Harvey is continuing to spread rumours about John Palmer and his corrupt ways. Roo got involved and asked him to stop, to no avail. Rumours tend to get believed in small towns like the bay so John’s in strife with the council now, they want him to resign. Harvey needs stopping asap.

Miles is heading for a fall. He seems to think himself and Leah are headed for a reconciliation but Leah has other ideas and lied to him on the phone. To top it all, Colleen told him that he was looking a bit fat. I’m surprised how thin he is considering he stuffs his face in most scenes.

Sash is in hospital with her infection. Stu had a showdown with Sid, who got a taste of his anger. The doc won’t let him anywhere near Sasha now. But he got the impression that Stu convinced her to get the tattoo, which isn’t true and she didn’t set her Dad straight, future conflict alert. Xavier seems happy enough to hang around the hospital, waiting for her condition to improve. Isn’t he a bit old for Sasha, she’s only 15.

Xavier is heading off on a European tour thanks to generous John deciding that he’s willing to sell the V8.  So all Xavier needs to do is find a buyer for the car. Xav revealed that his target market is a “toolie”. What’s that you might ask, well I’m afraid I can’t tell you.  I listened back to Xavier’s definition of a toolie three times but still couldn’t understand what he said.

Sasha finally got sense and dumped Stew. While she did like him she got sick of his psycho behaviour. Her relationship motto seems to be “less bash, more pash”. Stew, being the local mentalist, didn’t take too well to his new found single status and claimed that he would hurt himself if she dumped him. He promptly jumped into the V8, which Xavier had left with keys in it, and drove off in a rage.  That won’t end well.

Brax has left the River Boys apparently. Heath offered him the chance to sell drugs to the schoolies but he was having none of it as he’s on the straight and narrow now.  Charlie was impressed with him leaving his gang behind and took him back, yet again. Charlie says she wants to head to the city with Ruby, maybe Brax will go with them?  Charlie and Brax could set up a a business doing consultancy work for criminals, helping them to pervert the course of justice.

Not a great time to be a Braxton in the bay. Casey is in Juvie, but still able to talk to Brax on the phone.  Heath is in trouble with his Neighbours, Gina and John, while the object of his affections Bianca wasn’t too impressed with his threatening of Gina.  Brax is the only one who is enjoying himself. He got an earful from Charlie over the court case. You would think he’d be sick of her by now, but no. She only has to “say the word” and he’ll be there. In the meantime he’s going to enjoy himself with the hotshot lawyer who is mixing business with pleasure.

What’s Ruby going to do while Casey is doing hard time?  Will she be able to wait for him?  A month is a long time to be on one’s own in the bay.

Leah and Miles continue to struggle along.  She seems to be doing anything she can to avoid him. She maintains that everything is ok but Miles seems unconvinced.  Whither now for them both?  Marilyn is doing all she can to help them but will it be enough? I fear not.

Haha rapey Dean, your days are numbered now. Bianca recognised your face when she spied you behind the wheel of your car. Naturally, your first instinct was to run her over. Bad move.

Mr. JP is wise to you too. He spotted your rubbish tattoo in one of Kelly’s photos. It’s only a matter of time before you incur the wrath of Sergeant Charles “Charlie” Buckton.

You should have stayed on the farm. As Daniel in Angry Boys might say, you are fully fucked.

It seems like Bianca’s nightmare might be coming to an end. In a dream, she saw a bull, or at least a tattoo of a bull on the back of her attacker.  By strange co-incidence, she then saw the same tattoo in real life on the beach by the end of the episode. Time moves pretty fast by the bay.  It belonged to none other than Kelly’s brother. It was pretty obvious that it was him as there weren’t any other genuine suspects once Heath was ruled out.

Xavier’s gut instinct is proving a reliable character guide for once, he wasn’t impressed with the bloke from the start, despite John trying to stick up for him. Kelly will be devastated when she finds out but maybe she’ll head back and run the farm.

