Who killed Frank then?  :)

The mother.

Michelle is going to have got the contract and her and Carla burn it.

Yes - his mother.

I recon it was one of the script writers !

Lol

It looks a bit too obvious to be Carla or Peter, but it might be a double bluff!

I thought the mother as well at first, I don't think it's Sally.

In fact, it's become obvious to me as I'm typing this, that I just haven't a clue!!! :-D

I agree.......his mother did it.

Oh Paula, that made me chuckle!!

I'm thinking possibly Michelle or that floozy he's just had an affair with..

Who the hells Frank ?

I think that Jenny came into the factory, heard Frank threaten Carla and then hit him over the head with the bottle!!!  :)  :)  She is the only one that the script writers can axe isn't she?...........or?  :) :)

His mother hadn't even entered my mind but the more I think about it, the more I think YES! She might have been there when he admitted to raping Carla after all, and her pride was hurt after he tossed her aside.

Ah, but now I come to think of it, the floozy could have heard him admitting to raping Carla and bashed him with the bottle!!

I've missed my vocation as a detective, obviously!!

As far as I am aware, none of the main characters is down to leave so it must be the mother or the partner in crime. Or was it no-one and he fell ?

Anyway, does anyone remember the mother in Duty Free ? I loved that programme !

his mum :-)

Yes, none of the characters as far as I know as due to leave so its got to be someone flitting through the programme. Peter 'I'm going to kill him' Barlow is way too obvious, Sally and Kevin haven't got it in them. We didn't actually see Michelle leave the factory, just looking suspicious in the office, so I reckon  shes got the contract.  Theorectically she could have overheard them talking and got her revenge but I don't think shes leaving.

If it is the mother, I don't think it would be cold bloodied murder. More manslaughter, maybe she hit him without the intention of actually killing him but in any case she puts on a pretty good show of blaming Carla when they collect the body.

Who cares as long as he is gone!
Hubby has said Jenny, his latest flame, all along although I couldn't see any reason for her doing so, but as someone has just said she may have overheard the rape confession.

Trust it to get exciting when we are away at Crufts, even with a TV in the room I will have to decide between watching Corrie or, if we get More 4, the show.

Mmm... I'm going with Mummy, but Jenny is good too... I think Mummy has gradually been realising hes really not nice at all. Theres been a few moments over the last few months where shes clearly been more than a bit scared of him and shocked at his actions. Before the rape trial there were definitely a couple of moments when she began to realise he really could have done it and probably did.. but pride wouldn't let her admit that, and then her husband died so she needed Frank to cling too...

So if she has now realised he DID do it.. I think she could kill him.

Mum or Jenny. If one of the regulars was leaving I'm sure we would have heard.

Nah..not his Mum!!  :)  People don't knock their only sons over the head however bad they are......do they?  :)  :)

I think I would if I saw him talking and roughing Carla up admitting he did rape her !

Yeah, but shes stuck by him, despite him intimidating her and doing some pretty evil things. Quite early on he demonstrated just how domineering and scary he could be and her faith  in him hasn't been quiiiiiite as rock solid as it should have been. Then she told Sally about Jenny.. and then he turned on her, shes going to be quite hurt and feeling pretty stupid and realising hes really evil..

So if she over hears him admitting it, bearing in mind shes greiving for her husband and now for her relationship with her son.. mmmm I think she could shove him off the stairs without really thinking it through, or hit him or something.

Not been watching since they bought Tracy back in so I can't comment on this demise but it seems a terrible street to live in only a few homes but heaven knows how many murders. Now if Tracy had been done in I would be straight back watching.

Tell me how was he sorted, a gun a knife or a blunt instrument or could he have just fallen.

He was found at the bottom of the stairs by Sally but she has blood on her hands when Shaun and Julie walk in.
However, I believe that the whisky bottle of Carla's will be found in a skip.

I think it was a bottle shoved in his neck and then he fell down the stairs sustaining fatal injuries which lead to his death. ( blimey I could get a job as the actress playing the coroner :-P)

I am a bit sceptical thou as when the tram crash happened they said there would be X number of deaths and no one could work out who the last one was. Turns out it was a random taxi driver !

Maybe no one has killed him and he fell, and it is all just a wind up.

I suppose there's no chance that he had a crisis of conscience and threw himself down the stairs when he realised the awfulness of who and what he had become? 

No thought not LOL

in that case I think it was ...

Mummy Dearest - this time she wasn't going to forgive him ;)

Is Tracy still in the show if so perhaps she did it after all she has had practice and secondly I would love her to be out again and this time perhaps they could manage an execution and I could watch again without fear of her appearing.

Celli, I think they are talking about Coronation Street.

Ooh I have a spoiler as know who has got the contract and who is trying to destroy it !

I also know that a certain person is questioned about a certain lack of quality in something Frank entrusted them with ;-)

LOL Wolfie, yes!

I love Corrie but I must admit I'm very upset that Frank wasn't convicted of the rape; what message does that send to people who have been raped at home? That nothing will come to it when it's reported. That does make me really upset and morally not very responsible of Corrie.

