your one stop update on what happened last week on Canada's Coronation Street...
Exit PC Tinker.
Yes, sadly, it seems that Craig's time on the Weatherfield Police Force (and Coronation Street) has expired. The young police officer confronted a drunk and enraged suspect (Mick), asked him to step out of his vehicle (er, I mean van) and was then brutally attacked by Mick and left bleeding on the ground.
Craig was discovered by Maria and promptly rushed to hospital but even the miracle workers at the Coronation Street Wing of Weatherfield General Hospital couldn't save him. Kirk and many others were gutted. Craig's Mom (if she ever returns to the show) will be inconsolable.
All this mayhem began after Kit (boyhood friend of Mick) dropped a broad hint to Mick about the true paternity of Mick's delinquent son (Brody). It seems that while Mick was serving a prison sentence for a crime that Kit committed, Kit and Mick's girlfriend (Lou) became, ahem, 'close' (in the biblical sense).
When Mick puts two and two together, he goes ballistic and assaults Lou. Officer Craig is dispatched to Lou's house to investigate and Lou insists that everything is fine. Later on, Craig spots Mick's vehicle (er, I mean van) and confronts Mick which leads to the tragic demise of Officer Tinker - but not before Craig reveals the identity of his attacker.
As for Mick?
Well, he continues his drunken rampage by first going to Sarah's flat and demanding to know where Kit is (so he can exact his revenge). That doesn't pan out so Mick then takes Bernie hostage and uses her as leverage to force Kit into a confrontation. Now it looks like a mano-a-mano-a-mumo situation with Kit in extreme danger.
Meanwhile Tim takes Lou and her two daughters to the hospital to deal with Lou's injuries (inflicted by Mick). Tim looks after Lou's kids while she receives attention in hospital and the two daughters wind up with Tim at his house while Lou leaves.
And now for a few lines from the bleak week that was:
Tim tries to amuse Lou's kids with some Dad jokes:
Q: Why do rabbits go to the hospital?
A: To have a hop-eration
(well... they can't all be gems)
Kirk to Craig:
"I found your lucky tie"
(too late mate)
David shares his opinion of Kit to Sarah:
"He's 7 ft 2 of bad news"
(that's a lot of bad news)
Mick to Kit:
"Does darling Kit care about his Mum or not?"
(Oh Oh. Could go either way)
Kirk's recollection of a Motown classic
"Papa was a bowling stone"
(wherever he bowled a strike was his home?)
The reason Roy can't join Tim and Kirk's bowling team:
"Bat Society AGM"
(a nocturnal event one presumes?)
Nick to Sarah re: her tall boyfriend:
"Kit's got more red flags than Turkey"
(Doesn't Turkey only have one flag?)
Kit to Bernie re: Brody:
"I think he's my son"
(maybe check with ancestry.com to be sure?)
Gemma to Bernie:
"We've got a psycho living right at the back of us"
(you'll have to be more specific)
***
Well, fellow cobble colleagues, so ends another week. We say goodbye to Craig Tinker. A nice fellow and an honest cop but, sadly, his character was never really given the chance to develop. We wish him well.
In the meantime we wait for the Kit/Mick confrontation to conclude. This can't end well for either character... no matter what happens. Oh well. Thanks so much for sharing some time here at the Hip and do have a great week.
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