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The Archers: 23/05/2024

23/05/2024

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Emotions run high for Tom, and Vince finds himself cornered.

Freddie and Elizabeth are on their way to a meal with Vince at a Filipino restaurant. Freddie will pay for the meal, if in return Elizabeth nods and agrees with him.  She’ll understand why once they’re inside.  They bump into Mick who tells them he hasn’t heard back from Rochelle about Joy’s surprise birthday party.  He might go and knock on her door.  Later Mick rings to say that when he went to Rochelle’s address, the person answering the door didn’t know who she was.

Vince smells a rat at the meal when Freddie and Elizabeth over-enthuse about the food.  Freddie comes clean explaining the chef there is willing to train the abattoir catering manager, so that they could offer Filipino food to boost staff morale.  Later Vince says he's done a deal with the restaurant manager; Vince will supply cheaper meat in return for training.  Freddie’s delighted.

Harrison catches up with Tom to discuss T20 tactics but talk turns to Fallon’s miscarriage and Tom sympathises, remembering how gutted he felt after Kirsty lost Wren. The hardest thing was not knowing how he was supposed to feel.  When Tom mentions visiting the Remembrance Garden where Wren’s ashes were scattered, Harrison wishes there was some way to commemorate his and Fallon’s loss.  He opens up about being on different pages with Fallon about it.  Harrison had accepted that Fallon never wanted children, but now he’s not so sure. Tom thinks there’s a chance  Fallon will change her mind once she’s processed it all.  But Harrison and Fallon need to have an honest talk with each other.

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