If Becky’s return was enough to make Weatherfield freeze, what happened to Theo Silverton this week was even darker and more chilling.

Theo – the gentle face for so long, the person everyone considered the “good guy of the neighborhood” – suddenly fell into the center of suspicion when a mysterious character appeared and called his name in a voice so familiar that Theo turned pale.

The shocking scene took place right in the alley next to Underworld: Theo stepped out of the store, still holding a bag of goods, when a strange man, tall and thin, wearing a dark coat, came and stood in front of him.

This person said only one sentence, light but enough to make Theo sweat:

“You think I won’t find you?”

No one knew who that person was. No one knew how they knew each other. But Theo’s eyes said it all. It was not the eyes of ordinary surprise. It was the look of someone who knew what he feared most was coming back.

The next day, the locals started gossiping: had Theo done something shady? Had Becky – who had just come back to life – returned at this exact moment because of Theo’s secret? Fans immediately connected the two: Becky had always tried to stay close to Theo since her return. Theo had always avoided mentioning the past. It was rare for Coronation Street to have a pair of “double secret” characters appear at the same time like this.

The newspaper’s source revealed: the mysterious man could be a character from the period when Theo had “disappeared for months without reason” many years ago. The locals had asked about that disappearance, but Theo only gave a vague answer. But the fact that the other person came to Weatherfield, at the same time as Becky’s return, made the residents even more convinced that the two events were connected.

One scene in particular made fans shudder: Theo ran into the empty house, locked the door hastily, slid down the wall and looked at his shaking hands. He gasped, eyes closed, like someone who had just heard a call from hell. As the camera zoomed in, a tear fell from his eye. But it wasn’t a tear of sadness – it was a tear of fear that someone would know the truth.