Concerned for Martha, Rachel decides it’s time to approach the one person everyone needs in times of crisis, Alf. “I know that Martha’s had a tough time this year. It’s just that Henk is so much older than her,” Rachel begins, trying everything but the truth to keep her friend out of harm’s way. Much to her relief, Alf sets the record straight, explaining that Henk’s merely staying at Martha’s until the wedding – although it has to be said, we’re not entirely convinced by his assessment of Martha’s radically improved judgement when it comes to picking potential partners. “I really do think that, at last, Martha can pick a dropkick when she sees one,” he says proudly, leaving Rachel safe in the knowledge that, having issued a friendly warning about Henk’s “dark side” to a puzzled Martha, she’s done all she can to protect those closest to her. Well, almost everyone. Good judgement does, you see, remain something of a foreign concept to Cassie, who remains thoroughly smitten with the Bay’s newcomer and continues to bat her eyelashes at every available opportunity; in fact, in her book, the only downside is that Henk appears to view Don as something more than “a relic from the stone age”, and that’s one character flaw she’s just about willing to overlook. Still, despite all concerns to the contrary, perhaps Henk has been telling the truth when he says he’s a changed man – because, having realised that Rachel can't let go of what happened between them, he’s decided to come clean to Brad and, if necessary, the police. The very suggestion of this is enough to convince Rachel, albeit against her better judgment, that there’s no need from him to go ahead. But has she done the right thing?LockdownGeoff may have put the pressures of the farm behind him in favour of a quieter life with the Holdens – where his love for chores is vastly underappreciated by Lucas – but the drudgery goes on for poor Annie. In a bid to make things easier for her, Geoff pays Bruce a visit and suggests that he comes back to the farm purely to help out with the heavy lifting. “Think of me as the prodigal son,” he offers, before facing a barrage of threats and being cast out from the fold once more. With nothing to lose, Geoff opts for a far simpler solution: instead of appealing to Bruce’s virtually non-existent good nature, he may as well get Annie to join him in leaving the farm, too.

Her newfound knowledge of her Pop’s deception over the Will isn’t enough to sway her, but she agrees she has to do something to help herself; after all, there’s only so many times she can put up with a characteristically eagled-eyed Fisher berating her for falling asleep in class.

Suspicion is soon raised when, Annie last having been seen on her way to talk to Bruce about selling up (“The only way you’re gonna do that is over my dead body,” he spits), she fails to show up to her tutoring session with Luc – who, deciding that Geoff’s caused too much tension to be able to help, opts for the heroic move of rushing over to the farm to find her.

But nothing can prepare him for what happens next. Having broken Annie out of her locked room, he soon finds himself confronted by Bruce – and a gun (someone take this thing away from him, please). “Annie’s not going anywhere, son,” he growls, as he blocks their escape.

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