Episode 11,653 – 11,654 | Airs Monday 25 August 2025 at 20:00 on ITV1
Steve and Mary hit on a plan to make Aadi stay in Weatherfield by getting him and Amy back together. Dev agrees to help and it looks as though it might work, but despite agreeing to remind friends, Aadi says he is looking forward to his new life in India.
Dev hugs him emotionally and Asha hurries out in tears. In the Rovers backyard, Asha struggles to breathe, overwhelmed by a panic attack.
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The second half of the episode sees the whole day from Asha’s point of view, looking back at what caused her to have the panic attack. She relives all the stress and horror of her last ambulance shift.
In a flashback, we see the full horror of the day Asha has had – including a death, an injured old lady and finally a racist attack on her.
As Asha sits with her eyes closed, struggling to breathe, Gemma approaches and offers words of comfort as a fellow twin. Gemma urges Asha to rejoin Aadi’s leaving party as he’ll be wondering where she’s got to.
Aadi finds Asha sitting on the bench in the backyard and senses that she’s not herself but when Asha starts to open up about her awful day, Dev arrives and she clams up. As Asha heads back into the pub, Aadi’s left concerned and offers to stay if she wants, but she brushes her problems off as tiredness.
Asha records a voice note for Aadi telling him how much she’s going to miss him, how she doesn’t think she’ll cope and begging him not to go. As her finger hovers over ‘send’, she breaks down in tears. Will she send it?
Meanwhile, when Dev catches Brody and Dylan stealing people’s drinks, he throws them out of the pub. As Brody and Dylan scarper, Tim wonders what’s going on.
Dev explains how Brody ruined Aadi’s house party by turning up with drugs and now he’s tried to ruin Aadi’s leaving party. Sally and Tim tell Brody that social services called and Joanie is going to stay with her aunt for the time being. Sally and Tim discuss Brody and how he needs their support more than ever.
Elsewhere, at No.13, Carl’s taken aback when Abi suggests to Carl they should start a new life in Germany. Abi finds Tracy in the café and explains how she never meant to fall for Carl, it just happened and the last thing she wants to do is hurt Kevin.
Also today, Theo hides his annoyance when Gemma reveals that she’s hosting birthday drinks in memory of her brother Paul and Todd will be there with Billy. Todd returns home to find Theo cooking a curry and when Todd reveals he is going out to the pub, Theo emotionally blackmails him to stay in, as he is worried about his kids.
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