Coronation Street

While Steve seeks an opinion from Doctor Gaddas, armed with her previous suspicions, the GP has no option but to report Ali for his mistake.  Maria makes herself unpopular with Gary for standing up for her ex-boyfriend and Adam cannot resist winding him up further when he witnesses her comforting him.  Gary then spots Ali kissing Maria who immediately admits what happened but confirms that it’s Gary she wants to be with.  Fuelled with anger, Ali employs one of his cronies to dig up some dirt on Ali, determined to remove him from Maria’s life for good.  He then pledges his commitment to Maria.  For his part, Ali sincerely apologises to Emma and Steve, although the latter is less forgiving than the former, who is quite possibly the kindest person on the Street.

Gary discovers Ali’s drug addiction and tracks down the pharmacist, holding him hostage and interrogating him about Ali.  He then threatens Ali but when Ali dismisses the threaten, Ryan feels obliged to warn him over how dangerous Gary truly is.  Ignoring him, Ali confronts Gary himself but Gary clearly has the upper hand.  Ali has now also put Ryan back in danger for rolling over on him.  Gary threatens Ryan and reinstates his debt.

Shona finally accepts that her wedding to Shona will not be going ahead.  Nick intervenes and attempts to speak to Josh in hospital but is caught out by Billy.  He persuades him to talk to Josh on David’s behalf but it doesn’t work.  When Paul works out exactly what the situation is, he decides to intervene, threatening to use his power in the prison (I’d forgotten that he was once David’s cellmate) to make Josh’s life hell unless he retracts his statement against David.  Josh agrees and David is released and he and Shona finally walk down the aisle.

Yasmeen finds Geoff on a dating site but when she asks him about it, Geoff makes her feel paranoid and jealous, claiming he was only on there for research for a radio show.  He goes even further than that, accusing her of controlling him.  He then reveals that he had booked them a holiday but refuses to go with her – what is the point if she thinks so little of him?

Brian and Sally are not impressed when Kevin and Abi go out drinking the night before one of her exams.  Typically, Abi is extremely hungover for her exam but Sally saves the day.  Unfortunately, when Sally suggests that Abi is interested in Kevin’s money, the friends fall out spectacularly, with Abi pouring a bowl of spaghetti bolognaise over Sally’s head.  And yet still, the pair of them are able to make friends again.  This is true love!

Robert is alarmed when Tyler comes to The Street to see Amy, as the pair of them have been back in touch.  When he cannot persuade him to back off, Robert calls Steve, who confiscates Amy’s phone, blocking all contact with Tyler.  Amy rants to Carla about Robert.

While Beth charges ahead with the funeral plans, Ken desperately tries to persuade stubborn Daniel to return home but his son refuses to attend the funeral at all.

Doctors

Zara arrives back from her trip with Adam full of joy.  She even has presents for her colleagues and joyfully introduces him to them.  Daniel seems to have some kind of breakdown upon meeting him, hit with the revelation that he is still desperately in love with Zara and should never have let her go.  He is unable to cope with anything all day and things come to a head that evening when he is forced to end things with poor Becky, who quite frankly should never have got involved with him in the first place.  But she ignored Karen’s advice and believed everything he told her.  He tells her that he still loves Zara and even admits that they slept together a couple of weeks ago!  Becky is devastated and furious and walks out on him.

For a moment, it looks like he is about to run after her but instead, he runs all the way to Zara’s house and in a Notting Hill ‘I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy’ moment, begs her to take him back.  She doesn’t.  Ha!  She tells him that it’s not love, it’s jealousy because she has moved on and met someone else.  All she wants from him is friendship and to be good parents.  Excellent!  I mean, they will so obviously get back together at some point but I am very pleased that she isn’t making it easy.  Although, I think this Adam guy is a bit weird.  Either that or he’s a bad actor.

The next day, Becky hands in her notice at The Mill.  The staff are sad to see her go and throw her an impromptu goodbye party in the staff room where she says a personal goodbye to everyone – before giving Daniel and Zara a dressing down!

