Warning: Significant spoilers ahead for the Monday, 19th May episode now streaming on ITVX.
Trigger Warning: This article discusses scenes of violence and domestic abuse which may be distressing for some readers.
In the most recent episode of Coronation Street (airing Monday, 19th May), tensions escalated as PC Craig Tinker (played by Colson Smith) faced a life-threatening situation.
Excited to begin his new assignment under the mentorship of DC Kit Green (Jacob Roberts), Craig’s enthusiasm was overshadowed by Kit’s personal distractions. Kit became preoccupied with the suspicion that he might be the biological father of Brody (Ryan Mulvey), the teenage son of Lou Michaelis (Farrel Hegarty).
Things took a tense turn when Kit’s mother, Bernie Winter (Jane Hazlegrove), caught Brody shoplifting. Kit intervened, forced Brody to apologise, and—after confirming his date of birth—decided to let him off, all while grappling with the possible revelation of fatherhood.
Kit was now armed with the knowledge that his suspicions could be true, although Lou insisted that Mick was Brody’s dad.
When Mick confronted Kit over apprehending Brody, Kit made a comment about Lou’s loyalty, and the penny dropped about Brody as Mick violently confronted a terrified Lou.
hen Fiz Dobbs (Jennie McAlpine) heard the commotion, she called the authorities and Craig, abandoned by a snappy Kit but encouraged by DS Lisa Swain (Vicky Myers), checked out the report.
Lou convinced Craig all was well, but he soon heard her screams and viewers saw her left in distress with a head wound.
Without any back-up, Craig chased after Mick, who was out for Kit’s blood as he drank alcohol while driving off in his van with a bat.
Craig pulled Mick over and attempted to breathalyse a hostile Mick, who became convinced that Craig was in corrupt Kit’s pocket and knocked the breathalyser out of the officer’s hand.
As Mick pulled out the bat, Craig tried to talk him down, but Mick brutally hit him with it, leaving an unconscious and bleeding Craig for dead as he fled the scene.
Will Craig survive the attack?
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