Mikey
North, the actor who plays Gary Windass, has played a blinder this
week. Gary is
still going through post traumatic stress disorder after his short
stint in the army and the death of his mate Quinny. Pretending to be ok is a
recipe for disaster when he goes into meltdown back on civvy street.
He takes his role as protector of Izzy just a little further than
she would like after he gets a packing job in the factory as the new
man in ladies pants. But when Izzy wants a night
out on her own without Gary,
she's mugged at a cashpoint and is thrown from her wheelchair. When
Gary finds
out, he goes ballistic and thumps Sean by the beer pumps, giving him
a black eye, taking his anger out on totes the wrong man. Ooh, I've
said totes. Get me.
Anyway, Izzy's fine, just shaken, not stirred and determined
to get on with her life despite a few bruises from the mugging
attack. But
Gary's not
having it. He pretends he's taking her wheelchair in to get fixed
but leaves it in his van, making Izzy a prisoner in her own
home. He closes the
blinds in Izzy's flat, tells her he'll protect her from the bad ?uns
outside her front door, turns off the lights and locks her indoors.
Izzy is beside herself with worry and after Chesney and Katy come
calling at her door, and Gary tells
them Izzy's asleep and doesn't want to see them, Katy tells dad Owen
who goes round to the flat and kicks the door in. Owen finds Izzy cowering in
the corner of her bedroom with Gary
protecting her, but it's clear he's suffering as much as poor Iz
is. "Help me," he cries
out to Owen. "Help me."
And there wasn't a dry eye in our house, I can tell you.
Over at the
Barlows'. Deirdre runs a bath for Ken and puts fresh batteries in
his waterproof radio but it's not enough to get Ken out of his
stupor and his dressing gown. He's been betrayed by grandson James
after he found out that James had taken out a loan of ?50k on his
house. Ken finds the cheque and confronts James who knocked Ken
against the wall, battering the Barlow. It's left to Rita and Dennis
to take Ken out to the pub and into the land of the living to cheer
him right up.
In
the back room of the Rovers, Steve settles himself on the sofa for
an afternoon of misery with The Smiths and Scotch. He's feeling
sorry for himself when he finds out that Becky's gone to
Crete with a fella called Clarkey. I know a fella called
Clarkey, he's a painter and decorator, but I digress.
Tracy's
straight in there trying to cheer Steve up and invites him for tea
chez Barlow. She even irons the tablecloth in readiness for his
visit to tea. What she has in store for dessert is anyone's guess.
Actually, it's everyone's guess and we'd all guess it right and
Steve, as we know, will get it horribly
wrong.
And over at
Bessie Street Infants, Julie takes little Dylan to a pre-school
reading as neither Marcus nor Sean are free. Julie's loving playing mum
to the son she's never had and so when another mother thinks that
Dylan's her real kid, Julie does nowt to contradict her. However, the teacher giving
the reading turns out to be Brian and Julie comes over all peculiar
as she stares into his eyes while he reads out The Cat in the Hat.
Sadly for Julie, Brian tells her he didn't realise that she was a
mum and that she'd be best off without him. Julie's too dumbstruck
to reply and goes home to Sean for a cry.
And that's just about that for this
week.
This
week's writers were Martin Allen, Peter Whalley, Simon Crowther,
Damon Rochefort and Chris Fewtrell. Find
out more about the Coronation
Street
writing team at: