First look Coronation Street pictures show a peaky looking Max Turner as his life hangs in the balance after his latest actions start to unravel.
Actor Paddy Bever took over the role of the troublesome character, who is the son of David Platt's late wife Kylie Platt and the late Callum Logan, back in September and it's fair to say dad David hasn't had an easy ride with the teen.
Since his return to screens, and Paddy's arrival in the soap, Corrie fans have seen Max causing problems for people on the famous street. Viewers even complained about the character's 'vile' transformation after he made a film suggesting a conspiracy theory linking Johnny Connor’s and Natasha Blakeman's deaths.
He also threw a swing at David before seeing the error of his ways but things only got worse when Daniel Osbourne was accused of grooming Summer Spellman after a drunken Max confronted his teacher at the school's winter ball. Then, in February, Max suffered a horror fall after Daniel found him trashing his flat.
Then, to add to the troubled relationship between pupil and teacher, Daniel discovered the truth about Amy Barlow's drink being spiked. Max had spiked the drink that was originally meant for Daniel but in a mix up at the school's winter ball, Amy ended up grabbing and downing the drink instead.
However, Daniel has kept shtum as Max threatened to send Daniel down for the push down the stairs, which had led to him being hospitalised, if he didn't keep quiet. Feeling in a helpless position, Daniel later returned to see Max and David and told them he would keep his dark secret on the condition his family don't ever find out.
While Max has been pretty quiet since that, all changes next week when Daniel is left apologising to his unforgiving girlfriend Daisy after accusing her of sharing Nicky Wheatley's past sex worker images with the rest of the school, only to find out it was Max's doing.
Later in the street, Daniel rails at Max for ruining Nicky’s life as she's left without a job and a home but David leaps to Max’s defence. Daniel, however, has had enough and asserts that it's time Amy knew who spiked her drink and if Max doesn’t tell her, he will.
A defiant Max assures David and Shona that Daniel’s bluffing as he’s got too much to lose. But when Amy misreads one lad’s admiring glances she throws a cup of coffee over him and has a meltdown believing he could have been the one to spike her drink. Daniel tells David about Amy’s behaviour and tells him she needs to know the truth.
With the weight of the world on his shoulders and feeling guilty about Amy, Max has a huge fall out with David who has confiscated his phone. As he asserts that he hates him David retaliates by saying Max’s mum would be ashamed of him if she were alive.
Planning to run away Max smashes the glass on the barber’s door and climbs in, hoping to retrieve his phone. As Max climbs out of the barber’s, he lacerates his leg on the broken glass in the door and collapses onto the street.
Corrie viewers will be left wondering if Max can be found before it's too late with spoiler images showing the 15-year-old in a bad way.
