The truth about Jodie is finally exposed in Coronation Street leaving the Platts reeling

A composite image of Jodie, David and Shona

I know. We’ve said it before. But Jodie Ramsey (Olivia Frances-Brown) really is about to be exposed for all her delightfully deranged scheming – and this time, there’s no going back.

Before you even start, I feel your pain. It’s increasingly infuriating to see Weatherfield’s newest bunny boiler put her delightfully deranged plots into action each week and manipulate herself out of trouble every time.

It’s also very entertaining. This woman is no Becky Swain (Amy Cudden). She didn’t rise from the grave on her first day: although she did escape from the back of a van belonging to Emmerdale’s baddest butler,Graham Foster (Andrew Scarborough).

Since that day, this twisted sister of Shona Platt (Julia Goulding) has been going full cuckoo in the nest in a wonderfully sociopathic revenge quest to seduce her husband David (Jack P Shepherd) to pay big sis back for walking out on their family years ago. Calm down, love.

When Jodie’s seduction went pear-shaped, and David told Jodie just how off the deep end her sister was, the bitter little schemer got kicked out of the Platts and found herself another sucker – Daniel Osbourne (Rob Mallard). After Daniel finally saw the Pound Shop Single White Female’s true colours, she had to go cap in hand back to Shona, who was willing to let bygones be bygones. Lucky for Jodie.

Jodie and David have been at war since her seduction scheme failed. (Picture: ITV)

Not so lucky for David’s sister Sarah Platt (Tina O’Brien) however, who happened to discover her bizarre box of trinkets stolen from their neighbours.

In a panic, Jodie attacked Sarah from behind on the very night that Theo Silverton (James Cartwright) was killed – inadvertently giving the murderer, Sarah, the best possible alibi.

Sarah knows that Jodie was her attacker. After making the discovery, she confronted Jodie, but because Jodie figured out that Sarah had lied to the police about the exact timing of the assault, they two women were left at a stalemate.

Jodie’s got good reason for wanting to keep that box under wraps, seeing as it contains a gun – the very gun that she stole from Carl Webster (Jonathan Howard) after his Mexican stand off in the garage with Ronnie Bailey (Vinta Morgan), Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) and  Kevin (Michael Le Vell). This act ironically put Carl in danger, as he was holding on to the gun of ruthless dodgy car dealing criminal Fiona Morley (Sara Poyzer).

Jodie can’t talk her way out of trouble this time. (Picture: ITV)

Jodie’s box of stolen trinkets has always been a smoking gun. Now she’s taken that literally. If the Platts discover that box, the bunny-boiling baddie is done for. And one of the Platts is about to do just that.

In next week’s episodes, Sarah finally comes clean to her boyfriend DS Kit Green (Jacob Roberts), who is shocked when she reveals it was Jodie who attacked her.

Obviously this comes back to bite her, because this is Corrie and nobody keeps a secret for more than five seconds. Furious, Kit goes blabbing to Shona, who immediately goes charging off to demand answers from Jodie. How will Jodie get out of this one?

Not very well, it seems, as David and Shona visit Sarah later and she tells them all about Jodie’s trinket box. Will they be able to find it?

Not them, but someone else. The worst person possible. David and Shona’s daughter, Jodie’s adoring niece, Lily (Grace Ashcroft-Gardner). Once David and Shona are in bed, Lily tiptoes downstairs in search of her console.  She reaches under the sofa and pulls out Jodie’s trinket box.

What will she find – the gun? Or something worse?

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