It’s not Mason Radcliffe, but Abi Webster who really collapses after the shocking case in Weatherfield.

Although not related by blood, Abi once saw Mason as a child who needed to be pulled out of the darkness.

But when he collapsed in her arms, all her faith and efforts were lost in a bloody night.

The scene where Abi kneels beside Mason, her trembling hands supporting his head, her eyes filled with tears as she watches the pool of blood spreading on the tiled floor – is one of the most painful scenes Coronation Street has ever had.

“Mason, look at me, you have to breathe!” – she screams desperately, but the only response is a weak breath and a distant look. When the doctor declares cardiac arrest, Abi is stunned. She stands there, her hand still clutching the dried blood.

After the incident, Abi falls into a state of severe obsession. In the post-credits episode, viewers see her sleepless nights, constantly dreaming of Mason calling her name. The dreams are recurring: the dark alley, the sound of a knife falling, the sound of gasping for breath. “I could have saved him… if I had run faster,” she says in an internal monologue that brings viewers to tears.

What makes the tragedy even more tragic is that Abi was once the only person in Weatherfield who dared to believe that Mason could change. When the whole community turned its back on her, she still visited him, helped him find work, taught him how to fix cars in the Webster garage. “He was just a kid who was pushed in the wrong direction,” Abi once said. But the end result was death at the hands of Mason’s own family – with a knife he himself had carried.