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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 392146" data-attributes="member: 673">I know this is a series set around boatbuilding and sailing but they’ve managed to pack a lot of marine based peril into series two so far. Shellett has obviously decided to skip the “going to the press” bit of his plan and has moved straight on to planting a bomb on Jack’s boat! In the small, but dramatic, explosion that follows, Jack gets thrown overboard after being planted with a mast in the face. He survives but his recovery means he won’t be able to take part in his proposed publicity stunt of sailing the Atlantic solo in Barracuda. What will they do? Claude has returned, sporting a ponytail and an even more exaggerated French accent than before (the actor playing him was actually Scottish). Him and Jan are keen to forge ahead with their fashion house idea but jealous Ken is refusing to commit his cash to it, in the hope that Claude will clear off. In another quite Acorn Antiques moment, Jan implores Ken to confirm if he’ll back them or not “We need a commitment Ken”, to which he replies “We’re all looking for a commitment Jan. Of one kind or another” as Monsieur Ponytail rolls his eyes on the sidelines. The aforementioned quandary about the Barracuda’s Atlantic crossing is resolved when Lynne decides to essentially steal the boat and head off across the Atlantic by herself.As I mentioned before, the passage of time on Howards’ Way isn’t always the clearest. Lynne has just left Tarrant in the Barracuda at the start of episode five but then only halfway into the episode, she’s talking about being at sea for three weeks now. Meanwhile, it feels like just a day has passed back on dry land. There’s an unintentionally funny scene when Jan is driving with Claude, only to hear on the radio that Lynne has gone off to sail solo (the local press seem to have an unusual interest in the goings on of the sailing set), so she does a handbrake turn on a bridge, that wouldn’t look out of place on an episode of Starsky & Hutch. Charles and Ken also seem to be trying to out-bastard each other in this episode. Ken offers to pay Claude to leave Tarrant for good (to no avail) while not only has Charles sent some gigolo off to seduce his soon to be ex-wife Honey in New Orleans, he’s gotten the x-rated pictures to prove it and is having the divorce hearing in Tennessee because he states that they’re both conservative and racist there, so they definitely won’t award his black wife the slice of his empire that she’s after (it was revealed in an earlier episode that Charles only married her as part of some land deal). On the subject of Charles and Ken, they’re pushing ahead with the marina project which is giving Leo and Abby plenty of excuses to spend time together as they mobilise a group of protestors and organise various meetings. Kate joins the cause, probably because she dislikes Ken more than the idea of the marina, but also because she needs to take her mind off things now that she’s facing financial uncertainty because the horse she part owns has been injured and she stands to lose a little if money (there’s been mentions of having to sell off jewellery and a painting).Back to the marine peril I mentioned earlier and Jack has cottoned on that it was Shellett who blew up the boat. Rather than shop him to the police, Jack gives him a one way ticket back to Papua New Guinea on the condition that if he ever returns, the police will be told the truth about the boat explosion. Meanwhile, Lynne hits stormy seas on her crossing and the episode closes with Tom announcing that search and rescue will start looking for her at first light. So in the first five episodes, we’ve had Lynne nearly drowning and ending up with amnesia, Jack nearly drowning after being thrown overboard by an explosion on his boat and now Lynne, lost at sea somewhere off the coast of Newfoundland. On a slightly more trivial note, we’ve previously had Jan and Ken sharing slightly erotic strawberries, well in this episode we see Ken kissing Jan’s bare toes!</blockquote>

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