Jimmi is attacked in a car park.  At first it looks like a mugging but on deeper inspection, it seems like it’s personal.  The first thing Jimmi does is offer up his possessions but the guy deliberately beats him up and his wallet shows up later with everything still intact.  Jimmi gets the upper hand and attacks the guy right back and later confides in Al that he is worried about the dark place he went to during the attack.  Eventually, he and Al manage a successful relaunch of The Icon.

Ruhma acts as a midwife to a woman in labour while taking part in a radio quiz – and she wins!  Al reports two thieves when they try to sell him a comic.  Valerie prevents an elderly woman from being scammed.

Heston’s Memorial Bench in stolen and Ruhma turns Detective to hunt it down and bring it back herself when the police (not even Rob) are particularly interested in helping her – and Sid fails to notice it in the thief’s house twice, not even when he sits on it!  Utterly useless!

Eastenders

Mel shows off on Louise’s birthday by buying her a car (I mean, why bother if they’re going to Portugal soon?) but Louise’s favourite present is a piece of jewellery from Lisa.  They go for some drinks at The Vic and Mel’s nose is put right out of joint when Louise thanks her boyfriend, her mother and her second mother – Sharon – and not Mel.  Meanwhile, Mel spells it out to Keanu that she knows the truth about him and Sharon and she is only including him in the move to Portugal because she has to.  However, when Lisa finds a scan picture of Louise’s baby in Mel’s box of memories of Hunter, she confronts her friend, feeling sure that she is taking things too far and wants to replace Hunter with Louise – cue Mel turning on her oldest friend, publicly questioning her sanity and throwing in a slap for a good measure.  And for once, it’s not Lisa who is in the wrong.  It’s Mel who is on a crazy mission of grief and revenge and awfulness.

Things get heated between Ian and Keegan over the sandwich business and when Ian insults his family, Keegan punches him.  While everyone fully supports Keegan, Ian calls the police and the poor lad faces charges of ABH.  I mean, it’s worth it for the scene where Max and Habiba put tampons up Ian’s nose but I do feel sorry for Keegan.  He has been seriously victimised by Ian who is just behaving like a bully – and at the same time wants to stand for the Council!  Concerned that Keegan will be jailed, he and Tiffany decide to get married right away.  While she and Keegan run off to Scotland to get hitched (supported by Keanu and Bernie), grumpy Louise gives the game away and sends their family after them.  Meanwhile Iqra gets to the bottom of the cockroach sandwich saga and forces Ian to withdraw his complaint to the police.  Keegan is off the hook.  However, the families charge up after the kids and beg them to change their minds but Keegan and Tiffany are determined and eventually, after a bit of faffing about, the couple get married.  Hurrah.  I mean, they’ll have probably split up by this time next year but for now, hurrah.

Billy, Lola and Ben stage an intervention regarding Terry’s funeral and manage to persuade him to get his feelings out of his system before it goes ahead and the storyline pretty much fizzles out into nothing.

Pam returns to Albert Square, pleased with how Jay handled such a big funeral and eager to catch up with Ben.  However, Ben panics over Pam finding out that he is in a new, serious relationship and rejects Callum, pretending that they are just friends.  When Pam does click, she kindly confronts Ben, making it clear that she wants him to be happy and so does Les and so, of course, would Paul.  She reunites him and Callum before she leaves and the pair make yet another go of things.  However, a spanner is immediately thrown into the works when Callum decides he wants to join the police force!  Brilliant!

Shirley is horrified to find Linda knowingly having drinks with a group of women from school, one of whom is the woman that Shirley punched because she was rude about Ollie’s autism.

Emmerdale

Jai cannot forgive Laurel for her accusations about the weed.  Overhearing their conversation, Nicola realises that Doug’s brownies are responsible for what happened to Jimmy and ruined her interview.  Confronting him and Rodney in The Woolpack, everyone is upset, including Harriet on behalf of Will who was accused of being the culprit.  Doug attempts to get Jai and Laurel back together but Arthur has already not passed on a message and deleted a text, preventing them from speaking.  However, they do manage to start reconnecting in the end.

