Episode 5837 (3rd September 2004)

Plot
Steve is asleep on the chair. Liz comes and he thinks it's Karen, but there is still no word from her. Cilla and Les get Chesney up out his bed and drag him down stairs for a surprise. Tommy and Craig are outside with his quad bike and Tommy tells him he can help with the service. Steve is still worried about Karen and asks Janice and Hayley if they have heard from her. They haven't so he phones her Aunty Eva to ask if she has heard anything. Ciaran has tried everyone he can think of for a loan for his restaurant with no luck. Fred asks Ciaran to do the lunches as Betty has phoned in sick. Ciaran makes his specialty Irish hamburgers and they are very popular. Sunita suggests Steve looks in the cemetery for Karen. He does, and mistakes someone else for her. Chesney helps Tommy with his quad bike and arrives home covered in oil. Tracy tells Ciaran that she will provide people to eat a meal tomorrow night if he provides the food and they will all want to invest in his restaurant. Steve goes back to the Rovers looking for Karen. Tracy is being bitchy about Karen. Dev and Sunita take Steve home when they bump into Eva. Steve and Eva are starting to imagine the worst. Steve and Eva go into the flat where they find Karen. Eva leaves them to it. Karen explains to Steve that she went to the beach at Rhyl. It was the last place she remembers being happy as a child. Karen tells him she is going to change and put everyone else before herself from now onwards.

Regular cast

 * Steve McDonald - Simon Gregson
 * Liz McDonald - Beverley Callard
 * Jason Grimshaw - Ryan Thomas
 * Eileen Grimshaw - Sue Cleaver
 * Sean Tully - Antony Cotton
 * Todd Grimshaw - Bruno Langley
 * Les Battersby - Bruce Jones
 * Cilla Brown - Wendi Peters
 * Chesney Brown - Sam Aston
 * Craig Harris - Richard Fleeshman
 * Tommy Harris - Thomas Craig
 * Ciaran McCarthy - Keith Duffy
 * Tracy Barlow - Kate Ford
 * Fred Elliott - John Savident
 * Kevin Webster - Michael Le Vell
 * Dev Alahan - Jimmi Harkishin
 * Sunita Parekh - Shobna Gulati
 * Charlie Stubbs - Bill Ward
 * Karen McDonald - Suranne Jones

Guest cast
None