Tina confides in Steph that she is having an affair with Peter and makes Steph promise not to tell anyone. The more people who know, the more chance the secret has of escaping someone's mouth.
Today is a very important day for Carla and strong and independent though she is, she is keen to have Peter with her as she goes for her scan. Peter has been a father for a while, but for Carla,this is her first pregnancy, a pregnancy that she wasn't sure she wanted, and certainly not one that she had planned. Since Carla's friendship and kindness towards Hayley, she has achieved a good degree of popularity, but in the factory, she shows her tough business-like self, so when it comes to Izzy having taken some of the charity money, money raised in Hayley's name and memory, how would we have expected Carla to behave?
Beth is very scathing towards Izzy, and blatantly calls her a thief- 'steals on wheels' which is really not on. Eva is surprisingly kind and Sean displays tolerance.
If Izzy had thought, before stealing the money, of asking her friends or even approaching Carla for a loan, she would not be feeling the shame and humiliation that she is now. Izzy, was in a panic, she needed it immediately. This is not to defend her, more to explain her actions and the belief that she would have been able to pay it back before anyone noticed. There are many worse crimes.
Carla asks Izzy to stay on which is a massive relief given the dire straits she and Gary and the whole family are in. As Anna points out, concerning Carla, 'It's not like she's never made a bad decision - she wakes up with one every morning.' As Anna says, if Hayley was still here she would understand.
Beth is off to Latvia tomorrow for her breast enhancement operation and seems to have done her homework on the geography of Latvia, much to Eva's amazement. Beth's family are set against her trip. Sinead tells Beth that she looked up to her when she was growing up, and is now disappointed because she believes that Beth is only having the operation because of the comments people made about her on the internet when she was in the paper after foiling the handbag thief. Craig is upset, naturally enough. His mum is having an operation and things do go wrong. Kirk is more than happy with her as she is, so it seems that she has got it into her head that she must do this. 'No one is going to put me down - no one.' Does anyone else get the feeling that things won't work out somehow? Off she goes in the taxi saying, 'Latvia or bust - Latvia and bust!'
Michelle pops into the factory to wish Carla good luck with her scan. Michelle is sweet to her friend, telling her that though she is 39 she is in a better state of health than most women half her age. I would like to bet that Steve would be delighted to be treated so nicely by Michelle.
In the morning, before the scan at 5.30pm, Peter cannot eat his breakfast. He seems very down and unable to rest. As soon as Carla leaves for the factory he is out the door and the first person he meets is Tina. She insists on going with him, and they end up in a hotel bar. Tina goes to the toilet and Rob appears asking Peter questions, knowing he's lying and threatening him if Peter hurts Carla. On edge, as any minute Tina could reappear, Peter is saved because Rob has to leave. Rob tells Peter that he must be here for 'drink or skirt' and it seems unlikely that Rob and Peter will ever bury the hatchet unless it is in each other's heads.
Clearly rehab has not had much of an impact on Peter. He goes to a pub, gets drunk, disappoints Carl goes home and gets a beating from her. Carla is no Kirstie, but she is so angry that she loses control. She flings the scan photograph at him so that he can see their 'beautiful baby. ' Peter falls to the floor in a drunken, crumpled heap and sobs.
Maria has to put up with some insults from Todd. She is in the pub with Luke, who seems like good company. Maria though, is distracted as Luke tells her he is actually David Beckham. She does not react because she cannot take her eyes off Todd and Marcus. Maria and Todd arrive at the bar together, and after a bit of a set-to as to who should be served first, predictably an argument breaks out. Maria tells him no one wants him, he very annoyingly corrects her grammar, then tells her that he doesn't know why she doesn't wear a bin liner as she's been dumped so many times. Witty, but cruel. He tells her that she is 'a clapped out crimper' too but just at that moment Tyrone comes in and punches Todd. On Maria's face we can just detect the shadow of a smile. She is pleased that Tyrone acted the way he did.
And so to Tony who is buying Owen's yard for peanuts. Tony sees a clarinet in the window of Barlow's Buys, but says he won't be buying as his Acker Bilk days are over. Rob and Tony chorus 'who' - too young to know. (Sadly some of us aren't).
Roy and Anna continue to deepen their friendship. Roy is a font of wisdom, as was Hayley and he says to Anna, 'the longer you carry it, the heavier the burden will become.' He is talking of course about Anna not telling Owen the truth about having slept with Phelan. But now is not the right time with Owen experiencing a crisis of confidence at being unable got support his family.
The secret will come out - it's just a matter of when. Tina's affair with Peter will come out and that is getting nearer...
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