It’s been a little hectic on Neighbours this week, with a couple of kidnappings, the return of a favourite character and the unmasking of the Erinsborough cleaning thief, which I know was a revelation we were all simply desperate for (sarcasm). Let’s get on with rounding it all up.
Roxy Returns
Roxy is back to help Terese, and she decides to immediately rag Holly in front of all the customers at the bar, which is really mean and juvenile. You might have worked there in the past, but you don’t work there now, so just let the staff get on with it, Roxy. Everyone has to learn. I used to really like Roxy, and I remember her as a real firecracker, but I don’t remember her being this spiteful and scheming.
After she’s humiliated Holly, she gets on with sucking up to Terese and, from the looks of it, trying to engineer Susan’s departure from Eirini. She manages to get Susan’s password which, in a genius move from the writers is bigbluebox94, and she uses it to get into Susan’s documents and print out a letter of resignation.
It seems like Roxy is unhappy in Darwin, and she’s arguing with Kyle, presumably about moving back to Erinsborough.
Luckily everyone’s hero, Vera, has got Roxy’s number. She doesn’t like her and she knows she’s up to something. I can’t wait for Vera to uncover whatever it is that Roxy is plotting.
Justice For Jane
Clint is the prime suspect for the cleaning supply thefts, but Jane has been defending Clint to anyone who will listen. Because of her failure to declare their relationship, she’s now having to fight for her job and prove that being involved with Clint doesn’t constitute a conflict of interests.
Jane looks on the local online marketplace and sees someone who is selling the exact items which have been swiped, so her and Nicolette go undercover to try to find out who took them. They make a purchase and then turn up to the pick-up address in their massive sunglasses, which they whip off the moment they go to talk to the seller, which surely defeats the point of putting them on in the first place.
Anyway, just as they’re confronting the lady whose house the cleaning supplies are stored at, the real owner of all the items turns up, and it’s Clint.
He weaves a sob story about a sick mother and tries to persuade Jane to lie to protect him, but she’s having none of it and tells him to shut up. It’s all a massive anti-climax, if you ask me – it would have been way funnier if it had been Vera!
Fallon Makes Heart Eyes at Leo
Tensions continue between Fallon and Krista, and honestly I just don’t understand the dynamic between these two at all. Fallon is the most outwardly bitter and grumpy person I’ve ever seen, and Krista seems to be entirely oblivious to it.
After Fallon dropped Krista in it with Leo by telling him about Seb kissing her, Krista is struggling to get Leo to be excited about any of their wedding planning. Her idea to get things back on track is to turn up at his work with a random violinist, so they can dance around in the courtyard together, presumably in front of all of his employees. This would be enough motivation to call off the wedding for me, just thinking about how embarrassed I’d be is making it difficult for me to breathe.
It seems to fix things for Leo though, and Krista and him appear to be back on track, so much so that Krista comes to help him at work dressed up to the nines in Fallon’s dress, which Fallon absolutely did not give her permission to borrow. Predictably, Krista spills wine down the front of it, and it’s then that she discovers that the dress was actually Fallon’s wedding dress for the wedding in Greece that never happened.
Sorry to be blunt, but Krista is being such a moron at the moment. It’s really obvious that Fallon’s got a massive chip on her shoulder about their respective upbringings, but Krista just doesn’t seem to be able to tell. And borrowing a dress from your spiky sister without asking is not just disrespectful, it’s plain stupid. Even if they had an amazing relationship, that would be enough to cause friction.
Krista is also oblivious to the fact that Fallon is obviously falling for Leo, so she’s going to be completely taken unawares when Fallon inevitably does something unhinged to ruin their wedding. Is Krista OK? She seems to be living in a different dimension to everyone else.
Taye Turns on Fallon
Everyone is going wild for someone called Bobby Favourite, who sounds unspeakably lame, but apparently costs thousands of dollars. Mr Favourite is some sort of musician Taye has booked to play at the piano bar, but he gets mixed up with the pricing and ends up being $10k short of what he needs to pay him.
Rather than act like a normal human and tell people that the booking fell through, which happens all the time, he decides his best option is to blackmail pretty much his only friend in Erinsborough, Fallon.
I knew Taye was dodgy, and now he’s proved it. Because he knows all about Fallon’s relationship with Seb, he threatens to tell Krista about it unless Fallon taps her rich sister up for a $10k loan. Fallon is determined to hide her secret from Krista, so she gets him the money, but she obviously feels very betrayed. He then has the cheek to try to insist that he is still her friend. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
Sadie is Saved
Sadie has gone missing from the Back Lane Bar but is eventually found in the bush – she’s unharmed physically, but with some psychological trauma due to the fact that she has a massive gap in her memory and doesn’t know what was done to her while she was unconscious. Not to make light of being spiked, because it’s obviously a horrendous thing to experience, but I think being unconscious is probably the only way to enjoy the Back Lane Bar.
Max is devastated that Sadie has got caught up in the drama that’s followed him from Queensland, and while everyone is focused on Sadie, nobody really notices Max going missing as well. He’s been kidnapped by a generic looking thug who looks like every other thug that’s ever appeared in Neighbours, who is making sure that friends and family get regular vague text messages about Max being in hiding. How long is it going to take them all to notice he’s been snatched?
These criminals really have an astounding amount of energy, because kidnapping one person in order to distract everyone enough to then kidnap a second person seems like an awful lot of effort to go to.
It did make me laugh that Sadie thinks she’s sheltered and naive because she’s a cop’s daughter, when she lives in the crisis capital of Australia. She knows people who’ve been drugged, kidnapped, held hostage, imprisoned, thrown off cliffs, electrocuted, deliberately run over – you name it. How on earth is she sheltered?
Vomiting Vera
I have to shine a little spotlight on my queen, Vera, whenever she pops up. This week she only had a couple of scenes, but her complaining that she was going to throw up her quiche in the hydro therapy class because it’d now been scheduled after lunch, was hilarious. I just love her so much.
A Few Random Notes
As usual, here are a few random notes I took while watching Neighbours this week:
- Why have Byron and Aaron put the food on the plates before Clint has even arrived? Also the food looks like scrambled eggs.
- If Byron is sad, I am sad.
- Cara saying she needs to move on from looking for Chelsea means that’s she’s IMMEDIATELY going to put in an appearance.
- Clint is too nice, right? There has to be a catch to him.
- Byron and Holly fighting about Max in front of Sadie is so insensitive. Holly should understand, she’s been kidnapped at least a couple of times.
- I knew it! Clint is the thief. I knew he was too good to be true.
