Molly definitely leaves. But is she dead or alive?

Molly definitely leaves. But is she dead or alive?
Molly definitely leaves. But is she dead or alive?

Coronation Street's Vicky Binns reveals to Soaplife that neither Tyrone nor Kevin can stop Molly leaving - but maybe that death tram can... Kevin doesn't want her and she can't go on living a lie with Tyrone. So Molly takes the only option left to her and prepares to leave the Street. "Every time she looks at baby Jack she sees Kevin. And every time she looks at Tyrone it's in her mind that Jack isn't his child," actress explains. "She's exhausted and makes up her mind she's leaving, with or without Kevin..." Until the death tram arrives and she and baby Jack are left trapped... Why does Molly want to be with Kevin after he rejected her when he found out she was pregnant? "Ever since she found out that Kevin's definitely Jack's dad all the old feelings she had for him during their affair have resurfaced. She's made up her mind that she wants to be with him." The way we see it, though, Kevin doesn't want to be with her, with or without the baby... "He's made it very clear her dreams of playing happy families with him and baby Jack are never going to happen. But she can't handle living across the road from him and she can't keep living in this little bubble she's created with Tyrone. Something has to give." That something involves breaking Tyrone's heart. How does she tell him she's leaving? "It happens after he finds out she's still taking the Pill and not trying for another baby as he believed. She just can't pretend any more and says she's leaving him." And we're guessing this is when she tells him Jack isn't his baby... "She has to. In despair, Tyrone insists he won't let Molly out of the house. He says she can only go if she leaves Jack as he won't be parted from his son. That's when she drops the bombshell he's not Jack's father and that she had an affair. But she won't reveal her lover's identity..." Does she feel bad that she's breaking Tyrone's heart? "She's almost relieved. The strain of the secret was really getting to her." Then she goes to see Kevin and tells him he'll never see Jack again. Does she mean that? "Molly hopes that if he has to face saying goodbye to Jack for good he might change his mind and leave with her. But deep down she knows he's not going to." Where is Molly when the tram crashes? And is Jack with her? "They're in the corner shop. She's just let Kevin hold Jack for the last time..."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.