Episode 4639

Extended Summary

After fleeing from the meeting, Melody has gone straight to Geoff, and as she insists that she hates her mother, that she never wants to go back home, Geoff’s left without a clue what to do. When Irene gets back, she doesn’t have any more luck, and then Christine arrives. One night’s rebellion is little compared to a lifetime following orders, and Melody leaves with her mother, unable to stand against her wrath. When Christine catches her daughter speaking to Geoff over the phone, she puts her foot down. She’s enrolling Melody in the local Catholic girl’s school, and Geoff’s not to have any contact with her at all any more.

High on adrenaline after their victory over Christine, Colleen decides it’s time she did something about things with Morag, and gives her sister a piece of her mind. She might have been in the wrong, but that’s no excuse for the way Morag’s been treating her, she’s been acting like nothing more than a bully. Morag’s left with food for thought, and the next day she calls Alf. She wants the whole family to come together that night, but she won’t say why.

With the P & C meeting over and having turned against Christine, it seems things are on the up for Miles, until Bartlett asks to speak privately to him and Jazz. After Jazz’s attempt to blackmail Bartlett, he’s not having any more of it, she’s fired. Miles is shocked that she would do something so atrocious, especially after he specifically told her not to, and far from being sympathetic that she’s lost her job, he can barely stand to look at her. The next morning Jazz comes to visit. However wrong she might have been, she did what she did for Miles, and she doesn’t appreciate being made to feel the way she does. She thinks she’s made a mistake getting together with him in the first place. It’s over for the fledgling couple.

Morag has some good news for Miles. She’s managed to track down Jai Davis, the boy he met in Thailand after the tsunami, after they had both lost their families. The boy Miles feels he abandoned when he had his breakdown. The case report makes it clear Jai has become quite a problem child, but for Miles there’s no choice in the matter. Now that he’s found his feet, he owes it to the boy to do whatever he can.

Belle can hardly believe it when the Coastal News comes out with an article about the play reading at the Den. It states that the kids walked out too traumatised to hear any more, when in truth they walked out because it was so boring. Assuming this is payback for quitting her job at the paper, Belle’s not going to let Gavin get away with this. But when she and Leah confront him, he doesn’t take it well and claims that while this time it had nothing to do with Belle, from now on it will. Now they’ve got a real problem to deal with.