Rob Donovan (Marc Baylis) is set to be left for dead in upcoming Coronation Street scenes, but is stickler-for-the-rules-DS Lisa Swain (Vicky Myers) the one to blame?
Killer Rob came crashing back into estranged sister Carla Connor’s (Alison King) life earlier this year when Bobby Crawford (Jack Carroll) asked him to donate a kidney.
Carla was left needing another transplant after contracting sepsis, and though she wasn’t happy about the prospect, she eventually agreed to let Rob get tested to see if he was a match.
When Rob was rushed to hospital in recent scenes after a suspicious allergic reaction, Lisa was convinced that he and prison guard Mandy were plotting something.
Terrified that he would let Carla down, Lisa made a deal with him to have his sentence overturned in exchange for going through with the operation.
Next week, Rob calls Mandy insisting that he needs help, but he’s shocked to discover that she’s been suspended because someone found out about their forbidden relationship.
Mandy soon tells Carla that Rob has taken a turn for the worse, but suspicious Carla is keen to talk to a nurse.
It is then that Mandy turns on her, but is Carla in danger? Is this all part of Rob’s plan?
‘There’s a darker side to Rob than I’ve known before, and we get a window into, I would say, a man who needs more support than he’s getting,’ Marc Baylis previously explained.
Things only escalate from there, as Rob attacks his prison guard and steals his uniform, keen to make his escape.
Despite still recovering from their kidney donation operations, Rob holds Carla hostage in an abandoned office block.
Meanwhile, fearing for her girlfriend’s life, Lisa is hot on their trail – but will she make it in time to save Carla, or has she underestimated Rob?
In a surprising turn of events, Rob is later seen lying motionless at the bottom of a staircase.
How did he get there, and was it an accident?
It is DC Kit Green’s (Jacob Roberts) job to work that out, as he launches an investigation into what happened.
Before long, Lisa finds herself back on the wrong side of the interview table, as Kit interrogates her about Rob’s fall, but is she the person responsible?
It’s not the first time Lisa has been a suspect in a violent crime, having previously been wrongly arrested for the murder of Joel Deering.
She was eventually released and her innocence proven, but will the same happen this time?
Is she really to blame for Rob’s condition?
