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Fields 6 May 11:37pm, 6 May 2024 11,068 posts	0 Fields Harrison is going to be in trouble as he can’t get involved in this case (not that it would be him investigating anyway if it’s a traffic accident and there will be a specialist team for that) but won’t be able to resist doing so and will get in trouble with Maam again. One of the three in the other car is going to have some horrible long term impact from the accident. Fallon I reckon, Mick is too peripheral, and Joy isn’t as inter-connected to the village as Fallon. She will be too unwell to work, Bratwurst Baron Tom Archer will refuse to pay any sick pay (Fallon mentioned she’s never been ill recently and commented she will now get sick pay for the first time ever as she is an employee) so Emma becomes tea room manager, rejecting the Grundy dream of becoming petty bourgeois via tree surgery in tatters, though finding time to pass her English GCSE.
BaronessBL 8:12am 8:12am, 7 May 2024 10,629 posts	0 BaronessBL I think it's likely to be Fallon too as it would appear she was in/under the water for longer than the other two. However if it is Joy who is seriously ill then perhaps the back story about the daughter who may or may not exist will finally come to light as I doubt they can continue to drag that out for much longer.
Fields 8:29am 8:29am, 7 May 2024 11,072 posts	0 Fields I can’t work out how old Joy is and if she is retired (which I thought she might be as she volunteers at the village shop), as she doesn’t seem to have a job, and I’m not sure what she did previously. Her daughter Rochelle, who did baton twirling and majorette stuff as a kid, as you say hasn’t appeared, and I think the daughter would have to be around 40 to make Joy retired. So I am going for Joy being a murderer released from prison and given a new identity
BaronessBL 8:43am 8:43am, 7 May 2024 10,630 posts	0 BaronessBL Rochelle is in a high powered job somewhere according to Joy so must be at least 30s I imagine (assuming she worked through promotions in said job rather than walking into the boardroom at 18!). That would put Joy at least mid 50s or older I think. I'm not sure where she gets her money from - she obviously has a nice house but I can't imagine house prices in Ambridge are within the reach of most so when Joy relocated there she either downsized from an equally affluent area ...... or got her money some other way... perhaps compensation from an horrific tragedy involving Rochelle which she has never come to terms with (drowning maybe......)
Fields 8:50am 8:50am, 7 May 2024 11,073 posts	0 Fields Yes I had Joy at that sort of age, too young to be retired. I am going to assume the shock will snap her back into Killer mode and I vote that Freddy is the first victim
HellsBells 9:09am 9:09am, 7 May 2024 33,498 posts	0 HellsBells I always assumed Rochelle died in childhood and Joy constructed the elaborate fantasy rather than accept she’d lost her daughter. Never any mention of who Rochelle’s father might have been/is.
quimby 5:19pm 5:19pm, 7 May 2024 6,559 posts	0 quimby Oh my word, it's always this thread that gets me listening for a couple of episodes again. Oh George. 😞