What do you do after discovering someone dead in your bed? (Picture: ITV)
One minute you’re in the middle of a freak weather event, sheltering for safety as trees fall down and caravans fly across the village, the next you’re discovering someone dead in a bed after having sex. No, this isn’t an entry from our diary, it’s just standard for Bob Hope (Tony Audenshaw) in Emmerdale.
Bernice (Samantha Giles) has been single for a while and dealing with the menopause has left her feeling undesirable, but when she feels a little spark with a harpist hired to play at the B&B opening in upcoming episodes, she jumps at the chance of getting frisky. She doesn’t waste any time in propositioning the man on the eve of the big B&B event, and he only too readily accepts.
The day of the grand opening rolls around and Bernice awakens in her B&B bedroom with her lover Tim the harpist in bed. Momentarily, she feels absolute bliss, that is until she realises she’s horrendously overslept and her basking in the post-coital afterglow is cut unceremoniously short.
As the event gets underway, Bernice is distracted when Bob approaches and breaks some huge news – the harpist is dead.
‘Do they call the police? Do they move the body? What do they do?’, Tony Audenshaw said to us recently as he reflected on these surprising scenes with Bob and Bernice.
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‘He doesn’t know what to do, he’s completely perplexed by it. So he says ‘Go downstairs and you clear the guests’ and he’s waiting there for ages and she hasn’t done anything. So, he goes back down and there’s this journalist there from the Hotten Courier. People are having a great time, Jimmy and Nicola are there having a drink. And he’s like “what’s going on?” And she just got carried away with the moment of it all.’
‘I think he sees Bernice as a good businesswoman and she’s got a lot of good ideas and she’s got half the money, which I think is vital as well’, Tony added, pondering over the new dynamic between these two characters as they take on the B&B.
‘And she’s excited about it, which is a nice thing, and he’s excited about it. The fact they’re both excited about it is a good thing. He’s got his doubts about her because she’s bossing him around a bit and she wants one thing and he wants something else, but I think he’s up for it!’
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Bernice’s night with the harpist ends in well, death.
