Episode 6232 (20th February 2006)

Plot
Rita takes the morning off having had a sleepless night. She goes to look round a sheltered housing complex - Sunny Dale Retirement Community.

Eileen's surprise to get a call from Ed. She arranges to meet him. Ed pours his heart out to Eileen. He tells her he loves her but he'll understand if she wants nothing more to do with him now she knows the truth about his past. Ed tells Eileen how it was while he was in Strangeways that he found God.

Emily pours her heart out to Betty. She tells Betty how she reckons that if things were the other way round Ernest had such strong faith he would probably find it in his heart to forgive Ed. Whereas she feels a failure because she can't.

Meanwhile, David's interviewed by the police. He lies, insisting he knew nothing about the drugs.

Fred gets a call from distraught Bev to say she's been dumped at a road side with no belongings. Fred jumps in the butcher's van and sets off to find her. Fred finds Bev stranded at the road side. She's enormously grateful to see him.

Regular cast

 * Rita Sullivan - Barbara Knox
 * Norris Cole - Malcolm Hebden
 * Emily Bishop - Eileen Derbyshire
 * Eileen Grimshaw - Sue Cleaver
 * Gail Platt - Helen Worth
 * David Platt - Jack P. Shepherd
 * Fred Elliott - John Savident
 * Betty Williams - Betty Driver
 * Bev Unwin - Susie Blake
 * Ashley Peacock - Steven Arnold

Guest cast

 * Policeman - Robert Lawrenson
 * Ed - Chris Walker
 * Sales Rep - Joe Mills