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May 21
2016
It’s been a busy week on the Street this week. We’ve had an extra episode as Corrie gears up to its annual ratings-chaser of a week next week.
It’s all about Carla and
Nick this week as their wedding plans steam ahead. But Nick’s rages and
moods, symptoms from his brain injury, continue and he tells Carla he
can’t marry her. “I am nuts!” he yells at her. “Nuts!” Yes, Nick’s
nuts. He stays out overnight at Gail’s and Carla’s worried sick. She
finally gets him to confess what’s going on and goes with him to see the
consultant at t’hospickle to get Nick’s brain scan results. The results
show that physically Nick’s fine but he has to avoid stress. And yes, the
consultant did use the word ‘chillax’. Carla convinces him that she’s fine
with what’s going on and the wedding’s back on. But then Nick tells her he
can’t face the stress of moving away to Devon and so their move’s off.
This is news that Tracy Barlow doesn’t like the sound of and she and Carla
have a stand-off in the middle of the Street. “Move – or I’ll blab with a
capital B,” Tracy tells Carla to which she replies: “You ruin my life and
I won’t be responsible for what comes next, ok? And I promise that with a
capital P!”
Carla and Johnny have a
heart to heart in Roy’s Rolls and she admits that Tracy’s blackmailing her
over her fling with Robert. Johnny tries to protect his daughter and
threatens Tracy at the door of No. 1. Meanwhile Roy gets a sense of
what’s going on and suggests to Carla that he thinks it’d be more
appropriate for Johnny, her dad, to walk her down the aisle on her wedding
day.
Elsewhere this week,
Tyrone becomes a fully licensed cab driver and Kev agrees to Kylie’s
demand to interview Freddie for a job at Webster’s Autos.
Another big storyline this
week has been the regular Corrie seaside day in Blackpool. Sally
storms there with Sophie by her side to sort out Tim, who’s taken Kev and
Jack away on what should have been hers and Tim’s romantic mini-break. Now
then, I’ve been to Blackpool and romantic it is not. I won’t go into
details but I once stayed in a B&B so grotty that I got an electric
shock from the wash basin in my room. Anyway, Sally turns up just in
time to see Tim shoveling fish and chips into Kev’s gob in a seafront café
and she’s livid. Livid. But as it was her own fault that Tim went with Kev
she’s got no one else to blame. As she’s having an argument with Tim and
Kev in the café, Jack runs off, right into the path of an oncoming
Blackpool tram. Fortunately for Jack and the sake of a wrapping up a
storyline, Jenny Bradley is in Blackpool at the very same time, having a
day out with Johnny Connor. It’s Jenny who saves Jack’s life and she’s
hailed as the hero of the hour. The Weatherfield Gazette even run an
article on her – from Zero to Hero(ine).
Despite the fact that
Jack’s still alive because of Jenny’s intervention, Sally continues to
snipe at her at every opportunity. You can imagine what she’s like when
she gets wind of Jenny wanted to become a machinist at the factory. Jenny
bats her eyelids at Johnny Connor and asks to be trained up on the sewing
machines. It’s a request he doesn’t deny.
Preston’s Petals is robbed this week by the mystery parishioner that Billy is having trouble with. Billy confides in Todd that the lad is his brother, Lee, and he’s a heroin addict.
Izzy gets more cannabis to
help control her pain and ends up being arrested for possession of drugs.
She also gets an additional charge of assaulting a policeman when she
accidentally rams the dozy copper with her wheelchair. She gets taken to
the cop shop and this makes her miss Gary’s day in court for dealing
cannabis to her. Gary’s given a suspended sentence and a telling-off from
his mum, who’s got a scowl on her all week. “We’ve all done stupid
things,” Izzy tells Anna. “You should know that better than anyone!”
Gary offers to move in with Izzy to help her cope with little Jake. I love
these two together, I love them more than any other Corrie couple I’ve
ever watched on screen (bar Roy and Hayley, of course).
And that’s just about that
for this week.
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This week’s writers were Damon Rochefort (Monday double); Debbie Oates (Wednesday); Julie Jones (Thursday); Simon Crowther and Ben Tagoe (Friday double).
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