Poor Kevin Webster (Michael Le Vell). His vendetta against his rotten brother Carl Webster (Jonathan Howard) has cost him his happy life on Coronation Street.

Now it might be about to cost him his son, Jack Webster (Kyran Bowes).

2025 was supposed to be Kev’s year. Weatherfield’s favourite mechanical had just been given the all-clear form testicular cancer and was looking forward to a new lease of life with his wife Abi Webster (Sally Carman-Duttine) and their kids.

Then along came his slimy, backstabbing brother Carl to have a torrid affair with Abi and steal her heart… only to break it weeks later by doing the dirty with James Bailey (Nathan Graham).

But that’s just the start of Kevin’s grudge against his brother.

Not only did the worst Webster destroy his marriage, but he’s been gaslighting their sister Debbie Webster into believing her dementia was getting worse so he can gain access to her business bank accounts.

Carl was responsible for the hit-and-run that put Kevin’s best mate Tyrone Dobbs  (Alan Halsall) in a wheelchair. Even though Jack’s drone caught Carl red-handed, Kevin couldn’t find the evidence to expose him at Debbie and Ronnie Bailey’s (Vinta Morgan’s) wedding.

Most despicably of all, Carl caused the Corriedale car crash by driving drunk. As Billy Mayhew (Daniel Brocklebank) perished in the fiery wreckage, Carl stuck Debbie in the driving seat and manipulated her into thinking she was the one who caused the crash.

Either Kevin can see straight through Carl, or he finds it easy to think the worst of him – because it didn’t take him long to work out what really happened. No wonder he walked away while Carl was flatlining in hospital after accident. But you can’t keep a good villain down. Carl survived, and managed to convince Debbie to take the rap for his dangerous driving charge – even if it means going to prison for killing Billy.

This did not go down well with Kevin. But despite his desperate attempts to prove to her that Carl is nothing but a waste of space who’s out to swindle the shirt off her back, Debbie stuck to her guns and made it clear that she’ll always side with Carl…

… because Carl is secretly her son (although Kevin doesn’t know that yet).

As far as Kevin is concerned, he’s lost his wife and his sister to the man he despises the most in the world – and it’s starting to take its toll. In this glimpse of episodes to come, Kev continues to sink further into a dark depression which has serious consequences for himself, his business and his son.

The garage roof leaking is the first thing that worries Abi. But when she finds Kevin fast asleep in Street Cars, she frets to Debbie that Kevin is not looking after himself or his business.

But the real problem is at home. When Jack (Kryan Bowes) goes looking for food at home, he finds the cupboards bar and the living room an absolute pigsty.

So he gives Abi a call… and it’s like a knife through the heart for Kevin to see his son leave the house and stay with his ex-wife for a few days.

Will losing his son be the wakeup call Kevin needs – or will it only make things worse?