Becky Swain returns to Weatherfield in a way no one could have imagined: she appears before Lisa McDonald drunk, staggering in the middle of the street as if she had just run away from a nightmare.

Seeing Becky in such a mess, Lisa can’t bear to leave her alone, so she drags her back to her house to sober up.

However, Lisa doesn’t expect that this act of kindness will start a chain of chaos that makes the whole Connor – McDonald family want to “kneel down”.

As soon as she sobers up a bit, Becky goes straight to the bathroom, uses her things, borrows a robe like she’s at home.

Then suddenly she walks down the stairs in Lisa’s robe, naturally sits down on the sofa, looks around the house with a look… like “well, this is my place”. That moment left Lisa frozen, and the audience just wanted to scream: “Who invited you to live here?!”.

The real tragedy happened when Carla Connor pushed the door open and saw Becky sitting in her house like the owner of the house. Carla’s face changed from shock to anger in just a few seconds. Carla was someone who hated chaos and hated others invading her space; but now suddenly she saw Becky – her ex, the person who had given Carla so many headaches – appearing right in the middle of the living room. Without waiting for anyone to explain, Carla growled and asked Becky to leave the house immediately. But Lisa, out of pity for Becky, stepped up to “take the bullet” and said that Becky just needed a temporary shelter. Carla heard that and really exploded. The scene of the two women, who already had a rift, standing face to face made the atmosphere in the room thicken – as if just a slight touch would explode.

The conflict escalated when Becky stood up, her eyes both uncertain and challenging, saying that she “had nowhere to go”. That statement made Lisa want to protect her even more, and Carla felt betrayed. The audience could clearly see something cracking: the Lisa-Carla relationship. The two were not the type of stable closeness, and now Becky appeared like a fuse. Lisa was between compassion and responsibility, while Carla was between hurt and personal limits.