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The Archers: 07/12/2011

07/12/2011

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Pat teeters on the brink and Josh has an eye to the main chance.

Josh hopes to get more than his usual allowance for helping in the dairy over Christmas, especially as Pip will be busy with college work. He's looking for time and a half. David wishes Eddie's Christmas music would increase milk productivity as there's another dip in the yield figures. At least the beef has held up to last year's sales.

Tony and Pat are babysitting Henry while Helen has an evening out. They comment on Henry's mannerisms. Tony wishes they knew who the father was, to put all the pieces together. Pat notices an expression on Henry that she's not seen before. For a moment it reminds her of someone.

Unable to help herself, Pat secretly phones Sharon. Sharon coldly admits that Rich is John's biological son, but in every other way Eamonn is his father and nobody is going to change that. When Pat questions why Sharon never told them, she reminds Pat that they never even told her John had died. Then when Sharon came to see them they treated her with contempt and told her to leave. As Pat sobs at this painful but truthful memory, Sharon tells her she would prefer it if Pat never got in touch again.

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