UK Air Date: 27th May 2016
Writer: Sarah Walker
Director: Geoffrey Nottage
Cat No: HAAW08-173
Kat sticks by Dylan, who loses his cool when she is taken off the case. Matt learns about Maddy’s cyber bullies and tries to help. Ricky is devastated to learn there’s no way for Kyle to avoid gaol.
Extended Summary
After Kat gets rid of Ash from the Police Station, she is taken to task by Emerson for not being honest about her liaison with Dylan – he has no choice but to take this to Superintendent Joyce. He knows she hasn’t technically broken any rules but it’s about perception, and her ability to be objective will be questioned. She may be taken off the murder investigation due to their affair compromising the case in the community. An anxious Kat tells Dylan how much the case means to her career and, though Dylan offers her a chance to back out of their relationship, she refuses.
Maddy is still feeling anxious about the previous night, and reveals to Roo that she felt like someone was following her. Roo wants to contact the police but Maddy thinks it’s nothing more than all this social media stuff getting to her. Roo goes ahead anyway and makes the call, saying the point is Maddy doesn’t feel safe. Matt comes in, having heard the last bit of the conversation, and Maddy is forced to reveal the online abuse to Matt. Matt is devastated and blames himself. Roo and Maddy both assure him it isn’t and Roo insists they stay off their social media accounts until the police have looked into it. Matt can’t help himself though and gets angry when he reads more comments. Feeling helpless to stop it, Matt charges into the station and yells at Kat, asking what is she doing to protect Maddy from these creeps? Kat asks him to explain fully and Matt hands over a list of online handles the harassers are using, asking Kat to track them down and stop them. Kat does investigate as best she can, then later turns up at the flat to inform Matt, Maddy & Roo of the bad news. It’s incredibly difficult to track online predators, let alone prosecute them. Kat admits that unfortunately there’s nothing more the police can do, much to Matt’s frustration.
Following Ash’s anger at the Police Station, Ash and Phoebe report the incident to Hannah in the Pier Diner. She’s concerned Ash’s actions may have ramifications for Kat – which is later proved to be the case. Phoebe, Hannah and Ash all agree they should back off from interfering in Kat’s relationship, despite their fears she’s making a massive mistake. Happy that Ash finally admits he went too far, Phoebe is about to leave, when Ash asks her to come and sign the insurance paperwork at the Garage instead – and they head off to do so. While she’s there, they sadly acknowledge how good it is they can still talk without it being weird.
A flirty young woman comes to pick up her car from Ash and, picking up from where they left off when she dropped the car in, she tries to encourage Ash to meet up later. Awkward in front of Phoebe, he gives the girl a polite send-off…but Phoebe has already noticed the nature of the encounter and asks him why he didn’t hook up with her. Ash admits he wouldn’t do that in front of her – but Phoebe points out she knows he’s already seeing other girls. Ash explains: “Yeah, well, that’s just my way of getting over you.” Back in the Diner, after Phoebe walks in on some cute PDA between Hannah and Chris, she admits to Hannah that maybe it is time for her to move on, like Ash is. She’s going to go have some fun….
Ricky is surprised when Kyle shows up at Angelo’s and tells her he made bail. He was worried she was still angry with him, so didn’t tell her about his hearing. Ricky isn’t angry but frustrated – she tries to point out that Isla isn’t worth what he’s doing except Kyle doesn’t want to hear it. Ricky asks him to at least tell her what’s going on with his case and he fills her in: his lawyer thinks he’ll probably get around five years. Ricky freaks: five years! She wants him out in the world, she wants him at her wedding, she wants him to be there for Casey – how can he do this to himself over a girl he hardly knows, and who hasn’t even stuck around to help him. Kyle has to explain the bad news: due to his past record and the fact he knew about the robbery before it happened yet didn’t report it, he will be charged and sent to gaol regardless… There is no way out of it. Devastated, Ricky tells Kyle she was planning to ask him to walk her down the aisle at her wedding. Kyle sees how upset Ricky is and is gutted to miss out on this. Ricky decides to ask Nate if he’ll move the wedding forward in order for Kyle to be there for this big moment.
When Emerson reports back that Kat is being taken off the Charlotte King murder investigation, Dylan protests to no avail… and his frustration begins to build. By the end of the episode, just as Kat is telling Ash she believes people can change (hence her investment in his garage), at the Police Station Dylan’s rage begins to express itself in a violent outburst alone in the locker room. It seems pretty clear that Kat is wrong about him having changed after all.