I open with a question. Alya left her last job and Adam refused to employ her - does she have a job apart from Speed Dahl with Leanne? And with Yasmeen gone has she moved in with Adam wherever he is living (is he with Daniel?)? Please let me know. Asha meanwhile is ripping off the family business for eggs and colouring books for the quads. When she delivers the goodies she tells Gemma that she had her hair done at Audrey's and it was kicking off in there. Something to do with the new stylist - Gemma dashes off to find out what is happening. Turns out that Maria is somewhat critical of Lou's lack of skills as one customer has left looking worse than when she arrived. Gemma is unable to stop Lou throwing hair dye over Maria but she then bundles Lou out of the door. Outside Lou admits she is worried about her son - what son? Her eldest. Later in the Rovers Audrey tells Maria that Lou has apologised by phone and as has brought in a lot of new custom Lou will be getting a second chance.
Sarah makes it quite clear what she wants to Kit and it is not an Easter Bunny - in the Bistro at 6 with bunny ears (and it was implied not much else).
Sean whispers to Daniel (hidden behind the screen) how Brody get his hands on a burner phone whilst on the other side of the cafe the recently arrived Mick uses supersonic hearing to know that Brody is involved. Sometimes the ability of people to hear conversations beggars belief. But why is he so interested in the discussion?
Brody is telling someone that the pathetic little moron and his father will get sorted out very soon as he never did nothing, the camera swings round and he see his father - Mick - who says he will deal with it. Meanwhile in the Rovers where Sean is on bar duty using his bat-like hearing gathers that Lou is telling Gemma about her boy Brody who is in the STC - but he is a good kid - and he is stuck in that place with people far worse than the ones he was hanging around with before and now he has been accused of extortion, which he could not spell, let alone do it! Sean gets Gemma to confirm that Lou is bully Brody's mother. Gemma points out that they live round the back and Sean needs to be careful.
Sarah finds that her spare room has been getting a real work out as she encounters
Sarah agrees a pre-Kit drink with Todd in the Bistro and they are interrupted by Gabrielle (can she move onto the Street permanently please?) as they discuss the reasons why Todd and Theo cannot go anywhere else and Todd agrees to give some notice in future. Danielle joins them for a drink and starting talking about public displays of affection which leads to Todd kissing Sarah (as Danielle thinks they are together) just as Kit arrives for his date. Kit stays and accepts Sarah's entirely reasonable explanation, even if it is very complex. Danielle later invites Todd and Sarah for a barbie some time soon. Sarah catches up with Kit and they are getting friendly when she sees Danielle and Theo driving by and jumps back - which really upsets Kit and he leaves.
Gemma and Lou are back at Number 5 and as they are ordering a chinese Bernie asks for hers to be delivered to Number 7 as she has had the quads for hours and is off to put her feet up! Mick arrives and tells Gemma that should anyone ask he has been there for a couple of hours - and his need for the alibi is that someone has given Sean a right pasting. Sean is rescued by Theo who is late for the Bistro who gets him an ambulance to the hospital where they patch him up and he tells PC Tinker who dunnit. Mick is invited to assist police with their enquiries but he claims to have been looking after the quads. Word of the assault soon spreads through t'Street residents. In the STC Daniel tells Dylan what has happened to Sean. Mick catches Gemma at the back of the Rovers and makes it clear that she needs to support his alibi as she does not want to make an enemy out of him. Additionally he emphasises that Sean needs to behave. Lou on the other hand cannot believe that Gemma is suggesting that Mick might be responsible for duffing up Sean. Later Sean turns up at Gemma's and pieces together that Mick must have overheard him in Roy's earlier and she tells him that it was a bad idea telling the police - he might do worse next time. Gemma suggests he takes the statement back and after some thought, given that Mick has threatened the quads, he goes to the police station to do just that.
Written by Nessah Muthy and Cameron McAllister. Directed by Leon Lopez.
Having covered everything else I should record that there was a story involving Dee Dee. During this story, evidence was presented that the rate of death for women of black ethnic origin is 3.7 times the rate suffered by women of white ethnic origin. I report this fact as it is important and (according to my subsequent investigations) no-one knows why. Given the staffing I have seen in most hospitals I have used I find it hard to believe that this is down to the cause being attributed by the programme. I would welcome a proper study and proper actions to ensure the causes are understood and addressed, however I do not feel I can cover that storyline here as I have seen nothing yet which feels appropriate to t'Street. Feel free to put me right in the comments and on Twitter.
Kosmo
5 comments:
I agree about folk hearing conversations from the far side of the room. Ridiculous.
Asha's hair looked exactly the same after her visit to the hairdresser's. Is Lou really a top stylist?
Lou certainly sees her "good kid" son through rose-tinted glasses.
How can Sarah have a spare room? Aren't all the Platts living in the flat?
Deedee's racism claims are nonsense.
I also find it amusing that the actors playing Todd and Theo have both been in The Archers. Though I don't remember if the characters crossed paths.
Regarding the Dee Dee racism story, I don't dispute the figures if that's what patients say. But it's lazy writing for Dee Dee to keep quoting the figures but viewers haven't actually seen much evidence in the show. There was one line which I thought was offensive: 'People like you are made for it' or similar, meaning ability to withstand pain. Seemed an odd thing for a health worker to say. Whatever, poor writing.
It's what nurses have said to me, or similar. 'oh, you're making a fuss about nothing, lovey' trying to dismiss how I felt or the amount of pain I was in. I agree that these stats must be accurate and true. But I've found that NHS nurses attitudes towards their patients are disrespectful, patronising and harmful, no matter what the colour of the patient's skin. It's poor unwanted Lalia I feel sorry for. Dee dee is happy to palm her off with anyone. At least she is with caring and kind people in Debbie and Ronnie, but that arrangement can't be long term. I'm sorry but I'm going off Dee Dee.
I worry that Debbie will be "looking after" Laila and something awful will happen because of her dementia.
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