Good evening. I cannot remember if I am supposed to like Todd or hate him. Whichever it is he is an idiot for buying Harry a milk shake, allowing him to have it on the back seat of the car which enables the whole car to be reeking of milk shake when it inevitably goes everywhere. Todd loses the keys to the car (or is Theo gaslighting him by hiding them). Todd then scratches the car against some metalwork in the car park as he is driving whilst on the phone. Then he lies to Theo about where the car is parked, although Kev, currently working alone, due to the missus having sodded off with the brother and the partner having had an accident which may well have been down to his brother, being unable to fix it passing Todd a message about the car not being repaired until tomorrow via Theo who does not take kindly to Todd's lying. Theo extracts his revenge by pouring a bottle of chocolate milk over Todd. Frankly by the end of it I do not want to watch either of them do anything.
Cassie attempts to make peace with Tyrone and Fiz by buying them lunch at the Bistro. She demonstrates that she was never mother material insisting on cutting up Ty's pizza so hard it ends up on the floor after demonstrating how not to get a wheelchair through a crowd and how not to talk to the invalid by asking Fiz about him. Needless to say the reconciliation will be even longer in arriving than it was before. During the meal a miscreant makes off with Fiz's handbag and instantly Ollie (who is dining with Dee Dee at an adjacent table) takes off after him like greased lightning. Despite the head start Ollie returns with the handbag and all contents and is accorded hero status. Given Ollie suggested they go to the Bistro it strikes me that the whole thing is a setup - am I just too suspicious these days?
Dev is at odds with both his children and Bernie. Bernie and Gemma are preparing for the quads party and perhaps Dev and Asha will come to it and talk. However Bernie has reached the point where she does not think that she and Dev can get past this so all the indications are that it will be one of the shortest marriages ever. Dev has similar forebodings as he tells Cassie.
Carl is trying to make himself useful and eventually Debbie agrees to employ him. He almost gets Abi involved in stealing a car - but she realises that Alfie needs her and cannot go through with it. Carl is eventually employed by Debbie and before the episode is out is trying to hack into her supplier accounts possibly to rip her off, or at least that is what it looked like; I may be wrong.
Hope is fed up with Jake staring at her at school and she thinks she lets him down gently - because after all there is a three year age gap. Even Gary spots that Jake seems soft on Hope and warns him off. So doing the usual maths of 2 + 2 = 5 I wonder if it is Jake that is sending those hateful messages to Hope that we saw last week? Pure speculation.
I will be away next weekend so will not be here. Maybe, just maybe I will miss an episode of sweetness and light and lives in a Mancunian back street - this week was closer to that perhaps but it really lacked light among the cesspit of human behaviour being reported in terms of Theo and Carl. Which is worst - I leave you to judge.
Written by Joe Turner and Carmel Morgan . Directed by Vicky Thomas.
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