Frank?s body's found stone cold dead on the factory floor
and the police are all over the place. There's lights flashing, cops
swarming and Norris gawping.
He's even handing out bon-bons in exchange for gossip from
anyone who knows anything, but nobody does. Carla's hauled to the cop
shop as her fingerprints are found all over the whisky bottle that's
been used to kill Frank.
Mind you, her fingerprints can be found all over most of the
whisky bottles in the north-west. Unable to bear that Carla
might have murdered Frank, Peter turns himself in to the rozzers and
tells them he did it and that's when things turned a bit Spartacus
in our house. "I am Frank Foster's killer". "No, I am Frank Foster's
killer," well you get the gist. I had to open a new packet
of gypsy creams, the tension was that high. Frank's mum Anne is
beside herself with worry as the contract Frank signed to buy
Carla's Underworld shares has gone missing. Turns out Michelle nicked it
from Frank's briefcase before he was killed and she had it all the
time. She gives it to Carla who burns it, leaving the factory in her
capable hands for the time being,
anyroad.
Best story of the week, for this fan, has been Dennis
proposing to Rita. Or rather, Rita letting Dennis know she wanted to
be proposed to. And so he asked and she said yes. Norris turns rather sniffy
about the whole thing, as you knew he would, he's jealous of course and
wonders if he'll go to the wedding. "I'm hardly Dennis' best man,"
he mopes to Rita, "No," she tells him, "But you are mine." And with
that she gives Norris a little note pad to write down his jottings
for his wedding speech. Norris gives her a lovely look, puts the
little note pad back on the Kabin shelf and takes a much larger one
instead. A lovely little scene. At their engagement party at
the Bistro, Dennis makes a smashing speech about how he and Reet met
all those years ago. "To Rita Littlewood," he says, raising his
glass. "Who sang and danced and was the apple of my eye." To Rita,
indeed, and long may she reign.
Over at the Rovers, Karl's new satellite dish causes
havoc with radio reception at Streetcars. No one likes the new telly
apart from Karl, and Stella tells him to take it down, but he won't,
not just yet. He nips
out one night to the casino and takes Sunita along for the ride.
Karl doesn't tell Stella and Sunita doesn't tell Dev. It'll just end in tears, you
know. It's clear that
Karl's in some sort of gambling debt too and he tries to fiddle Rita
out of more money for her engagement party at the Rovers than Rita
wants to pay. But you can't pull the wool over Big Red's eyes and
she gives him short shrift, telling him "Party's
off!".
At Nick's Bistro, money goes missing from the till and
everyone assumes that Lewis has stolen it, but he hasn't. It's money
that Eva's taken from the till to go shopping for food. Gail and
Nick turn on Lewis and even Audrey's not best pleased to think she
was starting to trust Lewis and then he goes and nicks from Nick's.
But when she finds out he didn't, well, she gets that glint in her
eye again and pops round to his for a canoodle on the
candlewick.
Eileen's doing her utmost to keep her fella sweet but it
ain't easy when her fella's wife is living with them, even if she
doesn't know where she is half the time. Because the other half of
the time, she does, and therein lies Eileen's problem. I'm loving this storyline
because it's exposing Eileen's need, greed and selfishness for a
man, any man, while highlighting how devastating Alzheimer's Disease
can be, not just for the person who's suffering from it but also for
their family and friends.
And that's just about that for this week. Remember, sign up to get
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This week's writers were Mark Wadlow,
Jayne Hollinson, Jan McVerry and Simon Crowther. Find out more about the
Coronation Street writing team at:
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
Glenda Young
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