The script writers would have to get rid of an awful lot of other heirs for him to inherit Brookfield! It could be the theme for a good disaster folk song....mass deaths of David, Ruth, their three children, Shula, Kenton, Lizzie and their children, not to mention Tony, his kids, Jennifer and her kids and her kids' kids.....

Of course those older Archers fans will remember something similar in a Tony Hancock script called "The Bowmen" - when as they all came walking across a field towards him (Hancock) an ancient quarry opened up and they all fell in.............as my memory has it.