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“You, go girl!”
Although I don’t think it will happen, I wish that Emma would go to the police station and level a complaint of Assault and Battery against Rob. We need Harrison back in the mix and for him to eat his words.
I’m no lawyer, and I don’t play one on TV, but I got this off the internet re: American laws:
“In most states, an assault/battery is committed when one person: 1) tries to or does physically strike another, or 2) acts in a threatening manner to put another in fear of immediate harm.”
It seems that #2 would apply.
Yikes managed to make my first post now I’ve got through the account setting up process. Caught up with last night’s prog in the early hours today.
Loving Emma this week who’s now seeing Rob properly as the nasty piece of work that we the listeners know all too well.
After the earlier manipulative confrontation in the cafe we get to a nail biter in the pub with the script hotting up again.
Titchynob is showing his true colours now – each time he’s getting thwarted by the Archers clan he’s ‘going off on one’ with escalating and more frightening reactions. Will he spontaneously combust?
Part of me wanted Rob to lay hands on Emma in front of the witnesses and get banged up with no prospect of bail however a physical attack would be against all common decency and he’ll want to get Helen on her own somewhere.
My prediction is that the stalking of Helen, Henry and baby Giddy-Jack is going to ramp up in increasingly scary ways. Bet he’s following her on the school run already and got a tracker on her car.
They will be saved by young Saint Johnny although I’ve no idea how.Whilst I am enjoying heartily the episodes in which Titchynob has been spurned by various villagers, starting with the scene in the Bull and subsequently at the cricket, I am concerned that Rob’s behaviour is out of character. He is a socio or psychopath who functions well enough to be able to charm and schmooze his way around and there is no way that I could see him behaving as we have heard in recent episodes.
Delighted though I am that the village is rounding up the metaphorical pitchforks to drive him out, it seems to me that either the writers have opted for something of a character change (not unknown) or that they are writing Rob’s spiral downwards into dangerously unhinged psychopath very quickly in which case I fear for the safety of Helen, Henry, Jack or indeed anybody else who happens to be in his way.
I think there are two factors.
1. Rob now can’t pretend to be the perfect husband, father and cricket player. His dirty little secret is out. His normal tactics are just not going to work so he is completely out of his comfort zone and hence behaving in a more and more out of control manner.
2.The SWs have taken pity on us and are accelerating the pace of the story to get him out of the plot ASAP.
My very unprofessional opinion….
We as listeners know how close to the surface Rob’s temper is. He is a narcissist and is losing his grip on that as more and more things happen that shake that narcissistic foundation. He has been pounding the streets of Ambridge trying to garner sympathy for his cause and is failing, and so his anger is spilling out all over the place as he loses more and more.
I was quite frightened listening last night as I thought he would turn up at Grange Farm and do something really stupid.
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