Maria is KISSED OFF!
There’s big surprises in this week’s trip to the cobbles as David seeks comfort in Maria. It all starts when, aware that Daniel works at the STC, David asks him if he can find out how Max is coping. Meanwhile, an STC officer, June, finds Max nursing facial injuries — and, in the Rovers, David takes a call from June informing him of the attack on Max.
Later, finding David drunk and alone in Victoria Garden, Maria’s sympathetic but when David leans in for a drunken kiss, Maria orders him to go home.
Deflated, he pays Alya a visit and
Shona enters the restaurant, assuring David that from now on they face everything together.
But when Maria tells Gary about David’s attempt to kiss her, Gary finds David and Shona in the Rovers and Shona’s mortified so hurries out.
As David defends himself, he tells Gary he was drunk and he deeply regrets it. He returns home with his tail between his legs where Shona tells him that she’s leaving him.
Elsewhere this week, Alya waves Zeedan off as he sets off for London.
Later, Alya comes face-to-face with Jayden, a client who’s accused of stabbing someone.
And before Adam and Dee-dee can stop her, Alya angrily describes exactly what it’s like to be stabbed.
Ryan listens as Alya unburdens herself and suggests she should put it all down in her personal victim statement.
Later, at No.6, Ryan pulls Alya in for a hug and it soon turns into a passionate kiss.
Meanwhile, over breakfast a downcast David admits to Gail that Shona’s left him while Daniel’s concerned to see Max’s bruises.
Maria assures Shona that David’s drunken pass meant nothing, but will it be enough to persuade Shona to give David another chance? Later in the day, Daniel asks Alya if she’d consider going to visit Max and when she agrees, Max explains to Alya how his life was a mess.
When Alya leaves, Max calls David and asks him if he will visit her tomorrow.
Over in the factory, Carla suggests she might return to work and when Peter calls at the factory to pick up some files for her and explains that she hopes to be back in a few days, Stephen puts a plan in motion.
He calls at Carla’s flat with the files and while her back is turned, spikes her glass of water with LSD.
Later, Carla starts to feel dizzy and disorientated so Peter tells Stephen he’s going to call the doctor.
Elsewhere, Stephen informs Elaine that he can now afford to repay her loan in full so Elaine eyes a new flat in Redbank.
But later on, Stephen is dismayed to find Carla fighting fit and almost ready to get back to work. He asks Sarah to convince Carla that her mental health is still too fragile for her to return to work, but will he get Sarah on side?
Finally this week, Spider visits Griff in prison and agrees to get his sentence reduced if he reveals where the funding came from.
Will he take the bait?
Meanwhile, Nina volunteers to assist Evelyn at the charity shop when a customer called Mo cannot afford the suit he needs for an interview.
Nina lends him £10 and wishes him well. And when Mo calls into the cafe to repay Nina her £10, Evelyn’s forced to eat her words.
Hearing that Mo needed the suit for an immigration interview, Daryan invites him to sit down and introduces Gary and Maria to Mo and excitedly announces that he was at the same processing centre as his brother, who successfully arrived in England after all.