Coronation Street youngster Max Turner (Paddy Beaver) gets arrested next week.
Daryan Zahawi (Twana Omer) calls in the café with some flyers promoting the refugee drop-in session at Speed Daal in upcoming scenes and suggests to Max he might like to join them.
However, Max is disparaging and stalks out.
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David Platt (Jack P Shepherd) prepares tea, oblivious to Max on his phone, listening to Blake (Adam Little) outside Speed Daal delivering a racist rant and promising to put a stop to the drop-in session.
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As Blake heads into Speed Daal, secretly filming himself, it’s clear his target is Maria Connor (Samia Longchombon)
Maria delivers her speech, welcoming the refugees and offering them support.
Max tells Gail Platt (Helen Worth) and David how Blake made out to the police that it was his videos that inspired him to go on a stabbing spree.
David calls Adam (Sam Robertson) and Sarah Barlow (Tina O’Brien) to No.8 and orders Max to show them his videos.
They’re shocked at the array of racist material on Max’s computer and warn him that he could be charged with Encouraging Terrorism which carries a 10 year sentence.
Max reels David and Gail watch Max’s videos in horror, they’re interrupted by a knock at the door.
DS Swain enters and tells Max that he’s arresting him on suspicion of incitement to murder.
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Weatherfield residents were rocked earlier this month when Griff Reynolds (Michael Condron) and his extremist gang made a thwarted attempt to set off a bomb at the community’s Peace Market.
Max had spent weeks aligning himself with the group but raised the alarm at the last minute when he realised what they had planned.
Speaking about the storyline, producer Iain MacLeod previous told press: “It will reach its climax in the first couple of months of the year.
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“By the start of 2023, Max has well and truly been red pilled and even more estranged from his family than he has been.
“This leads him into extremely dangerous territory.”
“There is hope for Max. He will over the course of 2023 realise the error of his ways.”
The storyline focuses on David (Jack P. Shepherd)’s relationship with Max, Iain explained.
He continued: “At its core what we wanted was a parenting story.
“What do you do if you have a vulnerable, isolated, difficult teenager with an incredibly traumatic backstory who finds his tribe and it’s a group of people you fundamentally are scared of and scared by, who hold views you really don’t agree with? How do you approach that?
“That is the best bit for me, and most interesting, seeing David, who has had a light touch parenting approach over the years and treated Max more like a friend than a son – and biologically, he’s not his son which has had an input on that as well – David has to finally knuckle down and face the biggest parenting challenge he’s had.”
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