#I have no basis for Adam Barton being killed off it just fits with stuff and I can't let go of the possible foreshadowing of both characters

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Ok, baby girl....Adam T. is confirmed leaving early 2018. Let's hear your tie in to SSW Theory. Annnnnnd GO!!

I really hope you weren’t expecting much from this because 1 - I feel like it’s probably a little too early to drag Adam’s exit into the theorising as we’ve got such little fact to go on (logic and creativity must be combined at all times in Theory Realm after all haha), and 2 - This timing is awful. What were they thinking? It’s totally destroyed my theory of Adam B being killed off in October… I guess I’ll just have to extend it to January/February instead..? :P

So yeah, this is just wild speculation based on what little we do know and the consequent theories arising from that and the fact that we’ve basically already known for quite a while that Adam was leaving… So, currently my thoughts which have been lingering for some time are something like this:

At some point between now and October Vadam will get back together. They’re a crucial part of so many of these plots, constantly on the outside helping move the chess pieces but not at the heart of any of these plots themselves - apart from their baby storyline. This has to come back up, them wanting a child and not being able to have one, but who conveniently grew close to Vic and got herself entangled in this whole character group just as she found out she was expecting a baby? Rebecca. These two plots remain entwined for me and are leading somewhere. Adam’s infertility has to come up again, they didn’t create this plot purely as a catalyst for Adam to kiss Vanessa and Vic to finish with him, because they could have had anything - some mundane row like Pete/Leyla even - instigate that. The Vadam baby storyline is not over.

So how will they link together? Potentially if Rebecca has the baby but dies herself. We’ve all suggested they could be setting it up for Vadam to take on Rebecca’s baby and I think this is still possible. Now, I’ve been adamant throughout that Rebecca will end up dying at the end of all of this (and I’m probably totally wrong, but this all makes sense in theory land so I’m staying here) but how? For me, there’s three most likely options - a complication in childbirth; Rebecca is actually already ill (there’s the potential that this could be what she found out at the hospital during her miscarriage scare, that one of the reasons for her cosying up to Vic again is to ensure that someone she trusts will be there for the baby potentially even as a legal guardian should the worst happen, and that she is preparing for this and wanting the doctors to prioritise the baby’s life over her own and this was the reason for her suddenly changing her mind about Robert being involved - by asking him so early on about his name being put on the birth certificate, her talk of a child needing to know who their parents are/where they’ve come from, and her line of “We need to talk about the future… The baby’s future.” When she could quite simply have said, “We need to talk about the baby.” Her emphasis is on the future… Because she won’t be a part of it..? And like with Vic, she trusts Robert (and Aaron) to be a good dad to her child and is hopeful he will someday change his mind…); or Rebecca is a victim of Lachlan’s rampage, after Lawrence and Emma. Which is obviously highly possible depending how that all plays out. (And I still want my Rebecca/Lachlan showdown… Alternatively, if they wanted to make this happen in my old theory of a parallel crash, I would not object for the SSW connections…)

So let’s say, hypothetically, Robert doesn’t decide he wants to bring up the baby or Rebecca changes her mind again between now and then (because who knows with her inconsistent point of view), and Vic is named guardian, leaving us with Vadam bringing up the kid. Ross’s kid. With a big inheritance coming their way. Maybe then Ross finally demands the DNA test. And maybe it’s this - Adam bringing up Ross’s child - which brings their feud full circle. Let’s remember the feud was refuelled just after SSW with Adam being included in James’s will and Ross making a pass at Vic - the fallout instigating Vadam’s entire baby/fertility storyline in an episode which also set up/foreshadowed Rebecca’s pregnancy storyline and the whole catalyst for The Incident with Finn dragging Aaron into his mess with Kasim (seriously, 10th November was a crucial episode even if it didn’t feel like it at the time. It set up so much and surprise surprise, Rebecca was wearing yellow.) - but that this all somehow evolved into that dynamic of Vic/Rebecca and Adam/Ross acting like BFFs (which included that scene in the pub involving Rhona and Pierce’s video - another SSW storyline). Now, in last week’s revenge plot we had Adam helping Robron against Ross, and there was that very brief moment between the two of them when Adam was just laughing at the whole thing. It makes sense to me that this feud could be revisited and a plausible way to do this would be for Ross’s child to be brought up by Adam (initially) - the son his father had with the woman he loved more than Ross’s own mother. Imagine that, Adam bring up his (half) brother’s child, the way John brought him up instead of James. And let’s bear in mind, Ross knew all about James and Moira. Ross is the whole reason Emma went down the path she did. So when the truth comes out about what happened to James, Ross is going to know a lot more about what went on than anyone else. I wouldn’t be surprised to see his resentment towards Moira and Adam grow once more, in addition to his feelings towards Emma.

Now, I’m aware I’ve gone on a massive tangent and I’m doubtful any of this will actually happen haha, but I feel like these connections could be the catalyst for Adam leaving. Which could happen a number of ways - Vadam lose the child to Ross and their marriage breaks down again; Adam really can’t handle bringing up someone else’s child and leaves; Moira really is pregnant and Adam can’t deal with that so soon after finding out about his own infertility; Robron continue to get mixed up in dodgy scenarios and Adam takes the rap and goes on the run like Aaron did for him (and because they seem to like sending the younger men on the run… Kirin/Andy/Rakesh…); or Adam dies. This is the one I’ve been inclined towards for a while. Why? The Holly connection.

I can’t let go of this connection, we’ve established that. But let’s just say Rebecca and Adam do both die… Now think about those two scenes I’ve been reading way too much into for so long… The morning of The Incident, we saw Rebecca and Adam share a scene and dialogue for the first time (which also included Vanessa - cue set up for Vadam split - and lead Liv to tell Robert the truth about Aaron - cue catalyst for The Incident). And what did Rebecca and Adam discuss? Holly, and the fact that “the good always die young”. Now, skip to the day after Rebecca finds out she’s pregnant and we’ve got that montage accompanied by the extract Laurel is reading to Ashley about how precious time is and not wasting it if they’d known how little they had… And in this montage we have Holly (in her yellow dress), Adam (with Vic), and Rebecca (wearing yellow). Because as I said a few weeks go, Holly has been connecting Rebecca to Vadam from the moment she arrived in the village and foreshadowed this whole plot at Holly’s wake. At that stage, I thought it was because Moira was the one who was really pregnant. But now I’m speculating that it’s because Rebecca and Adam are both going to die. And Vic will be left with the baby (even if only temporarily). And the one scene Adam and Rebecca shared between these two poignant moments? Adam revealing Robert’s whereabouts that night in earshot of Rebecca. These two have been tied together through this plot. But as has everything else. Holly was the thread weaving all these storylines together. But the baby is the glue joining them all indefinitely, making it almost impossible for them to drift apart…

Basically my thoughts in a nutshell: This whole cycle began with Holly, and it will end with the baby. But there’s going to be a few casualties along the way, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Adam is one of them. Ultimately I’m reserving judgement until we get more information on all of these storylines, but right now this convergence of them all is where the SSW Theory is leading me.