Next week on Home and Away, Cash and Stevie face danger after receiving a mysterious gift from a fan – as Cash begins the hunt to catch the stalker.
Last week saw Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) land himself a new job, acting as bodyguard for famous actress Stevie Marlow (Catherine Văn-Davies), who needs protecting from a stalkerish fan who has been making her life hell.
Following his placement on limited duties by superiors for his role in harboring Dana Matheson (Ally Harris), Cash resigned from his position as a senior policeman earlier this year.
Cash started working for a private security company after deciding he was sick of the bureaucracy and red tape of the police department. However, he soon realized that nightly mall patrols weren’t the thrilling new job he had been expecting for.
Thankfully, he was soon presented with a new opportunity, and as he headed to a large yacht for an interview with an as-yet-unknown new client, he found himself face-to-face with the famous actress.
Stevie revealed that she’s spent months being harassed by a stalker, who went as far as to break into her house and take photos of her sleeping.
She was staying on the yacht to avoid detection, but Cash insisted that it was still too public a location, and she’s now hiding away in a luxury apartment, unable to leave until Cash cracks the case.
Yet with little to no information to go on, Cash is clueless as to where to begin.
She was remaining aboard the yacht in order to avoid being discovered, but Cash maintained that it was still too visible a position. As a result, she is currently hiding in an opulent apartment and won’t be allowed to leave until Cash solves the mystery.
But Cash has no idea where to start because there is little to no information available.
Although Cash remained unperturbed by his new position and was unaware of Stevie’s identity, his friends Harper (Jessica Redmayne), sister Felicity (Jacqui Purvis), and girlfriend Eden (Stephanie Panozzo) are all overjoyed that he will be working with such a well-known person.
“Only you could spend hours with a celebrity and act like it’s the most boring job in the world,” quipped Flick as Cash could only muster up a “fine” when asked how his latest shift went.
Tonight’s Australian episode saw Cash give into sister Felicity’s (Jacqui Purvis) demands that they watch Stevie’s best-known film, Death Throes, giving him the chance to get to know his client’s body of work.
Cash was hesitant at first and winced at the corny opening of the movie, but he quickly warmed up to the production and soon found himself waiting anxiously for the next big jump fright.
When Cash discovered a crucial clue, the sibling movie night proved to be beneficial after all. We spotted the digits 2346 on the screen—a combination that Cash was positive he had seen before—after asking Flick to pause the film.
Sure enough, a look through the case files confirmed it – one of the photos taken by Stevie’s stalker had the same number written on the back.
Asking Felicity to remind him of the significance of the numbers in the film, she confirmed that they were the time that the murders happened.
“So it’s time of death?” he confirms, to a nod from Flick.
Has Cash just got his first big clue to catch Stevie’s stalker?
Now, a new promo reveals that he’s about to get a second clue, as the stalker makes their next move.
The promo, which aired after Thursday’s episode, shows Stevie receiving a seemingly innocent gift in the mail next week – a cute teddy bear. It’s left outside the door of Stevie’s apartment, leading Cash to fear that someone has found out where she’s hiding.
Cash gets Stevie to call her agent to confirm that they sent, and not someone who’s discovered their hiding place.
Thankfully, the agent confirms that they forwarded it on, but while it was sent to them by a fan, they have no idea who.
Stevie remarks, “Creepy, but not dangerous, right?” as Cash cracks open the package to show off the adorable bear.
But Cash tells her that they can’t be too cautious, and he begins to carefully unstitch the bear to see if anything is within.
“That’s a camera,” he exclaims as he discovers a device and wires hidden inside.
The pair soon discover that Stevie’s stalker already managed to capture a photo from the hidden camera and send it back to himself.
Logging onto Instagram (or the similar-looking Summer Bay equivalent), Stevie finds she’s been tagged in a photo – her and Cash staring in at the bear.
“Just look,” says Stevie, handing her phone over. “Somebody’s uploaded it to social media.”
Uploaded by ‘steviemarlowfan2346’, the photo has a caption underneath: “Eyes on Stevie and her boyfriend.”
With the stalker believing Cash to be Stevie’s boyfriend, will he find himself a target too?
It seems the discovery leads to Cash tracking the stalker down. The promo ends with him running at full pelt, before diving under the rapidly closing shutters of an industrial building.
Has he managed to track down the mysterious stalker?
We already know that there’s further drama in store, as Stevie eventually heads to the bay, wherein appears that she gets shot…
Footage of filming, taken earlier this year by fan Ingrid Rose Foster, shows Nicholas Cartwright (Cash) running towards Catherine Văn-Davies (Stevie), before a director shouts “Bang!”, signalling for the actors and extras to react to the sound of a gun going off.
Stevie then collapses in Cash’s arms before writhing on the ground, as the extras react in shock.
Video footage shows Nicholas Cartwright scream out, “She’s been shot, somebody call an ambulance,” as the beachgoer extras flee the beach in search of help.
Photos from a later time then surfaced, purporting to prove that the new character passes away soon after arriving in Summer Bay. They showed the filming of a wake and included a cardboard sign with the words “RIP Stevie.”
At least Roo (Georgie Parker), Alf (Ray Meagher), John (Shane Withington), and Justin (James Stewart) attend Stevie’s wake, indicating that the actress would have a positive effect on the people of Summer Bay during her brief stay.
However, while the scenes appear to confirm Stevie’s death, fans on social media are wondering whether the dramatic scene was orchestrated by Cash as a way to draw her stalker out.
Does Stevie really die? We’ll just have to wait and see…
