Sarah Platt has confessed to Todd Grimshaw that she killed Theo on Coronation Street. The legendary Weatherfield resident, played by Tina O'Brien since 1999, hit the evil scaffolder over the head with a pipe during a confrontation above the builder's yard, seemingly sending him plunging to his death.
For months, viewers were left guessing as to who had killed Theo, who spent almost a year abusing partner Todd Grimshaw. Sarah was never one of the official suspects and has yet to even be a person of interest to police, most likely because on the night in question, she was knocked unconscious in the living room of number eight.
The Flashback Reveals the Truth
Viewers are aware that Jodie Ramsey (Olivia Frances-Brown) was the mystery attacker who hit her over the head with an ornament that night, but no one else is. Via a flashback, viewers learned earlier this week that Sarah had killed Theo (James Cartwright) after he insulted her, Todd, and the baby they had together more than 20 years ago who died shortly after his birth.
Sarah is currently dating, and looks set to get engaged to DC Kit Green (Jacob Roberts), so she felt it was unwise to involve him. Instead, she roped Gary Windass (Mikey North) into the whole sorry mess, who has been helping her keep the whole thing secret, much to the chagrin of his wife Maria (Samia Longchambon), who thought they had been having an affair.
Consequences of the Confession
To make matters even worse, DS Lisa Swain (Vicky Myers), who has a habit of putting innocent people in prison, charged Todd's adoptive daughter Summer (Harriet Bibby) with murder and, although she was recently released, Sarah said nothing and allowed her to be put behind bars. Having had enough of Todd constantly blaming Gary for the murder, Sarah finally confessed all to her best friend in Thursday night's instalment of the world's longest-running TV soap.
Through tears, Sarah said: "It was me. I knocked Theo off the scaffolding." as he looked on in shock. "You're wrong and I'm not even gonna let you think it. He is not corrupt - he wants to marry me!" Afterwards, she explained: "I was in shock and...Theo was...dead. And I couldn't ring Kit, I couldn't. I didn't know who else to turn to."
She continued: "He was talking like he'd killed you, and I believed him because why wouldn't I? You thought he was capable. That's why you ran. Don't look down your nose at me, Theo ruined your life and then you brought him into mine. I didn't have the option to run - not when I was 20ft up, on scaffolding on a plank that wide with a psycho waving a bottle in my face. A psycho who was ten times stronger than me and two times the size of me.
"He got in my face and I pushed him away and then he came back at me. All the time, he had this little white fleck in the corner of his mouth when he was ripping into me and I couldn't take my eyes off it. That I was a sl*g, a w***e, three different kids to three different men and no wonder our baby died because it was an abomination."
She added: "Those were the words he said about an innocent, newborn child. There was a pole. It was just instinct, I closed my eyes and swung and he crumpled."
Todd's Decision and a New Twist
Later on, Sarah presumed Todd was going to go to the police but when she found him in the Rovers Return later on, he admitted he just couldn't do it - even though he angrily told Sarah she had robbed him of the chance to make sure Theo got justice for all the abuse he had subjected him to. He added: "The most annoying thing about all of it is the fact that I love you...so much. And I can't see you go to prison."
Todd and Sarah were teenage sweethearts amid the programme's first coming out story in 2004 and, even after Todd came out as gay, the pair have remained close. Initially, Sarah threw her arms around Todd as she thanked him, but he then dealt the final blow as he vowed to cut her out for good. He said: "Listen to me Sarah, this is it, for you and me. We're done. I don't want you in my life anymore," leading Sarah to march back into the pub and continue to drink as she stumbled round to Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance With Somebody before her family escorted her out.
But there was another twist in store back at number eight when Sarah, sat stroking David the dog, was having a conversation with Jodie. Without realising what she was saying, Jodie said: "It's not easy to get over an attack like that - it takes time. Maybe this wasn't the best place to bring you to, it must be triggering." As Jodie stroked the dog, she said: "At least you're not barking your head off, this time, eh?" and Sarah immediately began to put two and two together as she said: "How did you know he was barking that night?"
Jodie tried to play the whole thing down but the cogs were already turning for Sarah, who has seemingly worked out that it was Shona's mysterious long-lost sister all along.
Coronation Street airs Monday to Friday at 8:30pm on ITV1 and is available to stream from 7am on ITV X.
