Happy Valley viewers tuned in for the penultimate episode of the BBC drama on Sunday night as Tommy Lee Royce revealed his big plans.
The murderous character escaped at the end of the last episode and fans now know that he plans to flee to Marbella, with his son Ryan in tow.
Viewers admitted that they could barely watch the dramatic episode as everything was lining up for a dramatic showdown between Tommy and Sergeant Catherine Cawood as he revealed that he plans to kill her before flying to Spain.
Shocking: Happy Valley viewers tuned in for the penultimate episode of the BBC drama on Sunday night as Tommy Lee Royce revealed his big plans
Many fans admitted they couldn’t breathe while watching the last few minutes of the episode, when Tommy contacted his son Ryan via XBox and shared his plans to move abroad, with Ryan gruesomely promising he’d “think about it.”
As the credits rolled, one person said, ‘Can I breathe #HappyValley yet?’
Another agreed, writing: ‘Can I still breathe #HappyValley’?
Spells of Trouble: The killer character escaped at the end of the last episode and fans now know that she plans to flee to Marbella, with her son Ryan in tow.
A third wrote: ‘Think about it! What else do you think we’ll do until next Sunday? #Happy Valley.’
A different person said, ‘Christ on a bike, my heart is BEATING.’
Another said: ‘How am I supposed to wait a whole week?’
Referencing the fact that there’s a lot to wrap up in one more episode, another said, “Please tell me next week is at least a 3 hour episode.”
Reaction: Many fans admitted they couldn’t breathe while watching the last few minutes of the episode, when Tommy contacted his son Ryan via XBox and shared his plans to move abroad, with Ryan gruesomely promising he’d “think about it.”
Once Tommy hopped off the dock at court, picked up his biker outfit and hit the road into the moors, he was picked up by fellow criminal Darius.
Suggesting that his plan had been in the works for a while, Darius tells Tommy, “Don’t show fear, you’ve come this far.”
Darius reveals Tommy’s plan to take Ryan with him and says, “I’ll pick you up on Monday. If you don’t have the boy by then, you’ll have to go alone.
Tommy replies, ‘I’ll have it.’
Fans were then horrified to learn of Tommy’s plans before he leaves for sunnier climes, as Darius says, “Have you figured out your end of the deal?”
Tommy replies: ‘Yes’
Darius adds: It’s not that policewoman, is it? Tommy laughs: ‘Can you get me a gun?’
Back in Halifax, Catherine learned of Tommy’s elopement from her ex-husband Richard, who was in the courtroom at the time.
Catherine, who now also knows that Ryan went to watch his father’s trial, is concerned about Ryan’s whereabouts as no one can locate him.
When Tommy is dropped off at a property in Halifax, Darius tells him, ‘In a week you’ll be in Marbella, you and your son will be laughing their heads off.
Shocking: Fans were horrified to learn of Tommy’s plans before he leaves for sunnier climes, as Darius says: ‘Have you figured out your end of the deal?’
Then he warned: ‘This policewoman thing, I don’t think it’s a good idea.
Trying to reason with him, he added: “All kinds of things are going to show up, they make me feel uncomfortable, I think you should let it go.”
We’ve been sensible, you’re out. If you do something like that, I can’t promise you how it will all turn out.
However, Venomous Tommy admitted: “Getting revenge on this bitch is just as important as getting to Marbella.”
‘I’m going to find her, follow her, I’m going to bide my time. I’m going to look for an opportunity, but it sure would help if I had a weapon.
His friend told him that no weapons. Tommy replied: ‘We had a deal, I’ve stuck to my side of things. All that shit about Chris Oxley.
New Home: Tommy is dropped off in Halifax, where he is met by a man outside a house near where the raid occurred in the previous episode.
Tommy is dropped off in Halifax, where he is met by a man outside a house near where the raid occurred in the previous episode.
Elsewhere in the episode, Rob reported his wife’s murder to the police, which in turn made him the number one suspect thanks to his abusive behavior.
Faisal returns home to see his wife and daughters huddled around the window watching the police presence outside Rob and Joanna’s house.
They are convinced that something bad is happening and he tries to calm them down by assuring them that he is sure that it is nothing like that.
Lying Down: Ryan showed up at Anne and Daniel’s house while looking for a place to lie low after fleeing to Leeds.
Brutal: However, he was soon turned down by Anne, who shared with him some home truths about his father in an epic tirade after he claimed he wasn’t “welcome” home.
Ryan turned up at Anne and Daniel’s house while looking for a place to hide after fleeing to Leeds.
However, he was soon rebuffed by Anne, who shared with him some home truths about his father in an epic tirade after he claimed he was “not welcome” at home.
Anne said to Ryan: ‘What makes you think you’d be more welcome here? After visiting that idiot. Do you know what your father did to me? I tell you? What he did to me.
What he did to your mother was no better than what he did to me. He raped her, humiliated her, and degraded her. He made her feel that ending her life might be a desirable option.
Ryan explained that he was going to sleep in a ditch instead, and Anne brutally replied, “Okay, bye.”
Once out of the house, Ryan confided in Daniel that he went to visit Tommy so he could “decide for himself about him.”
He explained: ‘I wanted to see him so I could make a decision about him, I wanted to find out what he thought about him. I didn’t say anything because I didn’t want it to start.
‘I feel sad for him. That he was born that way. Need to be so nasty to people.
His grandmother Catherine soon arrived to pick him up and the duo exchanged another heartbreaking moment.
After telling him that what he had done was ‘stupid’, Ryan said: ‘Grandma, I love you.’
Catherine asked: ‘What has caused that?’ He tells her ‘nothing’, before she tags along and they head home together: ‘Okay, let’s go.
After picking Ryan up, Catherine spoke to her sister Clare, who informs her that the police want to talk to her and Neil because they visited Tommy.
Refusing to hold back, Catherine told him, ‘Yes, because you visited him for some unfathomable reason.’
Clare revealed a plan to get them all to Spain so they’ll be protected until Tommy is caught.
Catherine said savagely to him, ‘You’re the last person I’d ever go on holiday with. You bore me. You have this dependent personality. They convinced you of something so disgusting and offensive to me.
‘I know whatever I did the best I could for all of you. I’m going back to work, that bastard is still out there and I’m not going to sit on my ass watching fucking TV.