Episode 3695

Extended Summary

RECAP
Hayley is convinced that she’ll look different for ever and ever
Kim talks to Flynn about his feelings towards his Dad, stating quite calmly that if he started hitting his Dad, then he wouldn’t be able to stop
Matilda is electrocuted by Robbie’s cockroach killer. Lots of screaming ensues and Rhys goes to call an ambulance
Kane uses a crowbar to force open the cash register at the gym, and after hesitating he helps himself to some cash

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SURF CLUB
Alf has alerted Jesse to the break in at the gym, and despite Alf’s warning not to disturb the scene, Jesse goes in to check the cash register. He finds the cash still there… or at least most of it. He also finds a note – “I’m sorry, took a hundred, will pay you back, Kane”. Alf isn’t prepared to ignore it, but Jesse stops him from calling the police on the grounds that Flynn and Sally would lose the $10000 bail they put up for him.

CARAVAN PARK
Henry is laying into Robbie about hurting Matilda, despite Jade’s intervening to try and diffuse the situation. Robbie isn’t in the mood for an argument, and can only feebly defend himself against Henry’s wrath. Henry accuses him of always stuffing up, and coming up with loser excuses, to which Max interjects, reassuring Henry that matilda is strong and she’ll pull through. As Robbie storms out, the remaining trio wonder whether they should go to school – Jade reckons they should, and her word is followed.

THE PALACE
Scott comes off the phone, presumably to Beth, and is flustered to hear about Matilda. Robbie flies through the door, insisting it was an accident and blaming himself. He’s plagued with guilt and upset as he sits to talk to Scott, wondering what his father would have done had he been there – maybe Jack was right, and he is useless. Scott tries to support Robbie’s sinking ego – there was times that Jack got angry at all of them, but he didn’t mean it.

DINER
Jesse is trying to get in touch with Flynn to inform him that his $10,000 might as well have followed Kane to the city. Leah and Alf are busy bad-mouthing Kane again, wondering why they bothered to give him a go, and Jesse can barely muster up a good word for him, plainly stating that so long as the police don’t realise Kane has done a runner, then Sally’s money will be safe. He can’t blame Kane for wanting to go and see Kirsty, and he reckons that Kane talking to his wife isn’t a crime, seemingly forgetting the small matter of an AVO. Leah wonders why Kane didn’t just ask for a loan, and refuses to feel sorry for him when Jesse tells her that Kane probably thought no one would lend him the money. Alf reminds Jesse and Leah of the problems that Jesse and Hayley will face if Sally doesn’t but into the gym.

CARAVAN PARK
Flynn and Beth arrives back from the hospital, bearing good news for Scott – Matilda has some burns, but she’ll be fine. Rhys, of all people, is sitting patiently by her hospital bedside so that Beth could have a word with Robbie. Scott tries to inform Beth of Robbie’s shaky state of mind, and tells his mother that Robbie will be ‘hanging’ at the palace for a while, and Beth seems uncharacteristically livid at Robbie’s actions. She excuses herself, needing a moment alone. Scott tells Flynn that the incident was ‘more than an accident to Robbie’ – their Dad came down on Robbie hard because he wasn’t a ‘proper Hunter’ – Jack had wanted him to be a farmer, and Robbie copped it hard. Scott doesn’t think Beth knows about just how hard Jack was on Robbie.

SCHOOL
Max pursues Henry through the school corridors, insisting that it was an accident, and that Matilda will be fine – unlike Eloise. Henry doesn’t want to know, and announces to Tasha that Robbie “tried to kill Matilda”. When Max informs her of the earlier accident, she decides to rush out of school to find him, but Hyde appears at exactly the right time to bump into her, and firmly insist that she doesn’t leave the school premises. When she refuses, it is Kim that jumps to her defence, roughly pushing Hyde away from Tasha. Hyde demands that everyone gets to class, and misses Tasha doing a runner as he takes Kim aside into an empty classroom. Kim is sick to death of his father pushing people around, but Hyde isn’t about to let his pupils do as they please, and doesn’t want Kim undermining his authority. What Kim did was a disgrace, and Hyde demands that he pulls himself together or… Kim points out that he can’t threaten to throw him out anymore. Hyde takes offence – he has never suggested Kim is not welcome in his home, but Kim doesn’t see it as a proper home. Hyde accuses him of being a “ungrateful, nasty, selfish piece of work – just like your mother”, and insists that he has worked hard to provide for Kim. Kim gets fed up of his father’s attitude and pins him violently up against the wall of the classroom and, needless to say, Hyde’s lecture is quicklyu concluded. Kim gloats that his father is now scared, and states that he is no longer going to wait for his father to change, before walking out.

CARAVAN PARK
Beth is thanking Flynn for his help as Tasha runs in, breathless and looking for Robbie. She is assured that Robbie is fine, and Beth just wants to talk to him – he’s in no trouble, and Flynn wonders why she isn’t at school. He decides to take Tasha to call on Robbie, before returning them both to school.
After Flynn and Tasha depart, Scott decides to stick around instead of going into work, and advises Beth against cracking down on Robbie, telling her that what happenbed has dredged up a lot of stuff for Robbie about their Dad – Robbie is beginning to think that Jack was right about him always messing things up. Beth can’t understand it – Jack loved them, and he didn’t mean anything by it. Scott informs her that Jack was harder on Robbie than she knows – and Robbie has taken a lot of it on board

THE PALACE
Noah has put on his counsellor-cap to talk to Robbie, but Robbie doesn’t feel like talking about it right now. Hayley has a bee in her bonnet about something, as she bluntly suggests that Robbie go back to school – maybe it’d take his mind off things. Noah follows her into the kitchen, where she admits that Robbie is making her feel uneasy as he keeping ‘staring at her’. Noah promises to make it up to her, but she rejects his suggestion that they go out for lunch after they’ve been to Leah’s, getting stroppy when he refuses to drop it.

