Andy is indeed alive!
At the end of tonight's second episode, we see Phelan go into the basement of an abandoned building and talk to someone. That someone seems to be chained up. The very last shot reveals a bearded Andy looking anguished. It's very satisfying when you guess correctly!
Back in January, Andy discovered he had evidence that would nail Phelan in the scam about the flats he was pretending to build and that he watched Michael Rodwell die. Phelan confronted him and bashed him in the face with a laptop and it was assumed that he killed the younger man. Andy's girlfriend Steph waited for him at the airport, they were going to start a new life in Portugal but he didn't show up. He'd been in a state of late and she wasn't overly surprised. She left without him.
Actor Oliver Farnsworth had a pretty big secret to keep while filming the episodes. He was smuggled on set and was forbidden to make any contact with cast members, according to the Manchester Evening News. Oliver says that the isolation "helped in some ways for the role and mental preparation to be isolated from everyone in that way." He's had lots of time to work out for himself how Andy must have survived and how his interaction and relationship with Phelan would have evolved.
"I spent a lot of time just thinking about the different stages he would have been through during the past eight months from hope to despair to seeing Phelan as an arch enemy to sometimes possibly even seeing him as a friend. If Phelan leaves him alone for a few days without food the second he comes in with a sandwich he has to be his best friend as Phelan has got something that Andy needs for survival."
But Andy's getting more desperate to escape and the spoiler photos on the tabloid websites show him with a length of rope to wrap around Phelan's neck!
It looks like the next few weeks will be very interesting indeed!
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