You know that face that
Betty used to pull? The one where she sucked imaginary air in
through her lips and ended up with her face all puckered when she'd
just heard something she shouldn't? Rita pulled that face this week,
the very same one, and for the very same reason. She was stood at the bar,
waiting for Norris, who as it happens, didn't turn up – but more of
that later. And as Rita stood at the bar with her drink, St Ella
walked through to the back room of the Rovers with Sunita in tow.
Yes, Sunita. Well, Rita was shocked and we were all expecting
fireworks but Sunita bowed to the knowledge of she who has lived
longer with Karl and took little comfort from St Ella's words. "He's
yours now, you deal with him."
Had Michelle Collins perfected her Northern accent, that
quote would have read: "He's yurs now, you deal w'im". Sunita, given much to think
on, walked out of the pub and back to Karl and the kids. It's not a
happy home.
Now then, we haven't seen
Roy's mum Sylvia for weeks and then she turns up only to disappear
again. She's gone to Milton who's in a state in the States, he's had
an accident and is laid up with only his housekeeper to keep an
eye. Not sad to see
Sylvia go, Roy books her plane ticket and the next we know, she's
referred to in the past tense, by Mary of all people. I don't know
about you, but I've just pulled that face that Betty used to
pull.
Having a cage dancer for a
daughter-in-law hasn't been easy on Gail but this week she defends
Kylie when Michelle accuses her of dealing drugs, co-ercing cocaine
on her Ryan. Kylie
denies all, she's in the right this time too after Ryan lies to
Michelle about where he's got the drugs from. "You're a wonderful
mother to Max and you're good for David, too" Gail coos to Kylie
after a showdown on the Street between Kylie and Michelle.
Meanwhile, Ryan nicks cash
from his mum's purse to buy more drugs and meets an unwashed bloke
up the ginnel to buy some more of these here drugs that are doing
the rounds. Just in
case you weren't sure that Ryan's a bad ‘un, the hood on his anorak,
ladies and gentlemen, was very firmly and squarely UP. What more clear signifier of
a rascal do we need? Hang him
now.
However, Steve's using
rascal Ryan to get into Michelle's good books and under her duvet.
He gives Ryan a job at Streetcars and sets him up to play his guitar
at Nelson's pub on Magic Monday when he finds out Ryan used to be in
a band. Michelle thinks Lloyd's the one to get Ryan the job and the
gig, and gives him a big kiss under the smoker's shelter. When she
finds out it was Steve, she tells him she'll think about going out
with him for a drink.
And now we head for the
dark side of the Street with Tyrone's violence at the hands of
Kirsty taking a sinister turn as she wallops him with the attachment
from the hoover. Not the little fluffy bit you add to the end of the
hoover tube when you're doing the stairs, this was the nasty long
plastic bit that she picked up and hit Tyrone with, over and over
again. The next day
he's battered and very bruised and applying pain relief in the
garage when Tina finds him and he confides that Kirsty's beating him
up. But as he swears her to secrecy, Tina doesn't say a word. It's a
difficult position for Tina to be in but not half as difficult as
the one Tyrone's in, poor lad. He begs Kirsty to see the doctor to
get help for her mood swings and violence and she pretends she's
been to see Dr Carter at the medical centre. But Deirdre knows she
hasn't, she saw Kirsty walking out when her appointment was called
and when she tells Tyrone this, he and Kirsty argue in the back yard
– just as Deirdre's walking down the ginnel with Eccles on her lead.
Tyrone pushes Kirsty away from him and she falls, hurting her head
and Deirdre puts two and two together to get 57 and assumes Tyrone's
beating Kirsty, a notion that Kirsty does nothing to shake from
Deirdre's mind, in fact she seems quite happy in a twisted way that
Deirdre should be offering Kirsty sympathy for her fall. Anyway, Kirsty makes Tyrone
go to the pub while she has a lie down on the sofa but while he's
out in the Rovers, she packs to leave and calls a cab. Tyrone arrives back at the
house before the cab comes and there's tears as he begs her not to
leave him, but she's honest at least in that she says he's too good
for her and that's why she has to go, she hates herself for hitting
him and can't live with him because she loves him so much And with that, she
went. But fear not,
she'll be back. Oh yes, she will be back.
Over at Emily's, Norris
isn't best pleased when Tracy does the cleaning. He doesn't want her
in his room or anywhere near his stuff, and I'm on Norris's side in
this argument although Emily seems to have forgotten her
god-daughter is a demented, psycho murderer. Mind you, so do most of
the writers at Corrie.
Anyway, Norris gets Jason to fit a lock to his bedroom door
and while Norris is inside his room, Tracy locks him in there. (And that's why Norris didn't
turn up in the Rovers to meet Reet for a drink – see para 1 above!).
Norris and Tracy
continue to wind each other up culminating in a wonderful line from
Tracy after Norris deliberately wakes her up from a slumber on the
sofa by getting the vacuum cleaner out to wake her up. "You're a
slap-head hoover Nazi!"
I'm going to use that line on someone this week, just you
wait and see.
And finally this week, Mary
helps out in Roy's Rolls as with Hayley away, Sylvia gone and Anna
on a day off, Roy's on his own and grateful for her help. Mental
Mary invites Roy to an Elgar concert in a town far away - Malvern I
think it was – and she gets all giddy kipper when Roy says he'll go
with he. But while Scary Mary's dreaming of a romantic musical
getaway Roy puts paid to that dream when he tells her that while
she's only booked two rooms in the hotel, he's booked three tickets
for the concert as Hayley's coming with.
And that's just about that for
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This week's writers were
David Lane, Peter Whalley, Simon Crowther and Joe
Turner.
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Coronation Street writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html