Stephen TRIPS UP!
Carla gets her revenge on Stephen in this week’s trip to the cobbles. As he gathers the shareholders on the workforce and, arguing Carla isn’t fit to take the reins yet, he declares they should hold a vote of no confidence. But little does he know, Faye has her phone out to tip off Carla and when Dick Havisham arrives at Underworld and belittles Stephen for being incompetent, Carla summons Stephen to the office and gives him a rollicking for trying to oust her from the business.
Later, Elaine tells Stephen the Redbank apartment is outside her budget but she’s thrilled when Stephen agrees to buy it together as flatmates.
Elaine’s excited but secretly wishes they were moving in together as a couple.
After, Stephen makes a surreptitious phone call, saying he needs an urgent meeting.
Meanwhile, as Carla prepares for the
Nippersnapper presentation, Stephen laces her tea with LSD.
Carla takes a sip but spits it out, complaining he’s used full fat milk and it dawns on him that he’s given her the wrong one, meaning he or Sarah have drunk LSD.
As they arrive at the hotel for the presentation and Stephen takes the stage, his vision becomes blurred and he starts to sweat profusely.
He realises in horror that he must have taken the LSD.
After he comes down, Stephen tells Elaine that he’d like to keep their engagement a secret for the time being and just enjoy the moment.
While Carla berates Stephen for pulling out of the presentation, leaving Sarah to carry the can, making it clear he’s to have nothing more to do with the American deal now.
Stephen seethes and heads to the precinct intent on buying more drugs.
However when two lads pocket his money and laugh in his face, Stephen sees red. What will he do?
Elsewhere on the street this week, when Dr Gaddas tells Paul his hand could take up to 12 weeks to heal, Gemma urges him to go after Carla for loss of earnings.
But, having realised Carla wasn’t insured to drive the van, Peter offers Paul £15k compensation but asks that in return he drops the case against Carla.
At first Paul accepts but on Dee-dee’s advice he returns the £15k, explaining he needs to wait until he’s had a full diagnosis.
Paul, meanwhile, is itching to get cracking back at the yard, but Ed asks him to take it easy for now.
And it seems to be the right decision as Paul’s mildly concerned when he struggles to tie his bootlaces.
Later, he decides to cut down some panels using his left hand. But seeing him narrowly avoid the saw’s spinning blade,
Ed brusquely orders him to go home.
Ed later regretfully tells Paul he can’t take him back on at the yard without the medical all-clear.
Later, Paul admits to Billy he was sent home from work and hasn’t felt right since the accident.
And when he informs Gemma he won’t be able to help her out with her gas bill, Billy and Dee-dee convince him to sue Carla for negligence.
Finally this week, the catering company advises Daisy they are sending some wedding cake samples for her approval.
At No.1, Daisy, Daniel, Ken, Jenny and Gemma assemble for the cake tasting.
But Daisy’s appalled when the samples are delivered by Justin.
Daniel contacts Justin’s delivery firm to report his stalking but they refuse to take action without proof. Meanwhile, Daniel admits to Ken he’s worried about Justin posing a risk to Bertie — and Ken promises they will help her through it.