Dan and Leah are spending their morning phoning around friends to see if anybody's seen Drew. Talk about shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted. But Belle, who has got herself a smashing new haircut (Ric take note), has a fair idea where her boyfriend has got to. "You can't stay here!" she cries, when she discovers that her suspicions are correct. "It's not fair on me." Drew responds by asking her to lend him $20 for some food, but Belle refuses. "You have a home to go to," she reminds him, "and there's food there." Anyway, the squatters are sprung when Colleen comes to clean the place prior to a viewing. Dan's furious with the boys and forces them to help spruce up the villa. "If you have to break the law to put a roof over your head, then obviously you're not as grown-up as you think you are", he sneers. And Drew gets the shock of his life when he discovers the identity of the brand new tenant...Mum's the word Excuse us while we set our watches. You see, today's episode of Home and Away features yet another woman stepping through the Summer Bay revolving door of crazy ladies. Jazz Curtis, whose middle name sadly isn't Mags, is a power-suited city bitch with the cruel lips of a tortoise and more evil schemes than Dick Dastardly and Skeletor combined. Obviously she'll find redemption before her contract runs out - they always do - but we expect her to be filling that Amanda-shaped void for the next few months at least.

Anyway, Jazz is the long-absent mother of Drew, who is less than pleased to see her. Jules soon brings Belle up to speed on their relationship, calling Jazz "a nightmare", "totally manipulative" and "a useless mother."

Seeing as though Jules has more zits than he does IQ points, you might consider him to be a less than reliable historical witness.

But we get to see Jazz's devious ways in full effect when she manages to wangle a room at Dan and Leah's place for the foreseeable future. Drew is left fuming. E Bay Entry #1,343,932 in the Bumper Book of Stupid Ideas reads as follows: if you need to hide a drugs stash, make sure it's somewhere only small children can find it.

If you hadn't gathered, we're not in the least bit surprised that VJ discovered Alex's dodgy hoard in his mother's house. Let's face it, Alex might as well have erected some neon arrows pointing at the fireplace, left a trail of sherbet from VJ's bedroom and employed a chain of dancing girls to sing "Santa's sack got stuck in the chimney, and it's full of presents" while doing high kicks.

Alex goes out of his tree with worry when he notices that both VJ and his backpack have done a disappearing act, and frantically starts tracking him down with the help of Cassie, the female Peperami.

Meanwhile, puzzle pieces begin to fall into place when Brad and Alf discover empty pill packets in the trash - and when Alex gets home, he's greeted by VJ, a rucksack and a sea of angry faces.

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