Coronation Street icon stages unexpected return to save a local in early ITVX release
This article contains spoilers for tonight’s Coronation Street, which has not yet aired on TV but is available to watch now on ITVX.
Coronation Street legend Evelyn Plummer (Maureen Lipman) made an unexpected return to Coronation Street in tonight’s episode in light of daughter Cassie Plummer’s (Claire Sweeney) recent shenanigans.
Cassie has been cast out from the community after her drugging of Ken Barlow (William Roache) finally came to light.
While employed as his carer, Cassie laced Ken’s tea with antihistamines, on top of regularly using his credit card.
Eventually, Ken realised what was happening and confronted Cassie about it. When she confessed, he threw her out, and her family followed suit.
In tonight’s episode, Evelyn returned from university – where she has been living in student accommodation since earlier this year – demanding to know why she hadn’t been told what Cassie had been up to in her absence.
She later revealed that she had found out what had been going on through Ken, who had insisted he didn’t want Cassie sleeping on the street.
However, when Evelyn pointed this out to Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) and Fiz Stape (Jennie McAlpine), they refused to budge on their position, with Fiz insisting that Cassie wasn’t safe to be around their girls.
With tensions high, both Tyrone and Cassie stormed out, with Evelyn rushing out after her daughter.
Unfortunately, Cassie wasn’t willing to accept Evelyn’s help, and accused her of only caring about her daughter when her actions affected her reputation.
Though Cassie encouraged Evelyn to forget about her completely, Evelyn refused to give in, and offered Cassie enough money for a couple of nights in a hotel.
However, having been offered drugs earlier in the day by Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford), Cassie instead settled in for the night in the ginnel, before making a phone call to a drug dealer to meet her the next morning.
Could Cassie be set to relapse, or will Evelyn succeed in helping her daughter out of the mess she’s made?
