Next week on Home and Away in the UK, Ava pretends to be in danger as she vies for Theo’s attention, leading to a vicious attack and Justin’s arrest.
Ava’s (Annabel Wolfe) duplicity has disastrous effects for her father Justin (James Stewart) as Home and Away prepares for its 8000th episode later in the week.
Ava’s love with Lyrik frontman Theo (Matt Evans) has recently been made clear to Justin in several episodes thanks to some suggestive pictures she covertly posted online while wearing one of Theo’s shirts.
To Theo’s amusement, when questioned, a misguided Ava tried to persuade Justin that she and Theo were secretly in love with one another.
A worried surfer who was driving by in his Kombi van asked Ava if she was being harassed as she tore into Theo.
Theo was terrified as Ava boarded Conor’s (Tom Dawson) van after asking him if he could give her a ride. Conor merely gave him a warning to back off and the two drove off after he tried to stop her.
A worried surfer who was driving by in his Kombi van asked Ava if she was being harassed as she tore into Theo.
Theo was terrified as Ava boarded Conor’s (Tom Dawson) van after asking him if he could give her a ride. Conor merely gave him a warning to back off and the two drove off after he tried to stop her.
The next week, after learning about the incident from Theo, Justin hurriedly calls Ava and leaves voicemails while pressing Theo for information regarding the vehicle and its driver.
Justin is furious to discover Theo talking with Kirby along the side of the road when he should be out looking for Ava while driving around the bay in search of the mystery van.
Theo reveals that this was the cause of his feeling that he had to confront Ava when Kirby tells Justin about how Ava destroyed the house.
Justin confronts Theo and demands to know why he didn’t approach him first because he is aware of how delicate his daughter’s mental state has become. Theo offers to accompany Justin to the police station, but Justin declines, saying that he has already done enough.
Conor looks to actually care about Ava as the two park up next to the shore, in contrast to everyone else’s fears to the contrary. Ava tells Conor that Theo is her ex-boyfriend as she comes back from the bathroom block after freshening up.
Wanting to avoid going home, Ava asks Conor if she can hang out in his van for the time being whilst he heads for a surf.
When Rose (Kirsty Marillier) informs Justin at the police station that it sounds like Ava just requested a ride of her own free will and that there is consequently no actual fear for the 16-year-old, Justin is further driven into despair.
Theo and Kirby decide to message Ava on her 1’3Theo social media account after Justin gets home and angrily accuses Theo of chasing her away. Theo sending her a message is intended to get her attention as they have both had her blocked up until now.
Ava can’t continue to hide out in his van indefinitely since Conor needs to move on, so he asks her what her plans are after he gets back from surfing.
Before getting in the shower, he asks Ava to consider whether she wants him to drive her home. However, when Ava gets the message from Theo asking if she’s okay and apologizing, she realizes she can take advantage of the situation.
Ava responds with a message that sounds frantic, “HELP! “, hoping that Theo will show up and be her knight in shining armor. I’m afraid! I am unable to leave.
However, her strategy backfires when a map appears showing Ava’s precise location just as a panicked Theo rushes to deliver Justin the message.
After taking a shower, Conor returns to his van as Justin approaches in his car. As Conor puts on his shirt and looks down at an ostensibly terrified Ava resting in the back of his van, Justin makes an incorrect assumption.
Ava can only watch on in horror as Justin floors Conor with a punch to his face.
Out for his blood, Justin pulls Conor back up, only to send him flying over a nearby car bonnet as Ava screams at him to stop.
As Justin continues viciously beating the man he believes assaulted his daughter, he’s eventually restrained by a passer-by.
Police officers Rose and Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) are soon on the scene and Rose sees to a badly beaten Conor as Cash pulls Justin away.
While Rose calls for an ambulance, Justin tries to explain that Conor touched Ava, but he’s incredulous when Cash then arrests him for assault.
A terrified Ava informs Theo that it was supposed to be HIM who came to save her, not Justin, at the Yabbie Creek Police Station as Justin is being brought in for interrogation.
Rose later concedes that Conor done nothing wrong and that she had lied in her message to Theo when she brings Ava home.
Justin is fuming when he later learns that Conor, who remains in hospital, will not be charged. But when Cash and Rose then inform him that he actually assaulted an innocent man, and that Ava was just vying for Theo’s attention, Justin is crestfallen.
With Justin officially charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm, he’s forced to spend a night in the cells as he awaits to hear if he’ll be granted bail.
Will Ava’s lies land Justin in prison?!
