No happy ending for our favourite baddie

WAS THERE anyone in the known world who thought James Norton’s Tommy Lee Royce, one of our more noted TV baddies, was going to make it to Marbella? One glaring fact gave it away: there was no sign of cabin luggage in his safe house.

Tommy was of course meant to be heading off there with son Ryan. Indeed, if he was desperate for some hand-luggage he could have sneaked away to TK Maxx late at night depending on the branch) to grab a bargain in a daring colour. He would have been the talk of Costa Del Crime.

But Tommy almost knew he was bound for the bargain bin himself when his ride turned up on Happy Valley BBC One, Sunday). They looked like three mini-cab drivers in a tatty Passat. Were they all going to Spain, doing shifts at the wheel?

Of course, it was the horrible Halifax mob the Knezevics. Keen-eyed Tommy spotted an emergency petrol tin in the backseat. He's the sort of man who immediately thinks, They’re going to set me on fire and I might need a small kitchen knife as back up”.

After some cosy chat in the car, Tommy cut them, thumped them, and generally bludgeoned them to death, ruining my hopes of a jolly boys’ outing to Marbs”.

Later came the main event as Sergeant Catherine Cawood Sarah Lancashire) cornered Tommy in her house.