Fair play to you Heathcliff Braxton, you fairly caught the Sniper red-handed. There, she was, shlipping the phone she used to detonate the bomb into some poor unsuspecting child’s locker. Anyway, Leah is on to her too, so it was only a matter of time before the truth came to light.

Is there a police work-to-rule on in Yabbie Creek or something? The local residents have resorted to solving their own crimes. Zach, Hannah, Casey and Tamara sought out the kidnapped kids without anyone asking law enforcement for help. Renegades. They found Evelyn, Oscar and Kyle half-dead from oxygen deprivation, but two minutes later sure they were grand. No need to take them to hospital, or call the ambos, noooooo that’s not the Summer Bay renegade way. Anyway, as it turned out, topless Dr. Nate was hanging out Chez Braxton.

There was a distinct lack of orange jumpsuits at the bomb site. Alf seemed to be the only regular who bothered.

Harvey is not saying much about his ordeal; maybe he went on a bender and is only coming around now.

Boom! That’s the sound of Summer Bay reacting to the Sniper blowing up the hospital.

Bianca and Heath were trapped inside with Nate once the roof collapsed. Bianca had pressure on the brain, what Hugo might refer to as a brain explosion.

Nate said there is nothing for it, I’ll have to drill into her skull to relieve the pressure; she needed that like she needed a hole in the head.  Alf and the orange jumpsuit lads turned up in time to get her out but it’s touch and go whether she’ll be ok.  I love when Alf gets his emergency gear on, you know it’s business time when that happens.

The twins and Kyle are still trapped in the container without oxygen, food or water. Unbeknownst to them and their captors, Ethan was critically injured in the explosion and he won’t be back anytime soon. He croaked it and now nobody knows where the missing children and Kyle are.  Will Zac be able to save them before they resort to eating each other?

After all of my giving-out that H&A was gone a bit zzz, a bit meh, they throw that episode at us! Look at all that happened:

Harvey came back!! I’m so glad I was too lazy to put him on the wall of death now! No explanation yet though. Bet he swam back.

Oscar and Evelyn got kidnapped by their dad, who is now CULT BOSS!! Kyle put in a brave effort trying to save them, but got bashed by cult hencemen. He’s come a long way since his own kidnapping days.

Montgomery’s bomb went off, in the hospital!! Ricky, Bianca, Heath, Irene and Nate all got flung about in the blast. Is that the end of Brax Junior?

AND, Johnny Cooper was on TwoTube! He was a classic Summer Bay baddie, throwing his weight around, threatening Brad, and making his brother Rocco stab Sally. HELLO TEACH!

The festival went well, didn’t it? Sure the romance was palpable, what with Maddie and Josh taking it to the next level, fairy lights and all, and John and Marilyn having an oul’ slow-dance in the beam of his headlights. Even Spencer ended up happy enough, his protectiveness abated by Josh sticking up for Maddie.

Oscar absolutely loving it

Ricky has loads of visitors in hospital; Nate dropped his festival duties the second he heard she was there, and Heath and Bianca slept there overnight. That was particularly handy, as it gave Montgomery ample time to plant a bomb in Bianca’s laptop bag. At least, I think it was a bomb; it looked a bit like an answering machine. Will Bianca blow up the hospital?

After breaking up with Ricky yesterday, Brax broke up with the boys today. He told them he’s getting transferred but won’t tell them where so they can’t visit, they’ll have to get on with their lives. He wants them to keep an eye on Ricky and help her out. She had planned to move out but the boys want her to stay, the baby won’t have a dad but will have 3 live-in uncles. Is that the end of Brax?  I’m surprised he didn’t go down in a blaze of gunfire, killed by Adam or a mate of Hammer.

Nate was planning to leave the Bay and head back to the city. Irene heard this and asked him to stay as they need a good doctor, which is very true given the amount of injuries and disasters that occur. He was flattered by her request and agreed to hang around, didn’t take much to change his mind.

