Rushed to hospital, Michelle goes
into labour at only 23 weeks and when her baby boy is born he isn’t
breathing. Under the hospital rules, there can be no birth or death
certificate issued for the baby boy that Steve and Michelle had
named Ruari. It would take a Corrie fan with a heart of stone not to
have been moved by the hospital scenes, and again later when
Michelle breaks down in the back room of the Rovers. Liz and Steve
do their best to support Michelle but only Liz has a notion of what
Michelle is going through, having lost baby Katy many years ago.
To contrast with the drama of
Michelle and Steve, Corrie does what it does so perfectly. We had
laughs from Kev and Tyrone fighting over a stapler and then making
up in the Rovers. And we had villainy from Pat Phelan when he gets
Andy to take delivery of Kev Webster’s new truck. Kev assumes,
wrongly, that either Tyrone, Luke of Freddie has nicked his truck
off him and can’t understand what’s going on. In an effort to
convince Kevin that his workforce wouldn’t rip him off, Freddie
installs CCTV in the garage linked to Kev’s laptop.
We also had some wonderful, powerful
scenes from Eva when she tells Toyah that she knows all about her
relationship with Peter. This is news that throws Toyah and she begs
Eva to keep the news from Leanne as she’s in a fragile state with
her pregnancy and all. Fluffy, pink and cuddly Eva then, once again,
reveals the rod of iron that runs through her pretty little head and
blackmails Toyah. She tells Toyah that she’ll keep quiet about her
fling with Peter as long as Toyah gets Peter to stop his crazy claim
for Underworld.
Over at Victoria Court gym, the bailiffs
move in to recover possessions against Sharif’s debt that he left
them all with. I’m not sure the gym worked for me as a location in
Corrie, so I do hope we might see the last of it and something else
might just take its place.
And finally this week, Bethany makes
a new friend in Nathan who runs a tanning salon. So far, he’s being
nice to her, all friendly-like and warm, but there’s danger ahead as
he is going to turn out to be a sexual predator, grooming the young
girl. Run, Bethany, run.
And that’s just about that for this
week.
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This week’s writers were Damon
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(Wednesday); Debbie Oates (Friday double). Find out all about the
Coronation Street writing team at Coronation Street Blog: Exclusive:
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