Episode 5835 (30th August 2004)

Plot[]

Sunita is showing off her engagement ring to everyone in the Rovers. Maya enters without anyone seeing her and leaves just as quick heading to Sunita's flat and lets herself in. Sean Tully is thrown out of the bookies after enquiring about the flat and bumps into Todd and Eileen. Sean quizzes Eileen about her skin care routine. Maya steals a gas bill after checking it has Sunita's details on it. Les and Cilla arrive back from Blackpool and head to the pub. Betty and Liz have been bitching about Sunita and she overhears them. Sunita leaves telling Dev that she has to go home and take her medication. Maya is snooping around the flat and picks up Sunita's pills. When she hears a noise from downstairs she puts the pills on the table. Maya watches as Sunita takes her pill and leaves. Sean is talking to Eileen, Blanche and Deirdre about a B&B establishment in Park Road. When he empties the contents of his pockets onto the table while trying to find pen and paper, Deirdre picks up a harmonica - she plays a tune. Tommy comes into the pub and has a go at Cilla in front of everyone for leaving Chesney on his own. Maya steals Sunita's birth certificate and immediately telephones a man named Walid telling him that she's found what she's been looking for. At No.5, Cilla and Fiz argue about what happened with Chesney. Maya gets into Walid's car and tells him she got what she wanted. Mike and Deirdre are talking and he tells her that he should never have let her go but Deirdre tells him that she chose the better man. Eileen invites Sean to sleep on her sofa for a couple of nights. Jason comes into the pub and Sean is immediately interested. To Jason's horror he is told that Sean will be staying for a few nights. A drunken Karen eventually breaks down recalling events from her childhood.

Cast[]

Regular cast[]

Guest cast[]

Walid Aziz - Mushi Noor (Credited as "Walid Asiz")

Places[]

Coronation Street
Rovers Return Inn - Public
5 Coronation Street - Downstairs rooms
15a Coronation Street - Living room and bedroom
Viaduct Street
Rosamund Street

Notes[]

A woman named Louise, who leaves a message on Sunita Parekh's answerphone is uncredited, despite lines of dialogue.
TV Times synopsis: Steve despairs as Karen makes a spectacle of herself in the Rovers; and Tommy gives Cilla and Les the third degree.
Viewing Figures: UK broadcast - 11,690,000 viewers (1st place).
This episode was included in the Network DVD collection Coronation Street: The Best of 2000-2009, released on 31st October 2011.

Notable dialogue[]

Blanche Hunt: "Food's not up to much. If you ask me, Betty's losing her touch."
Emily Bishop: "You certainly seem to be enjoying it, though."
Blanche Hunt: "I'm forcing meself out of politeness... and this isn't real champagne either, it's sparkling wine. Mind you, it's all a farce really, isn't it? I mean, engagement parties! Huh! I'll lay fifty pounds that within the next year, we'll be sat here toasting him and some other poor fool that's agreed to marry him!"

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Blanche Hunt: "You've been a good daughter, Deirdre."
Deirdre Rachid: "Am I having a dream?"
Blanche Hunt: "Give us another tune." (on the harmonica)
Deirdre Rachid: "You always said I was rubbish at it."
Blanche Hunt: "The practice'll do you good then."
Deirdre Rachid: "Well I only know one other tune."
Blanche Hunt: "I daresay we can cope with hearing them again. Go on, for your mother."

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