Underworld manager Sarah Barlow dices with danger next week on Coronation Street as she gives in to temptation with Damon when he works his charm. With her car blocked in, her husband Adam working and unavailable, drug dealer Damon Hay offers to give Sarah a lift to the hotel for her meeting.
To Sarah’s annoyance, Damon sits at a nearby table. But as Lulu the buyer makes disparaging remarks about the designs, Damon saves the day by sauntering over pretending to be a music mogul impressed by the designs.
He hands Sarah his card with his room number written on the back. Lulu looks at the designs in a new light but Sarah is still angry with Damon and heads to the room where she tears a strip off him for interfering.
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Damon’s amused and hands her a glass of champagne. Having finished the champagne, Sarah throws caution to the wind and kisses Damon passionately.
Damon assures Sarah that he’s not out to cause trouble and won’t say a word about their liaison, but Dee-Dee Bailey confronts Sarah over her relationship with Damon. In a desperate bid to put thoughts of Damon behind her, Sarah kisses hubby Adam passionately and suggests that perhaps now’s the time to try for another baby. After a night of passion, Adam is loved up but Sarah is consumed with guilt.
Elsewhere, Stephen Reid is pleased that the Gazette are going to do a piece on the Nippersnapper deal and Ronnie Bailey reminds him that his designer son Michael deserves some credit. Michael suggests he join the meeting with client Rufus Donahue.
While Michael heads off to make the tea, Rufus tells Stephen that after some consideration he’s decided 25 per-cent of the profits isn’t enough and he’d like 50 per-cent. Stephen reels. Despite Stephen’s attempt to keep Michael away from the meeting by sending him out to take more designs to Sarah, Rufus meets Michael in the street and offers him a job in his London office.
Later Stephen is forced to agree to Rufus’s demand for 50 per-cent of the profits. As Rufus heads out, Michael shows Gaztte reporter Suki in. While Stephen and Suki conduct their interview about Nippersnapper, Michael’s increasingly annoyed to be overlooked and heads out.
When Stephen orders Michael back to work, Michael takes great pleasure in telling him that he can stick his job as he’s meeting Rufus later who’s offered him a far better job in London. Michael arrives at the house to see Rufus but gets no reply to the doorbell. Hearing loud music from inside, Michael calls Rufus and leaves him a voicemail.
Having failed to meet up with Rufus, Michael goes cap in hand to Stephen and asks if he can remain at Underworld. Stephen snaps that he’s too late and Nina Lucas is his new head of design.
Ronnie advises Michael to go back to Rufus’ house and do his best to smooth things over. Michael and Ronnie turn up at Rufus’s house to find it swarming with police. When the housekeeper reveals that Rufus is dead and she found his body in the swimming pool, Michael reels in shock. Michael is then shocked when Stephen takes him back on as junior manager and promises to teach him everything he knows.
And there's shockwaves from another death as Roy Cropper and his friend Melvyn and his dog, Freddie, set off to visit a local bat roost. Roy returns to the café clutching Freddie and explains to Shona and Nina how Melvyn had a funny turn, ended up in hospital and there was nobody to look after the dog.
Clearly exhausted, Roy later admits to Shona that Freddie kept him up all night with his barking. Roy confides in Evelyn that Melvyn died and he’s inherited Freddie on a permanent basis.
Roy tells Shona that he’s going to drop Freddie at the dog shelter as it’s for the best. When Roy reveals that he’s dropped Freddie at the dogs’ home, Evelyn’s horrified.
However Roy later confides in Evelyn and Shona that after a change of heart, Freddie will be returning to live with him on a permanent basis. Evelyn reckons he’s made the right decision.
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