It’s all gone terribly wrong for Peter (Picture: ITV)
Peter Barlow (Chris Gascoyne) is facing the prospect of time behind bars after killing Stephen Reid (Todd Boyce) in Coronation Street.
During the final instalment of Super Soap Week, Peter drove into Stephen which caused the evil businessman’s death and marked an end to his reign of terror over the cobbles.
Stephen’s storyline has seen him murder three people, steal money from Audrey (Sue Nicholls), drug Carla (Alison King) and hurt a lot of other residents along the way. While this plot may be over, another has only just begun, and it’s not looking good for beloved Peter Barlow.
Ahead of his departure from the ITV soap, Chris Gascoyne has been discussing this huge twist and what’s ahead for his character as Peter falls apart:
‘Well he has just killed someone so there are so many storylines that can come out of that and so many reasons that he might not be around any more. All I will say is I am delighted with my exit storyline, the scripts are superb and I can’t wait to see the reaction to how Peter leaves the street.’
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‘Without giving too much away this will affect his future’, Chris teased.
‘He has been arrested on suspicion of murder, he is struggling with his demons. He has always had lots of enemies but at the end of the day he is his own worst enemy, he is the one that has suffered at his own hands the most emotionally and we can see this starting to happen again. He is facing prison, the drink is on his mind again, Audrey wants him to pay for what he has done. It is a turbulent time ahead.’
Describing Peter as someone who is in ‘deep conflict’ with himself, Chris went on to tell us how the next few weeks will play out:
Peter confronted Stephen this week, furious at what he had put Carla through (Picture: ITV)
‘This is where Stephen’s story ends and mine picks up. Peter is a man who is in deep conflict with himself. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter how it happened, he has killed someone. It is impossible to imagine what that must feel like. Could you ever rest, could you sleep. He actually says “I have taken another human being out of this world forever, what kind of person does that? What does that make me?” And he is terrified.
‘He is in hell and he is fighting through fear, but when he knows that Jenny is pretty adamant she would have been ok, that really starts to affect his mental state of mind’, he added.
‘As we know Peter has been through a lot and there is no doubt that he will be tempted to drink which really would be a decision to kill the pain and kill himself through alcohol, he knows that. This is a real danger zone for him. He has taken a man’s life and even if he goes to prison he will have to live with that, he will always suffer.
Stephen died after being hit by Peter (Picture: ITV)
‘It will be interesting to see how he deals with his demons.’
Intrigued over the audience’s reaction to Peter’s actions, Chris wondered: ‘Now the thing is here, what I’m really interested in is whether they will forget that Stephen did what he had done, and will they be pleased that Peter killed him to save Jenny or will they be led by other people’s feelings?
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‘Will they see Peter as a good person or will they think that he should face justice for what he did? It is multi faceted in that way, and I hope that that’s where they go. I don’t want people to have a straight down the line opinion.
‘They will feel for Peter and feel for Audrey, and I hope they’ll feel for Stephen to an extent.’
Peter must face the consequences.
