Episode 184

Extended Summary

Colleen spends the dinner moaning about Lance and how he will be sorry if she dies. Don leaves, fed up, and Floss reminds Colleen that his son died recently. Colleen follows Don home, having let her hair down, and he learns that Colleen, despite her eccentrities, is actual a very friendly woman. A friendship begins to form… He tells her that although Alan could have been a champion surfer he only ever saw his flaws and that Alan never liked or respected him but he thinks he did love him and he wishes he hadn’t left it too late to tell him the same. Colleen goes round to Lance’s and tells him she knows he needs his space but she’ll always be there for him.

The campers have settled down for the night. The figure emerges from the house and walks around their camp. At first, both tents think the other pair is playing a trick. When they put their heads out, the figure has already left and they convince themselves it was an animal.

Next morning, Sally gets a letter to say shes won a competition she entered for two tickets to a Whispering Jack concert where she can meet him in person after the gig! Pippa’s amazed – hardly a competition for a kid? Sure enough, it was out of one of Carly’s magazines! Pippa wonders if they asked Sally’s age and Sally explains that since it was Carly’s magazine she gave Carly’s age.

Lance is wondering if his encounter with Colleen was a dream and goes to ask Floss. She suggests his conscience might have been pricking him since Colleen’s probably feeling lonely. He goes to see her at the store, where she and Don have been catching up, and she confirms she went to see him. He says she can always pop round for a cup of tea or a nag and he might have Sunday dinner with her sometimes… as long as there’s no Donald Fisher.

Narelle and the others finally move on from the haunted house and Narelle is glad to be away from it. However, Carly forgets to collect her wet shoes from the porch. When she remembers she tells the others to keep going and runs back herself. But when she gets there, the shoes are gone. The door is open – she figures some dumb kids are messing around and goes inside calling out for them to stop playing and give her back her shoes. She fails to see them on a table in the first room and goes into another room, where someone seems to have been living. Then the door slams shut behind her, and she spins around and gasps as she sees…

Thanks to Derrick M. Domican.