Episode 3710

Extended Summary

Hyde comes to see Rhys and Beth at the Caravan Park House, and informs them that if the lock-in is not resolved by Monday, he’ll be expelling Jade. Rhys and Beth splutter about how ridiculous that is.

Sally kisses her husband good morning. Her hair’s looking so sleek and shiny these days! Flynn isn’t responsive though, and he says he can’t forget that Sally didn’t trust him. Sally fumbles that she knows nothing would have ever happened between him and Leah, but is interrupted by the doorbell. Flynn lets Rhys and Beth in and goes for a run, while they tell Sally about Hyde planning to expell Jade.

The three have gone down to the school, and are appealing to Hyde. Sally suggests she could go in and talk to the kids but Hyde refuses. Rhys is frustrated that he’s not letting them try and fix the situation.

At the Rebel Without A Cause Head Quarters, Jade is trying to tell the mutinous students that she’s doing all she can about trying to get food in, but her phones not working. Seb and Kim lumber in, and back Jade up to the students, who disperse. Jade thinks she may have got reception on her phone. “Nobody move a muscle”. Heh.

Sally is back at her house chatting to Flynn about what’s going on at school, but it’s a fairly one-sided conversation. Flynn questions what kind of relationship they have if she didn’t trust him, and Sally is upset that she can’t keep apologising. They are interrupted again by the doorbell. This time it’s a delivery man with some hospital papers. Flynn opens them, and from his expression he’s not reading about an upcoming Medics ball.

Floss and Flynn are at his surgery. He tells her that according to the tests they did to determine her treatment, she’s cancer-free. Floss is shocked, and says the doctor told her she had 3 months and there was no chance of recovery. Flynn doesn’t know how it happened, but confirms she is in remission, and guesses the stomach cramps she’s been having may have been due to the painkillers.

At RWOAC HQ Kim is asking for quiet in the ranks. Jade delivers a rah-rah speech to rally her troops, insists they’ve got “right on their side”. No Jade. All you’ve got is a whole lot of sanctimonious self-‘right’-eousness.

Seb and Jade stress about where Max and Henry are with the food. Kim is trying to log onto the computer, and decides that Robbie must have stuffed it up, when he was installing the web-cam. Nice. Jade flares up that she knew she shouldn’t have trusted Robbie. Nicer.

A shocked Sally hugs Floss, when she hears the happy news. Flynn cautions that she’ll still have to keep up with tests, doing a cute bounce as he says “extra extra vigilant”. Floss can’t believe she was approaching people to help her die when all the time she was fine. Flynn meaningfully says it’s just as well she didn’t find anyone who was willing to, and Floss and Sally exchange uneasy glances.

Jeneral Jade lashes out at her Seargent Seb, when he comments they’ll have a mutiny soon, if they can’t get food in. She complains to Kim that if Robbie broke the internet connection he should be able to fix it. Ay? So if I hurl my shoe into my TV screen when you, Kim, and Seb become to much to bear, I’d be able to fix it just because I was the one who broke it? Kim gets a thinking expression on his face (his perpetually ruddy complexion turning an even darker pink than usual from the effort) and guesses it may just be Hyde’s handiwork. Tilly appears on cue and informs them the toilets aren’t flushing. Seargent Seb can’t quite get his head round this concept, and asks what she means. “I mean the toilets aren’t flushing”, she duhs, and snarks that they have a winner in the stupid questions stakes. Heh. I take back whatever I said about disliking Tilly. I might not want to know her in real life, and I still don’t like the Village Of The Damned twin thing with the unfortunately named Henry, but damned if she ain’t great little character to watch! She may just be a worthy sibling to the great Kit and Robbie, and daughetr to Beth, after all. Scott and Henry are still bland bores who are the remaining weak links of that family.

Max and Henry are sneaking up a hill to deliver food boxes and are intercepted by Sally. She warns them that Hyde is round the corner, and they might want to try another route for whatever they’re not doing.