Aaron and Liv discover that Robert has been moved to the Isle of Wight and he has blocked all contact with all of his loved ones.  Aaron takes his aggression out on Luke, who Victoria has been tentatively spending time with, assaulting him in the pub.  He tells Liv that his marriage is over.  Robert petitions for a divorce.  Victoria ends up offering support to Lee’s mother as she prepares to face burying her son and forces Aaron to be kind to her too.  At this point, Victoria is pretty much a saint.

Moira and Cain have a heart to heart where she tries and fails to explain why she had an affair with Nate.  The truth is, she just wanted to.  She begs him for another chance but he cannot forgive her.  She refuses to move out and he promises to make life hell for her.   So, that heart to heart was over pretty quickly.  Nate, meanwhile, tries to explain to Belle why he had plotted his revenge on Cain for abandoning him.  When Cain sees them together, he punches him.  Moira is hurt when she discovers that Cain and Kerry have got drunk and slept together.  It’s not long before the word spreads of their one night stand.  When Amy is rude to Moira about her behaviour, Moira informs her about Cain and Kerry’s night together.  Cain and Aaron bury their pain by stealing cars.

Mandy gets caught out signing the wrong name with the solicitor to get Lydia’s money to its rightful owner.  When Lydia and Sam beg Mandy to get to the bottom of where the money came from, Vinnie cracks and admits that the solicitor knows his mother is a fraud and wants nothing more to do with them.  Sam forces Mandy and Vinnie to get to the bottom of who gave Lydia the money.  Mandy engages Vinnie, Lydia and Sam in a scam to get into the solicitor’s office to find out the identity of Lydia’s benefactor.  They discover that it’s Lydia’s mother who has given her the money but Lydia decides that her mother, who gave her up as a baby, isn’t someone she wants to get in touch with.  Mandy then discovers that Lydia’s mother also wanted her address passed on, changing Lydia’s mind.  Unfortunately, it’s too late.  Lydia’s mother has died.  But she meets her sister instead.

Charity persuades Jai to sell her Megan’s old house.  She uses her money from the heist for the deposit and almost manages to complete the transaction without telling Vanessa, wanting it to be a surprise, putting down roots and buying the house connected to Frank.  Vanessa is concerned at first, especially as she is unsure over where Charity got the money but her girlfriend is quick to reassure her.  However, later, she walks in on Vinnie in the house, mistaking him for a burglar where he spills the beans immediately, pointing out that Charity has essentially stolen Lydia’s inheritance from the mother who abandoned her.

Hollyoaks

The whole wake are stunned to learn of Mercedes confession regarding the hit and run, her threat to Harry and that he had been framed for what happened to Grace.  Concluding that she murdered Harry, Mercedes is confronted by all the villages and desperately tries to defend herself.

Upstairs, she begs forgiveness of Sylver, insisting that the hit and run had been a drug fuelled accident and lying that there was no affair with Liam.  He hides Mercedes from the police, preparing to go on the run with her and Bobby.  Horrified, Goldie and Breda try to convince him to change his mind, although Goldie is in turmoil over her own believe that it was actually Breda that killed Harry and not Mercedes.  Breda however, feels justified now that Mercedes should be in the frame after all.

Diane calls the police but James is furious that they have lost Mercedes.  The banter between him and the Detective is quite amusing as they are actually married in real life.  Everyone is busy gossiping and there is a good ‘body under the patio’ joke from Marnie on what is the anniversary of Brookside’s final episode.

Jesse finds Liam, challenging him over Grace’s accident and his affair with Mercedes.  Liam tries to explain his love for Mercedes and Jesse forces him to realise that Mercedes was only ever using him.

