She's only 11 but Hope Stape has been terrifying Coronation Street fans with her twisted behaviour for years now. Next week on Corrie she appears to be following in the footsteps of her late serial killer father John Stape.
Her adopive father Tyrone has a shock when he opens the door to the outhouse, only to discover the books about John have vanished. Fiz and Tyrone confront Hope over the missing John Stape books, but she makes out she lobbed them in a bin on Tile Street.
Hope calls to see her friend Sam and tells him she made £75 flogging her dad’s book, and she joins in a group chat called Legacy of Evil. Hope types a message to her classmates, informing them that tomorrow she’s planning a special tribute to John Stape.
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Then her behaviour gets worse as she steals a hammer from Tyrone’s tool box and hides her cash in a tin in a cupboard. In the factory, Beth shows Sally the chapter in the John Stape book about his affair with Rosie.
In the school corridor, Hope approaches a couple of year 11 girls and tells them that she’ll be giving a reading from the John Stape book later. Fiz is furious to find Sally reading the John Stape book, and a row erupts.
Back at home, Fiz and Tyrone are deeply concerned to discover the hammer missing from the toolbox and a stash of cash in a tin in the cupboard. Meanwhile, when Hope overhears two year 11 girls calling her a 'nut job', she pulls the hammer from her bag, and heads towards them leaving viewers wondering just how far she'll go.
Speaking of villains, in prison Sam prepares to grill his late mum Natasha's killer Harvey. As Sam interrogates Harvey, the drugs lord reveals that he actually intended to murder Leanne.
When Harvey reveals that his mum died when he was 14, Sam reckons it must have caused him to go off the rails. Sam asks Harvey some awkward questions about his mum and he strides out.
But back in his prison cell, Harvey is clearly rattled by Sam’s visit. Picking up Sam’s most recent letter, Harvey sets about reading his questions.
At the community centre, Nigel confides in Ken that he plans to approach an actress friend with a view to replacing Mary in the play. Ken and Brian suggest to Nigel that he asks his actress friend to give Mary some coaching rather than replace her as she’d be terribly upset.
Then a blast from the past arrives in Ken's life as Nigel introduces his actress friend to Brian, Ken and Mary. Ken’s surprised to realise it’s Martha, his ex.
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