Coronation Street fans think they have ‘worked out’ who will exit amidst what is thought to be Rob Donovan’s final showdown in Weatherfield as he was finally seen back on the Street.

As viewers of the ITV soap were already aware, the murderer was on the run having escaped the hospital where he had become a kidney donor for his sister, Carla Connor.

After falling ill and discovering she needed another kidney transplant having contracted sepsis, despite being worried for her future, Carla made it clear she doesn’t want her family to be donors.

However, with Carla’s health in decline, her nephew Bobby was seen getting his dad Rob to help. He initially refused but later had change of heart as he made out to his son he was a changed man.

But it was all part of Rob’s ploy as he planned, with the help of prison officer Mandy, who thought she was in a relationship with the prisoner, to escape jail. After catching on to what was going on, Carla’s girlfriend DS Lisa Swain convinced Rob to go ahead with the operation, on the promise she’d try and get his conviction overturned.

However, she was just playing him at his own game and after the operation, she refused to help him. Rob, obviously, saw red and still plotted his escape and with Mandy’s help, managed to break free.

The drama eventually saw Rob use Lisa to get to the abandoned office block where Mandy was waiting with a poorly Carla, before attacking her as she secretly tried to call her colleague DC Kit Green.

Once with Carla, Rob was shocked to find out about Mandy’s pregnancy and realising she had been used, she left. Rob attempted to follow suit. But Carla found the energy to push her brother down the stairs, and a weakened Rob, as a result of his surgery, saw him fall over the balcony, with Lisa finding him at the bottom and declaring him dead.

As she focused on getting Carla back to the hospital, Rob managed to escape and has been on the run ever since. It was during Tuesday night’s (March 18) Corrie that Tracy Barlow was stunned to be confronted by her former fiancé in the ginnel, before the convicted murder cheekily asked if she was going to invite him in.

She tried to make her excuses about her family being home, but Rob already knew that wasn’t the case as he’d been watching from afar. Tracy eventually allowed him to come inside the house, and he wasted no time in attempting to win her over with smooth talk.

Rob has gone to Tracy for help(Image: ITV)

His talk clearly worked and luckily for Rob, Tracy agreed that he could stay for one night. When she gave him some house rules, Rob pushed his look and suggested he join her upstairs.

But she made it very clear that this didn’t mean there was anything going on between them, insisting that she’d moved on and that if he attempted to make his way upstairs, she would call the police “faster than you can bludgeon a barmaid”. Once out of the way, Tracy was none the wiser that Rob was hiding a gun ahead of an armed siege next week.

And some Corrie fans think one of his comments indicate that he’ll be the one who ends up being hurt when a gunshot rings out of No.1 Coronation Street during the siege.

@TwellyWatcher said: “I wonder was the ‘lights out’ line at the end of tonight’s episode used to foreshadow Rob’s potential exit? If he’s leaving, this was a clever way to hint at it #Corrie,” before thinking: “Or hinting that he kills someone else with the gun but that’s unlikely, right? Won’t be Carla, Tracy, Lisa or Betsy… that leaves Rob himself #Corrie.”

@penniless_poet also posted: “‘Don’t forget to turn out the lights – just don’t shoot them out’ #Corrie.” @hannahb39 added: “Ok now I think it’s Rob getting shot, changed my mind from Tracy. Tussle with little Lisa and the gun goes off #Corrie.”