Sarah’s world crumbles as Eli spreads sordid rumours about her in Corrie

How will Carla react when she finds out?

16-22 AUGUST

Agreeing to take over a client meeting from Carla, Sarah’s day goes from bad to worse as she welcomes a late and flustered Eli to Underworld, unaware that Kit was the ‘over zealous traffic cop’ that had made Eli late by insisting on searching his car because he was parked illegally.

As Sarah does her best pitch to Eli they are both shocked when Kit arrives at the factory.

Furious that Kit is Sarah’s boyfriend, Eli makes to leave but pushing Kit out Sarah locks Eli in the office and continues with her pitch. 

Meanwhile at the station, Lisa is taken aback when DI Costello advises her to keep her relationship with Kit purely professional as he wouldn't want to see her get dragged down with him.

At the factory, Carla warns Sarah that Eli has been spreading rumours about her to their customers making her out to be a sexual predator. 

When DI Costello interviews Kit about Eli’s claims of intimidation, he tells him that he’s putting him on desk duty for the foreseeable future, but if anyone asks it’s because of his injuries, thus avoiding a formal inquiry.

Sarah is angry with David for giving Eli Kit’s details and equally angry to realise Kit’s been threatening Eli.

Later, Kit confides in Sarah how he was recently investigating a case and realised it was linked to an historic case that Lisa’s wife, Becky was working on, but when he requested her files, DI Costello told him to leave well alone so he continued to work on it in secret.

Giving Sarah a hard time, Carla points out that because of her, a whole series of customers are now demanding the same discount as Eli. As Carla puts pressure on her to drum up new business to recoup some of the money, Kit feels for Sarah.

Meanwhile, David and Lisa’s bin wars continue and when Lisa reveals that she’s keeping a note of every time she hears David the dog barking from next door, which leaves Carla feeling amused.

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