Coronation Street tearaway Hope Stape is back to her old tricks again in upcoming scenes as she sets fire to the salon with pregnant Alina Pop (Ruxandra Porojnicu) sleeping upstairs.
Despite Tyrone Dobbs’s (Alan Halsall) attempts to make Hope feel included in the plans for the baby she feels abandoned when he starts planning drinks to celebrate the pregnancy and then rushes off to the hospital with Alina, who has suffered some stomach pains.
At the hospital, the sonographer confirms that the baby is fine. Having collected Hope on their way, Tyrone and Alina return home.
Hope presents Alina with the toy dinosaur for the baby. Alina’s delighted but as Tyrone and Alina excitedly discuss the fact they’re having a boy.
Hope stares at the dinosaur with mounting fury. When Fiz collects her she steals Alina’s keys.
Admitting she’s tired, Alina persuades Tyrone that he should attend the drinks he has arranged at the hotel with his friends and leave her to have an early night.
When Hope declares that she wants nothing to do with the new baby and hopes he’s never born, Fiz (Jenny McAlpine) is shocked and orders her up to bed.
Hope sneaks out of the back door and lets herself onto the salon flat to retrieve her dinosaur believing Alina to be out at the drinks.
She lets herself back into number 9 and Fiz is oblivious. Back at the flat Alina sleeps soundly as smoke starts to creep under her bedroom floor.
On the street, Eileen Grimshaw (Sue Cleaver) and Sally Metcafle (Sally Dynevor) are horrified to realise the salon flat is on fire.
Having taken a call from Evelyn, a shocked Tyrone tells Kirk Sutherland (Andy Whyment) they need to get home.
Fiz, Evelyn, Sally and Eileen stand back as Alina is loaded into the ambulance. Tyrone arrives and climbs in with her. Hope watches from her bedroom window, was the fire anything to do with her?
Shaken after her ordeal, Alina sits up in her hospital bed and assures Tyrone that both she and the baby are fine.
In the cafe, Tyrone, Fiz and Evelyn Plummer discuss the fire and the possible causes. Hope’s quick to point out that Alina was alone in the flat so the fire must be her fault.
Outside the salon flat, the fire investigation officer tells Tyrone that it would seem the fire was started by an aromatherapy candle and Alina’s horrified to think that she caused the fire with one of her candles.
When Evelyn and Hope clock Craig Tinker (Colson Smith) talking to the fire investigation officer Hope questions whether the person who started the fire will get into trouble, Evelyn’s suspicions grow and she suggests to Fiz that Hope might know more about the fire than she’s letting on.
Fiz is shocked and immediately leaps to Hope’s defence.
At the salon flat, Alina’s sadness is evident as she realises all the things they’d bought for the baby have been destroyed.
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Having gone over the fire officer’s findings in her mind, Alina tells Tyrone that in order for the fire to have started in the cot, someone must have moved the candle.
Alina and Tyrone try to make sense of the fire and are stunned to find out from the police that an accelerant was used to start the fire and it is being investigated as arson.
Realising her keys are gone Alina says someone must have let themselves in. Bemused by how shaken Fiz is by the turn of events, Tyrone quizzes her about the missing keys. Fiz tells Hope they need to talk about the fire.
As Tyrone and Fiz try to work out how to deal with Hope, Alina is telling Craig that she thinks Fiz started the fire. Will Tyrone tell the police they think Hope started the fire?
Coronation Street continues Wednesday on ITV at 7.30pm
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
