Another week has flown by, and there was a heck of a lot going on in Erinsborough, so let’s recap.
Chelsea Overhears Nell
JJ and Nell’s absolutely genius plan to deal with the fact that she killed Seb is to say absolutely nothing and just hope Leo doesn’t get convicted of murdering him instead. As plans go, it’s not great, but an even worse idea is discussing it in a house that has baby monitors. This is exactly what happens, and Chelsea hears them on the baby monitor talking about how Nell killed Leo.
Chelsea knows the value of this information in her quest to suck up to Paul, so she immediately flies off to find him to tell him she knows how to get Leo off the murder charges. Paul doesn’t waste any time, and goes to the police station to tell them who really killed Leo.
Meanwhile, Nell has heard that Leo and Abigail have done a runner in the night and can see the impact it’s having on Paul, so she finally decides to tell the truth. Nell goes to Terese and confesses everything, and then they go to the police station to make an official statement. Unfortunately, Paul has beaten them to it, and Terese is incandescent with rage at the speed at which Paul threw Nell under the bus to save Leo, which I’m sure makes it all the sweeter for Chelsea. Terese doesn’t understand why he didn’t contact her so they could deal with it all together as a family.
It’s not often I agree with Chelsea, but JJ and Terese are both angry with her for telling the police and taking away Nell’s chance to possibly mitigate her sentence by her voluntarily coming forward herself, but Chelsea points out that Nell’s had weeks to be honest. And she has, she’s even been living with the person falsely accused of the crime that she committed, so she’s seen in real time the effect it’s had on him. I know she’s just a kid, but she honestly couldn’t have dealt with this situation any worse.
Krista Tracks Leo Down
Before the news about Nell comes to light, everyone is freaking out about where Leo and Abigail have disappeared to. The sassy detective is on Paul’s back to tell him where Leo is, and even Paul can’t lie convincingly enough to stop him from being suspicious about where Leo has gone.
Krista notices that Isla is busy playing a video game, and she soon realises that she’s playing against Abigail. Krista tells Isla to ask Abigail to share her location on the game, so she does, and Krista can immediately see where her and Leo are. I think this proves that Leo would have made an absolutely terrible fugitive – I don’t know how he expected to go off grid without disabling all forms of location trackers on his and Abigail’s devices. He’s clearly never watched a true crime documentary in his life.
Krista rocks up and convinces Leo to let her come on the run with him to Brazil, but they get a phone call from Paul just in time, telling them that Leo is off the hook.
They return home, and things are looking up for the two of them and their reconciliation, despite the absolutely vile, beige pyjama-type jumpsuit Krista puts on when she gets back. I don’t know where they get some of the clothes for the cast from, but wherever they got that suit from they need to send it right back, preferably after setting it on fire.
Darcy and Chelsea Break Up Already
Darcy is getting very clingy with Chelsea already, despite them having been together for all of five minutes. He seems to be living some sort of fantasy of replacing the baby he and Dee lost with Chelsea and Thomas. He’s really pushing it with Chelsea and it’s clearly giving her the ick.
Things go from bad to worse when Chelsea hears Darcy and Terese talking about their agreement for Darcy to report back to her on Chelsea in return for her giving him a job at Eirini. Chelsea flies off the handle and dumps Darcy immediately.
I was quite excited about the prospect of these two grifters teaming up together, but I’m equally excited about them being enemies too. I suspect that Darcy isn’t going to take the break-up well, and might develop a bit of a stalker-vibe, which could be quite interesting. Chelsea still hasn’t had her comeuppance for what she did to Krista, so I really need to see a story arc where she gets what’s coming to her, and Darcy could play a role in that.
Paul Proposes
Chelsea wastes no time telling Paul about Terese and Darcy’s agreement, knowing that it will cause even more tension between them on top of the Nell stuff. Paul is understandably furious and they have a blazing row which really gives Terese the chance to show us all why we love her so much. She is truly terrifying when she’s mad, and I love it. She accuses Paul of playing the “David card” when he says he dobbed Nell in to save Leo’s bacon and asks him, “What are we doing here, are we comparing dead children?”
Absolutely savage.
After they’ve both cooled down a bit, Paul does a complete 180 and proposes to her over a game of giant novelty chess, which is surely every woman’s dream. How many engagement rings has he given Terese now? I’ve honestly lost count. Maybe he should melt them all together into one giant mega-ring.
She turns him down, pointing out that proposing is a little bit of an extreme way to solve them having a fight, but I don’t suppose it is for someone who’s proposed as often as Paul has. Paul is devastated, but later on Terese backs down a little and gives him a kind of placeholder yes, a promise that she’ll marry him at some point when the time is right. Chelsea will not like that…
Remi Meddles
Cara puts in her application to be a cop but, for some mad reason, she fails to declare her hysterectomy. While I agree with Remi that she absolutely should declare all major health conditions for a job that’s as physical as being a police officer, I think it’s absolutely unhinged for Remi to go in afterwards and alter Cara’s application to include it.
Firstly, did she really think Cara wouldn’t find out? And secondly, is that not some sort of data protection or privacy breach? I used to wonder where on earth the boys got their lack of decision-making skills from, but Cara and Remi’s behaviour this last week has answered some of my questions on that front.
Sadie’s Setback
Sadie is ready to take off her bandages, having not seen her scars up until this point. She declines an invitation to a pool party at the share house because she’s not quite ready to wear a bathing suit in public, so she stays at home with Byron instead. Quite why she couldn’t have gone to the pool party in a one-piece, or even shorts and a T-shirt, is another question for another day.
It’s quite a big step for Sadie and Byron that she asks him to help her remove her dressings and look at her scars for the first time, so it looks like she’s making some progress psychologically, but then Holly, Max and Taye decide to bring the pool party to her and barge in while she has her scars on show. Sadie is mortified and yells at them all to get out.
This is why we lock our doors, why we knock on doors before we enter them, and why we text people before we go over to make sure they’re ready for visitors. I’ve never seen a bunch of people so confused over the concept of doors and how they work. Will the people of Erinsborough never learn?
Wendy Fartwell
Honestly, Wendy’s constant moaning about being actively employed as a teacher, which is what she’s been studying for for months is really getting on my nerves. And if she can’t deal with someone putting a whoopee cushion on her chair and calling her Wendy Fartwell, then she shouldn’t be a teacher. It’s like starting a job as a zookeeper and moaning that you don’t like animals.
A Few Random Notes
As usual, here are a few random notes I took while watching Neighbours this week:
- Why the heck do they have standup meetings in the Eirini office? They have chairs.
- I was on Susan’s side against Chelsea but she really does get persuaded to give criminals a second chance too easily.
- “You made the best decisions you could at the time,” says JJ, the worst decision-maker in Ramsay Street.
- Chelsea isn’t even hiding her blatant revulsion towards Darcy.
- Bit rich Karl lecturing people about patient confidentiality.
- Is the moules frites guy someone I’m supposed to recognise?