SCHOOL
Hyde teaches a maths class, where Henry and Max are whispering between themselves about Henry’s planned visit to the hospital at lunch time. Hyde is quick to notice talking behind him, and pulls Max and Henry up on it, with Max trying to explain about Matilda’s condition. They fail to answer a mathematical question correctly, and the class sniggers at them. Both boys are given detentions, with added maths tutorials.

BREAK

THE PALACE
Tasha arrives to see Robbie, and is relieved to discover that he is alright, but horrified to learn that he is no longer going to invent things, because that’s ‘who he is’. They decide to go for a walk, telling Flynn that they’ll go back to school after lunch. They leave as Hayley comes downstairs, grabs a magazine, and heads back up to the sanctity of her room. Noah tells Flynn that he isn’t sure Hayley is on top of everything, wishing that Hayley would tell him what she’s going through. Flynn’s phone rings – it’s Alf, bearing bad news…

DINER
Jesse, Alf and Flynn discuss Kane, with the latter deciding to ring Shelley and fore-warn her. He reckons Kane is desperate enough to try and see Kirsty, and Jesse is blaming himself for giving Kane the advice. Flynn reassures him that Kane would probably have ‘shot through’ anyway – it wasn’t his fault, but Flynn isn’t looking forward to breaking the news to Sally, who didn’t want to pay ther bail in the first place.

BEACH
Tasha catches up with Robbie, who doesn’t seem to want to return to school, and she tells him of the mood Hyde was in that morning – and how Kim stood up for her. Robbie wishes that he had stuck up to his Dad, and as they get up and walk along the beach, she probles for information about his Dad – he hardly ever mentions him. Robbie tells her that he and his Dad didn’t get along very well – Jack had wanted him to be different, and more like a Hunter, and expected he and Scott to keep the business going on the farm. Robbie was a disappointment – and although Jack still loved them all, he and Robbie were just never great mates. Robbie clams up after telling her that if he did something his Dad didn’t like, he’d know about it… Tasha fails to get him to go further, before telling him that perhaps the reason they get along so well is because they’re both ‘different’.

THE PALACE
Noah and Hayley are gathering up her things for the move back to the Palace, and Leah is glad that they managed to sort things out betwen them. However, she’s upset she’ll now be in a house full of men… Jesse and er, VJ. Hayley fancies getting her hair done – some layers around her face…
Jesse arrives home, bearing no good news – Flynn has been informed of Kane’s getaway, and isn’t looking forward to telling Sally, and there’s also the issue of who will buy out Alex… Hayley overhears part of the conversation, and wants to know what is going on – she has been lied to too much and wants to know the truth. She ends up not finding out, as Noah diffuses things and turns to the topic of conversation away.

CARAVAN PARK
Robbie arrives back home, apologetic and still looking dismal. Henry isn’t helping, cutting in with snide remarks about the ‘accident’ and behaving in a very un-brotherly way toward his bother. Beth dismisses them all to have a quiet word with Robbie, and although she knows he didn’t mean it, she tells him he MUST learn to think before he acts. He assures her he won’t be making anything anymore – his Dad was right in saying that all he could make was trouble. She silences him – she is proud of him, and she loves him – his father did too, even if he didn’t show it. She tells him that he can make mistakes, so long as he learns from them, and the pair share a hug.

SCHOOL
Noah questions Kim about the heavy stuff with his Dad, wanting him to sort it out – he’s sleeping on the beach and using the showers at the surf club. Kim is feeling powerful now though. Hyde walks in to advise them to talk outside school hours – he has recieved notification that funding will no longer be provided for the post of counsellor, and therefore Noah is no longer needed. Noah looks somewhat misty eyed at the news of his job loss, and all Kim can do is wryly comment – “bet you’re sorry you ever tried to talk me into going home now”. Hyde thanks Noah for his efforts, before asking him to leave school premises.

THE PALACE
Noah informs Scott of his newly unemployed status – it’s not that he wanted to work for Hyde, but he just thought he could make a difference at school. Scott suggests that Hyde simply felt threatened that Noah was actually listening to the students, but doesn’t think ‘being your own boss’ is all it’s cracked up to be when Noah comments he’s not cut out to work under anyone else.
Conversation turns to Hayley, and Noah comments she’s still cut up about her face. The lady herself walks through the door, announcing she’s going to see the bank manager, and will be dragging Jesse along to a financial planner to try and work out what they can do as regards the gym. However, Hayley rejects the idea of returning to work just to have people staring at her.
In another room (the bathroom, possibly?) Hayley looks into a mirror, trying to cover her imaginary scarring with her hair. After Scott and Noah head off for a swim she brushes her hair back, sees the scarring and hurls the brush at the mirror, which subsequently smashes. She breaks into tears

SURF CLUB
It seems Tasha has decided to take off in pursuit of Kane, much to Robbie’s distress. She has got Shelley’s address from Max, and doesn’t mind if Robbie doesn’t join her. She gives Kim the key to Irene’s – someone must look after the place, and Robbie receives no backup from Kim in the ‘stop-Tasha-from-running-away’ stakes. Robbie gives up as Kim tells Tasha she doesn’t need permission, and as Robbie leaves Tasha hangs around to talk to Kim about his Dad. Kim is adamant that Hyde will get what’s coming to him.

SCHOOL
Hyde walks through the empty corridors, and upon hearing noises he walks the corridors, shouting out to the intruder that they shouldn’t be there. He comes across some new graffitti on the wall – Inside Bully Hyde’s a coward” – just as the lights go out… Hyde calls out to Kim, convinced that he is behind the stunt, but looking pretty anxious all the same…