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She's free! Deirdre's out of prison! The Weatherfield
One is back in the Rovers!
Mike gets a phone call in the Rovers from Frankie telling him
that Jon has been arrested on charges of fraud and bigamy and
it's drinks all round. He even buys Ken a pint. Veitch breaks
the news to Deirdre that one of them has to spend the rest of
her life in that god-forsaken hell-hole while the other one is
free to leave. Deirdre should have spit in her face as she walked
past her, what a cow that Veitch has been! Before her release,
Deirdre's cell mate Jacqui ended up throwing punches at Veitch
in Deirdre's defence after she made some jibes about Samir; good
one Jacqui! As Deirdre is released, blinking into the sunshine,
who should we see being taken into prison in handcuffs but none
other than Jon Lindsay. "You'll enjoy it in here Jon."
Deirdre shouts to him "It's directly under the flight path
to the airport". Anyway, both Mike and Ken are waiting for
Deirdre when she gets released and Mike immediately offers for
her to stay with him and Alma, but Deirdre says she'd rather stay
with Ken. (Ken 1, Mike 0) Back at ken's, he cracks open the red
wine with a toast to the future and tries to kiss Deirdre but
she backs off, saying she only loves him as a friend. However,
Ken thinks there's more to it than the fact she's turned off by
his old blue cardi, and assumes she's really in love with Baldwin.
(Ken 1, Mike 1) The same thought runs through alma's pretty head
when Deirdre and Mike play tonsil hockey in the Rovers. (Ken 1,
Mike 2) "I'm very grateful to you for getting me out"
says Deirdre to Mike. (Yes dear, and I think we'll soon find out
just how grateful you really are.) Ken shares his concerns with
Alma, only upsetting Alma even more than she is already about
the whole situation. Seems like Alma is the only one not best
pleased to see Deirdre out of prison, especially when Mike tells
her he wants to offer Deirdre a job in the factory. She tells
Mike "you can stuff Deirdre Rachid". Unfortunately Alma,
I think he has this in mind already, pet. (Mike scores an own
goal: final result - Ken 1, Mike 3, Alma -2). Deirdre decides
living with Ken is too awkward and moves in with her best pal
Liz, promising not to share each other's tights, lipsticks, clothes
or men.
The other huge storyline this week was the death of baby Shannon
from meningitis. The main actors involved in this: Zoe, Leanne,
Judy and in particular Ashley, Gary and Fred, have all been acting
their hearts out. I've been in tears more than once this week
and everyone I speak to about this storyline seems to have been
touched in the same way. Zoe and Ashley go out for the evening,
leaving Nick and Leanne baby-sitting. Nick decides he wants a
night with Leanne alone to tell her about his father's killer.
Anyway, baby Shannon starts crying, is all hot and sweaty and
starts coughing and staring. Leanne runs to get Judy, they call
an ambulance... but it's too late. Just as the ambulance pulls
up in the Street, and Judy walks out of the door with baby Shannon
in her arms, Zoe turns the corner, sees the dead baby, and everyone
is in tears. Judy, Zoe, Ashley, Gary, me, the woman next door,
her at number 6; we all sat and bubbled. Uncle Fred offers to
pay for the funeral and both Zoe and Ashley turn on Fred, saying
he's only doing it to salve his conscience as he never had a good
word to say about Zoe or the baby before tragedy struck. Lots
of strong, touching scenes between Gary/Ashley and Ashley/Fred
- powerful, emotional stuff indeed, I even felt sorry for Zoe
for about the first time since she appeared on the Street. When
she hugged Ashley and cried "I can still feel her breath
on my face, Ashley" I just hugged the sofa and cried once
more. Shannon's funeral takes place and afterwards, Fred arranges
a few nibbles and drinks for all back at Ashley's house, but Zoe
isn't best pleased, telling Fred to get stuffed and accusing everyone
there of not wanting to know her before her baby died.
Anyway, enough of this emotional stuff, anyone would think
I had a heart the way I carry on sometimes. Providing light relief
and some great comedy in contrast to the heavy scenes above, Jack
and Vera have been wonderful this week. Jack complains of pains
in his legs, Vera packs him off to the doctors who tells him he
has hardening of the arteries and that he must stop smoking and
take more exercise. Faced with the shock of having to live a more
healthy lifestyle, Jack returns to the Rovers and immediately
cracks open a bottle of whisky! Alec bets Jack £50 that
he won't be able to stop smoking and finally catches him out when
he finds him smoking in the yard of the Rovers. Covered in nicotine
patches, Vera tells Jack "you'll have to look after yourself,
or you'll end up like Elvis!". There are some corking lines
this week from Jack, Vera and Alec and as I said, wonderful comedy
between the Duckworths, the likes of which we haven't seen in
a long time.
Les is determined to split up Greg and Maxine, and comes between
them in the Rovers, telling Maxine that "three's a crowd".
"You're dead right, there" she tells Les, and walks
out. Steve has moved in with Fiona and she wants him to make friends
with his dad, so she does, but she's less than enthusiastic about
this.
Oh.. nearly forgot. Judy starts feeling unwell and Gary advises
her to go to the doctors, but, she runs out into the street after
Gary leaves for work, telling him that she feels pregnant! She
takes a home pregnancy test and the result is positive, she is
indeed pregnant. More tears, more joy, but they decide not to
tell anyone, particularly Zoe just yet.
Glenda :-)
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