Wow, what a cliffhanger we’ve been left with! It’s all been very exciting in Erinsborough, so let’s get on with rounding up everything that’s happened this week.
Aaron’s Love Triangle
Aaron encounters Rhett again, while they’re both exercising with their tops off, which the men in Neighbours simply love to do. Let me tell you, I was THRILLED to see Rhett back again – I wasn’t sure at first but I eventually came around to thinking him and Aaron were really cute together, and I was really sorry that it all went so pear-shaped between them so quickly.
It seems there’s still a spark between the two of them, as they both immediately start flirting like mad with each other, and they decide to give dating another go. They’re randomly playing croquet by the lake, and taking absolutely every opportunity to rub up against each other, when up walks Colton.
To backtrack a little, when Terese mentioned that someone was flying in to interview for the assistant manager job at Eirini, I knew it was going to be someone we’d met before. Sure enough, it’s Aaron’s holiday squeeze Colton, complete with some very half-mast trousers flapping around above his sockless loafer look. Ick.
Even more ick is that Colton seems to have tracked Aaron down on the internet and purposefully applied for jobs in the area in order to be closer to him, and to see if they could give things another go after their disastrous holiday fling. For what it’s worth, I think it’s insanely weird to internet stalk someone you slept with once, and then look at uprooting your life and moving halfway across the country to be near them, on the off chance that they might still be into you. Aaron, run for your life.
Besides Rhett is adorable and his trousers fit him, so I am firmly on Team Rhett for this one.
Taye’s in Trouble
Taye keeps making a habit of mixing his two jobs, first by picking up escort clients at work and now by entertaining the wife of Sad Piano Man who plays at the piano bar. To be fair to Taye, he didn’t know his client was Sad Piano Man’s wife until she came into the bar. They have a bit of a domestic, and for some reason she decides to sit in the bar for ages while her husband, who now knows she’s cheating on him, plays mournful music instead of the jazzy vibe he’s supposed to be creating. Then Sad Piano Man overhears Taye talking about her being one of his escort clients.
This all could have gone very badly, but Taye actually approaches it quite sensitively, by figuring out why his client was looking elsewhere for her satisfaction, and then feeding this back to Sad Piano Man so he can work on making her happy. It all works out OK this time, but it’s surely only a matter of time before he massively gets busted for using his day job as a bit of a recruitment vessel for his side hustle.
Paul Dithers
Even now, after it’s been revealed to Paul that he’s not Thomas’ father, and with Terese having made it very clear that she does not want Chelsea to be a part of their lives, Paul is still dithering about what to do about Chelsea. He even offers to invest in her perfume business in order to help her get on her feet as a single mum. Why on earth he seems so intent on hitching his wagon to Chelsea, the loosest of cannons, is beyond me. And it seems to be beyond everyone else as well.
JJ leaks like a sieve, and so reports back to Terese about the investment offer, and she goes supersonic. Her and Nell immediately move all of their stuff out of the penthouse and back into Terese’s house, having kicked Darcy to the kerb. Leo later reads Paul the riot act and tells him he needs to stop simpering around Chelsea if he wants to keep Terese. Finally Paul realises he has to let Chelsea and Thomas go, so they leave Ramsay Street.
I promise this is almost the last time I’ll mention this, but it really does grind my gears to watch Chelsea just trundle off in her big SUV when she killed an entire human baby and still hasn’t faced any real consequences for it.
Detective Wendy
Wendy has been making unhinged decisions again, and she’s decided the best way to heal the rift between her and Andrew is to find his biological family without his knowledge or consent. What could go wrong?
Well. What could go wrong is that she finds them, discovers that his mum is dead and his dad is an utter jerk, and then he accidentally finds out about her detective work. Well done, Wendy. Now you’re going to have to break his heart, instead of him just remaining blissfully ignorant. I honestly don’t know how Andrew has put up with her nonsense for so long. Is there somewhere else in the countryside she can go to do another degree?
Deadly Darcy
Despite saying he was going to keep Darcy close in order to figure out what he’s up to, Karl is not hiding the fact that he’s as suspicious as all hell of Darcy and his antics. Darcy’s latest scheme is to charm Tess back into falling for him for a third time, because honestly some people just can’t be helped. When Karl sees them together, he waits until Tess is alone to ask her about her whereabouts on the day Amanda died, as he’s still got his suspicions that Darcy had something to do with her death. When Tess reveals that she was catastrophically late to their date, Karl realises that Darcy’s alibi is not as watertight as everyone thought, and that he may indeed have had time to kill Amanda.
Darcy sees Tess talking to Karl, so later, when everyone is sheltering from a big storm, Darcy goes over to the Kennedy house to have it out with him. Karl challenges Darcy to produce his toll receipts for the day in question to prove where he was at what time. Darcy obviously can’t have this, so he injects Karl with something and then pretends to be raising the alarm when Susan comes home and finds Karl, weirdly conscious but immobile on the kitchen floor.
I genuinely thought Karl was dead – the gasp I gasped! Luckily, he’s still fighting for his life, and he’s rushed to hospital. Medical staff suspect Karl has had a stroke, but it looks more like Darcy has injected him with some sort of paralysing agent, as Karl seems to be aware of his surroundings but unable to move or speak. I really hope they catch Darcy soon before he tries to bump anyone else off!
Unless it’s Wendy, in which case he can just go for it…
A Few Random Notes
As usual, here are a few random notes I took while watching Neighbours this week:
- A G-spot joke on Neighbours!
- Remi to Chelsea: “You’re capable of so much”. Yeah, like fraud, blackmail, GBH, infanticide…
- Jane’s telling Wendy to think before she acts. That’s going to fall on deaf ears.
- Susan and Terese’s side eyes when Aaron said Colton had come back for him.
- The bolt of lightning right as Darcy walked in! True villain!
- KARL!
- No, not Karl! Darcy can’t kill Karl!
- Karl can’t die!
- Wendy is thinking she’s cursed because she doesn’t like her job and her marriage is crap. You’re not cursed, you’re just an idiot.
