Coronation Street’s Megan Walsh continues to manipulate Daniel Osbourne, as he started suspecting something after noticing student Will Driscoll’s behaviour towards her.

Megan has been grooming Will but keeps up appearances by entertaining a relationship with Daniel, who started falling for her. In tonight’s (22 January) scenes, Megan turned down Daniel’s proposal to go for a spa weekend as an upset Will was within earshot.

 

 

At school, Will insisted Megan dump Daniel, to which she replied: “I promise, as soon as I have a chance, I’ll ask him for some space.”

Out for lunch, Megan intended to let Daniel down gently, but was taken aback when he confessed he had feelings for her.

“It’s complicated,” Megan replied when he asked her how she felt, swiftly changing the subject about being under pressure at school.

Daniel then suggested that Will could be part of the reasons why Megan was stressed, suggesting the teen’s behaviour towards her should be flagged to the headteacher Crawshaw.

Coronation Street has teased a huge new death storyline, set to begin this spring in a special flashforward episode. The scenes will open with one Weatherfield resident being questioned by police after discovering a dead body, before revealing five characters who could potentially be the victim.

Producer Kate Brooks has strongly hinted that it will be a villain who meets their maker, revealing that the character in question has “created a lot of waves in the street” by the time they’re killed. Viewers, however, will be kept guessing throughout spring as the mystery unfolds.

But with suspicion falling in multiple directions, the big question is: which Corrie character will lose their life? Here are our current suspects…

Top of our list – it’s the callous Carl Webster. Carl’s enemies on the cobbles are stacking up thanks to his affair with Abi and his cruel treatment of Debbie, who is living with dementia. He was also responsible for Tyrone’s devastating injuries last year.

More recently (and perhaps more crucially), he was among those to blame for the multi-vehicle pile-up in the Corriedale special that claimed the life of Billy Mayhew, although he’s now letting Debbie take the blame.

As he continues to hide his guilt over this, the scheming Carl now knows Theo’s own dark secret over the tragedy too. When Theo discovered what Carl knew, he turned the tables and threatened him if he were ever to reveal the truth.

So if the mystery does hinge on a character who has been upsetting everyone on the cobbles, it’s not surprising that Carl is right up there as the most likely candidate, if a little obvious.

Viewers have been watching in horror as Theo has spent the past few months emotionally and physically abusing his fiancé Todd Grimshaw. The scheming scaffolder then left poor Billy to die in the Corriedale crash, wanting to silence him forever after the vicar discovered the truth about Todd’s ordeal.

While show bosses have recently promised that there is hope for Todd in future episodes, as other characters will soon start to realise that something is wrong, Theo is still firmly in the running for getting his deathly comeuppance.