Will Amanda cop an eyeful of her twisted sister playing pony rides with her burly paramour? Of course not. Kelli hides Ethan under her skirt (well, OK, the counter) while Mand grabs the gym account books. Kelli explains that she seems panicked because she thought Amanda was an intruder. "You're so sexy when you lie", Ethan coos, after Mandy has slung her hook. Well, we expect Kelli is used to faking things between the sheets, eh girls? The next day, Amanda is pottering about her flat, trying not to make eye contact with the wine rack, when she gets an unwelcome visit from a solicitor. He candidly informs her that the man injured at the gym will be suing her for a whopping $800,000. That's big potatoes, even for a woman whose personal fortune appeared only because she bumped off a millionaire. How is she going to pay it? Well, Kelli - surprise surprise - has a cunning plan. "They can't take what they don't have", she smirks, as thunder begins to clap. "Sign everything over to me, and they'll never be able to touch it." After giving it not a lot of thought, Amanda accepts the idea of filing for bankruptcy and jots her muddied name on the dotted line. Kelli's eyes turn into dollar signs as she begins planning a shopping spree for dalmatians and coat patterns. Uh-oh. What has Amanda just done?

Like mother like daughter

We loved Beth, you know. She was like a soap character to us. We'd have gone to her funeral ourselves, had a) they given us the plane fare and b) she actually existed in more than one dimension.

Anyway, Ric, Matilda, Sally and Colleen have just brought our dearly departed back from Adelaide in a rather fetching urn. Ric confides in Sally that he's worried about Matilda; she's really not coping well with her mother's death. Well, yeah.

Perhaps Ric was expecting her to be doing cartwheels around the caravan park. A girl's got to grieve, you know, and Matilda is really tipped over the edge when she discovers a parcel sent by Beth while on her European tour.

That evening, when she finally plucks up the courage to open it, she discovers a heartfelt note and a deeply personal gift. It's a nice new top, bearing the slogan "My mother went to heaven and all I got was this lousy t-shirt". No, not really.

Anyway, a sobbing Mattie races from the house and ends up down on the beach. She stares out to sea as the tears stream down her face and the ocean laps her toenails.

The next thing we see is one of her flip-flops washing into a rock pool. Yikes. Has Matilda just joined her mother in that great Brisbane in the sky?

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