Apologies for not being here for a couple of weeks - one week Coronation Street was not here and then last week I was in Warwickshire and not at home. Normality returns. To get a less than favourite story out of the way Theo drugged Todd ahead of his fund raising marathon run tomorrow and turned off his alarms and put his phone on flight mode leaving him to sleep off the drugging on the sofa. If you know anyone like Theo get them away from your nearest and dearest or if it is your partner then run a few thousand miles.
Megan is utterly convincing (well Daniel fell for it as he points out to Kit under interview he was wrongly accused not so long ago) in pretending that she was simply responding to Will's excessive crush and Will also holds his end up well (which is probably what she first saw in him) with Maggie. Leanne, on top of her game, has spotted that Megan in her enforced departure from the flat left behind some vitamin supplements you normally take when pregnant and it is concluded that she lied about the abortion. Tracy is convinced that Megan is guilty even without evidence. Alya lets slip that Megan has also been bullying Sam according to Leanne which starts to change the balance of opinion but Daniel knows there is no evidence. Despite Daniel's insistence that he KNOWS, Ken wants to know the facts (well you would if you were about to become a grandfather again wouldn't you?). Maggie gives Sam a piece of her mind for not speaking up sooner about Megan abusing Will but then Maggie knew that something drove Will to assault Daniel in the ginnel. Maggie accuses Sam of keeping quiet to improve his grades (in PE - who cares?).
Megan tells Kit that after the problem Daniel experienced when Daisy was pregnant with Kit's baby (but told it was Daniel's) meant that she was not yet in a position to tell Daniel that she was pregnant and that she sees no need for a DNA test to prove who is the father of the unborn baby as the only person she has slept with in the last year is Daniel.
Adam is aware of the allegation of paternity but cannot tell Daniel about the baby. Eva feels no such compunction and tells Daniel that he may or may not be the father in front of the entire cafe (with Alex re-appearing from
However Megan is on top of things, she briefs Will about the baby being Daniel's and provides him with a burner phone so they can stay in touch. Apparently Megan does not want to go to prison and Will is certain it will not come to that. Daniel confronts Megan at the Chariot Square Hotel (how is Debbie by the way?), Megan lies but Daniel says he is not believing her until she does a DNA test. Indeed on the list of people he is at the top until she does the test!
The Battersby sisters are on top form this evening coming into Speed Dahl and telling Alya what they think of Adam being Megan's brief. Alya claims they need the work. Leanne announces that they are now silent partners in the Speed Dahl business. Alya herself does not actually seem to entirely believe Megan to be fair but is tarred with Adam's choice. (Given that I assume Megan is on legal aid Adam's earnings cannot be that great).
For reasons which are not hard to guess Adam gets fairly cool (zero degrees Kelvin) welcome at the Rovers Return. Adam claims he simply wants a quiet drink. He does not get it. Daniel comes storming
through the door, pokes Adam in the chest and tells him to drop Megan as a client now. After a toilet break for Adam Daniel continues his attack announcing to the entire Rovers in classic Corrie mode that Megan is refusing the DNA test and he tells Maggie he believes the baby to be Will's. Shocked looks between James and Michael (all emerging from that cupboard) Bailey as they note she is pregnant by a schoolkid! Lauren is upset by finally finding out what Ollie was keeping from her and stomps into the back room. Adam continues to assert that everyone deserves a fair trial. Adam and Daniel argue with Adam reminding Daniel he slept with the slapper. Tracy asks if Daniel is going to put up with that. Maggie tells them that as she does not want blood on her soft furnishings could they please take their dispute outside. Daniel tells the Driscolls that he does not blame Will for attacking him as he was being groomed by a paedophile. Maggie has had enough of her family's dirty washing being aired in public and orders them out of the Rovers. Adam goes. Tracy takes Daniel home. Maggie announces the show is over.
When I came to put fingers to keyboard I obviously need to check the writer and was not surprised that Jonathan Harvey was responsible. He has been a writer since 2004 I believe and with the Megan storyline tonight he was able to give the performers in front of us those wonderful touches - Susie needing a shot, Alex returning from a wrestling tour, Battersbys at their best and of course a denouement in the Rovers plus the 180 degree volte face from Daniel, not forgetting a key cameo from Ken. With the right material the entire team can deliver and tonight was class from everyone. Thank you to the entire team for that episode.
Written by Jonathan Harvey and directed by Paul Riordan (not sure I have seen his name before so welcome aboard).
Kosmo
