Julie, Julie, Julie, you film videos with the camera positioned above your face. Think of the chins, hun! It's Julie's last stand, or rather sit, as she makes vids for her nearest and also dearest. Instead of going to the Lakes, she and Eileen go to a lake, which is pretty although it seems to be frozen in time where it's forever March. Julie talks about her life, saying she wouldn't change a thing (maybe the time she mistakenly got off with her nephew?) and how Eileen is like a strong cup of milky tea, three sugars. Eileen takes the hint and goes in search of a tea room and when she comes back, Julie is gone.
It's a shame that Eileen's leaving story also means the end of Geileen as Julie begs her sis to leave Mr Shuttleworth Jnr. Hang on Jules, Eileen's been out with a man who left her for Janice Battersby, a man who was cheating on his wife with dementia, Jesse the cowboy-magician, Sean Hughes, and a serial killer! George is a saint in comparison. Mind you, he does forget he's the driver for Julie and Eileen's day out and he does watch a video that Julie says is "just for you, sis". But when Julie dies, he tries to comfort Eileen by saying how Julie passed away with the person she loved best in the world rather than hooked up to machines in a hospital bed. What's going to happen to George when Eileen leaves? I'd love to see him move back into his house with Glenda and some odd couple storylines to follow. Come on carpenters, make a new set!
Meanwhile in further Grimshaw storylines, Theo gets drunk and into a fight with everyone's favourite scally, Mick, and is rescued by Ronnie, Ed and Billy. To the latter (and Todd), Theo confesses that his religious parents put him through conversion therapy and he thought it had worked, until the Grimshaw charms won through. So the (inhumane practice of) conversion therapy is Issue Of The Week, I guess. Todd says Theo can stay at his, which isn't really his, although I guess after Eileen goes, he will have his own pad to bring troubled young men back to. Todd decides to make Eileen's day worse by telling her that Julie knew it was her last day on earth because she didn't die naturally but by suicide.
Meanwhile Deedee is bonding with Laila at the same time as James's return from the US. None of the Baileys enquires after Danny or how he's doing after his crash. Poor old Danny, the actor probably thought he was getting a two episode payday, but nope, he's in traction off-screen, a mere plot device.
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