Welcome. We open at Chariot Square Happy Hour where Izzy, Sean, Michael and Carla are enjoying a few drinks. Glenda comes in looking for Debbie who is missing again. Carla, Izzy and Michael leave and Sean queries Glenda about being ill. She explains she is sick of Eva. Eva meanwhile is lying at the foot of the cellar stairs where she was despatched by Sam. Sam goes upstairs and eventually finds his phone (and why is he phone addicted?) and then in one of those absolutely stupid twists, does not phone anyone and does a runner. He returns to the scene of his earlier crime where Nick and Toyah are completely understanding about him trashing the Bistro office. However the viewers can now spend the entire episode worrying about Eva who had it easy - no acting - just sleeping on the cellar floor. Every so often we get a shot of the prone Eva taking another breath.
I suspect I am unsympathetic b****** (with due apologies for the language) but I am having trouble believing in Christina's grief. Not a hint of a hidden daughter for what 35 years? and now hardly able to function. A shock maybe - but all consuming? Anyway Christina is contemplating life, the universe and the answer to life (42) in Victoria Gardens when she is found by Bernie. Bernie is far more sympathetic - but then she has lost one child, her lost, now found child, is seriously ill and so perhaps she understands.
Tim and Sally have completely lost Lucy, thinking she is minding Shanice upstairs, whom Ronnie finds considerably the worse for wear in Victoria Gardens. Lucy claims not to be a kid and being really bored. Tim discovers she half inched the vodka from the kitchen cupboard. Sally sends Lucy to bed with a bowl in case of nasty accidents. Tim is not surprised that Lucy is acting up. They do not know what to do for the best.
Debbie has been sent to the closed Rovers by Sam looking for Carl (her phone has died yet again) and she wanders around (although closed the front door is unlocked). She sees Eva and leaves the Rovers but by the time she meets Carla, Izzy, Michael and Sean (continuity error as Sean did not leave with the others) outside Audreys she cannot remember visiting the cellar and as she is distressed Carla takes Debbie back to her flat above the cab office. Debbie looks as though she does not recognise it and later asks Carl if Carla is his girlfriend as she had not recognised her. Ronnie and Carl argue over the latter's flakiness - Ronnie wants him out.
Eventually Glenda returns to the Rovers and finds signs of an intruder from Sam's earlier frantic searching, Glenda hears groaning from the cellar and then summons the emergency services. It may well be important that she seems to have bashed her abdomen. Her blood pressure is low and she manages one word "Pushed".
This episode was "odd" as it was clearly set on the same day as Thursday and I wonder if the plan was originally to show them together for some reason. Once again the chapeau must be tipped to the wonderful Sue Devaney who is seen in one shot almost shuffling along as a "little old lady" rather than the dynamic business woman. Once again another slip down the ladder mentally and I suspect she will be accused of Eva's incident. However it would be nice for some light and shade - do all the stories need to depress us? Is no-one on the Street doing anything positive and uplifting? For those worried about him, Theo Silverton has returned to Ambridge, ended his marriage to Fallon, taken up (within days) with the posh and apparently very attractive daughter of the lady of the manor who finds him equally attractive (thanks to a Tango lesson) and has nicked (he is a policeman) a Doberman for savaging sheep.
I may or may not be here next week - it will depend on events as on the Saturday I am catching a plane to India and will not be around for three weeks. I hope to be back for the 26 October episode all being well.
Written by Susan Oudot and directed by David Kester.
Kosmo