Seargent Seb sucks up to his Jeneral Jade telling her how what she’s doing is amazing. They hear cheers coming from the classrooms, and see that food has arrived. Kim is in the background, as usual self-consciously trying to look natural on camera by tossing a ball back and forth between his hands.

Alf is at the beach fishing, and talking to Floss about her good news. She thinks that Neville must be up there looking out for her. Yay, continuity shout-outs and past character references are always welcome! Alf agrees. “Or he’s up there with a hot Sheila and doesn’t want you sticking your bib in.” Ha ha, that’s a sweet and funny line! They talk about what Floss might do now, and she thinks she may come back to Summer Bay eventually, but for now might re-join the carnival. Either way she’s going to make every moment count, and she dashes into the surf to prove it.

The excitement over the food has worn off, and the troops are back to whining, specifically Tilly about how an Adrian “hoed down the food like a ferrell animal”. Heh. Jade sighs that it was nice while it lasted, and Kim decides to have a go at his own rah-rah speech, about how they can’t prove Hyde right as he’ll never let them forget it. It’s so lame, but inexplicably the students start clapping. Ugh.

Flynn is with a patient, and discovers the missing morphine. He goes to check with Colleen who’s noticed no one around the surgery, but does remember thinking it strange the other day when she found his medicine cabinet open. Montage of scenes of Flynn stressing out in his surgery. Sally arrives home with shopping, and makes an effort to be chatty, suggesting they could have Floss over for dinner. When he’s silent she’s annoyed and gives up, going into the house. He follows her and asks her straight it she took it. She plays dumb, and then gets indignant that he’s even asking her, snapping that anyone could have taken the morphine and he’s not a poster boy for organisation. He’s angry at her comment that as his wife he should automatically trust she wouldn’t have taken it, when the trust is going both ways. She’s had enough and goes to walk away but he’s not finished. They both start shouting as they argue over euthanasia. Kate Ritchie does a very real strained and emotional raised voice, and I do love an angry Flynn. Sally doesn’t remember her wedding vows including that she has to agree with everything he says, and Flynn starts to rail about the “selfish request” of someone who asks for help and doesn’t think of the person they’re leaving behind. It becomes clear that this is a personal issue for him, as he starts to recount how ‘she’ asked him for help, and he told her what ‘she’ needed to do. Sally softens and sits down at his feet, which is a powerful shot of the two of them. He blames himself for helping his mum to die. Sally tries to comfort him she wouldn’t have got better, but he reminds her of Floss’s case. They are silent and after a moment kisses her on the forehead and leaves. Sally is on the brink of tears.

A chirpy Floss comes up to Sally as she goes for a walk, and thinks about how close they came. Sally grimaces that she’d rather not think about it, and as Floss departs for a date with a magherita, Sally chucks the morphine vials into a public bin.

In Hyde’s office, Jade simpers to Kim that he did a good job earlier. Oh yeh, he’s a regular Martin Luther King. I have a dream. I have a dream that TPTB will stop wasting a cast space on a hateful and pointless character, and ugly and bad actor. Kim decides to send the e-mails out (er, since when is the internet connection back? Continuity goofs are one thing, but in an episode where the damn point of most of the scenes have been about how the powers been cut off??), and Seb tries to steer him away from the computer. As soon as Kim gets onto the e-mail the photo of the girl with a baby pops up. Oh FFS. Contrived occurences are one thing, but on what software would this one e-mailed photo immediately pop up to Irene, Seb, Robbie, and Kim? Is it Hyde’s screensaver? Kim is shocked and says he has to leave. Jade follows him out, and tries to remind him about his speech earlier. Seb, oh so thoughtfully for Tilly and the other students who are listening, spells out he knows it must be difficult finding out about his father’s baby. Because of course there was no way of communicating that sentiment and still be, I dunno, half-way discreet? Kim says that’s not his dad’s baby. It’s his.