With Hugh and Kit each ready to leave the Bay, and looking for more than words specifically, more than a non-committal "I dont know" to get them to change their plans, it's decision time for Rachel and Kim. "What if I told you I didn't want you to go?" pleads Rachel of Hugh; while in an identical scene in another living room, Kit asks Kim what reason she has to change her mind and stay. With nobody getting to hear exactly what it is they need to hear, and Rachel and Kim unable to acknowledge to each other the elephant in the room that their marriage is "doomed", as Rachel puts it to Leah Hugh and Kit reluctantly gather their things. But after a passionate goodbye from Kim, it looks as though at least one of them is destined never to make it out the door. As interesting a twist as a new dimension to this little love tangle would be, we of course mean Kit, not Hugh.Brad: saviour or saboteur?Newcomers Geoff and Annie are still playing on Sally's mind, and it's going to take a visit to the gun-wielding Bruce Campbell's abode to figure out whether or not she can make a prospective Summer Bay High student of the younger of the two. Of course, Bruce isn't a man of many words, and you can guess how Sally's greeted upon her arrival. Her suspicions that Annie, who's legally required to be in full-time education, isn't being home-schooled are later confirmed when she manages to catch the siblings alone following Annie's trip to the hospital a consequence of Bruce's own brand of educational regime, "hard work and the King James Bible". Well, the former, at least. Now aware of this case of long-term truancy, Brad decides to make a "hypothetical" enquiry with his contact at the Department of Education as to whether or not it should be formally reported. Unfortunately for Sally, who'd hoped to handle the case by talking to Bruce again, this opens up a whole new investigation which just so happens to cast Brad in a slightly more favourable light than it does his other half. Do we suspect foul play? Sally certainly does.That sinking feeling
And finally, time for a bit of comic relief. Ric and Matilda want to go swimming at a nearby cavern and decide it's a good idea to use the dinghy to get there. Against his better judgement, and without Tony's permission, Lucas reluctantly agrees to join them but their excursion ends in a not-very-serious disaster when he manages to put his foot through the boat and sink it.
It comes as little surprise, then, that the trio make a swift exit when Alf comes looking for Tony to deliver him a new part for the sunken vessel...
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