Remi Carter

Remi is the son of two classical musicians. He became the lead guitarist for Lyrik, a band Felicity was familiar with, and came to town with the rest of the band – Kirby Aramoana, Eden Fowler and Bob Forsyth. They arranged to stay with Felicity, with Remi claiming the sofa. When Felicity asked them to play at the reopening of Salt, which she had just bought into, Remi was keen but was aware that Bob had both the casting vote in the event of a tie and girlfriend Kirby on his side. However, Kirby voted with Eden and Remi and the band performed. In the aftermath, Remi flirted with Ziggy and was warned off by Dean.

They returned to town the following week where Felicity offered them a regular gig at Salt. Remi was keen on the idea of a regular wage but Bob was against it and the tension between the two of them became increasingly obvious. Bob quit, leaving the rest of the band to find a new lead singer. They held emergency auditions at Salt where Remi was concerned about Theo’s lack of experience despite him giving a good audition but was convinced by the others to choose him. However, on seeing Theo and Kirby kissing, he feared a repeat of the Bob situation and he and Eden stipulated no relationships between bandmates. He, Eden and Kirby moved into the house opposite the Paratas, gaining John Palmer as a neighbour.

Remi convinced Ziggy to help him find a new van for the band. They met with a van owner, Carl, but the van broke down straightaway with a blown head gasket. Carl promptly locked the pair in a barn and fled with Remi’s $2000. Having both left their phones in Ziggy’s car, they had to stay there overnight until Dean released them and punched Remi for not looking after Ziggy. His blushes were spared somewhat when Justin arranged to sponsor a new van.

He bet Mackenzie $50 that Kirby and Theo weren’t seeing each other, getting Theo to chat up a girl in Salt to prove it. He asked Bree out for a drink but nothing romantic happened. When Kirby admitted she and Theo were together, he accepted it but his mood darkened when an interview the pair gave after being unable to get hold of him and Eden resulted in an article that barely mentioned the rest of the band, and when he found they had posted an online video of just the two of them. He came close to quitting the band as a result but Eden and Bree talked him out of it. While he was busking, one of the onlookers, Pete Wilson, stole his takings and hit him over the head with the guitar case when he chased him. Although Pete was quickly caught, Remi spent the night in hospital with a concussion. He asked Bree why she wasn’t giving him a chance and Bree revealed she was married. He responded by sleeping with his nurse, Stacey. He had a drink and a pizza with Bree and they shared a moment.

He was disappointed at losing a gig at Salt after Mackenzie fell out with Justin, now the band’s manager, and cautiously accepted her offer of a formal contract. He was the first to find out Eden was sleeping with Cash and warned Cash that Eden was falling for him, which Eden wasn’t happy about. He met Bree’s husband Jacob for the first time when Jacob caught them having breakfast together. Bree told him not to call or text her while Jacob was in town and he later saw her with a bruised face and cut lip, realising Jacob was violent towards her. He confided in Eden, which resulted in them putting aside their differences. Realising he couldn’t force Bree to do anything, he told her to come to him if she needed help.

Bree came to him after Jacob left town but Remi was left frustrated at her continuing to keep up appearances with Jacob on the phone. He invited her to Salt’s next gig but she didn’t turn up, and the gig ended up being cancelled anyway when Theo refused to come after hearing Kirby had agreed to Bob singing with them. Remi went round to see Bree and they slept together. They quickly continued the secret relationship, with Remi getting Eden to go out for the evening so he could have Bree over. He helped convince Bree she’d got things wrong when she accused Dean of abusing Ziggy and supported her when she reported Jacob to the police. Bree stayed with him while they waited for news. When Jacob rang her in a temper and Bree started making excuses, Remi took the phone off her and told Jacob to leave her alone. Bree decided to move out and Remi scared her by trying to block her way. He initially avoided Bree but they soon patched things up. However, Bree failed to return after going to get food and he found her holed up in her motel room, scared that no-one knew where Jacob was.

He and Bree went on their first public date. He realised Jacob was in town and rushed to the motel, only to find Jacob already holding Bree there. Remi was tied up and Jacob smashed his hand with a hammer before leaving with Bree. He was found by Rose and Kirby and rushed to hospital, where he worried about Bree.

