Scot’s not clowning around
CRAIG is worried when Ray asks Faye to act as hostess while he entertains some investors with a poker game, but it turns out she’s in more danger than the copper imagined when Scott turns up to rob the bistro at gunpoint.
The thief had intended to make Johnny his accomplice, but after the landlord suffers a severe MS attack and collapses, Scott knocks him unconscious and carries out the crime himself.
Johnny recovers enough to report the robbery to the police, and when Craig hears the call, he decides not to wait for backup and rushes to Faye’s rescue.
A masked Scott orders Ray and a pal to hand over cash at the bistro while threatening to shoot Faye. The gun goes off and Craig – PC Tinker – slumps to the floor.
In the wake of the incident, Johnny comes clean to Jenny about his criminal past and prepares to repeat his confession to the police – but Scott has other ideas...
Elsewhere, Steve and Leanne are hopeful when they think
Oliver is reacting to sounds, although the doctor doesn’t share their optimism. Alya considers selling Yasmeen’s house to pay
her grandmother’s legal fees, only to find that Geoff has run up debts in his wife’s name and also owns half the property.