(Monday 28^th September – Friday 9^th October 2020)

Sheila, Kyle and Bea arrived home to find Levi having a seizure.  While the other two panicked, Bea took charge, aware of his epilepsy diagnosis and knew exactly what to do.  When he came to, he remembered that Yashvi had called him from the school needing backup and raised the alarm regarding the siege, although as ever in soap, it takes a hell of a long time for the police to actually do anything.

Levi was left with no choice but to tell the truth about his epilepsy and Clive realised that Dax had messed with his medication.  Finally!  Subsequently, Levi was suspended from the force pending a medical enquiry, which of course Sheila couldn’t help meddling with, meaning that he has been allowed back without any of the restrictions Clive put in place.  When Levi found out what she had done, he was understandably furious.

At the school, Dax held Susan, Yashvi, Richie and Mackenzie hostage with a taser but was clearly losing his grip on the whole situation.  Paul, Harlow and Hendrix unwittingly walked into the situation, prompting, Harlow and Paul to get chased into a toilet.  Nice.  Dax attempted to make his escape.  The lights went off and there was generally a lot of running about while the police hung around not doing much and the kids’ and Susan’s loved ones waited worriedly outside.  Somewhere along the way, Mackenzie got hit with the taser, sending her into cardiac arrest.  Susan desperately tried to save her life and thankfully, Karl was right outside to help.  But hero Yashvi took down Dax and he was taken into custody.  She is basically the Karl Kennedy of the police force.  And she’s only worked about four shifts.

In some good news though, Mackenzie and Richie got back together and Paul invited Harlow to give a speech in New York to make up for the fact that she lost the election to Mackenzie.  Also noteworthy, Dipi and Pierce held hands while they waited for news.  It is beginning…

Shane left rehab, wanting to be there for his family but judging by how close Dipi and Pierce have become recently, it may be too late.  Especially as all he seems to have done since he came home is get in the way.  Nobody has been happy to see him, apart from perhaps Mackenzie who is always happy to see everyone.

While Yashvi is apparently the best cop in the world, she is apparently oblivious to anything going on in the lives of people she loves.  Firstly, Bea had a crush on Levi and they lied to her about dating.  Now, they’ve told the truth, Bea doesn’t fancy Levi anymore but he’s harbouring feelings for Bea.  Typical.  And Yashvi has missed it all.

But more importantly, Ned has got himself into serious trouble trying to raise funds for his exhibition by sending a ‘fan’ nude videos and pictures.  The ‘guy’ has easily located him and has asked for more and more to the point that Ned has cancelled his account.  He has kept it all secret from Yashvi and decided to focus on his real art instead.  He used some of the money to take Yashvi away on a romantic getaway, alongside Roxy and Kyle.  He was then horrified for his Fandangle commissioner to appear and turn out to be none other than Scarlett, the woman who became so obsessed with him last year that she ended up stabbing him.  What are the chances?!  She threated to expose the videos and pictures unless he painted her portrait as a gift for her fiancé.  He agreed on the promise that she deleted everything.  I mean, this hasn’t got disaster written all over it at all…

While Pierce was extremely excited about plans for the baby and even started talking about siblings, Chloe was starting to have doubts about the whole thing, including her marriage to Pierce.  Despite the awkward situation, she ended up turning to Nicolette about it all, who advised her not to act hastily and take some time to clear her head.  But when she had to leave for her first shift at the hospital, Chloe continued her walk alone where she began to have a miscarriage.

Nicolette was an amazing support to both Chloe and Pierce and proved herself to be a beautiful, true friend.  When Fay returned from her trip with David and Aaron (who has designer stubble now), full of excitement about the baby and the baby shower, Chloe ignored Pierce and Nicolette’s pleas and decided to go through with the shower so as not to break her mother’s heart.  Sadly, she broke down in the middle of it and admitted to having had a miscarriage.  In light of recent events, Aaron and David opted to keep their surrogacy plan quiet.  So, we’re bored of the fostering storyline after one kid, are we?

Pierce hit the roof when he discovered that Nicolette had been with Chloe moments before the miscarriage and when Hendrix revealed that Nicolette also has feelings for Chloe, he fired her and threw her out, despite how much it upset Fay.  Insecure, much?  Nicolette accepted it without putting Chloe in any worse a position by revealing that she had already resigned or that Chloe already knew everything.

Trying to be a good person and do the right thing, Hendrix told the truth about Rose using Toadie to get information on her husband James, not wanting Toadie to end up in legal trouble.  Toadie was furious, not to mention hurt, having thought he and Rose had built up a good friendship since she started working for him.  She begged him not to tell her ex-husband, which so far he hasn’t and when he realised that since he fired her she has no money at all, he bagged her a job as a beauty therapist, the thing she initially trained in, at the hotel.

Unfortunately, her first day didn’t quite go to plan as she had to practice on a couple of volunteers – Toadie and Mackenzie – and managed to burn Toadie’s face and tint  Mackenzie’s eyebrows orange!  They were very forgiving though and so was Terese who hired her anyway under supervision.  When she got pretty much nothing in her divorce settlement, Toadie advised her not to sign it and opted not to tell her husband about her snooping.  Karl and Susan have also picked up on a vibe between them…  Post-Sonya, I found Dee very annoying and just couldn’t support him and Toadie.  Perhaps it was because she and Toadie were together before Sonya and it was being treated as if she was the true love of his life, like Sonya suddenly didn’t matter.  Plus Dee is actually quite annoying.  But I like Rose.  She’s quirky and funny and despite some initial dishonesty, I think I could get behind this potential relationship.

Neighbours airs Monday – Friday, Channel 5 @ 1:45pm and 5:30pm