As Kelly tries to come to terms with her mum Laura’s tragic death on next week's Coronation Street she is overwhelmed when she discovers she stands to inherit everything from her dad Rick, including the family home. The stunned teen asks her guardian Gary to go and check on the house for her.
At the neglected house Gary is faced with a smiling photo of his former nemesis Rick and he packs up some belongings to bring back to Kelly. But as Kelly looks at the reminders of her childhood, she’s overcome with emotion and hurries out.
Alone in Victoria Garden and numb with misery, Kelly is in danger of hitting rock bottom again through her grief. She takes out her mum’s bottle of morphine from her pocket and unscrews the top just as Abi arrives.