Paul and Eileen are bickering. Mandy and Lloyd are bickering. Sophie and Jenna are bickering. Everyone's falling out with everyone else. It's nice that Steve seems to be staying neutral and being supportive. But oh looky, Paul brought beer as a peace offering and finally apologized. For everything including what he said and not being pig headed enough to apologize at the start.
I'm tired of this storyline. I really am. I want it to go away.
Leanne feels like a hypocrite if she agrees to be one of Stella's bridesmaids. I can't blame her. I would find it difficult to play happy when I couldn't stand my mother's fiance. Eva has plenty to say and David carried it straight back to Leanne who attacked Eva in the factory. The factory. We haven't see her hair ornaments in there in months. Where was she hiding? Anyway, Peter escorted her out and back to the Bistro and Nick has automatically assumed all this sabotage is at the hand of Peter. I suppose he's as good a target as anyone. Except the obvious one.
Nick called the cops about the 50 quid gone missing but there's no proof it was stolen. Because Leanne didnt' know he was doing it, she laid into him and it's caused more argument. Stella thinks Nick is just wound up and worried about his wife and Simon. Why on earth would he be? There's been absolutely no reason. That's just Stella out of touch with the reality around her. Or bad writing.
David is the last person Nick should be offloading to. We know that but Nick doesn't. David is so good at making these remarks that seem innocent but plant nasty seeds. You did notice that David handed Gail over 50 pounds and Nick was missing 50. Do the math! Gail will feel all out of kilter roasting a chicken midweek instead of Sunday but a big roast pork isn't like a Sunday dinner? David's got another backfire on his hands so he's gone and written an anonymous note to Leanne, upping the game.
Why doesn't Leanne suspect someone's out to get them with all that's been going on? Why is Nick the only one that's suspicious? Why doesn't someone trace all these suspicions back to David? Eva didn't realize that she sounded off in front of David and next thing, Leanne has found out. David's giving conflicting advice to different people. He was successful in getting Nick shopped for the watered down booze but it didn't have a lasting effect on Nick and Leanne together.
David has stepped up the game and sent Leanne a lovely, fancy font centered anonymous note implying Nick was up to no good on Christmas night. Is it a dirty trick like Nick has been saying or is it true? Leanne knows she hurt him on their wedding day so it *could* be true. David makes sure to push a few buttons before she confronts him. Nick's face when he saw the note? If that wasn't guilt, I don't know what it was. He denied, denied, denied but he looked so guilty that she knows damned well it's the truth but he's resisting admitting it. The pressure is mounting. Leanne reckons Eva could have written the note. Is she going to think Eva was the one he was with? Well yes of course. Meanwhile David keeps showing up, coincidentally. Well maybe not. But nobody picks up on it. The letter may be the straw that makes the whole house of cards come down. So to speak. Who was at the wedding? Who could make that sort of assumption about Nick? Even so, Nick and Leanne seem to have joined forces again and Leanne deduced that it *has* to be someone they know, someone obvious. FINALLY, FINALLY Nick figured it out.
Nick now has to figure out if his suspicions about David are correct and lured David out in the van to pick up some stuff. He spied Tina and David having a serious conversation and grilled her. Why on earth she spilled David's secret to Nick, I don't know. Supposedly she's just worried but he won't thank her for it. Nick got his suspicions confirmed and confronted David in the van, first by edging around the subject then finally, with a direct hit but David made him spell it out and boy did it hurt David a lot more than he thought it would, didn't it?
Rob is already taking calls from someone that wants to offload some cheap stock. There's awkward words between Carla and Rob and Tracy across the bar but Rob won't let it be and fires another shot across the bow. He's also ticking off Peter by throwing construction gear around first thing in the morning and waking him up! And as much as Peter and Carla say they want nothing to do with Rob and Tracy, they can't seem to keep away, nosing in to see how things are shaping up.
Tracy spends more time whining about Peter. He's the golden boy and she's the screw up, to hear her whinge. Meanwhile with Rob, it's all about him, when you really listen to him talk and who's the first customer? Peter. Taking great glee in winding them up.
Deirdre doesn't trust Rob not to be dealing in stolen goods but Rob is intent on keeping his nose clean. For once in his life. The problem is, he doesn't have mates that are so clean and you'd think he would know which ones he can trust. Tracy ended up taking on a load of stolen smartphones from "Fat Lenny" who said he was Rob's supplier for the rest of the gear (but he lied) and it happened to be on the very day his probation officer was visiting. I still wonder why the site visit though maybe that's something they do randomly.
Nice touch with Rob pointing out his friend killed someone... to Tracy the murderer who screamed back that people make mistakes! She might have been defending Lenny on the surface but i think it hit home. Thus, Tracy had to scramble to rid the shop of the gear before the parole officer could inspect the premises while Rob kept her away, lied and flirted with her to kill some time.
Gary can't handle a crying baby. It's only day one. He's taking it personally that he can't figure out what's wrong. And when he tries to jump in and do things, Izzy thinks it's because he doesn't think she can cope when he only wants a turn. The baby is picking up on Gary's nervousness and all the change from being out of a nice, safe incubator.
Day two and the baby won't feed when Gary holds the bottle. Gary feels useless and inadequate. So ...what? Now he's decided he won't be a dad after all because he's no good at it? After 2 days? Talk about a perfectionist. He's got to go back to work though I still think Owen wouldn't mind if he took a bit more time off but i suppose financial needs must. And Owen makes him work the weekend which is kind of mean. Izzy came up with a good solution. Have both of them work part time so Gary gets more comfortable looking after the baby too.
Roy is still fussing and trying not to cling to Hayley but she's finding it hard dealing with everyone else's pity. I am glad they've kept the continuity with Roy's sleepwalking. I think Hayley should lock the bedroom door! Or re-sew the bells on his jammies. Everyone's encouraging Roy and Hayley to go on a little holiday in Mary's mobile home and with her operation in four weeks, it would do them both good. That's leaving the door open for Jenna to work in the cafe and further annoy Mandy.
Jenna and Mandy are arguing about Sophie and Lloyd is on Sophie's side, another wedge between them. I agree with Mandy that it was an impulsive, immature move. It does sound like Jenna and Sophie have made up though are on rocky ground. I guess Sophie has a lot of sucking up to do! And they did make up in the end. Just in time for Jenna to get a new job and just in time for Mandy to go off on yet another one at her. It's too bad what they've done to Mandy. I used to like her. And she's allowed to be disappointed that Jenna lost her hard earned career and is working in low paying jobs but it's Jenna's choice. Mandy needs to express her opinion ONCE and suck it up the rest of the time. She had so much potential and now she's just a moody cow.
Mary and Sylvia's exchange about touring cathedrals was amusing. I like how they're changing Mary back into a nice but quirky person after that sojourn into madness there for a couple of years. Stella and Karl are going away yet again. They seem to have a lot of holidays which I don't mind because the less I see of them the better. I would assume that when they come back, things will ramp up in the weeks before the wedding. It's about time Karl's freedom was curtailed.
So much for coming home off holiday all relaxed. Tina didn't expect to see Jake home in Izzy's arms. Had to happen sooner or later. Gary wants to work part time so he can help be with the baby but Owen won't hear of it. Craig's back and kicking buckets, of water, all over Norris! Got revenge for Norris making him clean it up by nicking the plastic paperboy. Good on him! It's wrong of him but it was funny, them all taking the mick out of Norris.
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