Is this the end of the world as we know it? The Bay turned from a peaceful seaside village into a hotbed of race hatred and mob rule in the space of one scene. Not bad going. Is this what Australia day is all about? The true Aussie spirit? I doubt poor Hasim thinks so after the bashing he received.

Nothing major happened in episode 5000, but that didn’t matter because…Brendan’s back!  Just on holidays, mind; he’ll be going back to Ruby 2 shortly.

Liam took an overdose because he saw Nicole and Aden kissing on the beach.  People should look around before they start kissing by the Summer Bay sea.

Romeo’s sister arrived.  For a second I thought she was the imaginary girl.  She looks feisty, at any rate.  She’ll surely shake up the caravan park.

Have a read of this. Ada, aka Leah, says that Kane is her favourite H&A character of all time.  Why? I think he was one of the biggest tools of all time.  Sure he’s in jail now and won’t be coming back, thankfully.  Anyway, she also says that she like Vinne, who’s currently in True Blood.  He’s fantastic as Jason Stackhouse and I don’t see him leaving that to return to the Bay.

So Hugo’s not dead after all.  It was an elaborate ruse to catch Suzy.  I hope it feckin’ works.  Also, who’s to say they didn’t do the same thing with Jack?  Hmmmmm?  Maybe we should let go of that one.

Why did Alf have to know?  This is all going to backfire.  He’ll tell Colleen at some Stewart soiree and then the cats in the street will find out.

Xavier got loads of dosh from his cowardly scumbag brother.  Maybe he’ll take up dealing again.

Miles has a new mate.  I thought she might be imaginary but maybe not.

Well, Hugo got off in the end, he’s gone to the big people-smuggling depot in the sky.  He was a crap villain anyway.

Angelo survived getting shot in the head, he’s just like that fella, Kurt Cobain.  How did he survive that?*

I do believe Martha said at one point, “I don’t know what’s going on”, which I thought was default mode for her.  She forgave Angelo for shooting Jack anyway.

Bungbung/Bangbang/Bumbum has gone back to his dad now that he has learned English and how to play the guitar.  Those guys are going to go far.  Martha looked pretty sad.  After all, she just lost a farm slave.

So, that’s the end of the mystery.  It was a long time coming and was quite good in the end.  I don’t really think it’s CHANGED SUMMER BAY FOREVER though.

*See Father Ted

It turns out that Hugo can speak Indonesian after all, and that’s not all he was hiding.  He was involved in the people smuggling ring as Angelo suspected.  He took his boat out to sea and tried to make Charlie swim over to an island, because she can connect him with the people smuggling.  Maybe he saw her energetic dancing and thinks she’d be well able to do a marathon swim. She pulled a sly one on him and got his gun but now Suzy is on the warpath and they’re all in trouble.

Poor old Constable Risotto got shot in the head for his troubles by diving in front of Martha and saving her from a bullet.  Don’t know why he bothered.  It’s not like a bullet to the head could have done any brain damage to her, sure nobody would know the difference.

No expenses were spared in todays episode.  They had aerial shots of the city and the bay. This is bound to be a ratings winner.  Sure it’s high drama all round.

What was the story with the Summer Bay dancing in that episode?  It was pretty pretty pretty special.

Ooooh how dramatic!  Martha/Marta got kidnapped by evil Suzy, and Charlie got pistolwhipped by Hugo for uncovering his nest of refugees.  Wowee!

Good non-cop work by Angelo too; he got a handsome cop to free Derrick the Weirdo, who then led him straight to Suzy.  Angelo will have his day yet!

Where did Miles go?  He was bawling on the beach and left a trail of footsteps into the ocean.  Alf didn’t seem too worried about it though.

Colleen is the world’s best drunk.  I vote that she henceforth be drunk in all scenes.