Episode 6608

Extended Summary

Leah has Luc out for a walk when she comes across Sam. Matt and Irene watch on as Leah tells her to stay away from Zac. Sam retorts that maybe Leah should tell Zac to stay away from her. Leah’s angry and Irene advises not to let it get to her, but Leah is a mess – she’s tired from Luc being up all night and she had a fight with Ash. Irene tries to play peacemaker and offer Leah some perspective: Ash is grieving and lashing out, imagine how hard it is for Ash not being able to look after his own flesh and blood. Leah, hurt, suggests Irene knows that because it’s exactly how she feels. That’s not what Irene meant, but Leah leaves things tense. Matt worries about Leah to Irene. Irene thinks Leah is just having a hard time because of Luc not sleeping. Leah arrives home with a whinging Luc and Zac asks how Leah’s day was. Leah fills him in on her fights with Ash and Irene, then her run in with Sam. She can’t remember raising a baby being so hard either. Zac gives her a neck massage, but then Sam arrives looking for a van. Leah tells her to sleep in her car, but Zac offers a van, infuriating Leah. Outside, Zac quizzes Sam on her motives, but Sam tells him not to blame her for the mess he’s in. He used her to feel better about himself. Zac accepts he’s the bad guy. Sam agrees not to say anything to Leah, he doesn’t need any help ruining his marriage. Zac approaches an upset Leah in their bedroom and tells her Sam staying in the park is not a big deal. Leah is incredulous, doesn’t Zac realise how disrespectful he’s being, sometimes she feels like Zac doesn’t think about her at all! Zac might be about to open up about sleeping with Sam, but VJ interrupts – Irene and Ash are downstairs. Zac is being eaten by his guilt. At the grassy knoll, Zac’s working out his guilt again when comes by. Matt realises Zac slept with Sam and he’s furious! Zac is pathetic. Matt thinks the only reason Zac wants to tell Leah about sleeping with Sam is to make himself feel better, but it’s only going to make Leah feel worse. Zac arrives home from his workout and an exhausted Leah lays into him about not asking her if she needed help; then she apologises for losing it when Sam showed up. She knows she’s pushing him away. Something’s wrong and they need to work it out. A guilty Zac agrees. He needs to tell Leah something…

Ash is furious with Leah after their argument about Luc and unloads on Kat who tries to calm him down. Ash doesn’t think someone who isn’t even Luc’s family should be able to tell him when he can or cannot see Luc. Ash worries that Leah might stop him seeing Luc altogether. Kat tries to assuage his fears – everybody is grieving and it’s a messy situation. Ash thinks Leah is the one making things hard. Ash sees Irene at the Diner. Irene’s not impressed that he’s had an argument with Leah, but when she reveals Leah bit her head off this morning too, Ash explodes again, what’s Leah’s problem?! Irene says Leah is just tired, it’s not intentional. Irene doesn’t think going round to Leah’s guns blazing will help anything, but she might have a better idea. At the house, Ash apologises to Leah for earlier, but Leah’s not in the headspace to do this now. VJ asks what’s going on and Ash admits he told Leah that she wasn’t Luc’s family. VJ is furious! After everything Leah has done for Luc and Billie… VJ is Luc’s father! Ash yells that’s he’s Luc’s uncle! Irene tries to calm the situation. Irene and Ash want to work out a way to help more, they’re not judging VJ and Leah. They don’t have to do this alone. Ash just wants to be part of Luc’s life. Leah just wants to put Luc into a routine. Irene reiterates they don’t have a problem with how Luc is being looked after, but they want to relieve the stress on Leah and VJ, and sure, they’d like to get to know Luc a bit. Maybe they could each take Luc one day a week. Leah doesn’t think that could work, what’s Ash going to do, put Luc in his caravan? It will just make Luc unsettled. Ash offers to just take Luc for a walk, small things, just to give the Pattersons a break. Leah leaves it up to VJ, but she thinks they should say yes. Later, Irene and Ash arrive at the diner, pleased VJ and Leah have agreed to give Ash and Irene more time with Luc. At the house, VJ has got Luc to sleep, finally. He feels like he’s failed Luc by agreeing to let Ash and Irene help. He didn’t know it would be this hard. Leah consoles him, he’s great with Luc. But as VJ goes to put Luc down, Leah is clearly still struggling.

At the hospital, Alf thanks Nate for his help with John despite having to treat the victims of his arson activities. Alf watches over Marilyn and John. Kat arrives at the hospital to see John, she’s pleased he’s feeling better, but John tells her to get on with it. Kat formally informs the group that John is being charged with arson, including arson causing death. Marilyn is distraught, John quiet and Alf concerned. John is allowed to be out on bail on the condition he’ll appear in court and remain in town. Kat offers to put him in touch with a good defence lawyer and Marilyn tries to get John to focus on getting better, not the impending court case, but John seems resigned to his fate. John is adamant, he’s hurt people, maybe he shouldn’t fight the charges. Marilyn thinks that’s ridiculous, John’s a good man and she will fight this with him every step of the way!