford or heaven forefend the Dales. Whoever conceived and oversaw the melange presented on screen should be given their marching orders forthwith and let professionals get back to telling stories about the lives of friendly people on a Northern back street.
Written by Joe Turner and Nessah Muthy. Directed by David Beton.
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