Can Sunita and Karl continue to fight their feelings?
Stella's helping Emily, Rita and Gordon at Betty's house but with the pub now heaving Sunita's struggling and Karl steps into help. Returning from Betty's, Stella lays into Karl for ignoring her orders not to go near the till. Karl later confides in Sunita but they manage to fight their feelings. Having heard all the stories about Terry, Owen wants part payment for his work on the bar up front. Terry's forced to agree but it's clear money is tight. Tommy, meanwhile, is planning a round the world trip with Tina but when Terry hears about Tommy's inheritance he has an idea. Arriving at the flat he puts on a show of contrition and Tommy seems convinced. As Stella, Emily and Rita help Gordon sort through Betty's belongings they find a letter from Annie Walker, bequeathing the Rovers to Betty in 1984, before her son Billy took over insisting Annie wanted him to run the pub. Stella panics, does this mean her purchase of the pub was invalid? She begs Rita and Emily not to tell Gordon. Also, Carla struggles to manage Sally's expectations at the factory but knows she needs to keep her onside if she's going to invest.
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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.
An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.