Aww poor Casey, the best of the Braxtons, is off to Juvie for the grand total of…30 days! As we know, 30 days is a long time in the Bay. Xavier will probably have suffered four more injuries when Casey’s released. Ruby will definitely have met a new beau. Charlie will be back from wherever she is. Irene will be wearing makeup again. In short, the face of Summer Bay will have changed forever.

How will Casey cope with being an ex-con? I reckon he’ll be hardened up on the Inside, and once released, will have no interest in study or the HSC. He’ll probably fight off Ruby’s probable posse of suitors and pimp her out. Hopefully he’ll fix her hair too.

Casey, this one’s for you.

What’s going on with Liam and Bianca now? I thought they were broken up, for good this time. But when Liam called over to Heath’s gaff to find her in his robe, he was severely miffed.  He stormed off for a mope thinking she was with Heath.

Gypsy had a row with Lily and went for a walk which meant that she bumped into Murph.   She didn’t seem too bothered by the fact that she has a boyfriend and indulged in some extra curricular liaisons with the rockstar/waiter.  Cue Bianca finding them caught up in their passion?

What is Harvey playing at? Romeo is dead sus, thinking his plan is to do him out a big charter business.  He even tried to warn Roo off him, to no avail. She seems happy enough with him, for now. I can’t see it lasting given his devious nature.

The h&a makeup artists deserves credit for Irene’s complexion in recent episodes. She looks like death warmed up. I wouldn’t be too surprised to see her turn up in an episode of the Walking dead.

Liam Murphy took to the stage in Angelo’s and Gypsy was LOVING it. A budding romance, no doubt. Lily will be delighted. She thinks her ma is going to marry her flash boyfriend and leave her in the dust. That’s why she’s being such a brat.

Everyone is sad about Leah’s lost baby. Poor cute Veej was going to teach him to play football. Veej had a touch of Henry XVIII about him as he declared the baby was definitely a boy. Leah is pushing Miles away. Leah, noooooooooo!

Irene is doing it tough after her chemo. Her carers are terrible, they’re barely in the house to look after her. Plus they are both crushing on Rockstar Liam Murphy. LOVE TRIANGLE YO

Just how big is Irene’s house?  There are hordes living there now.  Nerves are starting to fray.  April sounds like a middle aged mother, frazzled by bickering teens.

Does Heath just hang around Angelo’s in his vest, threatening customers when the need arises?  Bianca and Gypsy seemed happy enough with the results, sleezy suit guy being told to leg it.  He saved her from him twice in the one night, good way to get into her good books.

Liam is at a pretty low ebb at the moment.  Dumped and working a waiter job with very little prospects.  He should get back to his music.  I can see a follow up to “Kisses hurt so much” on the horizon.

Casey did a pretty good job lying to Charlie.  She seemed convinced by his alibi.  Casey may have actually pulled off a masterstroke by burning down Jake’s HQ and saving Brax from himself.  Brax has neither murder charge and jail or blood on his hands to deal with.  All he has to do is make sure Casey can keep one step ahead of Charlie, which shouldn’t be too hard, she’s hardly the sharpest tool in the box.

Mr. Braxton McBraxerton didn’t get to kill Hammer’s drive-by bud at Tegan’s funeral, because his ma snitched to the pigs in an effort to keep her son on the straight and narrow. The shooter was some nondescript fool under Hammer’s control. Poor fella. Charlie and Constable Watson fairly put manners on him.

Brax then decided to just shoot Hammer, so said goodbye to Ma Braxton and went back to his house for the gun. Charlie and Constable Watson came to the door and hauled him down to the cop shop. Foiled again! Someone burned down Jake’s gang headquarters. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a sign saying “Gang HQ” over the door. Brax denied all knowledge. Who did it then?

Cut to Casey going mental in the kitchen, covered in soot. Tut, tut Case. We all thought you didn’t “have it in you”.

Also, Irene is home from hospital, Gypsy and April rowed over cleaning, Gypsy has a new fella, Lily hates him.  Ta-dah!

Oh holy night, Hammer is the worst baddie ever depicted on screen. His delivery is quite bizarre. It’s obviously supposed to be threatening, but it is coma-inducing. Anyway, Brax will hopefully finish him, with his illegally obtained firearm.

Brax told Heath he’s going legit once Hammer’s out of the picture. What a strange way of cleaning up your act. He’s clearly never heard of revenge killings.

Irene had her mastectomy, but still needs chemo. Bianca stayed by her side for all of two minutes, till Liam showed up. They’re finished and Bianca is after Heath now. She has a short memory as well as being easily distracted.

It seems the Bay, just like real life Dublin, is suffering from extreme weather conditions. That’s some coincidence considering that while the downpour was happening yesterday, I thought what we need now is Alf and the emergency rescue team in the orange suits.

Gawd save Ireland, Irene is having it tough. The cancer needs to be operated on but she’s told Leah and she’s ready to tell everybody about her cancer. That will be a weight off April’s young shoulders who was carrying the burden on her own.

Indi gets a lot of slagging on this blog for her insane outfits but her vest with the cat on it today was lovely on her.  Fairplay, for once.

Feck that poor wee half-wit River Boy got his terrible tattoo cut off, after Charlie broke up the worst gang face-off of all time. Did you see Jake’s crew? I could’ve taken them on myself. They weren’t even topless!

April had a snoop in Irene’s bag and found out about her breast cancer. Naturally, Irene wants it kept secret. They love secrets in Summer Bay.

Heath is turning up the heat in the latest gang war to hit South Central L.A. Summer Bay. After his beating from Hammer and Jake’s crew, Heath was determined to exact revenge. Brax told him to lay off but he didn’t listen.  He uttered his famous war cry “come on boys” and they thrashed Hammer’s car. Hammer followed Heath’s lead and took Heath’s car for a joyride and burned it out. I assume they’ll all behave like adults now and leave it at that.

Poor Irene had her biopsy results in the hospital.  Doctor Noname sat her down and didn’t look best pleased with the results.  On top of her health troubles, Irene had to listen to Liam and Bianca rowing again. Liam is hitting the skids, no job, no girl, no car, no house, his luck has to turn one of these days.

In today’s episode, Marilyn talked Jessica the bride out of getting married. She robbed Leah of an order in the process. Jessica seemed fairly simple and downtrodden, so I’m surprised she took action.

It looks like Irene might have breast cancer. No-one has even noticed she’s out of sorts. Bianca broke up with Liam and is moping around. April’s too busy giving Bianca advice. Irene even had a slow-motion, soft-focus scene and still no-one copped on.

Roo called around to check on Sid. In return, he gave her a tongue-lashing over walking out on the Walkers. He’s a cheeky doctor.