Home and Away has released a promo for its Commonwealth Games return, and one favourite is left fighting for their life as a police operation goes badly wrong.
The show, which is taking a pause while the Commonwealth Games are being held in Australia, wrapped up this week with a massive mid-season finale in which Tane (Ethan Browne) and Rose (Kirsty Marillier) worked together to take down Tex’s bikie gang.
The programme has been taken off the air for the duration of the games, and because Neighbours just broadcast its final episode ever in Australia, Australian viewers won’t have access to either soap opera until Home and Away returns on Monday, August 8.
A teaser for the drama that will follow the games has been posted by the show in order to generate interest in its upcoming comeback. After gunshots, someone’s life is at stake!
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In the latter episodes, Rose approached Tane and inquired about his knowledge about Tex (Lucas Lineham). She recently discovered that her new partner is concealing something, and her suspicions were confirmed when she attempted to follow him on social media but came up empty-handed.
Tane, on the other hand, was worried because Tex hadn’t been seen for days. After Ari stole from them in an armed robbery over ten years ago, Tex and his gang of bikers are seeking retribution and want Tane to pay.
Tane assumed that the gang was playing a joke on them because they had agreed that this was the week that a task would be carried out and that Tane would use Summer Bay Fit to launder the money.
The latest development was that they were sending Tane a new employee to work at the gym, a “book-keeper” named Geneveve who would be handling everything to do with the money laundering. When Tane called Tex for an update, he returned to the bay and informed Tane of the latest development.
Tex also reunited with Rose and appeared as besotted as ever. However, Rose used his return as an opportunity to run a check on his car, discovering that it was actually registered to a bikie named Lee Wheeler, not the Tex Wheeler her fling has been masquerading as.
When she questioned him about it, he said that being a biker wasn’t a huge problem and that he had fallen in love with her. Rose kissed him and appeared to be well, but as soon as she knew who Tex was, she went straight to Tane and asked him questions.
Tane eventually revealed to Rose that he is being blackmailed by Tex and his gang of bikers, startling Rose given his history of mistrusting the police.
In the Mid-Season Finale, Tane and Rose collaborated to take out Tex, leaving viewers hanging.
Tane reaffirmed his willingness to use any means necessary to bring Tex and Marty to justice at the police station. He then made his way to the gang’s headquarters, whose location Rose had ascertained from Tane’s phone, prepared to carry out their strategy.
Felicity (Jacqui Purvis), upset at the Parata residence, confided in Nikau (Kawakawa Fox-Reo) that she was concerned about Rose and Tane’s conversation and the reason he departed that morning without providing an explanation.
One of the gang’s heavyweights dragged Tane in front of Tex and Marty (Ben Wood) in the last scenes, but the real drama came from the show’s comeback trailer.
The teaser depicts the catastrophic fallout when things go disastrously wrong.
Who gets shot in Home and Away?
Beginning with a shot of Cash (Nicholas Cartwright).
Since learning that Jasmine (Sam Frost) has no plans to return to Summer Bay, the Senior Constable has had his own problems to deal with. He will, however, soon be involved in the Tex drama and, based on appearances, will fare poorly.
From the back of a police van filled with audio equipment, Cash, Rose and an audio specialist listen in to what’s happening inside the warehouse.
They hear Tane say to the bikies, “I didn’t wanna get mixed up in this but now I am.”
“I just wanna make sure nothing goes wrong.”
Will the leader Marty believe he’s just there to chat business, or will he be suspicious of how Tane managed to track them down?
As we cut back to the police van, Rose says “this wasn’t part of the plan.”
Lots of things are about to happen which aren’t part of Rose’s plan, as Tane and the gang get an unexpected arrival!
“Get off me,” shouts Nikau – yes, Nik has somehow managed to find his way to the gang’s warehouse hideout, hoping to help his brother out.
“Look who it is, your mini-me,” says Tex. Australian viewers have recently seen Nikau get more and more agitated with Tex referring to him as “kid,” so we suspect he’ll be even less of a fan of this new nickname.
Nikau is not the only innocent person to become involved in events.
What specifically has Felicity done to land herself in detention, as Dean (Patrick O’Connor) and she converse over the bars at the Yabbie Creek Police Station?
“Dean, I’m scared,” says Felicity, as Dean begs her to tell him everything she knows.
Dean has recently spotted the tension between Nikau and Tex, and, in true Dean style, he’s about to get involved to help his friends out.
Back on the beach, more residents of Summer Bay discover that something big is going down.
“Hey, we’re not about to have a River Boy / bikie gang war, are we?” asks a concerned John, as Dean walks off without giving him an answer.
“Dean?”
Is that exactly what we’re about to see?
Back at the gang’s hideout and we see the police storming the complex, most of them in full riot gear.
From inside the warehouse, the gang, Tane and Nikau hear the commotion going on outside.
“What have you done?!”
Tane isn’t impressed that Nikau has got himself involved, as he pleads with Marty, telling him that Nik is “just a kid.”
When shots are fired, the true drama starts, and it appears that someone may be hit, according to the promo.
But who?
As Rose pulls out a revolver, Marty raises his hands.
Cash, who is standing behind her and is dressed casually, is also holding a weapon.
Cash insisted on going through with Rose’s stakeout after finding out about it at the last minute, leaving him no time to put on safety gear. Is he about to regret that choice?
We then see Rose and numerous other cops running through the forest – it looks like someone escaped.
Cash is also on the run as we watch him scale a wall while only wearing a shirt, boots, and a pair of jeans.
Not the best attire when bullets are flying all around.
Are a newbie and a fan favourite of Summer Bay about to become involved? In a rural structure, Ziggy (Sophie Dillman) and Remi, the main guitarist for Lyrik, are imprisoned with the corrugated iron door closed from the outside.
They bang on the door from the inside, as Ziggy screams “let us out.”
Is this related to Rose, Tane and Cash’s drama, or another exciting storyline set to unfold when Home and Away returns?
After a card reading ‘A friend will fall,” we again see a shot of Cash running. Is he the unlucky one?
A shot of Rose standing behind an ambulance as it drives away – did her mistakes cause this?
Then, her anger comes out. She explodes at Rose, pointing in her face and screaming “you did this!”
Rose sobs inconsolably in the locker room as she fears Cash, the coworker and the love of her life, won’t make it.
In his hospital room, Felicity says “I’ve got you” to what we assume to be her brother, nodding insistently as she struggles to hold back the tears.
Will Cash survive?
