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The Archers: 22/05/2024

22/05/2024

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Harrison has the rug pulled from under him.

Harrison has the rug pulled from under him, and Ben launches a surprise.

Lily finalises the catering with Fallon for tonight’s barn dance, advising extra delivery time because of the Heydon Bridge diversion.  Joy tells Fallon she’d been looking forward to the barn dance, but because of her sling she can’t go.  Later at Joy’s they both agree they’re lucky to have made it through the crash.  Fallon opens up about Harrison; she feels like she’s treading on eggshells.  He’s obsessed about her miscarriage, but they can’t talk about it because they’re on such different pages.  Ben turns up, offering to drive Joy to the barn dance, mentioning a special job Lily’s found for her.  Later at the barn dance everyone’s delighted when Joy calls out the dance instructions.

When Inspector Norris checks how Harrison’s doing, he asks if Alice’s blood tests are back, but Norris can’t talk about it.  Seeing that Harrison isn’t himself, Norris invites him into her office for a chat.  Harrison asks how sentencing would be affected by the crash being the cause of Fallon’s miscarriage. Norris sympathetically explains that it doesn’t count in law.  Harrison becomes distraught and Norris sends him home.  When Fallon gets back from the barn dance, Harrison tells her the reasons for being told to leave work.  He’s going to write an impact statement for consideration in sentencing Alice.  Harrison’s surprised when Fallon says that if it’s going to make things worse for Alice, then she won’t be doing one. Distraught Harrison can’t believe there’ll be no consequences for losing their baby.  Fallon thinks he should do what he thinks is right, but so will she.

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