Coronation Street's Summer Spellman will be kidnapped next month, as sinister Mike and Esther take action as they fear she will dash their surrogacy hopes.
Summer makes two big discoveries about the mystery couple, as their past and their secrets are finally set to be exposed.
As her loved ones desperately try to get the couple to back off, amid Summer's plan to be a surrogate for them, things lead to the alarming moment that Summer is held against her will at their house.
It all kicks off when Todd Grimshaw and Billy Mayhew, Summer's dads, both uncover two secrets about Mike - both of which leave the men worried.
When Summer is forced to confront the pair just as they begin the process for their surrogacy, she ends up being locked away in the house.
The couple joined the soap not too long ago and, after learning Billy's adopted daughter Summer was pregnant and wasn't sure she wanted to keep the baby, they took action.
Sharing their struggles with fertility and their desperation to have a child, they paid Summer £10,000 to hand over her offspring when they were born.
Summer agreed, but sadly she suffered a miscarriage – something she was keeping from Mike and Esther, despite taking their money.
Recent scenes saw the couple proposition Summer in exchange for her keeping the £10k – as they asked her to be their surrogate.
Summer will end up agreeing to this much to Billy's panic, and he's forced to support her despite not agreeing with it.
Summer's other stepfather Paul also isn't sure about the pair, and he, Todd and Billy are trying to find out what they can about Mike and Esther.
In scenes to air in January, Todd and Paul are determined to find out more as Summer announces that she’s got an appointment at the fertility clinic.
Paul suggests to Todd that the best plan of action might be to raise the money to pay Mike and Esther off in the hope they’ll leave Summer alone.
But Summer continues with her plan - unaware that Mike has been up to no good on the street, as spotted by Leanne Battersby.
Leanne realises he’s the drunken man who flirted with her in The Bistro, and decides to tell Billy what she knows.
He's deeply concerned and decides Summer needs to know the truth - but the shocks don't end there.
The next day, Todd tells Summer he has been contacted by Ava, a member of the congregation at Mike and Esther’s old church.
She's left shocked when he spills that she had an affair with Mike, and Summer decides to confront Esther about it.
Esther confirms the story but claims she and Mike have moved on from it, but Summer needs answers.
The teen decides to meet up with the woman in question, Ava, but is furious by what she discovers.
As she races to Mike and Esther's house and confronts them about their lies, and their past, Mike locks her in the nursery.
He ends up leaving her in danger though, as he shuts her away without her bag which contains her phone and insulin - with Summer having diabetes.
Coronation Street airs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm on ITV1 and ITV X.
