Gary-love is back from Afghanistan but he's
not the same lad as he was when he went, no. Shocked by what he's
seen and stunned by the death of his mate Quinny, he chickens out of
meeting Quinny's mam and dad and reneges on his promise to his dead
mate that he'd tell his parents the truth about what had really
happened to their son. He can't. Not yet, perhaps
not ever. He drowns his sorrows in the Rovers and belts seven bells
out of the fruit machine, thumping it hard enough to bring down some
loose plaster from the walls of the pub. Anna and Eddie do their
best, tiptoe round their son, hoping he'll want to open up, soon..
"Gary-love, do you want to talk?" "No,mam," etc.
David's sent home after having his charge
dropped for attempted
murder of the local butcher. He's been diagnosed as an idiopathic
epileptic, as well as being an evil scum bucket too. Gail loves
having her two sons at home, Nick and David, David and Nick, ooh,
those lovely boys, so clean, so squeaky, so tied to her apron
strings. She still doesn't know that Nick's boffing his ex-wife
Leanne upstairs in his room while he's mum out at the shops.
Speaking of Leanne, she begs Nick to stop their sordid affair but as
he's billy-no-mates he says he can't live without her. Leanne's heart tells her she
loves Peter and her head tells her she loves Peter too but it's
those wobbly warm and squishy bits that are drawing her to
Nick.
Meanwhile, Ciaran and Michelle get
suspicious of Carla when they find out she's been ringing Peter.
When Michelle drops Carla off at her flat and spies Peter walking
in, she confronts Carla who confesses all. Well, almost all. She
confesses the drinking, the driving, the court case, the lost
license but she keeps the bit quiet about how she's tried to seduce
Peter wearing nothing but her bath towel and a welcoming
smile.
The Fishwick farce carries on with John
discovering that Charlotte was the one who nicked their house keys,
the one who made the DVD that scared Fiz witless, the one who's been
sending scary notes to Fiz made from letters cut out from
newspapers. But what
does he do when he discovers all of this? He sits down to enjoy a
steak dinner with the loopy woman after she threatens to blackmail
him over what he knows about Colin's death. So John's stuck between
a rock and a hard face who tells him she wants him (that's how loopy
she is) even if she has to share him with Fiz.
Over at the butchers, Graeme's turned down
by the bank when he asks for a loan so he can buy the butchering
business.
And Katie moves in with Chesney, Fiz and
John. Where's
Schmeichel these days, then?
And that's just about that for this week.