This article contains spoilers for tonight’s Coronation Street, which has not yet aired on TV but is available to watch now on ITVX.

After a very long night, things are finally back on track for Carla Connor (Alison King) and Lisa Swain (Vicky Myers).

The two women have faced plenty of obstacles since making their relationship official, but this week has proved tougher than most.

Carla’s criminal brother Rob Donovan (Marc Baylis) made things very difficult for the couple after breaking out of hospital following an operation to give Carla his kidney.

Blaming Lisa for double-crossing him and Carla for leaving him for dead, Rob was desperate for revenge, and this week saw him finally crawl out of the woodwork to achieve it.

Pulling a gun on former flame Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford), he made her summon Carla to the house, where he held them both hostage.

Things took a turn when Tracy managed to escape, only for Lisa to take her place in the hope of protecting Carla.

However, it wasn’t Carla she needed to worry about. When the situation escalate and a gun shot rang out, it was Lisa’s daughter Betsy Swain (Sydney Martin) who was on the receiving end of the bullet.

Lisa was left distraught as the doctor explained that Betsy may never regain feeling in her arm, and was overcome with guilt at the fact she’d been the one to pull the trigger.

Furious, she confronted Rob, but her desire for vengeance soon fizzled away, and his warning that Carla was bad news stuck with her.

Back at Betsy’s ward, Lisa blamed Carla for their current predicament, and decided that she needed to focus on Betsy instead of their relationship, leaving Carla heartbroken.

Thankfully, the following morning saw Betsy talk some sense into her mum, and encourage her to fix things with Carla.

Having promised Betsy not to let Rob win, Lisa headed back to the flat, where Carla offered to move out in order to give her some space.

‘I don’t need space,’ Lisa told her, ‘I need you.’

Is someone cutting onions?

Relieved, a tearful Carla told Lisa she loved her, as Lisa apologised for lashing out, explaining how it had always been just her and Betsy since Becky’s death, and that she felt she’d let her down by letting her get hurt.

Carla insisted that it was now the three of them, and that if they could get through this, they’d make it through anything.

Lisa was grateful for her support, but remained worried about how Betsy would react to the truth of the shooting.

With Carla’s encouragement, Lisa told her daughter what had really happened, and her reaction was surprising.

Betsy explained that she wasn’t upset by the fact that her mum had shot her, but the fact that she was caught up in the hostage situation to begin with.

She pointed out that Lisa hadn’t spared a single thought for Betsy when she put herself in danger, and that even though she couldn’t have known Betsy would get shot, she knew that she could have been left an orphan if Lisa did.

Will this be the wake up call Lisa needs to stop putting her job before her family?