Stuart Fergus was an ex-schoolfriend of Todd Grimshaw's from Weatherfield Comprehensive who was in the year above and now attended Manchester University. The two bumped into each other in the Corner Shop and Stuart invited Todd to join him at the Weatherfield Arms that night where they were holding a karaoke evening. Todd accepted and said he would be bringing his girlfriend along.
The girlfriend was Sarah Platt and Stuart was embarrassed to see her, remembering her as the notorious twelve-year old who got pregnant and had a baby. Todd was planning to go to Oxford University if he got the right grades and Stuart regaled him with the stories of student nightlife that he would enjoy. Todd and Sarah's plan was that she would join him at weekends but she realised from Stuart's stories that this was nothing but a pipedream as their other lives would be so different. Todd convinced her that he could get a job as well as study in order that they could afford a bedsit of their own although neither of them had the courage to tell their mothers.
A few weeks later, Stuart joined Todd and Sarah for a drink in the Rovers where they told him of their plans. Unfortunately, Eileen Grimshaw was within hearing distance and erupted with anger at what she heard, thinking that Todd was throwing away his chances of a better life by saddling himself with a teenage mother. Sarah told Todd it would be best if they finished but he, upset at this, deliberately flunked his exams to avoid leaving Weatherfield.
Almost eighteen years later, Stuart's baby son Liam passed away. This death led to Stuart to cross paths with Todd, who was now working as an undertaker at the funeral directors Stuart was dealing with. The reunion was a deliberate ploy by Todd's boss George Shuttleworth, in order to give Todd some perspective due to his lack of feelings towards those that had lost relatives and looked upon the funeral directory for sympathy and understanding. The plan worked as the death of Stuart's son reminded Todd of the own loss of his baby Billy Platt from 2004, and how cruel and calculating he had become from the sweeter man he was in those days.
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