There’s a moral quandary for Coronation Street‘s Nick Tilsley next week when he’s forced to lie to his son Sam Blakeman in a bid to protect his son’s fragile mental wellbeing.
Although Sam is safe for now and being treated in a professional facility, he’s stressing about Megan Walsh’s trial for grooming underage schoolboy Will Driscoll and what will happen if she escapes justice.
Sam is convinced that if the worst happens, and Megan is allowed to go free, she will want to take revenge on him. Nick is worried sick to see Sam’s distress and wants to do whatever he can to protect him. That’s when he makes the big decision to tell a lie.
“Megan’s trial is full of complexities and complications, but Nick’s job is very simple – he needs to protect Sam’s mental health,” explains our Corrie informant.
“Faced with a choice of giving him the full story about what’s transpiring in court, Nick decides to lie that everything has gone to plan. In his mind, this is the only way to prevent Sam from spiralling.”
Nobody could blame Nick for coming to the decision to tell a white lie to spare Sam more stress.
However, after what he’s been through in psychosis – and Nick fibbing to gain his son’s trust, only to take him to the facility – Sam has been in situations where he can’t trust what is true or false.
And during his hallucinations, an imaginary Roy Cropper was telling him all kinds of lies about what was happening and trying to encourage him to harm Will. So, as he recovers, it’s vitally important that Sam can trust those around him to tell the truth.
“He’s done this for all the right reasons, but Nick might live to regret not being honest with Sam,” says our source. “For too long, Sam hasn’t felt able to be honest with the people who love him. Let’s hope Nick’s decision doesn’t damage the trust between them…”
