Well, blow me!  I nearly fell off my chair.  Martha came up with and carried out a cunning plan, all on her ownio.  She went to supercop Charlie under the pretence of trying to find out if she should return the engagement ring procured with Hugo’s ill-gotten gains.  However, the canny lass was actually checking whether it was ok to keep Hugo’s secret riches, which currently belong to Xavier.

Meanwhile, across town (and a bit later), Angelo was spying on Charlie, who was visiting her counsellor.  He fell out of a tree as a consequence.  What larks!

Ruby and Romeo are going out in real life.

Look at this for a non-story; Esther Anderson saw a mickey.

In completely unconnected news, she’d like to see the lesbian storyline explored further.

I think they should have done another take for the first scene in this episode (the one with Miles and Elijah).

Although I suppose no amount of amazing acting could take away from the madness of the story of Vinnie’s decline.  Run over by a tractor.  Died of septicemia.  It’s nearly as good as the woman in Fair City who went to Dundrum to go shopping and never came back.

Elijah has finally revealed his secret, and it was a double-barrelled one.  Firstly, he told Miles that Vinnie didn’t die in prison.  This was news to Miles, but not to us.  Leah knew he was alive and in hiding from the Teddy bear incident.  But Elijah also revealed that Vinnie has died recently and the reverend was the last one to see him alive.  Shocking stuff.  How will Leah reacts when she finds out the truth? Go mental for five minutes and then get over it is my prediction.  Then she’ll make her move on him.  Maybe she’ll vomit on him like she did with Roman.  What a winner.