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February 18
2017
Coronation Street’s
grooming storyline took a dark and sinister turn this week, as we
all knew and feared it would. It starts when Sarah convinces
her daughter to film her beauty vlogs at home on her phone rather
than use Nathan’s equipment at the salon. Nathan’s not happy about
this and gets Mel to ‘dislike’ Bethany’s vlogs and leave nasty
comments online. At Nathan’s behest, Mel talks to Bethany and tells
her that Nathan’s upset she’s not doing the vlogs with him any more.
Bethany relents and sees Nathan again, just as the cops arrive and
arrest him on suspicion of abducting a young, blonde girl who’s gone
missing.
Bethany has doubts
about Nathan, proving that she’s not completely gullible, but Nathan
woos her with sweet words and kindness and says he had nothing to do
with the girl’s disappearance, but would Bethany provide an alibi
for him any way? Well, Bethany’s reluctant and says no, again
proving she’s got a mind of her own and knows right from wrong. But
older, wiser, more devious Nathan knows how to manage her and it all
starts to unfold in the most horrible way.
Pretending
that he’s hurt by Bethany’s refusal to give him an alibi, even when
the missing girl turns up in Tenerife with her mates, he makes
Bethany beg for another chance with him. And beg she does. Then she
goes out on a night out with Mel who plies her with drink and steals
her phone. Drunk and alone Bethany wanders the streets only to be
‘rescued’ by Nathan who’s there in his car at just the right time.
Alya, Rana and Kate are on a night out in town and Rana sees what’s
going on. She offers to take Bethany home, or at least ring her mum,
but Nathan bundles Bethany into his car and drives her home to his
flat.
It’s all done very
subtly, with Bethany truly believing that Nathan is on her side, a
good guy who wants the best for her, someone who cares for her and
cares about her. He suggests Bethany goes to sleep on the sofa but
in the middle of the night she gets up and walks into Nathan’s
bedroom (where he is, very creepily, sitting up in bed playing with
his, er, laptop). Bethany offers herself to Nathan, thinking that he
loves her, and after they’ve done the deed he gets up out of bed and
makes a phone call. “She’s special, this one,” he tells whoever he’s
talking to - and it’s the start of what is going to be truly
horrible viewing over the coming weeks.
Elsewhere this week,
it’s all going on for the Barlow bunch again. Adam sleeps with Rosie
after she tells him about the drugs she’s brought in from Miami. She
even tells him where they’re buried and he spends all night with a
shovel on the allotment digging every patch up until he finds the
goods. Sinead moves into Adam and Daniel’s flat when Chesney chucks
her out and Daniel and Ches have a fight. Ken’s not best pleased
about this new arrangement and tells Daniel how disappointed he is
in his son for not putting his education first. I’m not entirely
sure Daniel’s all that happy either, so we’ll have to see how this
all pans out. Adam and Daniel are great together, to watch, that’s
for sure. After spending the night with Rosie, Adam wastes no time
in securing another conquest when he chats up a secretary at the
solicitor’s office where he goes for an interview. He’s hoping to
transfer his legal qualifications from Canada to the UK and set up a
back street practice with Todd. It’s the ‘Better Call Saul’ of
Coronation Street.
Luke offers to take
Tracy away for a short break to Bristol to see if they can find
missing Andy. When Phelan hears about the plan, he drops all kinds
of poison into Tracy’s mind about what Luke’s really up to. Can he
afford a trip to Bristol, Phelan asks. Where’s the money coming
from, Phelan asks. Tracy storms round to see Luke and using Phelan’s
words she asks Luke the same questions. Phelan’s relieved when the
search party for missing Andy’s called off. Also this week, Phelan’s
still working on Ken Barlow’s new kitchen and asks Ken to pay him
the money up front. But why would he ask, and why would Ken
pay?
Over at the garage,
Sophie resigns as Kev’s in a tight spot with the finances there. She
starts working for Tim on his window cleaning round instead.
Meanwhile, inside Sally’s house Tim is trying to figure out Rosie
and doesn’t know where to put himself when she starts exercising in
the living room wearing a teeny little bra top.
Up in Victoria Court,
Leanne and Nick plan a Christmas wedding and send out ‘save the
date’ cards to everyone except Toyah and Eva. Simon has a go at both
of them and tells them to leave his mum alone as her blood
pressure’s sky high. It rises even further when Simon’s brought home
by a copper after Peter allows him to go to a party at the Trafford
Centre which Leanne knew nothing about.
And finally this week,
Steve and Michelle return from Ireland a little more relaxed than
when they went away. While they’ve been away Liz collects Ruari’s
ashes for them and there’s tears in the back room of the Rovers all
over again. Michelle also comes clean to Steve about kissing Robert
when she wasn’t in her right mind.
And that’s just about
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This week’s writers were Martin Allen
(Monday double), Simon Crowther (Wednesday), Damon Alexis-Rochefort
(Thursday) and Susan Oudot (Friday double). Find out all about the
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