Archers thread #164: AmbridgEnders! An Everyday Story of Soapy Folk. Discuss The Archers here.

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Thread thrown together in great haste in advance of tonight's episode. Who's in the Am? Is it George's fault? Is this the end for Alice? Over to you!

This is weird.

Oh he's remembered....

Has George just remembered Alice???

Oooh! He has moved her to take the rap!

Oh shut up Denise "You're a bit of a hero, Mr Lloyd" 🤮

Oh no, George …

Still Sunday

so a late check in at the hotel - I assume they weren’t drinking with dinner

so george didn’t leg it. And we know the bridge now.

so it was mick and joy and Fallon. Lucky they had medical professionals on the scene.

so chickens coming home to roost

• the affair
• joys backstory
• george in trouble (moving alice) but was heroic saving Fallon - what will Will do?
• Harrison/fallon
• alice obviously

that wasn’t nice listening but I can’t help thinking the river isn’t deep enough?

He’s moving her into the driver’s seat! Well done whoever predicted that ⭐️

Oh we were right earlier

Ohhhhhhhh dear…..

Omg

Horrid hearing Fallon trapped in the car. I remember when they did that on EEnders decades ago, really upsetting

Oh George how could you 😞 this is actually really sad 😢

Wow.

Ok controversial but I’m hoping Alice gets all the blame.

George has just saved a life (or two).

None of this would have happened if it wasn’t for her.

Gosh, they scarcely left anyone out …

Brian out of it though. Thank goodness.

Perhaps George will turn his life around after this and become a model citizen and marry an Archer.

Re the Am - perhaps they are finally acknowledging that we've had an exceptionally wet winter. River levels are pretty high round here.

All depends now on George deleting that message from Will's phone before Will attempts to listen to it. Oh dear.

I agree.

Brian has heart problems, doesn't he? This won't help.

Or look at it this way, George's misguided decision to "help" has caused all of this. Why didn't he just take the keys from her and call someone??

Devious,@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g - but surely Will would have heard it by the time George gets home?

Oh yes the phone message.

Will now has to decide whether to lie for him so yet another one dragged into it all.

They may not look for fingerprints.

I'm old enough to remember a pissed Helen Archer running over Mike Tucker (or Neil - a bit foggy at this distance) and persuading Tom to take the blame.

Because driving doesn't usually mean crashing.