Kicked out of the Platts’, Jodie Ramsey (Olivia Frances-Brown) is in desperate need of a new sucker on Coronation Street. Along comes Daniel Osborne (Rob Mallard). Has she met her match?

The bunny-boiling baddie has made a boo-boo. Months of careful scheming, inveigling her way into her sister Shona Platt’s (Julia Goulding) house to steal her family went up in smoke thanks to one stupid mistake.

Jodie’s slow-burn plan to punish Shona for running away from home as a teenager and abandoning her to their dysfunctional parents was starting to work. She was undermining Shona as a mother at every turn in the eyes of their daughter Lily (Grace Ashcroft-Gardner), while getting far too cosy with her sister’s husband David Platt (Jack P Shepherd).

But then Jodie made a text-book mistake – pretending to be her sister to lure her husband into bed.

Reeling with betrayal to discover that Shona had lied about trying to reach out when they were kids, Jodie snapped in a moment of rage and took her sister’s phone, ‘hearting’ a flirty text from David which suggested they make the most of having the house to themselves. Then, she waited in Shona’s bed, wearing Shona’s lingerie and Shona’s perfume, for a drunken David to stumble home into the darkened bedroom…

…and then she kissed him. That’s when everything went pear-shaped.

Naturally, David confessed the whole Jodie-pretending-to-be-his-missus debacle to Shona, who was understandable more concerned with her sister suddenly vanishing off the face off the earth – probably because of the thugs that came looking for her recently.

Sure enough, Shona’s worst fears were confirmed when Kit Green (Jacob Roberts) told her that the police are treating Jodie’s disappearance as a kidnapping. Fraught, she left a voicemail for her sister, insisting that the David drama doesn’t matter as she just wants her to be okay…

..cut to Jodie in precinct,sat on the swings listening to Shona’s message and smiling at the cracks she’d put in her sister’s marriage.

However, now Jodie’s left with the problem of not having a roof under head…. one which leads her to making an unlikely new ally in upcoming episodes of Coronation Street.

As luck would have it, she overhears Ken Barlow (William Roache) discussing Daniel Osbourne’s (Rob Mallard) plan to visit the Lakes and decides to indulge in a bit of light squatting…

… but when Jodie lets herself into Daniel’s flat, she’s shocked to see him there. But not as shocked as Daniel to see her there! Jodie pretends that she found a spare key on the pavement and was returning it. Daniel doesn’t buy it and orders her to sling her hook.