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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 393099" data-attributes="member: 673">Series Two - Episodes 6 & 7I’m going to stick episode numbers at the start of these, as my viewing has been a bit disjointed lately, so it’ll be easier to keep track of where I left off. Lynne is lost at sea but life continues in Tarrant. There is some concern for her whereabouts but that doesn’t stop Jan popping into the boutique, Tom to the boatyard and Leo to the site where they’re protesting the marina project. This aforementioned protest is taking centre stage at the moment, as a journalist with Dennis Taylor glasses pokes around Ken’s business after accusations of back handers surface. Abby is spending all of her time there too, which doesn’t impress a shifty social welfare inspector who shows up at the Urquharts to talk to Abby about the maternity benefit that she applied for. The only thing is, Abby never applied for a payment, so who is he and what is going on?On the subject of finances, Kate is visited by a valuer from an auction house, as she has to sell off a painting that her late husband bought her in order to cover the money she lost on her injured racehorse. This may be building up to something bigger but at the moment, this subplot is featured so infrequently that it almost feels like it was only included to give Dulcie Gray something to do other than be a sounding board for Jan and Jack. The bit of concern that the Howards may have had about Lynne is put to rest when she makes contact mid-episode, via Portishead Radio no less. She’s fine and making her way to New York. The Howards response encapsulates that 80’s greed is good mantra as instead of flying to New York to reunite with the daughter they’d feared lost at sea, business has taken priority (Jan has to meet a buyer and Tom has to give a talk at a conference). In place of either of them going, Jan sends Claude (who was only too happy to lend his services) to meet Lynne as she arrives in New York. In addition to Claude, she is met by a media scrum which includes a reporter from NBC who offers her a TV special! This is one of the funnier aspects of the show, where the press seem to be overly interested in the lives of a group of people from a relatively sleepy town but I suppose it adds to the glam factor. The episode ends with Leo getting a punch in the face from some decidedly dodgy lout (credited as Yobbo) at the protest site.Like a lot of things in Howards’ Way, what happened next happens offscreen. We find Leo in a hospital bed facing two charges for being involved in the offscreen melee that happened post-punch. Abby also faces charges, which is causing no end of hassle at the Urquharts. Orrin’s father has shown up and it’s soon discovered that the shifty social welfare guy was actually a spy that he sent to suss out Abby. He’s not too impressed that Abby is (a) hanging around protest sites when she should be looking after his grandson and (b) still hasn’t accepted Orrin’s proposal of marriage, so he’s making noises about taking the child back to America. Lynne and Claude have departed New York (where they had their own upbeat theme music akin to Jan’s Cannes theme) and are now returning to the UK via cruise ship (we all know where this arc is going). But while her daughter is being romanced on the high seas, Jan and Ken’s relationship has seemingly run aground back in Tarrant as she discovers that Ken paid the yobbos to start the fight that has Leo facing court. Also on the romance front, Ken’s series one ex Dawn (of the huge hair) has returned, this time as barmaid in the Jolly Sailor and new arm candy of Jack (“Your niece?” asks a deadpan Kate after being introduced to Jack’s new “friend”).The Dynasty factor is strong in this one as we see a sunglassed Claude and gold bikini-ed Lynne sunning themselves on the deck of a cruise ship while its white tuxedos and evening gowns for dinner at the Urquharts. In a random twist, Orrin’s father offers Abby money for the baby and she declines, but tells them that they can take the baby back to the US with them anyway. She wants to dedicate her life to saving a legacy for the next generations (or something to that effect). This is clearly the limit for Polly as she springs into action, setting off to visit Charles and implore him to disentangle Abby from the ongoing protest charges nonsense. Charles doesn’t see what he can do but his tune may soon change as Polly reveals to him that Abby is his daughter!! Maybe I’ve watched too many soaps but I could see this coming as soon as Polly mentioned that Gerald wasn’t Abby’s father. Regardless, I’m looking forward to the fallout.</blockquote>

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