It looks like Coronation Street serial killer Stephen Reid’s (Todd Boyce) days causing havoc around Weatherfield could be numbered.
Rufus Donahue’s widow Lou (Eleanor Howell) calls at the factory next week and tells Stephen and Michael Bailey (Ryan Russell) she’s cancelled the meeting as the inquest report into her late husband’s death is due out the next day.
She suspects foul play and she’s contacted the Gazette. Stephen masks his panic.
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Alone in the factory office, Stephen scours the press for reports about Rufus’ death.
As Carla Connor (Alison King) and Stephen see a client out of the factory, Lou approaches and Stephen’s heart sinks.
Lou confides in Stephen and Carla that the Coroner found that Rufus died by misadventure.
Lou tells Stephen that as far as she’s concerned, Rufus’s drug fuelled death still doesn’t stack up.
Stephen assures her it was obviously a tragic accident.
A guilty Stephen struggles at Rufus’ memorial, after being asked by Rufus’ son Jools how he knew his dad he hurries out.
Returning with the staff from the factory in tow he explains to Carla that he thought it would make Rufus look more popular.
When Jools makes an emotional speech about his dad, Stephen hurries off to the gents, watched by Carla and Lou.
He returns and is horrified when he sees his tie pin in a bag that Lou shows him containing Rufus’ things that were found by the side of the pool.
When Lou mentions Rufus’ missing watch, Peter is forced to confess to Carla that he found it in the back of his cab and pawned it for her rehab.
Stephen is shocked when Lou reveals she is going to show the tie pin to the police as it didn’t belong to Rufus.
Fans of the ITV soap will be aware that Stephen was responsible for Rufus’ death after shoving into the pool and holding his head underwater until his rival drowned.
Elsewhere in Weatherfield, Hope Stape (Isabella Flanagan) practises her solo in front of Ruby Dobbs (Billie Naylor) fully expecting to land the lead role in the Little Big Shotz summer spectacular.
At the community centre, Glenda Shuttleworth (Jodie Prenger) announces that Ruby has landed the lead role and Eliza, Ciara and Hope will be her backing singers.
Ruby’s thrilled whilst Hope smarts.
Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday on ITV1 and ITVX at 8pm
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