- Feckless Father and a vindictive sister?
- Tom has nothing to celebrate (hurrah!)
- Adam’s battered and bruised
- Tony couldn’t really care
Feckless Father and a vindictive sister?
Tony’s still going on about his argument with Jennifer. He’s furious that she suggested that he’s made bad decision in his life which he then tries to undo by begging the help of his sisters.
[Tony] “Life choices! What choice about life have she and I had? …Would we have chosen to have a drunken feckless father?”
[Pat] “Oh come on, you always said he could be quite charming at his best”
[Tony] “Yeah, if you didn’t have to live with him. His manic crazy schemes that were going to make our fortune, the black depression when they didn’t”
[Pat] “I wonder if they’d think he was bipolar these days”
[Tony] “He was a drunk!”
Although Tony did tone that down to calling Jack an alcoholic. He also can’t understand how Peggy put up with Jack.
[Tony] “The things we’ve been through together. She can talk to me like that … how could that not hurt me?”
[Pat] “Deep down she knew she was in the wrong, she was trying to justify herself”
[Tony] “She’s changed. She’s forgotten who she is and where she came from. Brian’s money has done that”
Tony reckons Jennifer pleading poverty was all rubbish – while Brian may make the money, he’s sure that Brian will have also squirreled it away with Jennifer to avoid tax
(but wouldn’t that make it still Brian’s money?)
[Tony] “She’ll come to laugh at me in the bankruptcy court”Harsh!
Jennifer may be self-centred, but she’s surely not an utter b*tch?
Tom has nothing to celebrate (hurrah!)
Now I would laugh at Tom if he ended up in the bankruptcy court …
Seems that while Underwoods are going to stock Tom Archer’s Borchester Sausages – but very much on their terms.
They’re giving him a lower price per unit, and they also want cash off of him to pay for the promotion of his sausages.
Tom’s furious. He reckons they’re the same sausages, just under a “better” name, and that Underwoods shouldn’t be treating them as a new product – they’re no risk, he reckons.
[Tom] “And the worst thing is, I’ve got to tell mum and dad”
Ah well. At least it’s a wee bit of good news for Tony.
Adam’s battered and bruised
(don’t worry though – it’s not because our lovely Ian has suddenly turned nasty)
[Adam] “However Debbie spun it, she still went behind my back … it was her decision to go along with it. I just feel like any plans I had for Home Farm are all for nothing … I don’t want to be a glorified tractor driver”
Annoyed at Debbie’s subterfuge with Brian, Adam also genuinely thinks the Super Dairy is a bad idea. For one thing, it’d mean Home Farm is completely tied to Borchester Land (which decisions by committee – never a pretty sight).
Ian reckons Adam needs to have a proper talk with Debbie – and also challenges him to go and see a Super Dairy so that he can be better informed.
Tony couldn’t really care
When Tom told Tony and Pat about the rather naff offer from Underwoods, they didn’t sound like they really cared. Neither happy, nor horrified.
But Tom read more into their reaction than I did:
[Tom] “It was humiliating. The words I Told you so were written all over dad’s face … I’m going to see Doug Somerville and make him change his mind”
On you go Tom! See how much work and effort Pat and Tony had to do to get Bridge Farm established. You’re on your own now …
(well, apart from Brenda, who only ever seems to agree with what Tom says these days)
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