Some new character appeared and stripped off in front of John. She’s called Phoebe and seems to be a bit of a wild child and she knows Kyle, she jumped into his arms, much to Tamara’s annoyance. It’s been a week or two since so broke up with Casey so it’s about time she got a new Braxton boyfriend, with Brax in prison and Heath married it’s going to have to be Kyle.

What happened to John and Marilyn’s bus tour business? They haven’t talked about that in a while. She managed to persuade him to help out at the music festival, can’t wait to see what outfit she wears to it. Even Heath has volunteered to help as it will keep Bianca happy and when she’s happy he gets “special cuddles”.

Dr. Accent has the most stilted phone manner. In any case, he was offered a transfer by “Dr. Simon”, just as he is falling for Ricky. She went to visit Brax, and he told her not to visit anymore. Go live your life, sez he. You would think that was the perfect moment for her to announce “Oi, I’m pregnant”, but no. Everyone in Summer Bay is a mega martyr. They are all terrified to burden anyone else with their problems.

So, what will happen next? One of the Boyz will tell Brax about Ricky’s predicament, he’ll have a change of heart, but it will be too late, as Ricky will have taken comfort in the arms of the good Doctor.

There was something about Maddie in that episode, but I can’t be sure what because zzzzzzzzzz…

Storylines in the Bay aren’t very gripping of late. The cult fizzled away to nothing, and even the fact that Harvey is MIA didn’t get much of a reaction. If he really is dead, that’s the worst end to a character I’ve seen. The cops didn’t even call around to inform Roo. Suspicious…

It looks like Harvey has graduated from cast member to wall of death member. Roo said that she had to face up to the fact that he’s not coming back. She threw some flower’s into the sea so that’s it for him. Can’t say he was my favourite character but this was one of the funniest moments in years.

Maddy dumped Josh for covering for Andy when she went to report him to YCPD.  Josh dumped his brother for forcing him to cover for him.  Now that he doesn’t have his brother dragging him back he is free to get back with Maddy, which they both seemed happy about.

Ricky got a breakfast time visit from Dr Accent. He offered her half a danish in exchange for an agreement that she come for a check up.  He got her into the hospital for a scan which convinced her that she’s going to have to tell Brax about the baby. Once he finds out about it he’ll probably try to break out of jail so he can be with Ricky and the baby.

The school kids were creating all the drama in that episode. Matt waltzed in and interrupted Zac’s class to cause a ruckus with Oscar. Zac didn’t bat an eyelid, or even seem to be annoyed that a student was ruling the roost. The Sisters of Mercy would have had different ideas. I tells ya.

There was a party on the beach. Andy gave Heavily Made-Up Maddie a spiked drink so she’d make a show of herself and Josh would go off her. I don’t know what was in the drink, but it was either Nighty Nights or a few mickies. Anyway, Josh copped on and looked after Maddie; the two of them slept on the beach, like dopes.

Roo is back and no-one is too panicked about Harvey. Are we just to assume he’s dead, then?

Buddha said three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. With insight like that he would have done well in Summer Bay where a secret becomes public knowledge in seconds. Take Ricky’s pregnancy, yesterday only Kyle knew, now half the bay is aware of it.

Kyle is worried about Ricky & her delicate situation. She doesn’t want to tell Brax but he wants her to. She told Heath and he urged her to tell Brax, but she’s worried about raising a child while its father is in jail for 10 years. Heath respected her wishes and told Kyle to do the same. Bianca eventually told Bianca and all of Clan Braxton so the cat is out of the bag now.

Given the serve Leah gave her, the Sniper went MIA. Leah gave Bianca the lowdown on what happened so Bianca decided to make a formal complaint about Ms Montgomery. Leah is getting crank phone calls now, maybe she’s the sniper’s next target.

Casey is finding it hard to run the gym given that Heath is not helping with the paperwork. Irene told Chris to get a job so he knocked into Casey and asked him for some of Spencer’s gym shifts. Casey asked for time to think it over but Heath was easier work, he managed to take Spencer’s job and told his bro he was sacked. Irene was none too impressed when she heard and forced Chris to quit the gym and take up a job in the diner, which will be great fun I’d imagine.

…according to Waterford Whispers news. In fairness, it was a traumatic event for a lot of us.