Coronation Street spoilers: Abi set to kill vile character ‘she can’t stand’ with wrench
Abi Webster (Sally Carman) is rocked by two reminders of very bleak times in her life in upcoming Coronation Street episodes – and the fallout leads her to thoughts of murder.
The first shock comes when she turns on the TV and sees a documentary about a prison football team, and the star player is Corey Brent (Maximus Evans) – the evil thug who killed her son Seb (Harry Visinoni).
‘Suddenly Corey’s literally in her kitchen, and not only is he in her kitchen, he’s in her kitchen having a great time, being bigged up and being celebrated. It’s just like a sucker punch in her stomach,’ Sally Carman told us.
‘Obviously she thinks about Seb all the time, but she was starting to get to that point where she could think about him and feel happy remembering him. Obviously there are moments where that’s not the case, but this has totally turned all of it on its head and she feels like she’s back to the day he was kicked to death by Corey.’
Abi reacts in a typically Abi way, as she heads straight to the offices of the TV production company to make sure they know how upset she is about the broadcast.
No sooner has she tried to put this behind her than she gets a visit from her former drug dealer, Dean (Anthony Crank), in another unhappy reminder of some of the most difficult days of her life when she was using drugs.
Sally said that Abi is desperate for Dean to get out of her life again: ‘He just disgusts her, he represents everything she was and represents every broken element of her life. She just doesn’t want him anywhere near her or anywhere near her family. She can’t stand him.’
Dean asks for money which Abi refuses. So when Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) shows her an explicit video of herself online, Abi’s reeling – and is convinced that Dean must have posted it.
‘There’s so much to compute because she has no memory of this video but she also knows that it’s possible because she’s had blackouts and there’s been opportunities for someone to take advantage of that,’ Sally explained. ‘Her head does go to Dean because he seems the obvious perpetrator.’
While Kevin and Abi’s relationship has survived a lot, Sally told us that Abi views this as something that could finally break them.
‘He’s seen her vulnerable and upset and he’s seen her relapse but it’s kind of been forgivable because she lost her son through murder. There was lots of stuff that was really triggering and she did her best but she slipped, however this is something else. She’s desperate for him not to see this because it’s actual visuals of her past which are being thrown very much into the present and she doesn’t want that. It’s so damaging. You can’t un-see something like that.’
Again, Abi’s reaction is instinctive and fiery, as she hunts Dean down.
‘She goes after him with a wrench, she wants to kill him!’ Sally said.
‘Her emotions are all over the place. She’s doing so well and it’s that thing of you can forget who used to be and become a different person but clearly there’s a lot of hurt and damage there. The old protective, fight for your life mode comes out and she just cannot see reason. She’s in there and she’s ready to kill him.
‘Abi’s got that real animal instinct, she’s kind of wild and I love that about her. This brings out that wildness, that sort of react before thinking, she’s very much I’d rather ask for forgiveness than permission.’