LJS SPILL! ;)

Nope :-D

Heres a link to the next weeks worth of corrie.

Don't open it if you hate spoliers. :)

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s3/coronation-street/

That doesn't tell us who killed Frank though!!!  :)

It helps to muddy the water though !

Something to do with his father's watch maybe ?? So, could be the mother ?

I think its the Mother because if she left it wouldnt mess with the normal run of stories as such...  unless it was the new girlfriend in the background maybe heard him tell Carla he raped her.
Just hope they dont drag it out too long as I get bored quickly with those type of story lines.

His watch?

Jenny gave it back to him, but I would think Anne doesn't know that, she will only remember it was missing...

Ill be annoyed if its Jenny now because we know so very little about her (other than shes a devious cow).

Anne, his mum.. shes definitely had a few moments after the rape where she was either intimidated or frightened by Franks behaviour, both behaviour directed at her and behaviour directed at others. Theres been at least a couple of times hes shouted at her or snapped at her and you could see, he did scare her. She is also a bit of an evil baggage herself so I think shes more than aware of what he is like..

Then she was very uncomfortable with Frank seeing Sally, she KNEW it wasn't right (not just because Sally is an extremely irritating snobby golddigger), because Sally is just NOT in Franks league.. so why would he be interested.., but I doubt that that alone or the realisation that it was mainly to make him look good at the trial would make her betray her son to Sally, in telling her about Jenny.

Sooooo I think she already had very strong suspicions, then he turns nasty on her and throws her out, and perhaps she goes back to the factory to maybe plead with him again... and overheard the incident with Frank and Carla, and has a row with him and hits him with the whisky bottle... or he turns nasty and she pushes him down the steps... and then shes mortified at what shes done so lashes out at Carla, because in a twisted way, IF he had never met Carla.. none of it would have happened!

Goodness how do you find the energy to think so deeply into the strange script writing of a soap, there is little logic in the storyline so it is really just a guessing game as the story line is usually just to fit in with someone's contract requirements. Never forgotten the time in Neighbours when someone had a baby with their tights on.

I think Mummy dearest came back to try and talk to Frank, heard him quarrel with Carla and admit the rape, and then whacked him on the back of the head with the whisky bottle knowing Carla's prints were on it and Carla had the most reason to want Frank dead after he scammed the factory off her and raped her.

Killing Two birds with one whisky bottle so to speak ;)

> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Goodness how do you find the energy to think so deeply into the strange script writing of a soap

No idea, its my 'switch off and think about something that is NOT dogs' time - that and casualty and also House. (Sounds a lot but they are pretty much the only things I watch!) - since I became ill (im fine its a 'live with it' kinda thing) my ability to read for hours and hours has dropped and i tend to fall asleep face first in a book, so soaps are now my 'escape' - I fully realise, they are utter trash and not remotely important, so don't think im one of these nutters who thinks its REAL

It wasn't the watching I was surprised about, lots of us watch but the amount of thought you had put into the situation when the scripts are often so illogical - was not a criticism but rather admiration that you could find enough in the script to come up with such a well thought out solution - you may be right.

>I fully realise, they are utter trash and not remotely important, so don't think im one of these nutters who thinks its REAL

No No No  not utter trash!

I've found them very useful when finding opportunities to talk to my children about subjects that need discussing at some point but would be very embarassing to bring up 'cold'   I also use them to discuss moral and ethical dilemmas with the children that might be difficult to understand or imagine without being illustrated in some way - soaps are great for this :-D

Other than that though, for me a bit of escapeism when needed and too tired to read, I dip in and out :-D

Let's face it, most people don't like to admit that they watch the soaps do they?  :)  :)

Well I used to watch it but once Trace reappear I stopped, do watch Emerdale but don't watch East Enders or indeed any others. Can't see a problem in watching a soap they have long been in favour before TV it was magazines and before that the papers running stories from day to day.

> Let's face it, most people don't like to admit that they watch the soaps do they

I only watch Coronation Street. My OH thinks it's rubbish - but he has to watch every episode of Shaun the Sheep ... even having it on the 'timer' so that the television changes channel in the middle of the evening news :) :) :)

Yes, Coronation Street is the only 'Soap' I watch too. :)

>>It wasn't the watching I was surprised about...

Ahh - well sometimes they put the effort in... and write a good script. And sometimes they don't. I think the actors in this particular storyline are pretty good, I wouldn't put half the effort into wondering about a storyline involving say, Rosie Webster, because frankly, Helen Flanagan is a rubbish actress so I wouldn't expect her to achieve the subtlety that the actress who plays Anne has...

I could be entirely wrong and its a previously unmentioned cleaning lady who he caught rifling through the office filing cabinet - or maybe Kirk was out the back doing a delivery and turned psycho (he might have hidden depths.. lol!)

Corrie and Emmerdale for me, never eastenders (too depressing/nasty), the aussie soaps leave me cold and we only get the basic channels so that's all the choice I get LOL

At least those two have occasional humour in them as well as the angst and drama :-D 

I woz right