Sounds like Erica is still ambivalent about her relationship with Dev. She has no compunction for letting Liz stay with her and putting Dev on the sofa. You can tell Erica's last nerve is being rubbed raw. Sounds like that "we need to talk" conversation Dev was trying to avoid is forthcoming.
Kevin has someone in line to buy the second garage under the viaduct. Dev seemed very interested. Let's not forget he's trying to sell off the gym premises. Turns out he's had an offer, too, from the same people and if he takes the offer, he's screwing over a mate. Moral dilemma. I don't think Kevin would think twice about undercutting Dev, do you? Erica thinks business is business. She's right but Dev still wants to be fair and let Kevin know what's going on. She's also right that Kevin just might not be fair if the shoe was on the other foot. And she doesn't want too much confrontation between the two men because her secret might get out.
But she's backing away from breaking off with Dev again. She's back and forth more than a fiddler's elbow, that one. He's proposed she can be the project manager when he starts to expand his empire which appeals to her but as Liz points out, it won't make a relationship great just because he's offered her a good job.
Kevin is unaware that his potential buyer is also courting Dev. But Tim has guessed that something went on between Kevin and Erica so Kevin confesses the whole ugly truth of the near-fling. I really like that Tim, while he's Kevin's BFF, is also loyal to Anna, and tells Kevin off for his disloyalty. It's all contrived so that Mary overhears, especially the bits where Kevin makes a point of saying it was Erica doing all the running, and goes running to Dev, which is where her loyalty lies. He sold the gym and thought his future was looking up until Mary told her what she overheard though she thought it was a full blown affair.
Dev went straight across and confronted Kevin. Even if he found out it was only a near miss, he still felt betrayed especially when Anna told him Erica did all the running. And even though that's true, Erica being the instigator, Kevin still has to bear some of the blame and I'm pleased that Dev isn't backing away from letting Kevin off the hook but he still feels a mug. He's had a shock and after what he went through with Sunita and Karl, it's going to hit even harder.
I guess Liz staying with Erica at Number 7 didn't last very long did it? Now she's back bunking at the flat *with* Erica since Dev threw her out. So if she's back in her bedroom with Erica, did Steve give his up for Leanne or have they installed bunk beds? Anyway, The twins overheard Erica and Liz and now they know Dev has kicked Erica out so they're taking matters into their own hands. They engineer a public disaster, throwing cold liquid at Mary but they got Liz instead.
Mary was honest with Erica and if Erica really does love Dev, she wouldn't have been chasing Kevin, would she? But Erica didn't like to be criticized. Truth hurts.
So much for controlled crying. Steve's idea but he hates to let the baby cry! They do share a laugh over a chuckling baby. Isn't he cute!? Liz noticed that Steve and Leanne get on quite well together and put a few not so subtle hints out there about them being a family. I'm not surprised Oliver is having trouble sleeping though it is likely not just moving house a few times. Leanne has been under a lot of stress since Nick left and he's probably picking up on that, too. In any case, that baby is still not sleeping through the night and now both Leanne *and* Steve are suffering for it.
Liz keeps on hinting that Steve and Leanne might make a good couple. But the more she drops hints, the more Steve seems to be picking them up. He's very impressionable is Steve. He's not a bad bloke, though. He's minding the baby while Leanne goes out for drinks with the girls. Her night didn't start off on the best foot but Eva got her all decked out and looking fine. It was a bit strange that Eva's dress fit her perfectly across the chest when Eva's chest is about 4 cup sizes bigger! She did look nice and Steve thought so, too and laid on the guilt to make her stay home with him. She did and then by the end of the evening, things were going so well, he proposed!
Nobody got hurt in the fire at the Bistro, and even the Bistro didn't get that badly damaged. Finally the police are called in and Robert also thinks his mugging is related but he can't prove Rich is behind it all. Later they discovered the flat was broken into. Michelle is a wreck and sooner or later she's going to blame Robert directly. It's pretty scary, three things like that in the course of a 24 hour period.
Rich has an alibi for the night of all the aggro at the Bistro and the flat. So if it wasn't him, did he hire someone? No proof yet. Later, Robert meets up with Adam and Chesney to negotiate a compensation settlement. Adam pushes for 10 grand but Robert goes for 5 and Chesney decides that's fine with him, he just wants it all over. It's clear Chesney's still nervous and on edge and that feeds Robert's guilt. But Robert doesn't even have five thousand. What's he going to do? Well, he lies to Michelle and says he's got a meeting when what he does is take money from the till and head to the casino where we see he's not having much luck. Naturally Michelle finds out and chases him there just as he's emptied his bank account in one last desperate measure. She shouts at him but he bets it all anyway.
