Coming up next week as Home and Away returns to UK screens, it’s a race against time to rescue the hostages, as Heather takes Marilyn up to the roof… What does she have planned?
When we left the sunny shores of Summer Bay six weeks ago, several of the town’s stalwarts were in a rather perilous situation.
Following a summons from Heather Frazer (Sofia Nolan), the long-lost daughter of Marilyn (Emily Symons), Alf (Ray Meagher), Roo (Georgie Parker), Irene (Lynne McGranger), and Leah (Ada Nicodemou) soon themselves themselves drugged and imprisoned in the dining room of the mansion.
Marilyn was forced to watch everything happen on CCTV monitors in a vacant area of the property after being knocked out by Heather the previous evening. Marilyn had just woken up.
Eventually brought down to join the others, Marilyn felt ashamed as she was forced to reveal Heather’s true identity to her closest friends, a secret she’d kept for the past 27 years.
Returning to the action, Alf’s dicky ticker has reacted to the medications Heather used to put Marilyn’s pals to sleep, making his situation more urgent while Marilyn’s friends are taken aback by the discovery.
With Alf continuing to deteriorate, the group beg Heather to let them help him, but Heather is more interested in ensuring that Marilyn suffers—after all, she was the one who abandoned her to be brought up by a woman who never loved Heather as a mother should.
Leah hasn’t shown up for work, and Justin (James Stewart), who is in the bay, is growing worried about her. In passing, he inquires about any accidents that might be holding up the highways with Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) and Rose (Kirsty Marillier), but they are unaware of any.
Later, when Justin notices that no one who attended the brunch has returned, he goes to the police station to inquire about Heather. Justin smells a rat because Marilyn was looking for her right before the brunch invites were sent out.
When Rose and Cash inquire about Marilyn’s search for Heather, he is compelled to confess that Heather is her daughter. When everything starts to make sense, the police start asking questions.
In response to Heather’s explanation that she wants Marilyn to understand what it’s like to lose everything, Roo tries a different strategy by warning her that Marilyn’s closest friends will never again view her in the same light.
In light of this, she suggests to Heather that now that she had what she wanted, Alf should be taken to the hospital by ambulance. But Heather argues it’s not good enough, and as the impasse persists, we’re left wondering what else might happen.
Back in Yabbie Creek, Rose finds out that the local police at the farm owned by the Frazer family had been there and discovered a woman they think is Heather’s stepmother; her body was in a chest freezer! Suddenly, it becomes clear that Marilyn and the others may be in far more danger than anyone had first thought.
Rose deduces that the group must have all attended Crestview Ladies College when Justin is able to recall some information from the invitation. While they are gone, Justin is left to inform Nikau (Kawakawa Fox-Reo) that his girlfriend is thought to be a killer.
Rose and Cash are left to find the rest of the group in the dining room as Heather pulls Marilyn back upstairs after hearing the sound of incoming police cruisers.
As Rose calls an ambulance for Alf, Cash heads out to track down Heather and Marilyn.
As Heather forces Marilyn along an upstairs corridor, Marilyn catches sight of Cash out in the courtyard and desperately shouts out to him from an open window.
Heather quickly silences Marilyn but it’s too late, and Cash sets off in hot pursuit.
In typical dramatic fashion, Heather attempts to flee by climbing higher up into the house (for identical reasons, we won’t query why Marilyn doesn’t just throw Heather off and go away).
Naturally, Heather finds herself trapped on a tiny balcony outside the attic chamber, with a precipitous drop behind them.
In typical dramatic fashion, Heather attempts to flee by climbing higher up into the house (for identical reasons, we won’t query why Marilyn doesn’t just throw Heather off and go away).
Naturally, Heather finds herself trapped on a tiny balcony outside the attic chamber, with a precipitous drop behind them.
But when part of the parapet crumbles away under her feet, Heather plummets down onto the roof below!
While Alf is being transported by paramedic Xander (Luke Van Os), Rose checks on Leah and Irene and apologizes for not noticing the warning flags with Heather sooner.
At the hospital, Roo is concerned as Bree (Juliet Godwin) checks over an exhausted Alf.
When Justin and Leah are at last reunited, Leah tells him everything that went wrong. Justin is relieved. Leah wonders whether there was anything she could have done to prevent Irene from ever doubting Marilyn. Irene feels bad about it.
Everyone expresses concern for Marilyn, whom no one has seen since Heather hauled her out of the dining room, as the couple check in with Roo to see how Alf is doing.
When an unresponsive Heather is then wheeled in, a shaken Marilyn is close behind.
Despite everything, Marilyn’s only concern is for Heather. But after seeing her fall from such a height, has Marilyn lost any chance of reconciling with her daughter?
Home and Away returns to UK screens on Friday 30th December with a ‘First Look’ on 5STAR at 6pm, and on Monday 2nd January on Channel 5 at 1:35pm and 5STAR at 6pm.