....... nobody has mentioned the poor pilot. Did the producers conveniently forget about him?

Maybe it was a drone helicopter

Vanessa mentioned to Diane yesterday that they thought he was dead

Some bird called Joan told them to drop him.

(Sorry 'dale people! I know it's lame but I can't help it!)

Perhaps he was the body they brought out under the blanket

Good thinking! Perhaps it wasn't Val under the blanket. Perhaps she's halfway to Mexico by now!!

That was from the hall of mirrors not the village hall ....so unless the pilot crassed into the hall of Mirrors then it's defo val.

Must be dead.

I can't remember which episode it was in, and who mentioned him, but someone mentioned the pilot had died.