His worries increased when Eden also ended up in hospital after a car accident. He tried to hire a PI, Eriksen, to track Bree down but was told she had likely reunited with her husband and resigned himself to never seeing her again. Almost straightaway, he heard the news that Bree had been found, having killed Jacob in self-defence, but their reunion was cut short when she sent him away from the hospital. He ended up intervening in an argument between Mackenzie and Gabe. He took off his hand brace in order to practice the guitar but ended up hurting himself further. He collapsed in pain during a meeting with Justin and Kirby but refused to go to hospital, despite warnings the circulation might have been affected. It took Bree to convince him to see the specialist.

He was initially annoyed when it was suggested Theo and Kirby do the Salt gigs without him but eventually agreed. He supported Eden over her memory loss and reacted jealously on seeing Bree with Xander. Although Xander convinced him it was innocent, he saw them together again at Salt and decided to leave town. Bree showed him a note she’d written while held captive, telling him she loved him, and convinced him to wait for her. He offered to do band admin during his recuperation. He returned to a gig determined to make it through but the pain in his hand meant he had to give up halfway through. Frustrated at the lack of contact from Bree, he called a disastrous band meeting to try and focus on something, then went to see Bree. However, she told him she didn’t want to see him again. He chatted up a girl, Clara, at Salt and took her home but was unable to bring himself to do anything with her, instead letting her sleep in his bed while he took the couch. Bree saw him saying goodbye to her next morning and again told him to stay away from her. She eventually admitted she was pregnant, didn’t know who the father was as a result of sleeping with Jacob whilst his captive, and had booked an abortion. Remi ended up accompanying her to the appointment.

Remi spent an afternoon with Eden but the fact they were still physically affectionate despite being in relationships made her boyfriend Cash uncomfortable. Eden told Remi they needed to act differently now. Not long after, he slept with Bree for the first time since her ordeal and began making plans to record an album. When he returned from a gig, Bree avoided him, admitting her experiences with Jacob meant a part of her expected him to come back different. He thus decided to concentrate on the album rather than touring. However, he had trouble working out how to finance it. Eden suggested asking his parents for help but Remi refused, since they had been unhappy he’d chosen to be a rock star instead of a classical musician. He decided to enter a Battle of the Bands competition with a $20,000 prize and cancelled the band’s tours in order to rehearse. Bree was unhappy, feeling he’d done it for her and saying she needed to learn to be all right with him going away. Remi convinced her the competition was good for the band anyway. He then had to convince the rest of the band but Theo and Eden ended up voting for his idea. He offered to pull out if Kirby wanted but she agreed to abide by the decision.

Keen to give the band an edge, Remi contacted Mercedes Da Silva, who he had been friends with since they went to boarding school together (until Remi had been expelled for “borrowing” the school minibus to take a group of friends to a gig) and who was a professional violinist, asking her to perform with them. They managed to get the audience vote into the final but pulled out when Felicity was raped. Remi volunteered to tell Tane what had happened. He began making plans for the album with Mercedes who arranged a meeting with record producer Ruben Phillips. However, he found himself in the middle of an argument between Mercedes and Bree and ended up missing the meeting to reassure Bree it was her he wanted to be with. Kirby and Mercedes ended up arranging three free after-hours sessions. Mercedes stayed back after the first session with Remi and kissed him. He confided in Eden but kept it from Bree.

Worried Mercedes wouldn’t turn up, he went to see her but she refused to discuss attending the session until he discussed what had happened between them, admitting she wanted a relationship. He told her he couldn’t give her what she wanted and Mercedes ended up turning up to the session. However, Bree overheard them discussing the kiss and Remi had to work to convince her he was innocent. This resulted in Mercedes deciding to leave town before the last session until Bree talked her into staying. With the recording completed, Mercedes headed off to Europe, leaving her motorbike with Remi.

He worked with Justin to arrange a launch party for the album which they ended up only having a few hours’ notice for, and named the album Remember When, again annoying Kirby by not consulting the others. He was delighted when Bree had a vinyl copy of the album made for him. He then learned Kirby had been meeting with Forrest Duke, who managed solo artists. After failing to talk her out of it, he agreed to support her decision but was left devastated when she decided to leave the band. Remi and the others made plans to go ahead with just three of them but Justin reported that Forrest had withdrawn permission to use any of Kirby’s songs. Remi was thrown when Bree moved in with him so Kirby could have her room at the Diner flat, but accepted it and went with Justin to contact an entertainment lawyer. He was left depressed when nothing came of it and he had to accept Bree’s offer to look after the household bills, then saw Justin and Theo meeting with Forrest and punched Theo, seeing him as disloyal. He apologised and learned that, although Forrest had offered Theo a deal, he hadn’t taken it and his loyalty was with Lyrik.