Mercedes is talking to Brooke by the caravan when Sylver comes to meet her in order to leave.  It’s all going fine until Brooke lets slip about Mercedes’ abortion.  Everything suddenly becomes clear about Mercedes’ affair with Liam.  Sylver loses the plot and cannot be reasoned with.  Mercedes runs to Nana but even she cannot help her.  Wow.  She really is in trouble!

When the mourners decide to get on with the wake, Mercedes decides she is not having any of it.  She bursts into the pub and gives everyone an incredible dressing down, telling them that she would rather be dead and buried than spend any more time with them.  Upon leaving, she bumps into Liam and tries to hook up with them.  When he turns them down, they argue.  He tells her that all her husbands die because she kills their souls!  She retorts by informing him that she aborted his child, although backtracks by insisting that it was more likely to be Sylver’s child, as he is more of a man than Liam is.

Goldie is upset to learn that Joel shared a moment with Cleo before she left and that he knew about the confession on the phone for a few weeks.  To be fair, he was beaten up and threatened in order to keep him quiet!

Grace comforts distraught Sylver and they end up kissing.  Obviously.  But it only makes Sylver feel guilty, winding him up even more.  He throws Grace out.  She goes home to find Liam distraught over the baby he might have lost.  They are both intent on revenge.

Marnie drugs James in order to calm him down over Harry and his revenge plan against Mercedes, alarming Juliet.

Mercedes goes to The Loft, steals cash and drugs from the safe.  She also picks up a gun, does her makeup and dances alone, unaware that her enemies – Liam, Sylver, Joel, Breda, James, Grace and Diane are literally gunning for her.  In the middle of the dance floor, Mercedes is shot.

The next morning, there are lots of people seeming to have a guilty conscience.  James makes it clear to Marnie that he knows she drugged him (and I suspect that means she wasn’t successful!)  While Goldie tries to galvanise her family, Nana tries to take the blame for sending Mercedes away but Sylver comments that he has ensured that his wife will never return and feels terribly guilty about it.  Bobby cannot understand why his mother has left without saying goodbye.  Desperately concerned, Nana insists that they need to look for Mercedes.  Letting herself into the club, Goldie is horrified to find Mercedes barely alive on the dancefloor.  Sylver and the rest of the family are distraught and rush to the hospital with her where she put into an induced coma, at risk of sepsis.  Sylver is horrified when Goldie suggests he may be the shooter.  What he is really torn up with guilt over is that in his despair over Mercedes betrayal, he slept with Grace.  Well, I for one really hope that Sylver isn’t the shooter.  I really like him!  The police question Liam when they find that the CCTV has been wiped.  At home, Liam and Grace debate whether either of them shot Mercedes but while Grace does have an alibi in Sylver, we see a flashback to Liam burning some clothes.

Sylver and Grace end up in bed together again.  Afterwards, Grace is alarmed to discover a gun under the bed, just as the police arrive.  Sylver is convinced he is being framed.  Grace slips the gun out and Sylver turns the attention onto Liam, who Grace hands the gun to, demanding that he hide it.  He is caught with the gun but when James acts as his lawyer, the police soon have no option but to let him go.

In the hospital, it looks like Mercedes might be about to wake up but it might just be that in her coma, her eyes are flickering when they aren’t supposed to be!

Meanwhile, the Maalik family return to the Village and their home.  Yazz accidentally makes friends with Finn and he gives her some advice on being brave in the face of what has happened to her – he understands from the perspective of actually being a bully how to stand up to them.  She returns home to her family with new courage and together they venture into the garden, where the explosion happened, only to be greeted by Stuart, Jonny and Ste, who have also returned home.  Stuart and Jonny are politely threatening while Ste is clearly anxious and repentant, trapped in this life he doesn’t want to live anymore.  The next day, Leela barges into Stuart’s house and gives the whole group a piece of her mind.  Ste, meanwhile, manages to get a message over to the Maalik family, asking for help and while Sami ignores him, Azim takes pity and they talk through the fence, Azim promising to help him.  He seeks out Leela who reluctantly agrees to help her brother.  Leela and Peri send a fake HIV check up to Ste’s phone and meet him at the hospital when Jonny takes him there.  The family are thrilled to see each other.

