Blackmailed into sex!
AS HE THREATENS TO REVEAL HER DIFFICULT PAST, TRACY IS A DESPERATE WOMAN…
Tracy is in for a horrible shock this week, when Phil threatens to reveal that she once worked as a prostitute!
Tracy is distraught as the penny drops that handyman Phil was once a client of hers. But after he goes on to share the fact that he’s in possession of a video of the two of them – which he’ll show to her husband David unless she hands over cash – she’s beside herself…
“It’s harrowing for Tracy
– she feels violated,” sighs Amy Walsh, who plays her. “She’s always been waiting for the rug to be pulled from beneath her because of her past. Naturally she didn’t want anyone knowing that she was once a prostitute, so as Phil plays her the footage on his phone, it’s just horrible. She’s terrified that she’s about to lose everything.”
When we first met Tracy, she was working for a sex line, attempting to dupe dopey customer Sam Dingle. But Phil’s appearance reveals another part of her chequered past, something she’d hoped to keep buried forever.
“Before Phil shows her the video, she just thinks he’s a bit weird,” explains Amy. “There’ve been moments where they’ve had a laugh or whatever, and she wonders if maybe she’s got him wrong. It never entered her brain that he could have been a client, though – not until he tells her.”
The idea of David watching the video leaves Tracy cold.
But with Phil demanding money she just doesn’t have, she’s forced to consider stealing it from her own dad, Frank.
“While Tracy is so vulnerable in that moment, her streetwise mentality starts to come back,” Amy tells us. “It’s been buried while she’s been in the comfort of the village, but her fighter instinct is kicking in again, and she’ll do whatever she has to do not to lose everything.
“Tracy is desperate, so she steals money from a safe at the shop,” continues the star. “Frank has been saving the cash to buy a necklace for Megan. But as Tracy goes to hand it over to Phil, her conscience pricks at her.”
Tracy is so vulnerable – but then her fighter instinct kicks in again”
The situation takes an even more unsavoury turn, however, when Phil suggests an alternative form of payment – implying that Tracy will have to sleep with him again.
“Her initial reaction is disgust,” reveals Amy. “But he’s saying, ‘It’s not like you haven’t been paid for it before’. That makes her feel so small and desperate. He drives off and she’s left in the street, crying her eyes out. What can she do, though? It’s either that, or she’ll lose everything.”
With no options left, Tracy meets Phil at a hotel. But there’s another dreadful shock to come when David turns up!
“David is suspicious because Tracy’s been acting so strangely, so he follows her,” shares Amy. “Even though she’s disgusted by Phil, she’s been forced to go along with his demands – and the two of them are on the bed together as David opens the door and walks in…”
Can Tracy’s husband save her from the slimy clutches of Phil – or will his appearance make her horrific predicament a hundred times worse?