Good evening. I remind you that it is still Thursday of last week and Carla's wedding day which has now had 7 outings. We open with Todd running away from Theo who cannot be bothered to chase him as he knows where he is at all times thanks to the watch which Todd wears. Theo only wants to talk to him. Todd manages to disappear down the ginnel under the flats at the precinct, removes the watch and lobs it into the children's playground where Theo eventually finds it. Todd phones George from a call box (there is one?) on Inkerman Street and Christine collects him and thereafter he is safe at number 11. However George assures Todd that Theo will never hurt him again and Christina notices that George's red top is NOT the same top that he was wearing earlier and he is decidedly shifty when she asks him about it.
Shona has come back to the Street as she forgot her phone which she cannot find and then she heads to the hospital to see Harper.
Elsewhere Maggie has Megan by the throat at the top of the stairs up to the flats and at the bottom of the stairs is Will who gets to hear that Megan had an abortion of his / Daniel's child - Will has still not given the game away. Megan and Maggie stop fighting and Will argues with his grandmother. He is pretty vile to Maggie in the precinct.
Jodie's surprise visitor was not the strange men - but was Lily who wants an explanation as to why Jodie is going - but she gets very little other than a promise that she will come back one day. Jodie lets herself back into Number 8 as she goes looking for cash and her treasures which she needs to take with her. Once she finds some cash she also sets about trashing the place, cutting her hand on some glass and leaving blood around the place. Jodie is about to go when Sarah comes in as she had heard David the dog yapping. Jodie applies blunt force to Sarah's head. Why does nobody turn the lights on? For some reason Shona returns to find her phone followed by David and an ambulance is summoned and they go to hospital where David just about deletes a voicemail message from Jodie about their earlier encounter and how she knocked him back. Shona guesses that the men who were looking for Jodie earlier must have returned and Sarah walked in on them.
Summer has let herself into Theo's flat above the Dev's shop which has the scaffolding outside. She finds Todd's phone which he had left behind when Theo enters the flat as well and throws the phone out of the window. She asks if Theo has done something to Todd but does not get an answer. Theo then says that Summer had to end sometime.
Ronnie has that Carl in the back of his car and gets a voice message from Debbie asking him to tell her when she gets right doolally about the good which Carl did (might not take long) and that he was always the apple of her eye. This makes Ronnie change his mind and we gather that Carl is dumped outside the Emergency Department and Ronnie is later seen cleaning the car of all potential evidence. However Carl is then in a bad way and his life is hanging in the balance as they start chest compressions.
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Once back at the Rovers Eva cannot find Maggie but two women find her lying in Victoria Gardens and it is time to summon another ambulance. She does not look at all well.
Betsy was not carrying any ID so could not get in anywhere in town and stumbles out of the tram station with Lauren following. Somehow later they manage to get to be outside Dev's shop (as Lauren had helped herself to the last wine at the wedding reception) at which point Lauren decides she needs to relieve herself and goes into the ginnel and Betsy stumbles into the yard at the back of the shop. She eventually screams. It looks like Theo has been ended.
There was a lot in the episode - Betsy remarked that heels and cobbles are incompatible. Lily is having something going on which was not clear to me with phone calls being made. Sam is in meltdown and on his own. David the dog was particularly yappy at the comings and goings. I think the three "sisters" were released because Will finally told all to the police, but I might be wrong. No doubt the answers to many of the questions raised in tonight's episode will be answered in the coming months. For holiday reasons I am not going to be here for the next three Fridays - have a lot of fun in my absence.
Written by Alasdair Morrison and directed by Suri Krishnamma.
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