Remi tried busking Lyrik songs in public and got a warning from Forrest. He and Eden went away to his parents’ summer house to do songwriting, with their piece ending up being inspired by Kirby’s betrayal. However, Justin warned them of the hurt it could cause if they performed it and they accepted the point, only for Kirby to see the lyrics anyway. Kirby invited them both to her single launch but they decided against attending. He was left feeling depressed despite getting session work playing for other bands and struggled to talk about it with Bree until a talking to from John. He and Eden decided at the last minute to attend the launch, but afterwards, when Kirby decided she wanted to come back to Lyrik, Remi was the least enthusiastic, believing she was throwing away a good career and there was no chance of Lyrik overcoming all the legal problems. It was only the news that Justin was critically ill in hospital that prompted him to agree to rehearse with Lyrik again.

He came up with the idea of posting on their socials that they had a relaunch gig on Saturday in order to force Forrest to respond, meaning he’d look bad if he cancelled it. Forrest was unimpressed so Remi got Kirby to offer him another deal: He let her out of the contract and return copyright for their songs in return for keeping all the songs Kirby wrote for the label. Forrest agreed but Bree refused to move in with Remi permanently, saying she wanted to enjoy her independence. Remi’s fake gig announcement came back to bite them when they received little reaction to their actual reunion. Remi wanted to use the contacts Kirby had got from Forrest but Kirby was uncomfortable with the idea and Remi ultimately voted with the rest of the band to go with her decision. Remi and Kirby convinced Xander to host their comeback gig at Salt and afterwards he asked Bree to accompany him to his parents’ anniversary dinner. Graham and Nicola welcomed Bree warmly but Remi had told them nothing about how they met. She eventually filled them in the next morning. When Kirby decided to donate her song royalties to Lyrik, Remi worried she was doing it out of guilt. She admitted she felt bad about stalling the band but also believed in them.

Remi learned Bree had pretended to be working in order to avoid him. She told him she wasn’t entirely comfortable with him expecting them to still be together in 35 years like his parents when she didn’t know what she wanted from her life. Remi noticed Eden’s estranged brother Levi working as a surgeon at the hospital and told her. He initially gave Levi the cold shoulder until Kirby reminded him it wasn’t like him to hold grudges. He suggested Eden talk to Levi and defended Cash when Eden and Felicity complained about him always trying to fix him. He took Bree for a ride on his bike to get her out of her comfort zone and expressed an interest in going with her on a Doctors Without Borders assignment until she revealed it would last 9-12 months. He had to tell her he couldn’t be away from Lyrik that long but convinced her to go without him. He agreed Lyrik would play at a SCAD fundraiser and to pick up Eden from her camping trip with Cash. While on his way to meet her, he was knocked off his bike by brothers Wes and Mickey who took him away.

The brothers initially believed him dead and planned to dispose of the body. On stumbling upon the situation and finding he was alive, Eden convinced them he couldn’t identify them and they dumped him by the roadside, where he was found and rushed to hospital. Levi carried out a risky open surgery to resolve a cardiac tamponade. He was in considerable pain when he recovered consciousness but, on learning Bree’s father was in hospital in a serious condition, convinced her to go and see him. He was allowed to go home but was left in pain and nauseous. Levi checked him over and determined he just needed food and sleep. He and Eden were invited to submit victim impact statements at Wes and Mickey’s sentencing. He initially wasn’t interested but was furious that Eden intended to use hers to paint Mickey as being pressured by Wes and deserving of leniency, saying he was going to submit a statement emphasising how much they hurt him. However, when he heard Eden record her statement, he agreed to trust her judgement.

He was shocked when Bree returned and revealed her father had died and they’d already had the funeral. Not long after, Bree was offered a job with Doctors Without Borders but turned it down. He was delighted when Justin and Kirby presented him with his restored bike but Bree was furious and told him they were over if he ever rode it again. Remi pretended to agree with her, saying he’d sent it back to Mercedes, but actually asked Justin to store it, hoping Bree would change her mind. However, after his first physio session at the gym, he admitted the truth. When he refused to back down over keeping the bike, Bree broke up with him.

