There has been a LOT of tension in Ramsay Street this week with break-ups, babies, blackmail, bickering and bad bartending. Let’s recap what the heck has been going on with everyone this week.
Chelsea Causes Even More Trouble
Chelsea and Paul are doing their best to prevent Terese finding out that Paul already knew Thomas was not his biological child. Because what this absolute dumpster fire of a situation needs is more lies and deception. Everyone is furious with Chelsea for forging ahead with her plan to play happy families with Paul even after finding out that Jeffrey was the father, and probably the most furious is Krista.
I’ve always wanted Chelsea to face some sort of consequence for killing Krista’s baby, and that doesn’t seem to be on the cards for reasons that I still don’t understand, but Krista does finally lose it with Chelsea and she tears strips off her in front of everyone at The Waterhole. Krista gives Chelsea a real serve and calls her a monster, saying that she’s not fit to be a parent to Thomas. Chelsea’s reaction is to prove everyone right by leaving baby Thomas on his own in the penthouse and doing a runner. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – they need to get some security measures on that godforsaken lift. It should simply not be possible to sneak in and dump a baby without anyone having to let you in.
Cara and Paul almost come to blows over who is going to look after Thomas. Paul argues that Chelsea left him at the penthouse, so she wants Paul to take care of him, but Cara says he should be with his biological family. Terese eventually persuades Paul to let Cara take him, because she can see that Paul needs to figure out how to let go of this messy situation.
Terese Rages
Much to everyone’s surprise, Chelsea reappears later in the week. Cara is particularly devastated because, having been denied having another baby of her own, she quickly sees Thomas as a chance to partially fulfil the fantasy of being a mother again. When Chelsea turns up and puts an end to that, Cara is devastated.
Terese is also fuming, as she was no doubt very relieved to see the back of Chelsea and for Thomas not to be Paul’s problem any more. When Paul says that he should offer Chelsea a hotel room Terese is aghast and tells him in no uncertain terms that he should not do that because Chelsea and Thomas are no longer his responsibility.
Chelsea decides she’s caused too much upset to stay with Cara and Remi, so Paul does indeed offer her a hotel room, and Terese hears about it from Krista, who sees Chelsea at the hotel before Paul has a chance to tell Terese about it. Terese is probably the most angry I’ve seen her in a long time, and she immediately sends Darcy packing from her house and declares that her and Nell are moving out of the penthouse.
As hard as this whole situation has been for Paul, Terese is dead right about this. Paul needs to stop entangling his life with Chelsea’s now that he doesn’t need to. She’s toxic, and even the thought of another chance of parenting shouldn’t be tempting him to have anything to do with her. But if Terese and him split up, will that just push him towards making a toxic little family with Chelsea? I hope not, or I might puke.
Taye Has a Close Call
Taye is still trying to juggle being an escort with being a bar manager, but he’s making so much money from escorting that I don’t know why he doesn’t just do that full time, especially after this debacle.
He meets up with a potential client, but she’s only free on a night when Taye is working at the piano bar. He tries to rearrange his shift but can’t, so rather than just shrug and move on to his next client, he decides that he can somehow manage the bar and pop upstairs to his client’s room for long enough to satisfy her during his shift. Of course this doesn’t work out, because he’s rushing things and he keeps getting messages from work on his phone, and it distracts him to the extent that he can’t perform. So all he’s actually achieved is doing both of his jobs really badly.
I need someone to show Taye that phones can either be put on silent or switched off. It would be truly revolutionary for him.
Dr Darcy Gets a Taste of His Own Medicine
I still can’t figure out what Darcy’s end game is here, because he has Amanda’s money and she’s now dead, but he’s still hanging around trying not to rouse any suspicions. Karl is on to him, and has contacted Darcy’s ex-business partner to get some more details on what happened between them. Much to Darcy’s annoyance, said business partner turns up and starts to give Darcy a taste of his own medicine, by blackmailing him into giving him a 50% stake in the new health centre he’s planning on opening.
When Karl hears who Darcy’s new “investor” is, he’s incredibly suspicious. I need Karl and Holly to hurry up and pull a Scooby-Doo and solve this Darcy mystery, because I am dying to know why he hasn’t just hoofed it into the sunset with his ill-gotten gains by now. Why hang around the scene of the crime?
Wendy Is Going to Regret This
I’m bored of talking about Wendy and her idiotic antics, but she won’t let me rest, so here we are again. In a desperate attempt to try to mend things between her and Andrew, when he mentions that he’s considering looking for his biological family, Wendy decides the best way to get into his good books is to go behind his back and find them for him. He hasn’t even said he definitely wants to connect with them, so I think he’s going to be livid if Wendy does it on his behalf. There’s no way that this is going to go anything but badly.
Sadie Shows She Has Free Will
I’m really angry about this one.
After Amanda’s memorial service, the family gather to hear the reading of her will. They find out that Amanda’s assets are to be put in trust to provide a scholarship for beauty and cosmetology students, and she’s made Sadie the executor of her will. Jane accepts this decision with a resigned shrug, but Nicolette and Byron really show their true colours when they commence an extremely undignified scrabble to get their hands on Amanda’s money. I’d expect this from Nicolette, but not from Byron.
I completely understand that you’d be disappointed if your grandmother left all of her money to complete strangers but, in my humble opinion, you should never just assume that you’re entitled to someone else’s wealth. Byron keeps talking about contesting the will, but I don’t know on what grounds they could do this because Amanda wrote the will two years ago, way before any sign of dementia set in, and the only thing she changed recently was appointing Sadie as executor. So this will is 100% Amanda’s wishes and she has every right to decide where her money goes after her death. This is what she wanted to happen with her money, so even if Nicolette thinks the family are entitled to it, they’re not.
But Byron and Nicolette both feel like they’ve been shafted by Amanda and now by Sadie as well. If you ask me, their attitude – and the way they’re trying to intimidate Sadie into changing her mind and overruling Amanda’s wishes – is so grubby and in such bad taste. It really makes me mad – what’s even the point of leaving a will if your family can just contest it purely because they don’t like what it says?
I’m absolutely on Sadie’s side for dumping Byron over the way he’s treating her. He thinks he can just steamroller her into doing what he wants, and it’s so wrong. Nicolette has always been fairly morally bankrupt but I thought Byron had more class than this.
A Few Random Notes
As usual, here are a few random notes I took while watching Neighbours this week:
- Seeing the Kennedy house from a different angle is really discombobulating.
- I swear Holly should be a police officer.
- Oh FFS. Chelsea is back.
- Darcy looks very uncomfortable and I like it.
- Chelsea, a free hotel room is not standing on your own two feet.
- Oh no, Paul. That is Terese’s angry walk. She’s fuming.