That last gasp worked. Robert must have won because he handed over five thousand to Chesney with an apology. Blimey! Then Robert discovers that the bogeyman has struck again and the window in Michelle's car has been smashed. Anyway she's narked that he paid off Chesney even though she's the one that started it all when she gave him a bit of money. She thinks he paid Chesney off so people wouldn't go digging in his past. She's narked that he keeps her shut out of things and lies to her. She's really gone against him now hasn't she? He agrees in theory and then goes out to get her car fixed but doesn't tell her that it's been broken into. I see the Rebound cracks are appearing.
Michelle decided to drive to Leeds to visit a friend and luckily, Luke was able to get the car window fixed overnight. I thought Robert was going with her but he didn't. Instead, he got all macho and roughed up Rich down in the ginnel for threatening and upsetting Michelle and for the fact that poor Chesney is scared stiff. Rich keeps insisting he's not to blame for the various incidents. Michelle then caught Robert and Rich leaving the ginnel and realized there was still things he wasn't telling her and Robert even said he wonders that Rich might be telling the truth. You know, it might not be someone that has something against Robert, it might be someone that has something against Michelle! You never know! But either way, every time Robert promises to keep Michelle in the loop, and we all know he's still hiding things, things that she finds out within a matter of minutes and then shouts at him all over again, I roll my eyes and wonder why she keeps taking him back after ever lie she catches him telling.
Please make this storyline go away! I really hate it.
Craig has a meeting at the station later and he's doing everything he can to avoid it. He's pretty sure he's going to lose the job because of the illegal way he got the evidence against Neil. So when Dev is short handed, he trades with Sophie and cleans windows while she works in the shop for Dev for a few hours.
That's because Erica is starting work at the Bistro. Sophie scolds Dev because he's not even wished her good luck so he picks up a card and he and Mary plunk themselves down underfoot at the Bistro in support. Erica is not best pleased. Probably because she can't continue to flirt shamelessly with Zeedan which, franky, is creepy.
Back to Craig, Sophie, Gemma and Bethany are worried about him and none of them think it's fair that he might lose his job. Bethany feels particularly guilty but as Gemma points out, Craig is her mate and he was never going to back down because that's what you do for your mate. In the end, Craig got off with a warning! Brilliant!
Rita's worried that Mary and Norris marrying for a competition is only going to end in tears. Later she forgets that she has bought Gemma her bright and cheerful tea mug. Is that something we should worry about? Are they going somewhere with the memory issues? She *is* in her mid 80s after all, some memory loss is probably inevitable.
Alya and Luke are still circling around each other. Luke ends up having to make her dinner because it's his turn on a rota. Luke even made Alya's favourite, risotto. But Robert needs Michelle's car fixed and ends up paying through the nose for it. Alya will have to eat alone.
Amy and Summer didn't seem to get on too well. I think, though, they could end up being really good friends. Or Frenemies. We didn't see it, but Amy obviously ran her mouth off too far and got a smack for it. Billy is horrified, Todd is amused! Oh dear.
Billy's next attempt at distracting her is to help her build a robot. Summer didn't want to bother but when the lads got stuck in, she couldn't resist! But she's still got a long way to go to really feel like the three of them are family and that's nobody's fault. They just have to all get to know each other and help her deal with her grief.
Liz is struggling at the medical centre so Steve thought he could ask Peter to hire Liz part time. Peter did try but Liz wasn't having any of it. Favourite scene of the week: Liz smacking Steve for interfering. But then "Moo-ra" came in and told Liz to wear beige clothing. Sophie managed to get her share of that bonus money Gina got from the factory, which was most of it. So Chesney has his payoff but he's still nervous. He's not looking forward to the court case and Gemma's scare mongering doesn't help when he has to walk down the street alone. Adam is trying to get more information on the factory and wants Eva to remove the hard drive from the computer. I think he's forgetting who he's talking too.
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2 comments:
I must have missed something along the way, why isn't Rich in jail pending trial? Is he out on bail for this pretty violent crime?
Rich had an alibi for the night Michelle was kidnapped and before that, there was not enough evidence to charge him.
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