Will it be porridge or curtains for Knob? Await a sensible and sensitive ending to That Storyline on The Archers thread.

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Threads are moving so fast! Will this thread be here to welcome SOK?

Well done, Helen.

Kind of more worried about what he will do when he finds out she's going for hospital birth!!

Thank god the clocks go forward on Sunday: an hour less to wait!

Gipsy. I did predict a while back he will hit her and bring on an early labour. Now that will get the bastard banged up!

Lorek I don't think the BS was a set-up - I think it would have happened if Henry hadn't blabbed. And it might still happen.

Out of interest, what happens if she never rings up again - can WA use any of her information to send help anyway?

Phew. That was hard to listen to. Things will come to a head soon. Rob will be more dangerous now.

Fabulous that the escape has started, but I'm worried about the consequences of her daring to defy Rob twice in one day. Mysterious bruises next episode?

At least he didn't catch her making the call.
Is he pretending now that the thought of sending Henry to boarding school never crossed his mind?

At last Helen is beginning to see things clearly and is more like herself. I think that Rob realised something has changed and he's losing the hold he has over her.

...and thank god she managed to make the phone call to the obstetric consultant and book herself in for a hospital birth....

I think making her own decision over the birth was a breakthrough moment for her - just realising how much she is agreeing to that is not her choice, and realising that she CAN make her own decisions.

OMFG. !!!!! Get Ye gone Helin x

Don't hold your breath though, folks. She's taking little steps to build her confidence, but Rob can turn on the charm and start undermining her again very quickly. I don't think she will grab back her car keys and make a bid for freedom just yet, especially as he has convinced her that Pat & Tony are on his side.

are calls to w a automatically anonymised? Rob can't look through her phone and see who he's called, can he?

That hospital birth is never going to happen. I have a vision of helen dragging across the fields in the rain with henry in the middle of the night. Probably will go into premature labour as a result and then needing an extended stay in hospital. After which she will never return to knob.

Knob will do a midnight flit and never be heard of again (until they next need to shake things up and increase the ratings).

Now she really is in danger

De lurks to say good for you Helen but I think Rob is on the warpath. Back to lurking.

I've always said that Rob will do a runner.

It definitely has to go through the phase of knob turning on the charm and begging her forgiveness, declaring undying love etc and Hellin believing him. Though with any luck we will be spared it as I for one, would need a huge vomit bowl.

Rob almost seems to gaslight himself, doesn't he? He seems absolutely convinced that Helen hit him, and that the boarding school idea was a total figment of her imagination.

I have had the misfortune to meet a few people like Rob and when he rewrites history for Hellin he genuinely rewrites history in his own head. It's why it's easy for him to lie believably - he isn't lying, he thinks he's telling the truth.

Oh that was exhilarating, well done Helen. All on tenterhooks now.

I think ursula does that as well.

It will be Tom's moment to out Rob and so become a hero once again.

Rob will rape her again tonight as she has shown some spirit and he needs to assert his authority again.

Helen needs to be careful when making phone calls that Rob doesn't do a last number redial.