Stephen’s a DIRTY DOCK
In this week’s trip to Weatherfield, Carla tells Sarah that she can finish working on her designs in return for an apology. She also tells Stephen to resurrect the deal with Rufus and in return he’ll receive 15% commission and a permanent contract. But at Rufus’s hotel, Rufus makes it clear he’s not interested but Stephen begs him to reconsider.
Rufus then hands Stephen a vial of
LSD and heads to the bathroom where he snorts a line of coke — and, suddenly, Rufus collapses clutching his chest.
As the paramedics attend to him, Carla calls Stephen wondering if he’s sealed the deal and he assures her it’s in the bag.
As the paramedics wheel Rufus out, Stephen practises Rufus’s signature on the unsigned contract when he hears a knock at the door — when he answers a sex worker called Candice barges her way in and demands her money giving Stephen an idea.
Later, Carla calls a meeting with Sarah and Stephen and explains that Sarah is now Head of Design while Stephen will be Office Manager.
But, determined to have his revenge on Carla, Stephen slips into the Underworld office with the vial of LSD from Rufus’s briefcase and slips the LSD into Carla’s coffee.
As Carla heads onto the factory floor, clearly discombobulated and woozy, in the Rovers, Stephen takes his plans further and spikes Carla’s red wine with another vial of LSD.
Peter calls at the pub and immediately realises Carla isn’t well and alter as Carla stares at the factory girls, her paranoia growing by the second, she is helped out of the pub by Peter who is worried sick that her psychosis is returning.
Later, Stephen sneaks into Carla’s office, deletes a meeting with Dick Haversham from her diary and muddles up her paperwork to make her increasingly worried about her mental state.
Elsewhere on the cobbles, Dee-dee calls at No.6 hoping to persuade Alya to return to work, just asyasmeen admits that trade has been very slow and she’s had to turn the heating down in an effort to save money.
Later, whenyasmeen and Zeedan suggest to Alya that she needs to tackle her victim statement, she snaps at them to leave her alone.
Meanwhile, Marrium calls on Zeedan and tells him she can’t believe that he and Alya watched her dad die in front of them, with Zeedan begging her not to go to the police.
Later, Alya finds Marrium in the café and tells her that she’s as much to blame for her dad’s death as Zeedan.
Alya soon realises that Zeedan is sacrificing his relationship for her sake so she tells him that she doesn’t need protecting and returns to work in the restaurant.
Finally this week, David confides in Gail how worried he is about Max’s sentencing tomorrow while Gary has a go at Maria for defending David but Maria insists that it’s not his fault.
The next morning, David attends a meeting with Max and Kim, his barrister, and Kim tells them that Alya has failed to submit a personal victim statement and that could help Max’s case.
Meanwhile, David, Spider, Gary and Daryan watch as Max is led into court and the judge hands Max a six-month sentence.
Outside the courtroom, David hugs Max and assures him he’ll visit as often as he can, but Max asserts that he doesn’t want any visits.
In the secure training centre, a group of lads make it clear to Max they intend to make his life hell.
Also this week, Peter tells Kevin and Abi how he bet Carla he could trade up from an onion bhaji to a motorbike and the deadline is this evening. Abi hands Peter the contact details of a guy with a motorbike for sale and when Benn calls at No.1 with the motorbike, Peter can’t believe his luck.