Episode 6301

Extended Summary

The teens are still cleaning up after the party, and Leah and Zac demand they continue to clean the next day.

Evelyn is confronted and admits she and Tank didn’t actually break up – she argues she was given no choice, and that Tank never got a chance to prove himself. Leah warns Evelyn that Tank is manipulating her, but Evelyn yet again refuses to listen. The next morning, Oscar tells Leah and Zac that Tank is completely nuts, and reveals that at the party he told him that Evelyn is ‘his’ now, and that he threatened to take Maddy too.

Leah decides to try speaking to Evelyn, woman-to-woman, and show her that Tank is coming between her and her family and friends. However, Evelyn still won’t listen, and defiantly shows Leah the tattoo of ‘T’ she got on her hip bone, leaving Leah shocked.

Zac, on hearing the news about Evelyn’s tattoo, decides to go to Tank and tell him to back off. Leah doesn’t know if it will work, but Zac thinks they have to try everything before it gets worse. Zac confronts Tank, telling him that he need sto leave her alone if he wants what’s right for her, but Tank stands up for himself and tells Zac he needs to accept that e’s here to stay, or he’ll regret it.

Zac goes to Greg and asks him to try and get through to Tank. Greg’s reluctant, but can see that Zac’s scared that they’re going to lose Evelyn. Greg asks Tank to leave Evelyn alone, but Tank won’t listen, and tells Greg he wishes he died instead of his mum. Greg tells Zac and Leah what happened, and the only advice he can give them is to keep Evelyn and Tank apart.

Evelyn continues to push her friends away. Tank appears and tells her that Azza has kicked him out of the house because he told the police he caused the explosion. Tank tells her that Zac and Greg have been trying to keep him away from her, and Evelyn promises they’ll work out a way to be together. Yet when she  arrives home, Zac and Leah demand that she isn’t to see Tank again, and Zac takes her phone off her. Furious, Evelyn tells them that once her exams are done, she’s moving out. Zac’s disappointed but it’s a start, and there’s a long way to go yet. Yet soon after, Evelyn hears a sound at the window, and sees Tank downstairs. She sneaks out, and brings him inside!

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Roo is shell-shocked as she emerges from James’s room, fresh from meeting his wife! She’s followed out by his wife, Megan, who asks her if she’s a friend of James. Roo covers, telling her she got the wrong room. Roo meets Hannah and the two struggle to process the truth– why would he propose to her if he’s already married? Alf arrives to check on James, but Roo rushes him out of the hospital before he has any chance of running into Megan.

The next morning, Maddy is concerned, but Roo hides the truth from her, pretending that everything’s fine. Maddy can tell something is wrong, and tells Roo she wants to be there for her and James. As Roo starts to crack, she orders Maddy to go and help with the post-party clean up.

After Maddy goes, Roo collapses – heartbroken, confused, and unsure what to do next. Irene finds Roo and she breaks down, humiliated, admitting that James is married.

The pair try to make sense of James’ lies, and Roo admits that she feel like a fool. Irene suggests she take control by confronting James and finding out what’s going on.

Back at the hospital, James wakes up, and tells Hannah that he wants to see Roo. However, Megan enters, relieved that he’s finally awake. He sends Megan home, and again asks Hannah to call Roo. Hannah refuses to get involved, leaving James alone, regretting the awful mess he’s made.

Later, Roo confronts James, and he reveals that Megan does not know about her, and that he has children. Roo is disgusted, but James promises to explain everything.

James tells her that his wife and kids live in the Blue Mountains, but he and Megan haven’t been happy together for a long time. When he met Roo, he felt alive again. He’s terrified of losing his kids, but he is going to leave home to be with Roo. He loves her, and asks her for a second chance. But is Roo ready to trust him again?