The Sugdens dice with danger once again as the truth about Robert's shooting finally starts to unravel.
The
trouble kicks off after a guilt-ridden Andy gets
drunk on the day of Aaron Livesy's plea hearing, feeling terrible that
an innocent man could be heading to jail because of him.
When
Ashley Thomas spots Andy in an emotional state at
Katie's grave, he's left stunned as the troubled farmer admits that
Aaron is innocent and he was the one who really wanted Robert dead.
Taking this as a confession, Ashley later
decides that he can't keep such a terrible secret and hopes that he can
persuade Andy to go to the police.
Unfortunately,
a rattled Ashley accidentally rings Robert instead - leaving a
voicemail message saying that he cannot justify sending an innocent man
to jail.
Ryan Hawley, who plays Robert,
revealed: "Robert is confused when he hears the message from Ashley, but
the implication is that Andy was somehow involved in the shooting and
that Aaron is innocent. Robert then stages a meeting between him and
Andy, so he can tell him what he knows.
"Robert
provokes Andy and can see that he did have some kind of involvement in
what happened. It's very similar to the scene where Andy found out that
Robert was involved in Katie's death a few weeks ago. Andy even slaps
the phone out of Robert's hand when he tries to call the police, just
like Robert did to Andy. At that point,
Robert knows for sure that Andy is guilty in some way. He gets in the
car, races off to go to the police station and Andy follows him."
Andy and Robert both rev their vehicles and seem determined to drive at each other straight to the death. Robert swerves at the last minute, but Andy doesn't deviate from his path and both cars end up ploughing off the road.
Asked about the nod back to 2005, Hawley explained: "I actually watched those scenes when I first got the job, because that was the last time the audience saw Robert, barring his very quick appearance for Jack's funeral. These scenes are almost a recreation of that. Andy and Robert square up to each other and they're both feeling very betrayed and hurt. Both of them have lost quite a lot. Hopefully there'll be some great scenes between me and Kelvin - and what happens next is a really cool stunt. I did the driving but not any of the dangerous stuff unfortunately, because the stunt men stepped in! I must say I've done more driving in this job than I have done probably my whole life! It's nice and exciting to do something like this. You just hope that the scenes you're doing and the acting won't be dwarfed by the stunt, so you maybe step your game up and try that little bit harder."
Airs Thursday, November 12th