*The Archers thread

[TikkiB]

With any luck, the chap who was Rob's predecessor at Damara (who had the fling with Adam), and who sacked Rob from the megadairy should pop up soon.

 

[weltweit]

With any luck, the chap who was Rob's predecessor at Damara (who had the fling with Adam), and who sacked Rob from the megadairy should pop up soon.

Charlie?

 

[wiskey]

I don't have any memory of him at all tbh (stefan)

 

[bluescreen]

I don't have any memory of him at all tbh (stefan)

IIRC, he caught Rob damming the culvert to save the estate land from flooding and Rob paid him off to leave the country. Then Rob got praise on the night as a hero for un-damming what he'd already dammed. Possible that I have misremembered some detail there.

I didn't realise Stefan had told his story to anyone in Ambridge before he left.

 

[two sheds]

So, will Stefan get disappeared down a manhole somewhere before their next meeting?

 

[wiskey]

Oh goody bout time Rob came unstuck!

 

[Shirl]

Blooming marvellous

 

[trashpony]

Ding dong the witch is dead

 

[weltweit]

But did Stefan get a payout .. from Justin?

 

[a_chap]

I miss a few episodes, catch tonight's and BOOOM! What? Where? How? [reduced to gibbering idiot]

I fear Rob will not go gentle into that good night. There may be raging.

 

[Mogden]

Ignoring the fact that the BBC Facebook Archers page put up a spoiler, meaning I had to listen to it earlier than planned, that was jolly good fun

 

[two sheds]

me too

 

[belboid]

I miss a few episodes, catch tonight's and BOOOM! What? Where? How? [reduced to gibbering idiot]

I fear Rob will not go gentle into that good night. There may be raging.

Kidnapping next Friday

 

[TikkiB]

Hurrah!

 

[Shirl]

But did Stefan get a payout .. from Justin?

I think Lillian overheard something and told Justin.

 

[weltweit]

I think Lillian overheard something and told Justin.

Oh right, that could explain Justin knowing.

 

[TikkiB]

Yes, Justin definitely told Rob that Lilian had told him what she had overheard.

 

[Guineveretoo]

I don't think this is going to be the end of Rob. Perhaps he gets so frustrated and angry that he can't even get a job locally (although he could do what the rest of us do, and commute to a job....), rarely seeing the baby and never seeing the disembodied-voice-that-is-the-boy that he gets desperate and snatches the children.

 

[wiskey]

Why is Justin saying Rob got another job?

 

[two sheds]

haven't heard tonight's episode yet but if he said he'd been fired he'd have to say why, and that would open the company to damages for what Rob had done?

 

[wiskey]

Oh yeah I suppose so.

I only heard the last few minutes.

 

[weltweit]

So, as I thought, Justin paid Stefan off. That could come back to bite him ..

 

[TikkiB]

So, as I thought, Justin paid Stefan off. That could come back to bite him ..

I think it definitely will - He is assuming that Rob will just slink off when in fact he could now blackmail Justin for keeping the culvert blocking under wraps. A better course of action in terms of PR would have been to shop Rob to the police for what he did, and have Damara seen as a organisation of integrity and honour. (which of course it isn't, because Justin is as shonky as anything)

 

[wiskey]

I think Lillian overheard something and told Justin.

Did we actually get the bit where Lillian tells Justin or was it just implied?

 

[weltweit]

Did we actually get the bit where Lillian tells Justin or was it just implied?

I didn't hear it, or the implication of it.

It might have been a mistake for Justin to spin the story that Rob had left for the USA because 1) he hasn't and 2) when he shows up around Ambridge the story is going to be obviously false.. and it was certainly a mistake to pay Stefan off as he will be back. It would have been smarter to call the police and lay out what actually happened, imo.

 

[Shirl]

Did we actually get the bit where Lillian tells Justin or was it just implied?

I think it was just implied. I don't think I missed any episodes and I didn't hear anything between Lillian and Justin.

 

[wiskey]

cool that's the conclusion I came to

 

[wiskey]

I didn't hear it, or the implication of it.

It might have been a mistake for Justin to spin the story that Rob had left for the USA because 1) he hasn't and 2) when he shows up around Ambridge the story is going to be obviously false.. and it was certainly a mistake to pay Stefan off as he will be back. It would have been smarter to call the police and lay out what actually happened, imo.

I don't think Justin has accounted for Robs determination to see Jack, he's not about to off it to the states.

 

[Lazy Llama]

I seem to remember Rob said to Justin "Lillian told you then" and Justin said "Of course she did".

 

[wiskey]

I have just accidentally discovered two things

1. Pip is played by someone called Daisy Badger

and

2. Loxley Barrett school has an entry in the Good Schools Guide.

so that was ten minutes well spent