Did Maggie survive murder week? (Picture: ITV)
Coronation Street spoilers follow for Monday’s (May 4) episode, which is now available to stream on ITVX.
Murder week has come and gone, and left Theo Silverton (James Cartwright) bloodied and cold below the scaffolding on the Street.
There was no two ways about it, he was dead as a dodo, but his wasn’t the only body discovered. After a vicious clash with paedophile Megan Walsh (Beth Nixon) and an emotive exchange with her deeply conflicted grandson, Will Driscoll (Lucas Hodgson-Wale), Maggie Driscoll (Pauline McLynn) was discovered by two young girls, laying on the ground, looking as lifeless as Theo.
Actress Pauline McLynn said last week: ‘I will say this, when I joined the show, I was told that the plan for the character was to kill her. So we shall see!’
‘I think you’ll find when you watch all of the five stories that it’s very possible more than one person is dead, that’s another thing I will say.
‘And the third thing, is that the wonderful Kate Brooks said to me once, you’re going to get a set of scripts and it looks like you’re dead – and you might be. I just wanted to warn you! We don’t know.’
Maggie had a heart attack (Picture: Amy Brammall/ITV)
Yup, our final glimpse of her in Friday’s blood-soaked climax showed that it was incredibly possible that Maggie and Theo would become roomies at the morgue.
‘I do seem very dead at the end of the week. Assume nothing. You might be being fed one thing which is true, but it could be more than one,’ Pauline teased.
‘It’s also brilliantly clear that any one of the five could be a killer, whether or not they’ve killed the person you believe to be dead or not. It’s brilliantly seeded in. There is a justice in Coronation Street, if you do a crime, you have to pay the price.’
As it turns out, though, Maggie is very much alive. Not only alive, but awake, and as cantankerous as ever, as we find her in today’s episode eagerly awaiting a cup of tea from Ben Driscoll (Aaron McCusker), as Ollie (Raphael Akuwudike) dutifully sat by her bedside. With things still far from perfect between them, Ben and Maggie prodded at each other and, in the midst of their conversation, it’s revealed that Maggie had suffered a heart attack.
It wasn’t only tea she wanted though, it was tea she had, as she revealed all to Ben about Megan’s revelation on Friday. Poor Will was knocked off his feet when he learned that Maggie hadn’t caused Megan to miscarry, she’d in fact had an abortion as he discovered his grandma and abuser locked in a vitriolic battle atop the stairs to Megan’s flat.
Melanie knows the truth about Maggie… (Picture: Amy Brammall)
…as does Megan (Picture: Amy Brammall/ITV)
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In that moment, Will’s entire belief system was irrevocably rocked. Though he desperately clung to his belief in Megan and their ‘love’, it was incredibly clear that something had changed and something had broken. When Maggie told Ben what’d transpired today, he headed home to find Will, who was still desperately seeking answers from an avoidant Megan.
Furious and determined to remain alone, Will swerved Ben while still denying any possibility that the baby was his. Eva was shocked when she learned the truth, though her previous kidnap escapade with Leanne and Toyah Battersby (Jane Danson and Georgia Taylor) had left a large chasm developing between her and Ben. Though she and Ollie also tried to reach out to Will, it was hopeless, the damage inflicted by Megan proving still too fresh to overcome.
With the Driscoll’s still in utter turmoil, Maggie has two problems still outstanding: the fact that both Megan and Melanie (Cindy Humphreys) are aware of her big secret: that she accidentally killed her first husband.
It’s doubtful that Maggie won’t move to shut them down, but will they take advantage of her heart attack and reveal all first?
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