Looking evil

Terry's arrival makes former jailbird Jase Dyer more nervous than when he dropped the soap in the showers in prison.

Jase wants to make a fresh start, which is as likely as Kate Garraway winning Strictly Come Dancing. By the way, just who is voting for her?

Her dancing would make Long John Silver look nimble on the dance floor.

But I digress. Jase is alarmed when his old gang mate Terry turns up and is soon worming his way into Jase's house where son Jay is home alone.

Has no one told the lad not to open the door to strange men? When Jase returns home, he finds Jay has disappeared. A confrontation with terrible Terry is cause for concern as he clearly wants Jase to return to his old criminal ways.

Skullduggery, too, at the Mitchells as Ronnie is beaten to buying Scarlet's, the nightclub with no customers, by Jack Branning. She's furious when he makes the purchase at the last minute. Then he makes her an offer she may not be able to refuse. She can run the club while he acts as a sleeping partner - and it's pretty obvious with whom he'll be sleeping.

After the high drama of sister Stacey's wedding, Sleazy Sean Slater tries to make it up with his estranged mum. He had a miserable childhood, then left Stacey to care for his sick mother Jean.

He finds comfort of a sort round at his mum's - her stash of tranquilisers. He takes some to calm him down but his action has the opposite effect on his mum, who goes berserk on discovering he's been popping her pills.

In Emmerdale (ITV1), Louise's affair with toyboy Jamie hits a rough patch. He's probably got too much homework to pay attention to her.

She sees him with another woman and assumes he's having an affair, so she dumps him without giving him a chance to explain.

Then she flings herself at the nearest available man, which is her solution to everything.

The long arm of the law finally settles on Donna Windsor-Dingle as she becomes a fully-fledged policewoman. Unfortunately, her marriage to chef Marlon is going through a bad patch. He suspects her of playing prisoner-and-warder with new colleague PC Ross.

Already in court is potential Asbo Victoria Sugden, who recently torched the family home with her relatives inside it. She's also under pressure at school, where bullies are making her life misery. Perhaps a custodial sentence would keep her out of trouble.

Teacher John Stape is top of the class in Coronation Street (ITV1).

The smell of chalk is an aphrodisiac in Weatherfield as mother and daughter, Sally and Rosie Webster demand extra English literature lessons. John's already bedding teenager Rosie and now has her mother Silly Sally declaring her love for him. She just adores the way he gets his tongue round a sonnet and can't get enough of his conjugating.

Bonfire night sees a blaze in the street. No, demonic David Platt hasn't been put on top of the bonfire in a replay of Joan of Arc's burning.

He's the one with the matches and he decides to set fire to sister Sarah's wedding dress. Happily, she's not wearing it at the time.

Pregnant Violet gets violent on learning that the father of her unborn child, gay Sean, knows the sex of the baby. And so does most of the Street. My guess is that it's either a boy or a girl.