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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 206240" data-attributes="member: 23">Episode 313-323 (...continued)Some episodes after Andrew Foley Sr.’s departure, we had one final chance to hear his voice when Andrew read his apologetic farewell letter in the diner. That letter gave him the opportunity to speak the truths that he had been unable to say in person.And so it is with Nigel. Thanks to Roo, word reaches him that his final deception has been discovered, and Celia (slightly inexplicably) chooses to read it in the diner, just a table across from where Andrew had read his:Once again, Fiona Spence is just wonderful. She is so still (a world away from the nose rubbing, chin stroking, open mouthed self-consciousness of Peter Bensley reading Andrew’s letter). We simply see her sit there and absorb the words. And because of that it hits you like a ton of bricks.<img src="https://i.vgy.me/qOiaVN.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/HaG0jm.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Ailsa’s on hand with tea and sympathy:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/E9beJp.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Celia’s response to Nigel leaving has meant change. Retrogression, really. The full hair is straight once again and the makeup is gone. She’s “gone back to dressing like a nun”, as Roo put it. I must confess, even though it’s a significant change, I didn’t even notice until Roo commented. I suppose the “old”  Celia is so familiar that it feels right at the moment.She’s also throwing herself into busybodying with gusto. Andrew is her first target:Roo’s attempts to salvage the situation were appreciated. It was clear she’d slipped up accidentally and tried to limit the damage by begging Celia not to tell anyone else. But it’s too juicy for Celia to comply. After visiting the Fletchers to “warn” them, she goes next door to find the man himself:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/Y8gvDp.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />This pushes Andrew off the wagon again, and he crashes a soiree at the new Macklin office where he forcibly dances with Celia and ends up decking Tom for trying to stop him drinking. When Stacey brings him home, Donald (who had been pleasantly listening to a taped recording of Rebecca’s performance) realises Andrew has already done damage there, too:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/JtRUvT.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://i.vgy.me/CxVsS4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Andrew realises he’s blacked out and there’s a catalogue of Bensley’s shacting as Andrew despairs and feels terrible about what he’s done. Fortunately,Tom and Pippa are having none of it and cut him down as he’s hamming it up in their dining room. Again, despite the gesticulating going on in the foreground, their stillness is the most powerful thing about the scene:<img src="https://i.vgy.me/v1qPef.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />This propels Andrew to leave town after having what seemed like a definitive ending in which he took back his ring and said goodbye to Carly. Only for him to appear something like two episodes later, complaining to Stacey that Celia was taking over the youth centre.continued...</blockquote>

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