Sunita's aunties are
back on the Street, desperate to set up their niece with someone
nice once they find out that Dev's empire has been reduced to one
corner shop and a kebabbery place. But doesn't he still own the flat
in Victoria Court? Never mind, it's not enough for the aunties
who tell Sunita she's got to find herself a new fella and they take
it upon themselves to find someone for her. Must haves include
a decent head of hair and social standing, so that's Steve McDonald
out of the frame but it puts Nick Tilsley and Dr. Carter very firmly
in. Even Marcus comes under scrutiny of the aunties until Sean comes
to collect him from their clutch.
Sean receives bad news
in a phone call that tells him that Violet's been involved in a car
crash. She's going to be fine but her back's in a bad way and
fortunately Dylan wasn't with her in the car but she needs someone
to take care of the lad. Sean's up to the task, with Marcus' full
support, and the two lads head to London to pick up Sean's son.
Lovely.
Fiz is in court on fraud
charges for fiddling Joy Fishwick's will when she knew fine well she
wasn't entitled. John's gone AWOL and Fiz is going mad with
despair at the state that she's in. Friends rally round to support
her but the best line of all to her was: "You've been Staped!"
Sally Webster gets a gloat in and snipes to her about
Stape.
The tedium that's been
Graeme and Xin's sham wedding looks set to be finally gone from our
screens. Tina finds out what's been going on between her
boyfriend and best friend (you know, the best friend who came out of
nowhere and took the soap by the hand down the path of dull
despair). Anyway, long story cut short, Graeme makes his
decision to choose Xin over Tin and leaves the Street with Xin,
leaving Tin in tears and threatening to call immigration to shop up
Xin. Remember how Graeme came into Corrie a bit mad, a bit bad, a
bit dangerous to know? And look what they've done to such a great
character, leaving the Street in a bad hat without even a smile.
Shame.
Over at the soup
kitchen, Sophie and Sian get the blame from James after the day
centre's burgled. He reckons they didn't lock up properly at the end
of their shift and the two girls feel bad. Sophie and Sian rake
money together to repay James some of the stolen cash and Kevin goes
ballistic when he walks in on his daughter handing cash over to
James. So has the centre been broken into? Is James really telling
the truth? Sally and Kev don't want Sophie to have anything
more to do with the charity but Sophie defies them both and accepts
a full-time voluntary post after James butters her up an offer she
can't refuse, and one she won't get paid for.
Over at the Rovers,
Steve's solicitor draws up a contract to give him access to Amy. All
he needs to do now is soften up Tracy so she agrees to it all.
He starts by offering her the job back behind the bar. Tracy's not
daft, she knows there's a reason that Steve's being nice to her, but
she accepts the work all the same.
And finally something
which put a smile on my face this week was the return of Brian
Packham. Brian, you'll remember, is the Headmaster of the School
where Colin/John used to teach. He's read about Colin/John
taking the Hoyles' hostage, it's the headline in the Weatherfield
Gazette. Armed with newspaper tucked firmly under his arm, he storms
in to see Fiz for gossip and chat. It's the last thing Fiz wants, to
scrape all the dirt up on John with someone she hardly knows, but
it's a good quality farce that was very good to watch. And when
Brian spies Julie, he's hopeful that they can reignite the spark
that once flared, ever so briefly but brightly, between them,
before Julie found out that Brian was wed. His wife's left him
now, he tells Julie, but that doesn't thaw the cool and calm Ms
Carp, not until Fiz admits it was her and John's fault that Julie
and Brian split up. Julie's face lights up as her heart
catches fire, once again, and the love-light burns bright for
Brian.
And that's just about
that for this week.
This week's writers were
Martin Allen, Simon Crowther, Julie Jones, John Kerr and Jim
Cartwright.