So it turns out that vicar Billy Mayhew isn’t as squeaky clean as we’ve thought this whole time. He’d already hinted that he had a bit of a dark side after fully laying into Peter Barlow the other week.
And now it seems that Billy’s murky past is about to catch up with him. As the police turned up at the flat and arrested Billy – in front of partner, Todd Grimshaw and soon-to-be-adopted-daughter, Summer Spellman – the holy man visibly paled.
He looked guilty as, well as guilty as hell, while being questioned by the police.
Then Billy made a tearful confession to Todd, that he’d been involved with an armed robbery back in 2003. He admitted that after being rejected by his dad and breaking up with his first real love, he started hanging out with a gang of men who liked starting fights. We’ve all been there.
Billy revealed to Todd that one day the gang decided to hold up a petrol station with a replica gun. But guess what? The gun wasn’t a replica at all.
Todd was visibly shaken as Billy told him he didn’t really know him at all.
The confessions didn’t stop there either. Billy then dropped his biggest bombshell.
While they were driving away from the armed robbery, they hit another car. Billy sobbed as he described what a mangled mess the other vehicle was.
“I don’t know how anyone could have survived,” he sobbed, before revealing a woman had been driving the car, and there had been someone else in it too.
And to top off his unburdening, he told Todd that he encouraged the driver to just driver off because there was nothing they could do.
Not very Godly behaviour there, Billy-boy.
Despite being horrified by Billy’s confession, Todd promised that he would stand by his man, swearing that there was no way he would leave Billy and Summer. Ever.
Hmm. Viewers were not buying this latest plot development though…
Elsewhere, Robert was released from prison and promptly given groin strain by Michelle, who had clearly missed him a lot.
Roy accidentally blurted out that Fiz had been sent some money for Hope and hadn’t told the rest of the factory workers – leading to some literal mud-slinging between her and Beth.
And life got even tougher for Aidan when he discovered the van he’d borrowed from Tyrone had been torched, with all the materials for his and Alya’s new business inside.