Does Cheryl West die? Predictions for Outrageous Fortune Season 6

I just finished watching Outrageous Fortune Season 5 on dvd and it was brilliant!

Here’s a few quick predictions for Season 6 in 2010. What a delicious cliffhanger! Gerard clutching his severed throat and firing off 3 shots like such a cop. I feel a little sorry for him because every other character on the show has, at one time or another, done far more heinous things than him and yet he gets a bottle to the throat for his troubles.

3 possibilities for cliffhanger resolution

1. Gerard misses both Cheryl and Pascalle. But at such close range it would mean he’s an even worse shot than Dick Cheney. Unlikely.
2. He shoots Pascalle only, having just been spurned by her in favour of his arch enemy, Nicky Greegan. Unlikely, as she’s just such a sweetheart and I’m sure he’d be aiming for Cheryl, since she’s the one who brutally stabbed him, but might have hit Pascalle accidentally. Still, unlikely.
3. He shoots Cheryl only. Fairly likely, although she’ll have to recover because Cheryl is Outrageous Fortune, in a sense, and just couldn’t die. But then Gerard would also have to recover (despite losing 17 litres of blood from his jugular vein) because if he died Cheryl would have to go away for a long time (or for as much as that’s ever worth on OF).
4. He shoots both of them (Cheryl on purpose and Pascalle unintentionally). Then Cheryl and Gerard both recover because they have to and Pascalle either just survives or dies. Not very beautifully positive for her but that would be a fantastic bombshell.
5. Pascalle and Cheryl are both saved as the bullets ricochet from their ubiquitous Westie silver jewellery. Fairly likely.

Right, now I’ve confused myself a little.

I think the writers might use Cheryl getting injured as a pretext for bringing Wolf back on the scene, which would be great as he’s the main thing I missed from Season 5, with the exception of the emotionally-devastating episode in which rum-induced Wolf appears. That one may have even surpassed the ‘death of Aurora’ episode in terms of ruining me. Knockout blow after knock out blow.

Actually, I think a more likely reason for Wolf to reemerge would be the sickness and death of Ted West. It’s an idea that’s come up at the end of Season 5, with Eric appearing hilariously in a dream to Ted to predict he would die in prison. It would make sense to at long last have the death of a main character, and would be the dramatic climax of all dramatic climaxes late in the season.

Safe predictions

• Aaron Spiller has his moment in the sun, finally emerging on top, if even for just a few short glorious minutes. The writers outdid themselves in Season 5 looking for increasingly more brutal and hilarious ways to put Spiller through physical punishment. But you just can’t break his little ginger spirit. Aaaah bless him. Particularly splendid was the nod to Chinatown as Spiller has both his nostrils split open with a paint scraper no less (sadistic, brilliant, hilarious writing). I need to go back and make a note of all the ways he’s been beat up on. God I love Aaron Spiller.
• Rochelle has more story action. Seriously, how good is Roz Turnbull? Totally deserves a bit more attention and I reckon she’ll get it too.
• Loretta and Hayden have more rocky split ups. A fairly safe prediction. Hayden has to have a relapse, he’s such a flake.
• Sheree Greegan comes back somehow and Pascalle gets sweet revenge (or at least all the other West’s take it on her behalf). The twins are tracked down, their actual paternity is cleared up, relieving Van of his burden.
• Angel gets more story action. Terrific new character in Season 5. Great potential for more shenanigans with Eric.
• There’s plenty more obvious stuff like Munter and Kasey having their baby (though obviously safe childbirth is no given on OF any more).
• Deleesha Judd gets in more trouble. She’s trouble that one.

Spliff Predictions

• Spiller’s moment in the sun is getting with Pascalle. He’s totally earned it, a lovely little creepy knight in shining chrome armour.  A good old pity fuck maybe?
• Nicky Greegan gets out of prison. It’s Outrageous Fortune, of course he gets out.
• Hayden Peters or Wayne Judd are murdered (along with Ted dying). Outrageous.