He pushed himself too hard in physio, lifting a weight and dropping it on his chest. He didn’t want Bree to know but Levi eventually convinced him to go to the hospital in Reefton Lakes for tests. He got roped into performing at the fundraiser Xander and Felicity were arranging for the baby Tane had found abandoned and named Maia, only for Bree to turn up. He arranged to use Cash and Felicity’s pool for physio and met Stevie Marlow, the actress Cash was acting as a bodyguard to. He ended up taking her back to his place, ostensibly to help her with an audition tape, where they slept together. When Stevie posted a photo of the two of them online, Remi asked her to take it down, worried about Bree seeing it. After performing with the rest of the band at Justin and Leah’s wedding reception, he went off to meet Stevie and thus missed out on being arrested for drug possession with the rest of the band when drugs belonging to Theo’s girlfriend Valerie were found in their van. He convinced Theo to get help over his own drug taking and was taken aback when Bree revealed she had seen the photo of him and Stevie after all. Justin talked to him about Theo needing to take a step back and Remi agreed to Lyrik taking a break for three or four months.

He welcomed Stevie back to town when she decided to interest her director, Nelson Giles, in shooting a new film in Summer Bay. He was disconcerted when Bree started dating Nelson and the four of them ended up on an awkward double date. He was even more disconcerted when he went back to Stevie’s rented house with her for the night only to learn Bree had spent the night there with Nelson and see them riding off together on his motorbike. He took his frustration out on Stevie, telling her he wasn’t her boyfriend. He later felt bad about his actions and made things up with Stevie, only for her to be shot and killed by her stalker not long afterwards. He was furious with Cash for not being with her when he heard the news her stalker was out. Bree visited and kissed him, prompting him to suggest they stay away from each other. He was frustrated to then see her kissing Nelson, until she explained she was kissing him goodbye and it was Remi she wanted to be with. He told her he needed time.

He decided to focus on self-improvement and started attending the gym. Eden convinced him to talk to Cash and they decided to attend Stevie’s funeral together. He resisted Kirby’s insistence they needed to get jobs but the power was switched off because he hadn’t paid the bill. He tried to raise the money busking but soon realised it wasn’t enough and went back to session work.

Kirby and Theo set him and Bree up to end up in Salt together. Although they staged an argument in front of Kirby, the plan was successful and he and Bree reunited. However, they kept it secret, with him trying to get the house free for a liaison only for Eden to come home unexpectedly. When Kirby and Rose saw Bree on the back of his bike and didn’t recognise her, he pretended he was dating a singer he’d met at session work. Theo found out the truth and was sworn to secrecy. Eventually, Kirby and Eden found out and Remi was upset at how bothered Bree was. Bree assured him she was just worried about things changing and wanted to be with him.

He helped Felicity organise an engagement party for Cash and Eden, then was at the hospital when Felicity was declared brain dead from an aneurysm and subsequently when she was taken for organ donation. He agreed with Theo’s suggestion they perform at her memorial and tried to support Eden when Cash broke up with her. He began witnessing obsessive behaviour in Bree, and Dana shared concerns about her. When he saw Bree obsessively cleaning, she agreed to see a counsellor. Remi unsuccessfully tried to keep Eden away on learning Cash was meeting the recipient of Felicity’s heart and lungs. He learned Bree had lied about seeing a counsellor and Levi had filed a complaint against her after she walked away from Alf when he was in a critical condition. Kirby told him about how obsessive Bree had been when he had been in hospital, refusing to let people see him for risk of infection. When he learned Bree attempted to put the blame on Levi, he refused to support her so she withdrew the complaint and took leave. However, he was concerned that Bree continued to insist there was nothing wrong with her and only made amends to Levi to placate him. He did online research and realised Bree had all the symptoms of paranoid psychosis. She accepted his argument but insisted she could fix it herself. He asked Xander to keep an eye on her and was shocked that Eden was seeing Tim Russell, Abigail’s counsellor. He challenged Bree over whether she was doing anything to help herself which prompted her to go away for a mental health assessment.

Bree returned to reveal she had OCD. Remi threw Roo out of the house when she turned up to have a go at Bree and told her and Alf that Bree had been diagnosed with a mental health issue. He was summoned by his parents and learned he had inherited a trust fund set up by his grandmother worth five millions pounds. He was uncomfortable with it, recalling how his mother’s family had always looked down on his father for marrying into money, but told his friends he wanted to use it to help them all and decided to fund Lyrik. The others agreed to a month’s trial, although he was frustrated when their first rehearsal saw Kirby and Eden preoccupied with their own issues. Although he managed to get everyone together, they kept getting shut down because of noise complaints. He offered Roo the money to build a new bait shop for Alf. After the band were served a noise abatement notice, he decided they needed to go away for a while, so took them to an island retreat he’d hired out. He steered Eden away from Cash and Tim when he saw them arguing near the resort.