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Nicola Rubinstein returns to Coronation Street to confront Pat Phelan

What better twist?

Nicola Rubinstein will be heading back to the cobbles in the next few weeks, but is she back to finally take down her twisted dad, Pat Phelan?

Nic fled the Street last year after discovering Phelan had raped her mother and that’s how she was conceived.

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Before she disappeared, she told Phelan that she didn’t want anything to do with him and that she was moving to Australia so she could be far away from him.

But when Nic – who’s pregnant with Gary Windass’ baby – heads back to Weatherfield, she seems to want to make amends with her murderous father.

When she arrives, she heads to Phelan’s builder’s yard where she tells him she’s sorry for not believing him over the rape and begs him for another chance.

She also says sorry to Eileen for not backing her dad when all the brown stuff hit the fan.

But is Nicola’s sudden change of heart some kind of ruse to bring her evil dad down?

Phelan is delighted to see his daughter again, but does she secretly have an ulterior motive?

Before she left, Nicola had bonded with Phelan’s nemesis Anna Windass, who revealed the builder had raped her while she was with her ex, Owen.

A distraught Nicola took Anna’s side and fled.

Could she be secretly conspiring with Anna, who has a secret mobile phone in prison, to make Pat pay for his crimes?

Or has baby daddy Gary been keeping her updated with her dad’s misdemeanours?

The pressure is really on Phelan at the moment as he confessed to Seb Franklin that he was the one who killed Luke Britton.

Gary reported Phelan to the police and they took him in for questioning but let him go again.

Pat also has the issue of the two bodies at the Mill to contend with as one of Andy Carver’s trainers recently floated to the surface.

Phelan murdered Andy after keeping him prisoner in a basement for nine months.

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He forced him to shoot Phelan’s former scamming partner Vinny Ashford before Pat turned the gun on Andy.

Phelan’s also responsible for sending Anna to prison after framing her for trying to kill Seb.

Coronation Street continues tomorrow at 7.30pm and 8.30pm on ITV

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