Pregnant teen Summer Spellman tells boyfriend Aaron Sandford that she’s made an appointment with Dr Gaddas to book an abortion on next week's Coronation Street. Having seen the doctor, Summer admits to Aaron she can’t help feeling upset.
However, Billy Mayhew's parishioner Esther Hargrave is gutted to learn about the planned termination and offers her money in a bid to change her mind. Summer's guardian Billy is horrified to realise that Esther was trying to buy her baby and orders her to leave.
When Billy infers that he disapproves of abortion, Summer heads to her room, upset. Todd speaks to Billy about how Summer feels and tells him he must support her.
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There's Halloween drama on the cobbles when Glenda Shuttleworth calls at number 11 ith a huge pumpkin to carve and display at the Rovers. Eileen is annoyed that she’s treating her house like a workshop, picks up Glenda’s pumpkin and heads out with it.
As she strides down the street, she collides with Gail, trips over the pumpkin and knocks herself out. George Shuttleworth and Sean Tully rush to Eileen’s aid but are shocked as she comes round appearing uncharacteristically chilled out and pleasant.
Back at home, a smiley Eileen tells George that she intends to spoil him rotten, and he admits to Sean that Eileen’s friendly demeanour is starting to scare him. Eileen explains to George how when she came round after her accident, she caught a glimpse of heaven and ever since, she’s felt calm and peaceful.
She opens up to George and Sean about her ‘heavenly’ experience and how she saw a bright light, smelt something sweet and heard strange music. When Eileen staggers in with the shopping and reveals her plan to do a cook-up for the soup kitchen, Todd tells George there’s obviously something wrong with her. When Mary suggests she writes up Eileen’s experience for The Inexplicable, George is forced to tell her the truth.
A stressed Fiz calls in the pub and tells Tyrone she’s had a call from a journalist wanting to run an article about John Stape. Fiz ends a call with the journalist and tells Tyrone that they’re planning to serialise a book about John Stape in the paper. Tyrone reckons Phill’s behind it.
Elsewhere Daniel Osbourne is also haunted on the anniversary of his late wife Sinead’s death. Daniel takes their son Bertie to Victoria Gardens before dropping him with auntie Beth Sutherland and heading for the Rovers where he tells girlfriend Daisy Midgeley it has been an emotional day, but he’d very much like it if the three of them could live together.
Daisy tells him she’d like that too. But as Beth calls at the flat with Bertie and recounts their day together, Bertie calls Daisy “mummy." Daniel is surprised whilst Beth’s horrified. Daisy confides in stepmum Jenny Connor how Bertie called her "mummy” and she’s not sure she’s ready for such a commitment. Jenny warns her that she’ll regret it if she walks away.
And Corrie's latest killer Stephen Reid is worried as Jenny and his victim Leo Thompkin's dad Teddy arrange to meet up at the Bistro to discuss finding Leo. He takes a photo of them together in the street and send them to Teddy from Leo’s phone with a message telling him that a mate saw them and thought he might be interested.
The message reads “don’t contact me again." To Stephen’s horror Teddy says he is going to go to Canada to speak to Leo face to face. Then Stephen's ex wife Gabrielle corners Stephen and demands her money. Stephen does his best to fob her off, but Gabrielle makes it clear she’s running out of patience.
Later he can't believe his luck as his mum Audrey hands him her phone and asks him to turn off notifications as it is driving her mad. Stephen meets up with Gabrielle and tells her he’s expecting the mortgage broker to call on Audrey’s phone, he needs her to pretend to be Audrey and that way she’ll get her money.
Convinced he is going to get the equity release money, he tells sister Gail that he has decided it might be time for him to move on now Audrey is feeling better. But he is shocked by an announcement from Audrey.
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