There's horror on the cobbles as young Sam Blakeman is snatched by Harvey's gang in next week's Coronation Street.
When his mum Natasha discovers that he has been in touch with his dad Nick in his hideout she confiscates his phone.
Meanwhile wily Sharon Bentley clocks that Sam and Natasha are due to have tea with grandma Gail Platt and tips off her drugs lord nephew Harvey, sneakily taking a photo of Sam and showing it to Harvey’s sidekick.
As Sam approaches he's lured into a van and driven away as a grim Sharon watches on from Rita Tanner’s flat.
A frantic Natasha explains to his aunts Sarah and Shona that Sam’s gone missing and she can’t call him as she confiscated his phone.
She calls the police to report him missing while Sharon plays the concerned friend.
Coronation Street has been rocked by the savage attack on Nina Lucas and her boyfriend Seb Franklin which resulted in the tragic loss of the builder's life, and next week Asha Alahan reveals her plan.
Asha has concerned friends and family by insisting on defending her bully boyfriend Corey Brent but she shocks her brother Aadi when she tells him why.
Her twin reckons she’s hiding something, and he's right.
Asha, who had gone home before a gang of vile teenagers including Corey set upon the young couple, confides in Aadi how she despises Corey and reckons he’s guilty as sin.
She admits she 's only pretending to take his side in the hope that he’ll slip up.
And she’s aiming to get to the real truth about the hate attack carried out because of goth Asha's appearance.
When Roy Cropper is upset to find a bin bag full of his niece’s dresses, Asha offers to look after them in the hope Nina will change her mind and Roy is grateful.
Elsewhere Jenny Connor appears to have swapped Johnny for Ronnie, but they're interrupted by her husband who arrives home unexpectedly from prison with a bunch of flowers.
Meanwhile Sharon also draws Dev Alahan into her devious plan to track down Simon Barlow for Harvey, inviting the shop owner to share a bottle of wine with her.
But what she really wants is to message Simon from Aadi’s console and for him to take the bait.
And there's tension when Alina Pop and Tyrone Dobbs plan to buy the salon flat together and Fiz Stape finds out.
