Sunday Comments, March 2

Lines of the week:

• Carla about Paul regarding Leanne "I think he's scared you're going to lead me astray"
  
• Leanne to Paul "You've got a beautiful wife and an agency on speed dial"
  
• Leanne "I wasn't stood on street corners wearing bright red shoes!"
  
• Paul, after being caught out being a regular escort service user "what can I say? I'm Sorry!"
  
• Carla to Janice "If you do see him (Paul), tell him to drop dead" (um.)
  
• Carla to Michelle "You're sleepin with the boss!" Michelle "that doesn't make any difference"
  

Paul is right. Carla and Leanne know nothing about running a restaurant. And Leanne is even less of a business woman than Carla who at least has half a chance. Forget the hooker side of things. Now that they've signed a contract, what happens if Leanne doesn't make the full investment amount? We didn't find out how much she needed to make up the difference. Surely she has some money? She was going to buy Jamie's house! Uh oh, one of Leanne's clients has rumbled her to Carla, thinking Carla was a hooker too! Something tells me Carla won't be long in exposing Leanne to everyone and everything and tearing up the contract to the restaurant. She didn't believe Leanne when she said she didn't know the guy. Now she's set her up for a spectacular fall and the cat is out of the bag and the business deal is off. Carla even figured out that Paul knew Leanne's secret life, and she figured out how he knew and she was determined to prove it. Which she does and then doesn't believe that Paul didn't actually have sex with Leanne. Well, would you? Besides, she had other credit card bills with other charges for "secretarial skills" and even though he didn't have sex with Leanne, he did with others. He was a regular customer!

Rob James-Collier is sure cute but he's lousy at trying to act drunk. Liam, however, uttered a classic SOPOD, admitting the search (for Ms. Right) is over. i.e. he's found her, and she's Leanne. Meanwhile, Paul admits he's been seeing escorts for 3 years and Carla throws him out for good. He doesn't take that well (but he doesn't get any sympathy from me) and he flips out completely. I wondered why he thought it was so important to answer his mobile when it was out of reach. He was on his way to take Leanne to Liam to expose her. Uh oh, through a red light and onto the front of a lorry! And this, boys and girls, is why you should never use your mobile while driving and why you should always wear your seatbelt! At least Leanne seems relatively unharmed but Paul is another matter altogether. Just as Paul is rushed into surgery, Carla lets the cat out of the bag to everyone. And isn't it a bit of karma, Paul was the one that was drinking and driving the night Dean was killed and now he's driving drunk again and smashed himself up.

Fiz was away? or just waiting for John to call since the last time they saw each other. Liam's middle name is Barrington? We have a street in Halifax called Barrington! Must be a family name. Violet is all over the map with this new guy. He's going to think she's playing games and she should be careful. But who does she call when she's scared on the street? Turns out Vi just wants to have a baby even though she's already been told it's not likely she'd find it easy to get pregnant after her miscarraige over New Year's.

Oh the Platts are back. Did you miss them? Me either. Betty put in an appearance, though and she always lights up the place! David isn't concerned with his exams. I'm not concerned about David. Sarah wants Jason to move in. David doesn't. Does anyone care? Ken is lurking around the street but still staying with Denise. He said he wasn't walking away from any of his families. So what is he doing kipping on Denise's sofa? You mean to tell me that Liam could see Paul's crashed car clearly enough to read the license plate when he got out of his own car and couldn't tell there'd been an accident before that while sitting in the car? Paul's car was flat across the road, should have been able to see it from the car even a little way back.

Violet has a nice looking fellow interested. Let's hope she manages not to scare him off. Kirk doesn't want to lose face in front of Fiz so lied about all the job offers. In return, she got him the job at the butcher shop while Ashley and Claire are away for a few days. How does that work? Doesn't a butcher have to know how to cut meat as well as sell it? Maybe Ashley will precut it all for Kirk. While the Peacocks are away, the neighbours will play, or paint as it happens. The urban equivalent of raising the barn?

Pretty clear from what Becky said that the gossips are burning up the wires about Claire and the fire. You wouldn't think that a beer delivery guy would get invited to the Licensed Victuallers' Association do, would you? Or able to finagle a ticket. He must have pull. Or he must have pulled someone (else). Seems odd that it's on a Sunday afternoon rather than a Saturday night, though. Apparently, the wronged wife is not only being cheated on but she's a glutton for punishment. She told Liz that Derek had been fooling around most of their marraige. And what are the odds that Derek's wife would seek out Liz, virtually a stranger, to cry on her shoulder about her wayward husband when she'd already said she was used to him straying. Very contrived if you ask me.