Weatherfield is rocked by a haunting new obsession.

In the ashes of Billy Mayhew’s death, Todd Grimshaw finds himself clinging to the only person who hasn’t left his side — Theo Silverton.

But what begins as comfort soon mutates into something darker, as Theo wraps his sympathy around Todd like a noose.

The emotional wreckage is total. Todd, crushed by guilt and loneliness, loses sight of himself.

He stops recognizing the face in the mirror, the one now shaped by someone else’s control. Every text, every whisper, every “I care about you” from Theo tightens the cage. The love he once craved now tastes like poison, and the world he thought he knew disintegrates.

Meanwhile, the silence around Billy’s death grows thicker. Theo hides his guilt behind charm, while those closest to Todd turn away, too afraid to intervene. The manipulation is surgical — cutting Todd off, piece by piece, until he’s isolated, obedient, broken.
This wasn’t just grief — it detonated into a psychological war, a slow-burning nightmare leaving Todd questioning reality itself, reshaping the man he used to be.

But the tide shifts when Todd uncovers the messages Theo deleted — proof that the tragedy wasn’t fate, but orchestration. And when he confronts him, all hell breaks loose. For the first time, Todd stops running from the truth — and starts running toward revenge.