Episode 4891

Extended Summary

Hugo is forced to deal with an unhappy Angelo, after Angelo discovered Xavier has been slashing his tyres. Angelo points out to Hugo that what Xavier has done is ongoing vandalism and as such he can bring charges – and that the situation with Jack is no excuse for Xavier’s behaviour. Angelo tells Hugo to bring Xavier down to the station the following morning, or he’ll pick him up himself. Ignoring Angelo’s orders, Hugo sends Xavier to work on Martha’s farm as punishment, as well as grounding him. Jai, looking for a distraction after his break up with Annie, goes with him. Desperate for his brother to avoid a young offenders institute, Hugo asks Charlie to intervene – but that only seems to aggravate Angelo further. He visits Hugo and confronts him, demanding he bring Xavier back from the farm and to the station. Hugo refuses, so Angelo picks Xavier up himself, much to Martha’s disdain. Interupting the deck painting that Martha has them doing, Angelo marches Xavier back to his car, and tells him that just because Hugo and Charlie are on together, he can’t expect to get away with it – Martha is stung by this news.

Waiting at the Station for Angelo to return with Xavier, Hugo apologizes to Charlie for involving her. He offers to make it up to Charlie over lunch or a coffee, an offer she accepts. May overhears this, whilst looking for Angelo. She has been apartment hunting but, having had no luck she suggests that she move in with Angelo if nothing comes up, which bewilders him. Xavier is charged and given a court date, set for three weeks time and told that he is facing anything from community service to a term in a young offenders institute. Later, seeing Hugo and Charlie on their lunch, May tells Angelo what she overhead, and he is quietly distressed by the news that they may actually be an item. Upon Xavier’s return to the farm, the boys finish their painting and while they put the paint cans away in the shed they stumble upon a bag containing 4 rifles.

Angelo investigates a possible abalone racket in the Bay. Bags worth of abalone shells have been found on the beach, along with a knife used as part of the method of fishing. Angelo’s suspicions are alerted when he realises the knife is the same kind as one he saw in Hugo’s place earlier, which Hugo described as a knife for getting barnacles off his ship. On consorting with Alf, Angelo learns that an abalone ring could be set up overnight if the perpertrator had a good knowledge of the local ocean – both facts which leave Hugo the top of Angelo’s suspect list.

Irene has discovered she has been left a mess by Lou. After being told by Gibbsy that Lou was cooking the books, Irene asks Angelo for some ‘hypothetical’ advice on what the outcome might be and is shocked to learn that it could become a federal investigation. Not only that but the business has debts up to it’s eyeballs, and the insurance won’t cover the repairs to the sunken trawler. She’s forced to consider paying off the debts and winding up the business, but hates the prospect of doing that to Aden, to Lou, or seeing Donna get exactly what she wanted.