I thought when Abi was going to meet a flirtatious stranger who turned out to be her brother in law, he'd be a handsome flirtatious stranger who turned out to be her brother in law. This gaunt sex pest is not my idea of fun. Carl is supposed to take Kev to the hospital but he doesn't turn up until later and then ruins Abi and Kev's film afternoon by taking his bro to the pub. Abi admits that Carl was the person who rear-ended her, but not that they flirted with each other in the romantic environs of Freshco's car park.
Back at the borstal STC, Brody gets Dylan to locate one of the other inmates in order to find Sean's phone number in Dylan's cell room and then rings him to demand £500.
At number 9, Romania's cutest kid goes off for the afternoon with Granny Cass. I wouldn't quite trust her not to leave Doran at the Red Rec if Steve sent her a sext. As we all suspected would happen, Doran is now living with Fizrone for a bit longer as Alina is still looking after her mum. What's the betting that a grizzly fate is about to befall our fave nail technician?
A tired Todd isn't having a great day as Theo, Mrs Theo, and their heavily eyebrowed children turn up at the funeral parlour. Theo tries to apologise but Todd's having none of it.
A mugger snatches Sarah's phone and Kit, instead of chasing after him, shows him his badge. Excellent police work there D.C. Green. Nonetheless, Sarah is impressed and agrees to go on a date with him. I hope she's going to bring her own stepladder.
Debbie goes to the memory clinic where she goes through a number of tests. Once the specialist says that it's a life limiting disease, Debbie gathers the extended Webster family to tell them that life is for living and she's going to marry Ronnie, but doesn't tell anyone about the dementia diagnosis, although Carl sees the letter from the hospital in her bag.
And Jenny tells Daisy that they have no choice but to sign over the deeds to Carla, forgetting to say to her stepdaughter that she is buying the Rovers sans Daisy, who is (according to Carla) an "untrustworthy liability". An untrustworthy liability who still doesn't show any sign of actually leaving, despite Christina's evil plotting.
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