Splish Splash

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Line of the Day:

• Karen to Steve "Plonker!" Steve to Karen "Slapper!" (cute grins at each other)
• Richard "I’m not a psycho, not mad, ambitious and unlucky that’s all". Uh right.
• Richard "If we can’t live together as a family, we’ll die together as a family" *shiver*
• Emily "Live, Gail. Don’t blame yourself. Look forward to every new day". Words to take to heart.
  

Holy Submarines, Batman! I don’t mind telling you my breath was caught in the back of my throat watching that van dive into the canal! Richard was completely over the edge, his face and eyes fully haunted. But having said that….

Sure sign of trouble, Gail walked out of the house without setting the alarm. By the way, does their door lock automatically? It must do (other than the dead bolt and why do up the dead bolt to the front door if you’ve taken everyone into the garage anyway? Or was that slipped in when Gail was trying to get out and scream at the windows?) Richard obviously had enough time to shave and shower between David coming home and Sarah arriving. He looked desperate when he arrived, calm, cool and totally deranged after. Now right then, when Richard stood up and Gail was still on the floor, that was a perfect time for a swift kick up between his legs and she also had time for a knee to the groin once she found out where the kids were. I suppose in a panic you don’t always think of it but you would suppose a mother scared for her children’s lives might do anything. (And what about Barney the bunny? I think we should be told. Well at least there wasn’t a pot of stew simmering on the stove so I guess he’s ok!)

One of the creepiest moments was when Richard slipped the rings back on Gail’s finger, straightened his tie and smoothed his hair. The nail scissors, in case you were wondering, I think were the ones Sarah found and said Martin had been using. Gail probably spied them when Richard put the letter down on the table or else she remembered putting them there herself. With a gag in your mouth like that, not completely covering your mouth but inside it, couldn’t you still open up and scream? He should have used the duct tape on their mouths as well as their hands. Norris didn’t waste any time spreading the gossip as usual and was his usual obnoxious self the whole show. Tommy managed to catch up pretty quickly which surprised me. Richard had enough time to turn around several corners and streets in that minute or two.

Martin was on the phone to the police so why did they show up on Coronation Street and why didn’t he stay on the phone to tell them every time they changed direction? I guess the windows in the car must still have been open for the car to fill up with water like that. They used a dummy for the baby but that was definitely a live person when Sarah had her on the surface of the water, I saw her face and hand move. Mind you that part was filmed in a safe environment with divers. There were interviews in the papers at the time saying that the baby had loads of fun and Helen Worth decided to learn to swim for the stunts. *That’s* dedication. The day after, I’m sure the story had to have been in the national papers as well as the local and Manchester ones. How come they weren’t inundated with reporters again?

It couldn’t have taken them long to go to the hospital, get checked out, get home, get ready for bed and the police to find Richard’s body. The pub was still open at the end of it.

Now… Norris. When he asked Gail at the beginning if she had heard from her husband she should have said yes, and he wants to meet you at the flats like last time. Jason’s dad seemed to realize that he better not use a new girlfriend as an excuse to forget how old his son was. I don’t trust him. Joe’s client, Chrissy, told Karen she was a pretty big girl to be wearing a dress like that. Her cups were runneth over as well. I wonder if her last name is Pot or Kettle. And why would the two women have squished so closely together on the one side of the table? Surely it was large enough for some elbow space? Vera was incredibly tacky comparing her situation over the money to the Platt’s to Sarah’s face! Looks like jail may have taken the bluster out of Aidan Critchley. Hopefully he’ll have learned a hard lesson and get his life in order. Ken knew Aidan was thanking him even without the words.

Mike knows what happened the last time one of his machinists wanted to better herself (Linda) and look where that ended up? He tried to warn Joe and Joe wouldn’t be told. Didn’t Mike refuse to let Karen be involved? So why did he end up letting her go on the dinner anyway when he saw them in the pub? It doesn’t look to me like Joe has Karen’s professional development in mind in all this.

Baby or no baby, everything keeps getting in Peter’s way when he tries to tell Shelly about Lucy. Now her sister has died (I think Shelly said perforated ulcer with massive internal bleeding so now we know). I think it’s a sign. Lucy needs to be kicked to the curb. Peter squirmed past the issue and let Lucy think he told Shelly everything then lied to her outright. It’s just as bad as his lying and cheating to Shelly. "Did you tell her?" "I said I would didn’t I?" Ah but saying you would and doing it are two different things. With Tracy gloating in the background and having full power over Peter, you just know this is going to blow up and when it does, it won’t be pretty.

This is "British Week" on CBC. Corrie is on Tuesday afternoon, then an hour Tuesday night continuing the story, Wednesday afternoon, an hour Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon. Next Sunday the omni starts at 6:30 a.m. Check your listings and set the vcr.