Episode 5832 (27th August 2004)

Plot
The Rovers Ravers are trying to think how to get the dress back from Frankie without Vera finding out. Vera is talking to Jack when Frankie enters with the dress telling Vera to get rid of it. Vera decides to cut up the dress and use it as dishcloths as a dismayed Jack watches on. Karen is back at work, seemingly un-emotional, and the girls are concerned for her. They ask how her mother is and she tells them she is dead. They are all shocked. Les and Cilla are packing their bags when Cilla send Les upstairs, gives Chesney £10 and a note for Fiz and tells him that he is to go to Fiz's after work instead of her picking him up. They leave to go on their holiday. Chesney goes to get Fiz from work but told she went bowling and then to a club so wont be back until 4.00am in the morning. Chesney bumps into Sophie and they decide to go and get some food and go back to the Battersby's. Sophie then goes home. Malcolm Phillips comes round to see Karen but she is not in so Steve takes the envelope from him. Steve tries to give Karen the envelope from Malcolm but she's not interested. Steve opens it and inside are the funeral arrangements and a drawing that Karen had done years ago - she bins it. Dev goes to Frankie's to ask for details of where he can get Maya. Frankie hesitates but gives Dev her details. After Dev leaves Frankie calls Maya to warn her. Dev is at Maya's flat asking her for the engagement ring back. Maya isn't happy. Maya chucks Dev out of her flat and she smiles as a plan of revenge starts to form.

Regular cast

 * Steve McDonald - Simon Gregson
 * Karen McDonald - Suranne Jones
 * Sonia Marshal - Tina Gambe
 * Fiz Brown - Jennie McAlpine
 * Hayley Cropper - Julie Hesmondhalgh
 * Jack Duckworth - William Tarmey
 * Frankie Baldwin - Debra Stephenson
 * Danny Baldwin - Bradley Walsh
 * Candice Stowe - Nikki Sanderson
 * Todd Grimshaw - Bruno Langley
 * Sunita Parekh - Shobna Gulati
 * Vera Duckworth - Elizabeth Dawn
 * Les Battersby - Bruce Jones
 * Cilla Brown - Wendi Peters
 * Chesney Brown - Sam Aston
 * Rita Sullivan - Barbara Knox
 * Ciaran McCarthy - Keith Duffy
 * Dev Alahan - Jimmi Harkishin
 * Sophie Webster - Brooke Vincent
 * Maya Sharma - Sasha Behar

Guest cast

 * Malcolm Phillips - Richard Bremmer