What’s going to happen to the river boys now?  The fearless leader Heath has been locked up for drug possession and will go down for a long time, unless YCPD mess up the arrest, which is a distinct possibility.  There’s a power vacuum in the surfie gang. Maybe it’s Casey’s turn to take over, following in his older brother’s footsteps.  I could see him walking around town topless, harassing Colleen in the diner and saying “Come on boys” when they get kicked out. He’s already pretty good at loitering in the surf club.  All he needs is a bit of drug dealing experience and he’s a perfect fit.  Maybe he’ll want to stick on the straight and narrow and finish his HSC. If so, maybe Old Ma Braxton will take over.  Keep it in the family.

Well it’s finally happened, Web 2.0 has hit the bay.  Again.  Last week it was Gina and Facebook.  This time it’s Palmer and Twitter, as prompted by Roo.  He’s keeping all 20 of his followers riveted with updates from behind the scenes at the surf carnival.  All went well until Xavier robbed his iPhone to tweet some updates.  Mangrove River got the hump when Xavier, as John, called them creampuffs and criminals. There will be some strife at the carnival itself, no doubt about that.

Colleen and Mick McCarthy are big fans of the Webinet and are forever poking each other.  It would be great if Colleen started a twitter account that we could follow in real life.  That would be priceless.

Back in RL, Miles and Leah had a wee kiss.  So cute.  Mwah.

Ooh, Nicole got seduced by the glamour of college life.  She even met a nice boy at her very first college party.  Sweet.  Pity she’s up the duff.

Dr. Sid and Marilyn have agreed to look into other options, in case Nicole sees the chisler and wants it for her very own.  Sensible.  However, when they told Nicole, she threw a mickeyfit.  This storyline will probably swing back and forth until she has the baby.

I forgot that Morag and Marilyn are mates.  Flathead pointed out that Marilyn used to be Morag’s housekeeper, but that’s long before my H&A time.

Alf handed over control of the Surf Club to JP.  He’s taking some me time.  I bet he goes to visit Sally/be in a West End show.

Well, Alf is out and he’s ready for a scrap.  He’s raging against the changes made to the surf club in his absence by the original JP.  Personally, I don’t think they’re too outrageous.  Paying for parking after four hours is fair enough.  How could you spend four solid hours in the surf club anyway?

Despite his new-found vigour, Alf has also emerged as the most forgiving man in all Australia.  First he had a chinwag to Irene, who was ready to see him locked away for life.  Then he hightailed it down to the cop shop for a tete-a-tete with Will, even convincing him to speak to Lilly before he went down.

Will turned out to be a bit of a tragic figure.  He’s off to jail and for a long time, be the sound of it.  I’m living for the day when Gypsy shows up.

Lilly seemed happy enough with her da’s explanation of what happened.  So much so that she gave Veej his first kiss.  Cute!

Morag and Colleen deserve their own spin-off show.  Their repartee is delicious.

What’s this? Detective Robertson is questioning himself?  Is it possible that he was wrong?  Wrong about Alf being a murderer? If he was wrong about that, then he could be wrong about everything. Robert’s gut has let him down.

John had a meeting with the real Shandi, his real daughter, not Daria the Shandi impersonator and con woman.  Angelo and Charlie decided to team up for some police work, just like old times.  Angelo went undercover posing as Will to entrap Daria. It worked a treat and she fell for the bait hook line and sinker.  Why is Angelo doing undercover cop work? I thought he was a restauranteur now?

Alf really does have an amazing turn of phrase.  Even Robert Robertson agrees.

Charlie got a nighttime visit from Mr. Stewart.  He felt the need to tell her about Tulip O’Hare, then swore her to secrecy, seemingly all the while forgetting that she’s a cop.

At cop breakfast the next morning, Charlie told RR everything.  Fair enough.  Alf denied it all, though.  He nearly deserves to go to jail!

Xavier is trying to get his ma back with JP.  Gina’s having none of it though.