So, Belle is a goner.  She only got married last week, yesterday she was swimming and today, she’s kaput.  That was the fastest non-accidental demise ever.

Still and all when it came to it, it was touching, and nice that Belle got to go home to Irene’s.  I half expected Aden to climb out the window the next morning.  Earlier in the episode there was loads of messing with Liam Murphy trying to make amends, and Amanda trying to hospitalise Belle.  Sound Doctor Sid sorted her out by calling Rachel in.  I’m not really sure what Rachel did, but it worked.

On the Youtube, there was a preview of the funeral.  Martha was doing the maddest face:

Geoff looked equally confused:

Rachel is a pain in the hoop. You’d think she’d be delighted to have the negligence case sorted, but no, she just looked annoyed that she had nothing to moan about. Then Tony brought Harry to the diner to introduce him to Auntie Colleen, and Rachel nearly lost her reason. She’d want to watch herself or topless Tony (did you see that?) will be packing Harry up for good.

Martha is certainly acting like a happy spa these days. Better that than weepy and confused I suppose.

Those were crafty tactics by Morag, using Ross’s Alzheimer’s to try to get to the bottom of the baby mystery. But Charlie had a trick up her sleeve as well, saying her baby had died when in fact she was sitting opposite with a gaping mouth that would catch all the flies in Oz.  I suppose it’s her cop training that allows her to think so quickly, but Jack would never have thought of that.

Poor Charlie all the same, it looks like her journey to the next level wasn’t as consensual as most.

Ooh now that was an episode.  Rachel was in labour after her extra-long pregnancy (in Summer Bay time).  Tony nearly didn’t make it, then he did, then the baby nearly didn’t make it, then he did.  To top it all off, the lady who just lost her baby in Rachel’s care is hanging around the hospital, poised to nick young Harry.  Me fingernails are bitten to stumps; it’s pure Hand that Rocked the Cradle.

I barely had time to exhale when Nicole found Belle taking handfuls of drugs.  That’s how you take cancer drugs, apparently, by the handful.  She thought Belle was up to her old prescription-drug-taking tricks, so Belle confessed that she was dying.  Looks like she won’t be able to have those babies everyone keeps going on about.  Give a girl a chance, she’s not even married yet!

Amanda’s coming back to town.  That’s three harlots in close proximity.  Martha and Charlie better keep their men close.

Good quote there by Irene; she reckons Mrs. Lou is a “peroxide piranha” and is after her money.  Unfortunately it looks like the tax man might get there first.

Angelo Risotto is getting suspicious of Hugo; do you think Hugo killed Lou?

Oh great, Xavier and Jai found a load of guns.  This is going to be a disaster.  I hope Rachel is on standby with her mad doctor skillz.

Q. Why does Martha always wear cowboy boots?
A. Because they don’t have laces which she finds too complicated.

Q. How long did Martha grieve over Jack before getting into bed with Hugo?
A. At least 2 weeks.

Q. How was Rachel going to make medical history yesterday?
A. By performing a c-section on her own stomach.

Martha is thick as a brick; she couldn’t figure out why Hugo would rather face the worst downpour Summer Bay has ever seen than stay the night.  Then she stood open-mouthed when he explained that he shouldn’t have feelings for her as he was Jack’s cousin and she was Jack’s wife.  You could almost see the cogs attempting to turn.  “Jack”, she was probably thinking, “who was he again?”.  I think she’s been taking tips from Charlize Theron on how to play a MRF.

Rachel has another string to her medical bow I see; she’s now an optometrist as well as everything else.

So Claudia’s up the duff.  Imagine if Geoff was your da, he’d agonise over every decision.

Irene’s lawyer is beyond rubbish; she can’t even organise a trial date.  Irene’ll have drunk the prison dry by the time she gets around to it.

Ok, so there was a lot of drama in that episode.  Aden and Belle and Rocker Man, Irene and the disappearance of Lou, and Roman’s drama is lurking in the background too.  But the biggest revelation of all was that Rachel is ONLY six months pregnant!  She’s huge!  And doesn’t seem to be affected by the Summer Bay time warp.

Maybe this is part of the mystery too?

P.S.  Does anyone else think Aden should step up as the new Noah?  That was some nifty advice he gave Tony…

Colleen played a blinder in that episode.  Not only did she proclaim to Hugo that there was a “killer fish” about (thus providing him with an excuse for his wound), she also referred to Angelo as Officer Risotto again.

What is Hugo playing at?  He’s soooo mysterious.  He gets badly wounded, heads home, crawls around on the floor for a while, has a chat with Colleen, and only then does he decide to go to hospital.  Then, he lies about his wound, saying it was a shark bite, which handily ties in with Colleen’s theory.  Rachel wasn’t convinced though.  She should join SBPD.

Martha built up the courage to tell Angelo he’s a disgrace to the uniform.  She forgot that Jack insulted the uniform every time he wore it, with his flagrant disregard for the law.

I think one of her fellow doctors at the hospital has played a trick on her. While she was asleep or distracted, somebody has surgically attached her hand to her pregnant stomach. Maybe it’s just superglue but watch her from now on, she never removes it.  

How long are Kirsty and Kane going to keep treating Ollie as a bit of old rope?  One of them steals him from the other who subsequently robs him back. Sure the poor creature doesn’t know if he’s coming or going.

Is Colleen the most formal person in Austrailia?  She addresses Charlie by her full title of Senior Constable Buckton. In keeping with this modus operandi, she should call Martha “ex pole dancer McKensie” and Rachel “Dr/Surgeon/Psychologist Armstrong”.