Yazz’s hearing loss is a barrier when she helps plan Sami and Sinead’s wedding, first with the florist is rude and impatient with her and secondly when she cannot use the phone.  Finn is on hand to support her and a genuine friendship seems to be growing, although when he touches her, she runs off in panic.  Sami admits to Azim that he and Sinead argued on holiday and the wedding may not be happening at all.

Home and Away

Ziggy cannot understand why Dean is being so cold towards her but eventually he explains that his mother’s mental health condition can be passed down.  Therefore, he does not want children so if children are part of a future that Ziggy wants, their relationship needs to end now.

Irene prepares to battle Tommy’s civil case but Leah refuses to sell Irene’s part of the Diner.  Irene then prepares to sell her house.  However, things take a dark turn when one of her support group members, Theresa turns up covered in blood, claiming that she has sorted out the Tommy problem.  Colby and Mackenze rush over as Irene hurries Bella away and tries to work out what Theresa has done.  Theresa explains to Colby and Irene that she has killed Tommy for Irene who is horrified.  Theresa is unrepentant and suggests that Colby might wish he had done it himself.  While Irene is in shock and worried about Bella, Mackenzie looks after the teenager who is pleased that Tommy is dead.  Alarmed by her response, Colby tries to talk to his sister but she challenges him about what he did to their father.  Mackenzie is a little unnerved when Bella claims that she doesn’t really know Colby.

Leah and Irene both feel guilty, like they should have been able to stop Theresa from killing Tommy somehow.  They go and see her at the police station, offering kindness but refusing to condone what she has done.  Theresa is utterly broken by the things that happened to her as a child.  Leah keeps receiving messages on her vlog in support of Theresa.  Fretting that she pushed her into snapping, she decides to take her site down.

Robbo feels completely lost in his search for Jasmine and is frustrated that Colby has been pulled onto Theresa’s case.  They finally find a lead and Colby ends up choosing work over Mac and Bella.  Meanwhile, Robbo locks Alex out of the room and demands answers from the kidnapper who has turned up at the hospital.  Colby arrives to a hurried explanation from Alex that she was calling the surgery team when Robbo barged past him and locked himself in the room.  Colby explains who the patient is and Alex explains that if he doesn’t get into surgery soon, he’ll die.  Colby desperately tries to persuade Robbo to let him go – if he dies, they will lose their last lead back to Jasmine.  Robbo finally relents when the guy crashes and Alex fights to save his life.  Colby is furious with Robbo.  Promising him protective custody, Colby gets Jasmine’s location and leads the way to find her.  Colby restrains Robbo for the night so he cannot head off on his own, unprepared.

Willow is concerned when Alex doesn’t show up for their PT session and further alarmed when Mason reports back about the incident at the hospital.  She cries on his shoulder, desperately worried that Jasmine is dead.

The next day, Alex reports positively to Mason about the incident at the hospital and is clearly disappointed that he is running boot camp instead of Willow.  When he mentions that Willow was upset over Jasmine, Alex tracks her down and looks after her for the day.

Meanwhile, Colby, Robbo and the team track Jasmine down to the power station.  She manages to alert them and escape her kidnappers.  Robbo and Colby chase after them but they flee in a car.  At the police station, Jasmine tells Colby and Robbo the limited information she has.  Alex treats her in hospital and very thoughtfully asks Colby arrange for Willow to come to the hospital to see her, knowing how worried she is.  Colby collects her himself, much to Willow’s delight.  Jasmine wants to move away for the safety of herself and Robbo.  He agrees, handing the Dylan Carter case over to Lance.  He visits his wife and kids to say goodbye, only to be knocked unconscious.

