With only two episodes left, the tension has ramped up to supersonic levels and there were emotional breakdowns, betrayals and saucy shenanigans a go-go…
Mark hit the dock – and went down
As poor dead Danny's dad, Mark was bound to come under some suspicion, and lo and behold, Rottweiler barrister Sharon made it her mission to make mincemeat of him in the dock.
Possibly the most embarrassing revelation was that he was with raunchy Becca the night his son died, which we knew, but also that they were having sex IN. HER. CAR. The woman owns a hotel! Surely one of the bedrooms had been turned down?
Things got even worse when Mark was forced to reveal that he had subsequently written wife Beth a “see you later” letter, prompting her to leave court and howl on the stairwell. Not his finest hour.
Ellie was brilliantly bonkers
It was Ellie’s son Tom's not-so-star turn on the stand that created all the problems, as he tried to shift blame from his dad onto Mark. Ellie wasn't best pleased and did what she should have done WEEKS ago – take him out into the middle of the court foyer and yell like a fishwife.
He stuttered, she cried, we cheered. Now they're back in the family home, layering heavy-duty coats of Dulux over the murky past.
Alec nearly died
We knew it was coming, that moment when Alec's dodgy ticker would threaten to give out for good – and it happened when he went in to hospital to have a pacemaker put in. Under anaesthetic, he hallucinated poor dead Pippa, a field full of bluebells and an awful lot of water, then promptly flatlined.
Luckily, three minutes later (after the ad break) he woke up again. His broken heart literally fixed, as he tells his daughter, it's also perhaps on its way to metaphorical wholeness as ex-wife Tess turned up to mop his fevered brow. Yay!
There was something dodgy going on in Sandbrook
“Everybody needs good neighbours,” as the song goes, but there are good neighbours and then there’s the type who put a secret gate in the wooden fence for easy back-garden access. Flashbacks showed a wine-loving Kate Gillespie flirting outrageously with Dodgy Lee, while Claire smouldered and Angry Ricky wasn't bothered. It's starting to look like this was the sort of street where car keys were put in the fruit bowl (without anyone actually having to drive anywhere).
It all got a bit Fifty Shades
Evicted by a very grumpy DI Hardy, Dodgy Claire redecorated her cottage with cornflakes and broken cutlery. She won't be getting her deposit back. She then went round to ex-hubby Lee's house. We say house, we mean a door-less stone shed in the middle of nowhere. There, things first turned a bit violent, before getting very X-rated. All we are going to say is that rough wall must have chafed something chronic.
In the midst of all the Christian Grey antics, they let slip that they were embroiled in a plan that was now going wrong – so they are in it together. You get to say ‘I KNEW IT!’
Next week: Claire attends Swingers Anonymous, Alec stands too close to a tumble dryer and his pacemaker starts spinning, and we GET A VERDICT! But who knows?