23 September 2011

Things resume exactly where the last episode ended.  Brandon rushes upstairs in his flat, seeing fire.  He makes it upstairs.  Garry is held back by Britt, who doesn't want him to risk his life.  Garry tries to go in anyway, but the flames are too much for him and he is forced back outside.  Britt takes advantage of the confusion and fear, and runs in via the fire exit, breaking door glass to enter.  But, she trips, falls and is knocked unconscious.  The Fire Brigade arrive, and Dani appears from around a corner with the dog, reacting with horror at the scene.  Evidently she wasn't in the flat to start with.  When she is told that Brandon went in to find her she tries to enter, but she is held back.

Britt and Brandon are rescued by the Fire Brigade, and translated to hospital.  Brandon suffered smoke inhalation and burns to his legs, and may need grafts, though they are more worried about the smoke damage to his lungs.  Britt may be more serious however, due to the head injury.  When Sion and Iolo arrive, the nurse reveals that there are signs of brain swelling, so they have put her into an induced coma.  Sheryl pithily realises that had Garry kept his curfew, it would have been him in the flat.  Brandon wakes up, asking for Dani.

Ffion wakes up in her car, in the field, apparently hung over.  She returns to Cwmderi, seeing police tape around the flat and forensic photographers, it's like some sort of nightmare.  She is surprised to hear that Garry wasn't in the flat, and there is an hint about her that she might have started the fire.  When a lady detective starts asking questions, she doesn't look right.  She excuses herself, and throws up in an alley.  Later we see her take some clothes, put them into a bin liner, and throw them away.  Tut tut.

Back at the hospital, Brandon, tellingly, tells Dani that he still loves her, before falling asleep.  Dani and Garry have a whispered argument through clenched teeth, and she says that there isn't anyone in Cwmderi who doesn't want him back in prison.  Later, Brandon wakes up again, to find Garry at his bedside.  He says he will never forgive Garry for what he's done.  Garry tries to get Brandon to put things behind them, but Brandon says he never wants to see him again.  Garry urges Brandon not to let 'her' get between the two of them, they are brothers.  But as Brandon speaks, he clutches his chest.  Garry runs out shouting, to get a nurse.  When they come back, it's flatline, and Brandon's eyes are fixed open.  They shock him, but to no avail.  Time of death is declared at 11.20.  Dani and Garry are inconsolable, but neither can bear to be near the other.

I did not see that coming!