Is this the end for Robert and Tracy?
The truth is out and it wasn't pretty but what will become of Weatherfield's newest power couple?
We asked Tristan Gemmill whether Robert's made a lucky escape from Tracy?
Did Robert have any inkling that Tracy knew about his one-night stand with Carla?
I don’t think he did no. When it all first happened in the New Year he was very cagey the first few times he saw Tracy as she was behaving oddly but he didn’t want to get into that in case she became suspicious, so after the initial scare he thought, well she’s Tracy and if she knew something she’d have brought it up by now.
How does he react now that he knows that she knows?
Robert is completely side swiped by it, he thought he’d navigated the waters of that potentially awkward situation and the trouble was behind them. He’s made an uneasy peace with Carla, he and Tracy have carried on the way they were before, so he thought he had got away with it.
Although he did then point out to Tracy they were on a break.
She’s clearly furious – does Robert feel any remorse at this point?
It all exploded with this moment of revelation, then as he and Tracy hung out all their dirty washing he was very contrite at first but as the episode went on the power balance between them started to shift and while Robert started off by being very apologetic he then realised the extent of what Tracy’s done since.
He discovered Tracy left Carla in the bistro with the robbers and didn’t call the police and that’s quite a biggie as Carla ended up in hospital. So as Robert thinks it through retrospectively he concludes that Tracy’s done every bit as much wrong as he has, if not more.
And then Tracy admitted she was pregnant! What was Robert's reaction?
It was very tense at the end of the episode as she went upstairs to do the pregnancy test and he just stood there with his whole world thrown upside down.
Previously they’ve spoken about potentially having a baby but they decided it was far too soon and they should be concentrating on the Bistro and Preston’s Petals but at least they were together and in a reasonably healthy place.
But now with the revelation about Tracy’s behaviour that completely throws Robert into a spin - thankfully to him, it turned out negative.
Is he worried about how Nick might react if Tracy told him the truth?
He doesn’t think that far ahead, he just takes a moral position on Tracy’s behaviour and acts that out.
It’s Carla who comes into the Bistro having seen Tracy in a state and reminds Robert that an unstable Tracy is much more dangerous and more likely to tell Nick than a stable Tracy.
Whether Robert will do anything about that, I couldn’t possibly say...
How does Robert feel about Tracy now he’s seen her true colours?
Every time she does something mean or bad he’s found a way to forgive her in the past but this time he doesn’t know if he can. He’s loved her from way back and they’ve got that connection, they know each other so well, and there’s that element of danger about her that clearly he’s attracted to.
But he’s seen how destructive she can be and he’s taken a moral position on that. Her behaviour and his moral stance don’t run a parallel course and at some point they’re going to collide and he won’t be able to find a way to forgive her any more. Maybe this could be the moment?
Do you think they can ultimately make it work given the deception there’s been between them?
That’s the place we arrive at at the moment, is the relationship worth continuing? It seems that he might not be able to get past this and it could be curtains for their relationship.
If you were Robert’s mate, what advice would you give him about Tracy?
Stay the hell away, with possibly stronger language than that!
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