Home and Away airs on 5STAR at 6:30pm
Justin and Leah return home from a romantic getaway, and Justin proposes that they avoid telling work they’re back so they can stay in their romantic bubble for just a little longer.
Eden has reemerged from her cocoon after tending to her illness. She’s grateful, taking stock of this moment as she strolls with Cash. They arrive at the Surf Club where John and Mali are pleased to see her out and about. They arrive for food at Salt, but she asks Cash if they can get takeaway as she’s getting tired. They cuddle up on the couch, and Eden laments how difficult it is to live any semblance of a normal life when she gets exhausted as soon as she leaves the couch. John turns up to the house to let Cash know that he doesn’t have to carry the burden of helping Eden alone.
Cash says that there’s only so much he can do – the only person that could help her is someone that’s going through exactly the same thing. John muses that surely someone out there in the world can relate to Eden… There’s a support group for everything. This seeds an idea for Cash. That evening he opens up his laptop and searches aplastic anaemia support groups. He types out a message, explaining his situation on the forum, and posts it.
At the police station, Marilyn begs David for one more word with Zane after he punched a policeman. She believes this was just a slipup on his path to rehabilitation. David let’s Marilyn see Zane. Zane begs Marilyn to stop campaigning for his release; he doesn’t deserve her kindness and still believes he belongs in prison.
Mali has just finished cleaning up the board shop after Zane vandalised it. John is a long way from forgiveness, but Mali is more understanding, knowing that he was struggling to reintegrate into the community after prison. Marilyn arrives at the Diner and accuses John, assuming that it was partly his doing – something John said during their failed driving lesson triggered Zane.
John tries to defend himself, but Marilyn is frustrated that everyone touts Summer Bay as a community spirited place, but the community has failed him and now he’s going back to prison.
Mali catches up with Marilyn after she storms out of the Diner and he gives her some insight into Zane’s headspace. She returns to the station, armed with Mali’s insight, and says her last goodbye’s, explaining that she finally understands why he did what he did. Zane confides in her that he doesn’t know who he is outside of prison. She didn’t fail him; she did more for him than anyone in his life ever has.
Marilyn hopes that this is just a setback, but Zane reflects with finality that this might be the end of the road for them. He says his last goodbye’s as he’s transferred to prison. Marilyn turns up to her shift that evening at the Diner. She is her usual buoyant self as she welcomes back Justin and Leah from their trip. They see through her act and tell her they heard about Zane, and there’s no need for her to put on a brave face for them, she should take the day off.
Marilyn tells them she’s fine to work, then she moves off to the storeroom for a private moment alone where she breaks down, heartbroken at how the situation has unfolded with Zane.
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