It’s the day of Aidan’s inquest and the Connor clan are
steeling themselves to relive the terrible ordeal and anxiously wondering if
Eva will show up with baby Susie.
She makes an entrance, late but perfectly accessorised,
mother and child in matching pink and with the devoted Adam in tow. He clearly didn’t get the pink outfit memo
and has rather let the side down in a boring black shirt.
Johnny is the first to speak and gives a harrowing account
of finding his son’s body, but it’s Eva who makes sure there isn’t a dry eye in
the house.
‘He thought he was setting me free, which only made me love
him more’, she sobs.
Meanwhile at the back of the room Adam clutches baby Susie
and you see the realisation dawn that Aidan was and always will be the love of
Eva’s life. As she pitifully tells the inquest that she loved Aidan with all
her heart he knows that he will never be able to compete.
Over at the Rovers Gemma has dealt with the Dubonnet mountain by inventing the
Uber-Duber, (a cocktail which appears to be at least palatable). It’s a better
idea than Henry’s one – start a Rovers Instagram account. There’s only so many
images of hot-pots and Liz McDonald in spandex that the internet can stand. The
cocktails sell like…err…hot-pots and before long Mary is on the Karaoke
murdering ‘Sex Bomb’. When a fight for the microphone breaks out between her
and Gina (I always had her down as more of an Ed Sheeran fan), Gemma’s years of
experience of being kicked out of pubs comes in handy as she breaks up the
fight, earning a nod of approval from ‘old-hand’ Liz McDonald.
It should be Gemma’s moment of pride, but a fall is lurking
around the corner in the form of a public-school educated scoundrel. Watched by
Chesney, Henry takes a furtive phone call and then skulks around the back of
the pub to meet with a posh looking woman, (who we presume is his fiancée), to
assure her that he will let Gemma down soon. Posh fiancée seems remarkable nonplussed
that her betrothed is playing at pub with an ex-girlfriend, but that’s the
ruling classes for you. To misquote Oscar Wilde: ‘They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral
responsibility!’
Daniel offers the empty shop to Brian in light of his
impending fatherhood, which will mean he’ll need a proper income rather than
low-paid jobs like waiting tables…oh no hang on... It may be too late though,
Brian is looking after a clearly besotted Joseph in a camouflage den and seems
to have found his true calling as a Bear Grylls themed childminder. Looks like Dan-aed
might be stuck with the shop. I hope the moths in the freezer trick worked!
Meanwhile Sean is trying to deal with the aftermath of the
mugging by making flippant remarks and pushing away anyone who tries to help
him. He brusquely refuses Craig’s offer of help and pretends he doesn’t know
Carol. It’s only as he frantically tries to wash the clothes he’s slept in and
hungrily devours a thrown-away pizza, that his dire circumstances dawn on him.
As the inquest ends Peter appears, apparently for no other reason than
to stalk Carla and be cruel to Toyah, the man is such a charmer. Away from Eva,
Adam confesses to him that he doesn’t know how he can compete with a dead man ‘He’s
only going to grow more perfect’, he muses.
‘Don’t waste your life wishing for something you can never
have’, Peter tells Adam. Hmm pot, kettle Mr Barlow, isn’t your current raison
d’etre to get an unwilling Carla to have dinner with you?
Back at Coronation Street, Tracy, Abi and Beth have their
glowsticks at the ready as they head off to an acid house party in Blackpool.
Abi appears to be dressed as Ian Brown and wastes no time in mocking Beth’s
choice of outfit. As acid house raves finished in roughly 1992 I’m wondering if
all of them might have got this very wrong and maybe need to remember that
they’re all pushing 40 and would probably feel a lot more comfortable in a nice
Boden shift dress.
Steve catches the girls and plays a guilt trip on Tracy
about her missing Amy’s (actually cancelled) violin concert. She’s so relieved
to be ‘let off’ that she agrees to him getting a County season ticket. 1 nil to
Steve. For now.
Back at the Rovers Eva is saying her goodbyes. She and Johnny
reconcile, both finally accepting that neither of them is to blame for Aidan’s
suicide. Eva tells him he will always be Susie’s Granddad and invites him to
come and visit whenever he likes. It’s all looking like a fairytale ending for
our pink princess until Adam tells her he needs to talk to her. He can’t live
with knowing that it’s Aidan that she really wants. She tells him she needs
him, but his mind is made up. When he says that she doesn’t love him as much as
she loved Aidan she can’t deny it. They part as friends but turns out that the
hardest goodbye is yet to come.
As Eva hugs her two sisters Toyah all but begs her and Susie
to stay, leading Eva to explain that her attachment to Susie is the main reason
she’s leaving. As Toyah hands Susie back and watches her and Eva get into the
taxi you can almost hear her heart breaking.
‘It’s just me and you now babes’ says Eva to her little girl
as they leave the Cobbles. Good luck
Eva. May your laugh echo around vineyards of France!
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