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Alma and the lovely Spider continue with their plans to get
Curly off the hook by trying to prove that it was Anne who set
Curly up. Spider and Alma hatch Mission Impossible - Weatherfield
style, and decide the only way to prove Anne is guilty is to capture
her on videotape which they'll hand over to the police. All goes
well with Alma videotaping Anne and Spider talking about Curly,
until the Freshco security guard finds Alma in the office with
the VCR and throws her out. Drat. Now for Plan B. Next day Alma
gets the videotape but Anne comes into the office and demands
the tape from her. Alma puts a notice on the VCR saying "out
of order and leaves the office. However, poor Alma gets the boot
- Anne sacks her! Back at Freshco, much later, Anne calls the
security guard and tells him she wants him to patrol the front
of the store, and that she's leaving the office. But, instead
of going home, Anne puts on her rubber gloves and carrying some
sort of spray in a canister (chemicals? paint? I wasn't sure what
it was) she goes into the cold store of the supermarket and starts
spraying frozen food. It looks like she's trying to cause more
chaos in the store to blame on Alma in her warped way of trying
to get Curly off the hook. Meanwhile, the security guard, who
by this time fancies a cold beer courtesy of Freshco, helps himself
to a can which is part of a load kept outside the cold store.
He notices the door to the cold store is open, so he locks it
- with Anne inside!! And of course, he didn't see Anne go into
the cold store as she had turned off the VCR and stuck her "out
of order note on it, hadn't she? The lovely Spider had arranged
to meet Anne at the store to talk about Curly, later that evening.
He arrives at Freshco and pushes past the security guard at the
front of the store, and runs, oddly enough, straight to the cold
store where he notices a light, indicating that there's someone
inside. The lovely Spider and the security guard pull open the
door, but it's too late. Anne has frozen to death! A chilling
(and rather sillly) end for the Street's very own Ice Queen. Alma
is asked to be the temporary manager at Freshco, but she turns
the job down after realising she was asked only because of her
discretion about the Curly / Anne thing and not because of her
abilities. She tells Mike and he laughs off the job offer, telling
Spider "she'd have fallen flat on her face! if she'd taken
the job. With support like that from her husband, it makes Alma
realise she should have taken the job after all, for Curly's sake,
if nothing else.
Love's young dream is still riding around the street in his
rusty Ford Escort, or whatever it is and Toyah thinks he's just
topper. He tells Toyah he wants another £40 from the cafe
till but Toyah refuses. However, she keeps money given to her
by Ken when he pays for his meal in the cafe and takes money from
Les and Janice to give to Dobber. Gail and Roy both realise the
till was short of money last week and Gail has a quiet word with
Toyah, telling her to keep her mind on her work.
Roy and Hayley invite Gail and Martin for dinner and all goes
well. That is, until Martin starts a conversation about "the
things you see in hospital... all sorts of things, you can't believe
your eyes. An uncomfortable few minutes for Hayley but fortunately
the subject changes.
At the hair salon, Maxine is doing her best to impress Audrey
when she finds out that Audrey is going to recruit another assistant.
Does this mean Maxine will be out of a job? Well, Audrey has already
referred to Maxine as a flibbertigibbet this week, so who knows?
(And I've never heard that word used outside of the Sound of Music!).
Audrey explains to Fred all about her management plan. The right
way to treat employees, she says, is to use "the mushroom
theory - keep them in the dark and feed them, er, muck. She also
tells Fred about her "advance super saver hair cut she was
going to offer the pensioners. The theory behind this, she says,
is that when pensioners go away for the day on the train, they
need to buy an advance super saver rail ticket, and the very thought
would remind them they needed their advance super saver blue rinse
to go with it. She'll go far, that Audrey will, I can see it already.
Jim's physio Michael takes Jim to a seminar. While Jim is out,
Michael returns to the house to see Liz and to cut a long story
short, they end up snogging and before you know it, Liz wants
to leave Jim and run away with Michael. And there was one horrible
scene with Liz in a very short skirt with her legs pointing to
camera and you could sort of see her knickers. I had to look away
at this point, I really did. Even the cat threw up.
Judy arrives back to find Gary decorating the nursery. She's
even more surprised to see he's been out and bought a twin cot.
When Gary tells her he bought them with the money he raised by
selling his drum kit, well she's really chuffed with him, and
they have a big snog.
Sally's moved the girls into the flat with her, and is less
than happy when Greg returns, not best pleased to find the girls
in his flat. In fact, he's really cheesed off. A great scene with
Sally telling the girls "now girls.... and in unison they
chorus "we know, go to our rooms. Sally scolds little Sophie
and the look on that child's face just about broke my heart. She
has got to be the cutest, bestest little actress in the whole
wide world. Greg steals some computer files from Baldwin's PC
and Sally doesn't feel right about it.
Oh yes, I promised you marriage, heartache and a fight in the
Rovers, didn't I? Well, here we go. Des asks Nat to marry him,
and she accepts. Kevin finds out and old passions and jealousies
raise their ugly, bearded head. In the Rovers, Kevin isn't in
a good mood after finding out about Natalie and loses his temper
with Greg and Sally when they come in for a quiet drink. Kevin
tells Natalie she's doing the wrong thing, marrying Des, and asks
her to marry him instead! Angry and drunk, Kevin is finally carted
out of the Rovers by Alec and Baldwin (ok, so it wasn't a fight,
but it was as close as we came this week). As Mike throws Kevin
out onto the street, he calls him a loser. "Oh, I'm a loser,
am I? says Kev - and then proceeds to tell Mike all about Greg
and Sally's plan to take Mike's business and start up on their
own. As Kev staggers home, Mike stands outside the Rovers and
you just know there'll be hell to pay next week.
Bye for now
Glenda :-)
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