Willow thanks Alex for all her support and sappily admits the strong connection she feels with her.  Feeling the same, Alex kisses Willow who kisses her back for a moment and then looks a little startled.  Mortified, Alex apologies and runs off.  So, we have the first kiss!

Ryder is desperate to buy his dream car but he doesn’t have enough money.  Instead, Alf buys the car with the promise that Justin will do it up for him – on the promise that Ryder will study hard for his HSC.  If not, the car will be sold.

Ben receives the good news that the police have found evidence of drug smuggling in Indonesia, hopefully proving that he had no idea of what was going on with the surfboards.

John and Marilyn tease Alf when they find him getting ready for Martha’s return.  Roo is especially delighted to see her mother again but Alf feels possessive of spending time with his partner.  Alf and Martha decide to share a bedroom instead of her staying in a caravan for this trip.

Neighbours

Terese hires Chloe in her place as General Manager at Lassiters, although she struggles to let go of the hotel.  Chloe, meanwhile, feels like everything is falling into place in her life.  She, Pierce and Hendrix are moving into the Brennan House together, she has had a huge promotion at work and she is even friends with Elly again.  Seizing the day, she decides to propose to Pierce at The Melbourne Cup, despite Elly’s protestations.  She is all set to propose when Pierce gets there first!

At The Melbourne Cup, Roxy and Hendrix compete for Best Dressed.  Hendrix wins.  However, his joy turns to upset when he discovers that Chloe and Pierce have got engaged without his father even bothering to tell him about it.  Once they have all moved in together, Chloe goes against Pierce’s advice and tells Hendrix the truth about her Huntington’s disease.  He takes the news calmly but is obviously shaken and concerned.

Toadie is surprisingly insensitive regarding Shaun’s death, considering his wife only died a few months ago.  No.  I am still not over it.  Sonya, I mean.  I don’t care about Shaun.  He was weird.

Harlow is shocked when her mother, Prue (none other than Denise Van Outen!) turns up, having rejected the cult she was involved in and wanting to be a mother at last.  She is snobby about the place that Harlow lives in and wants her to return home.  She disapproves of the people in Harlow’s life, not helped by Paul turning up drunk after a fun day out with Terese and then learning that Ned has recently been stabbed by his stalker girlfriend, not to mention the sex tape scandal involving the hotel, Kyle and Amy.

Amy continues to struggle in the wake of the sex tape scandal and she and Kyle struggle to communicate.  When Prue is rude to Amy (and not Kyle) about the sex tape, Amy decides to confront things and she and Kyle watch the tape.  It settles things in her mind that although it was a private moment not intended for other people to see, it’s not something she is ashamed for – it was a moment of love between her and Kyle.  Or so she says.

Meanwhile, Gary gets chatting to Prue and challenges her about her treatment of Amy and she apologises for her behaviour, wanting to make things right.  She explains that she came to Australia because she was worried about Harlow being around bad influences.  Unfortunately, Amy walks in on them talking and is unforgiving of Gary’s betrayal.

Ned is traumatised by his experience with Scarlett and desperate to apologise to Yashvi but she isn’t interested.  Shane also refuses to let him near his daughter.  Upon Toadie’s advice, Yashvi goes to see Ned, who is having a nightmare.  She wakes him up and he accidentally hits her in fright.  He is devastated to have hurt her but really, it’s everything else that has hurt her more.  Shane is furious when he finds out what has happened, especially when he learns that it was Toadie’s idea for Yashvi to visit Ned – he is already annoyed with him for his interference with Kirsha’s scholarship.  Shane and Dipi warn Ned to stay away from Yashvi.  Yashvi reluctantly meets up with Ned.  Shane and Toadie do finally talk things through and make up, only for Shane and Dipi to be floored by the news that Kirsha has been accepted by the school she applied to.

Finn attends a hospital appointment with Elly but when the pain she is in gets worse, Finn takes the risk of going to the school, which he is not allowed near, in order to take her some medication.  His plan is to stay in the cab but when he sees a student fall over, he rushes to help but only succeeds in scaring her away.