Martha and Hugo have left the bay like “Bonnie and Clive” according to Colleen. They went on the run after another near death experience with Hugo involved. This time is was the crook cop Eaves who took a pop at Hugo but only managed to clip him in the leg. Charlie and Angelo managed to apprehend bent Eaves and bring him to justice. Making it a good day for the law in the bay, they also arrested people smuggler Hugo and his enabler Martha. But for some reason, Sergeant Risotto decided to release the pair of them so they could go on the run. Away with them, the single men of the bay will sleep easy with Martha gone.

Apparently John Palmer is drop dead gorgeous, according to Jill anyway.  But that whole hiding in the bedroom from Gina story is pretty boring.  No doubt there will be confusion and rows when Jill gets discovered.

Hugo nearly got his entire family killed but Rachel seems to be the only one who give a damn about it.  The rest of them aren’t too bothered at all despite the fact they were nearly drowned and shot by the guy with the shotgun and a confused accent.  Thankfully, Tony ambushed him with a rock from behind after Hugo ran him over.  Now he’s banged up in the YCPD station and is looking at some hard time plus 1000 questions from Angelo.

I don’t know how Angelo is going to fit in time for a relationship with Charlie.  He’s far too obsessed with Hugo to leave room for a girlfriend, even if she is one who likes doing her ironing in her silver underwear.

Well Hugo is back big-stylee now.  Martha took him straight back into her arms without a word about his people-smuggling.  At least Gina gave him a dressing-down for being a massive criminal.

The Austins are surprisingly adept at fobbing off the bobbies.  Love how Xavier said “It’s the cops” when Angelo and Charlie came to the door, as if he’d never met them before.   Anyway Gina cranked up her headmistress skills and YCPD were slinking out with their tails between their legs.

Gina was nice to Miles, though, even if she was delivering the bad news that he might not get his job back at the school.  Bet he doesn’t think Rabbit was so deadly now.

Apparently Aden has left.  I totally missed that; I must have been making a cup of tea or something.  The exits are very swift these days.  Nicole is totally over it though, Liam Murphy sorted her out with some bonza advice.  By the by, they now have a ping-pong table in the caravan park.  Bounce.

Good woman Esther, she’s happy out being in Home and Away.  Sure why would you need a fella when you can hang around with Alf every day?

Aden and Justin, his brother with the dopey voice, decided to continue their midnight escapades by returning to the scene of the crime, the spot where they buried their dad. Charlie knows something is up and is on the case, searching hard to find some clues as to what happened to Mr. Jeffries. But she was a little too slow here as the amateur undertakers found the body and got out of there before the YCPD could track them down. Another victory for the boys and girls in blue.

Justin had a heart to heart with Nicole and told him that Aden should join the army to sort his life out.  He’s said this a few times but never really explained why his thinks a military life would be the solution to Aden’s problems.  He expected Nicole to understand as her own dad, the much missed Roman, was in the SAS, but she seemed as confused as I am as to why it’s a good plan.

Oh, Colleen is on rare oul’ form these days; in that episode she was giving out yards about the “graffiti bandits” aka Mad Miles terrorising the caravan park, and ensuring she is living in a “psychedelic nightmare”.  I think they’ve assigned Robert Robertson’s scriptwriter to her.

Xavier told Ruby about the cash he’s sitting on.  How did he keep it for this long?  He’s lucky Mink didn’t run off with it, or Romeo didn’t tell Annie.  Anyway, now that Ruby knows, it’s only a matter of time before Charlie aka the cops find out.  He should just buy a flash car and be done with it.

Tony, in a stupid move, has started to teach Xavier boxing.  Gina has already expressed extreme disgust for the sport.  Duh, Tony.  Don’t cross the headmistress.  Everyone knows that.

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!

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.

The graffiti artist aka Rabbit aka Mad Miles is still at large, and the caravan park residents are threatening to take the law into their own hands.  Personally, I’d like to see that.  Colleen would look the part in camouflage gear and black face paint.

Not content with painting the Bay, Miles is causing more havoc by throwing Elijah and Leah together.  He used the old invite-them-both-to-dinner-then-lock-them-in-a-caravan-but-pretend-it-was-your-imaginary-friend trick.  What high jinx!  I bet Elijah’s secret is that he’s never “taken it to the next level”.  He’s in the right spot for that, so.

Liam Murphy is sporting a very strange beard.  It’s like he was run over by the world’s smallest lawnmower.  Maybe it’s to complement his very strange housemate.

Charlie phoned Leah’s psychologist to make an appointment.  Do you reckon in Australia, psychologists are called psychos?

Leah is becoming the Bay’s own Karate Kid with her martial arts classes.  Rev Elijah is teaching her some nifty moves and her confidence has returned.  She’ll be dealing out bashings left right and centre in no time.  I predict that she’ll enter the illegal fight club that Ric got messed up in and kick ass.  After that she’ll claim the Ultimate Fighting Champion crown.  The racist hoons who smashed up the Diner will want to watch themselves when Leah gets on their case.

How come nobody bar Geoff has seen any of them since the riot?  You’d think they’d be easily recognised in a small town like SB. Yet again YCPD are doing sterling work in tracking down those involved and bringing them to justice.  Angelo and Charlie are busier breaking up/making up than solving crimes.  Worst police force ever.