The mourners gather in church for Norris Cole's funeral next week on Coronation Street.
Audrey Roberts hands round a hip flask of tequila as a letter containing Norris' parting words are read out.
After teasing that the paperboy outside The Kabin contains a secret, Norris finishes by revealing that Rita Tanner used to surreptitiously have her hair coloured by Audrey's rival Claudia Colby.
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Audrey rounds on Rita for her betrayal and there's more drama when Mary, armed with a chainsaw, decapitates the paperboy to find out what secrets lie inside.
Elsewhere Alya Nazir accepts her brother Zeedan’s loan of £50,000 but when Zeedan launches an attack on Ryan for cheating on her, she’s furious.
She angrily points out that Zeedan was nowhere to be seen during Geoff’s reign of terror and tells him to shove his money.
Outside Speed Daal, two thugs grab Zeedan and he's found slumped in the ginnel, battered and bleeding.
He gives a statement to policeman Craig Tinker suggesting Ryan might have been his attacker.
Furious, Ryan tears a strip off Zeedan for trying to frame him when he was working all afternoon.
Zeedan then comes clean to Alya and his gran Yasmeen, explaining he’s in trouble.
And there's trauma in Weatherfield for mum Gemma Winter when baby Aled is snatched.
When Freda Burgess learns that Gemma has gone to the hospital to meet other mums whose kids have cochlear implants, she struggles to hide her annoyance.
Gemma assures Freda that after the operation, they’ll still maintain links with other deaf people.
But when her mum Bernie says Aled will be normal once he’s had his operation, Freda is hurt.
She offers to take Aled for a walk, but when she overhears gran Bernie and dad Chesney Brown discussing the hassle of attending deaf groups and how they want Aled to talk properly and fit in, she’s even more upset.
When Freda doesn’t return, the race is on to find him before he misses his operation.
An emotional Freda is in the community centre with Aled, showing him a website dedicated to successful deaf people.
Enlisting the help of the interpreter, Gemma does her best to get through to Freda but she refuses to hand Aled over.
As Chesney arrives the couple try to convince Freda to come out before it’s too late.
Meanwhile Max Turner, now played by newcomer Paddy Bever, makes trouble for teacher Daniel Osbourne.
Daniel is accused of favouritism after he agrees to tutor Summer Spellman and Max makes a dig at him over his former romance with younger woman Bethany Platt.
When Daniel’s wallet then goes missing from his jacket pocket he’s quick to suspect Max.
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