A terrified Jane Beale wakes from her coma to a find a murderous Max!

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Jane Beale finally wakes from her coma to find herself all alone with a murderous Max! Meanwhile, Mick finds out the truth about Linda’s cancer secret.

Max is still hanging around the hospital now that Jane Beale has been brought round from her induced coma. When Ian needs to get back to the Square, Max helpfully says he’ll stay with Jane in case she wakes up. With Ian away, Jane does indeed come round... Only to find Max alone with her!

Mick is stunned after Linda’s bombshell that she had cancer and hid it from him. His first priority is to get Linda checked out to make sure that her cancer hasn’t come back. Will she be okay? Back in the Square, Mick soon realises that Woody was in on Linda’s news from the beginning. Feeling completely betrayed, Mick confronts Linda and it’s bad...

Joyce starts to come round to Ted’s idea that they run away to Australia to escape the gun charges, Meanwhile, when Patrick finally tells Dot that Dave the cat belong to the Murrays Dot decides to do the right thing and return him to them. Now that they’ve decided to secretly leave, they awkwardly tell Dot she can keep him. Will they really go through with their plan?

Also, Michelle and Sharon report Tom for nuisance phone calls. Meanwhile, Keanu gets an idea about how to make some extra cash...

Rachel Lucas
Forward Planning Deputy Manager

Rachel is a soaps and TV writer for WhatToWatch.com, soaps podcaster and resident soap expert for UK TV listings magazines What's On TV and TV Times. After graduating with an art and design degree from Birmingham City University, she found her true calling in all things soap and has been writing about them for magazines and websites for over 20 years. A self-confessed soap addict, she's always had a great love of all the UK and Aussie soaps and owns everything from a Neighbours 1990 Annual to a DVD box set of classic Corrie episodes to prove it.