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At the Barlow's Ken wonders if the baby's really Roy's
and when he shares his doubts with the Croppers they storm round to see Tracy.
Hayley to Tracy: "Ken has just told us about this Wally bloke!" Tracy
to Hayley: "Roy, you mean?" Roy goes to see Wally, who's tending a widow's
garden, trimming her box, tidying her bush and flexing his dibber (stop me
now, I'm a gardener, these bad jokes could go on all night!). The widow,
Wally says, has a face like a horse: "It's very hard to look her in the face
without offering her a carrot." Roy wants to know if Wally slept with
Tracy and at first Wally's all bravado and macho but when Roy tells him she's
pregnant, he swears he didn't touch her. Roy tells him the reason he
needs to know the truth and Wally replies there's no chance that he could
be the father - having lost the family allowance when he caught the mumps
at 15. So, thinking he's the true father there's only one way
now for Roy to have legal claim on the baby - he has to marry Tracy, or so
Hayley tells him. When Roy proposes to Tracy, she laughs in his face and
Hayley gets stroppy: "Murry Roy or the deal's off!". And so the ball
is in Tracy's corner - does Tracy need the money more than the Croppers want
a baby? Will Deidre and Ken bring up the baby with her if she decides
to keep it? And is it our new widescreen telly or is Deirdre getting,
like, really fat?
Gail seethes as she sees Nick dating Candice although Audrey's ok about
it and soothes her daughter in the street. Gail still hasn't got a clue
about Nick and Todd's kiss and they're both doing their best to ignore each
other this week.
It turned rather Hitchcockian in the Kabin this week when Norris hears
the thump, thump, thump of a football against the Kabin wall. "I don't
like it... " he says as the camera pans to his fear stricken face. "I don't
like it at all". Craig, David, Rosie and their mate (who's name
I've forgotten but Rita said his brother used to deliver papers for her once.
He had a lazy eye with a personality to match, you know the type) have picked
easy targets in Rita and Norris to torment with a bit of out-of-school angst.
As Lucy and Shelley continue running the bookies, a beard appears with
Peter Barlow behind it. He's back, he's defeated and he's not had
a shave. Moving back in with his parents, he tells his missuses that he'll
split the profits of the bookies with them when it's sold. He then declares
undying love to Shelley and demands of Lucy to see his son. Lucy encourages,
nay, badgers Shelley to return to the police station to give another statement
to ensure that Peter will be sent to jail - but Shelley ends up wondering
why she's there. It's clear Lucy's feeling bitter and using Shelley to get
at Peter while all Shelley wants to do is put the whole sorry mess behind
her.
(Best line of the week went to Peter, however, when he hears there's someone
pregnant at the Barlow's and wrongly assumes it's Deirdre - then when Tracy
walks in the room, the penny starts to drop: "Who? Her? No! Who?
Oh no!")
In his shopkeeper specs, Dev finally gets a date with the solictor lady,
and oh, dear me, is that Sunita feeling sorry for herself as she watches
Dev get smoochy with someone other than her? With her red sports
convertible and sharp mind, it doesn't take long for lady solicitor to realise
she may be treading on Sunita's feelings.
More arguments this week with Tommy yelling at Angela when he sees her
talking to Katy in the street. Trying to make an effort to be civil
to her parents, Martin and Katy agree to meet Tommy and Angela in the Rovers
but it turns into a punch-up once Les Battersby sticks his nose in. Later,
Angela defies Tommy and turns up at the flat to speak to her daughter. After
hugs on the sofa, they promise they'll keep in touch, whatever Tommy thinks.
And finally this week, for some reason best known at Granada but certainly
not in our house, Les Battersby was given a storyline that had him making
eyes at a barmaid in the Weatherfield Arms and spinning her a line that
he's in the music business. She tells him she's called Lulu and he tells
her he's called Clint - which is quite close to what we call him too.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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