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Six weeks later, Ross is buried. Angelo helps Charlie trough, Romeo Ruby, but Morag can't allow herself to grieve while Alf's bail case in in court. Liam and Bianca still enjoy a hippie style non-honeymoon. Robertson accepts that Leah can't decide yet whether to date again. Once out of Marog's reconnaissance, Alf wants revenge on tell-tale Will.

Marilyn forgets her own grief to make sure critically worried Sid joins her supporting Nicole, who makes known she's expecting Penn's baby. Angelo tells Ruby he had to dump Charlie, yet still supports both of them. Morag watches Alf like a hawk, but can't prevent him knocking down Will on the beach, compromising his bail terms.

Robertson is delighted to hear VJ spontaneously sided with his professional courage against the town's general blind defense of Alf and co, then reassures Leah her boy's maturing is a good thing she must and can come to terms with. Morag decides to base Alf's defense on reasonable doubt some other Penn-hater may have killed him, and tries Nicole first. Palmer inspires Sid to assume Marilyn's itchiness about Nicole's baby probably means she wants to carry his child, but Marilyn announces she agreed to adopt Nicole's.

Romeo warns Xavier no news from April in weeks may mean he's already as good as forgotten. They accept to meet the new girl in town, Summer, who flirts with Xavier when they join Liam's bush barbecue. Just when Xavier kisses Summer back, April arrives unannounced. Sid gets apologies from Marilyn for not consulting him before accepting to adopt Nicole's baby, suggests a baby if their own might be better, but successfully asks Dex and Indy if they would welcome a family extension. Dex offers to introduce insecure VJ to high-school, which VJ enjoys, although thug Jase McKenzie beats up his protector.

Xavier is initially pleasantly surprised April makes no problem of his 'holiday kiss', yet worries she won't say what else obviously troubles her. Morag is gloomy about the prospects of defending Alf, given his countless imprudent faults. Robertson reminds Will he must face near-general hostility for Lily's sake.

Will has left in a hurry with Lilly after declaring to Morag Alf isn't guilty. Robertson dismisses her claim that's ground to reopen Alf's case, but uniformed cops and a tip from Angelo establish the Shandi who pretended to by Palmer's daughter was a fraud. Liam reassures Bianca she shouldn't feel guilty when April decides on her own to move back to Irene's and leave the love-birds their new nest.

Detective Roberts doubts his legendary instincts given the new data, but Leah reassures him. 'Citizen' Angelo helps trace Palmer's real daughter, who proves 'Shandi' is her youth buddy Daria Hennessy, a scam artist, then accepts to visit John but only once. Dex coaches VJ further. Irene has phone contact with Will, but can't convince him to return.

Xavier sneakily finds out April hides intense Internet contact with a French person called René. Even after Romeo points out hat can be a male, Xavier accepts her 'indignated' lies it's her pa's old, environment-committed assistant. Robertson gets Palmer to provide an embezzlement charge to detain Daria Hennessy, the fake Shandi, until Angelo's car theft testimony and sequins comparison practically close the net on her, yet keeps on open mind to guilty parts for Will and/or Alf.

Xavier waves Romeo's doubts about April's story and volunteers to help her with any environmentalist imitative, ignoring she stole dangerous chemicals from school. Sid is scolded a bully just for confronting Marilyn and Nicole with the enormous potential repercussions of their ill-conceived unofficial adoption plan. Romeo finds Nicole shattered and spends time with her. that means missing Ruby's first tutoring session, for privacy sake without explaining to her or Indy. Bianca tells Liam April's dad is a dangerous extremist and neglectful pa.

Realizing the adoption is a must for Marilyn after she discloses being infertile, Sid tells his kids. Dex is positive about a step-brother part, Indy goes crazy and takes it out on cuckoo Nicole, yet takes that back soon after. Will has to compromise their hiding when Lily gets sick, ultimately calling Irene who breaks her promise not to inform the police, so Will is arrested in a car chase.

With both Will and Daria, who seduced him as fake Shandi, in custody, Robertson can piece together from their confessions what happened to Penn and his corps. Will can only hope for mitigating circumstances, Alf is exculpated. Lily is stuck with twice heartbroken Irene.

Instead of celebratory, Alf's mood is belligerent, especially about Palmer modernizing the surf-club 'behin my back'. So he soon leaves his exculpation surprise party to see Irene, whom he feels should be invited. Hearing from her about Will and Lily, Alf goes to jail and forces the knave to say goodbye to his brat, who refuses to return to her mother. Sid reassures insecure Nicole.

After Angelo and most locals side with Palmer on modernization, Alf resigns as chairman and announces he's leaving indefinitely. Nicole fears her pregnancy will ruin everything at university, as an unpleasant professor seems to confirm on orientation day. However Indy drags her along to a toga party, where she gets straight on kissing terms with countryside newbie Evan.

Xavier patiently gets April to realize he wants to help and admit she's not in contact with her dad, just assistant René. She shows Xavier her project - decommissioning an environmentally disastrous plant, using the chemicals she stole from school. Romeo prepared a great dinner for Indy, so he's far from impressed she's too drunk to enjoy it, he has to eat it with Ruby once she passes out. After talking about pregnancy with Alf, who witnesses her first morning sickness vomiting while visiting the campus, Nicole admits and adoption needs to be final and formal, so she tells Sid and Marilyn they can draw up a contract.

As soon as Xavier hears April's ill-conceived plan is to pour chemicals onto the factory equipment, he dumps them in the sink, but the mixture produces dangerous fumes. Meanwhile the school staff deduced from his Internet research he must know more. Dex tries to no avail to learn more about and hopefully mend the trouble between Rimeo, who feels stuck at high-school, and lazy Indy who plays a martyr to her hangover. Robertson is happy with a promotion a considers settling down. Leah however says she's not in love with him and realizes she must settle her feelings for Elijah conclusively either way.

Xavier remains a long time in the toxic fumes, even after April wakes up and crawls out, as she neither helps nor tells the truth in hospital. Sid still pulls Xavier trough, for now, while Gina again just assumes it's Xavier's fault. Alf announces he's leaving on a back-packer fly-fishing world trip, which Morag fails to talk him out of.

Xavier pulls trough his critical condition, thanks to Sid, well enough to shame Gina's groundless suspicions against him and confirm April's cowardly belated confession. Bianca informs her dad, who drops 'pathetic' April. As Sid feared, Morag finds the draft adoption contract an illegal horror likely to land him and the ladies in jail. Alf invites everyone to a goodbye barbecue before embarking on a backpacking tour of the world. He'll visit loved ones everywhere, but Morag feels deserted.

To boost slacking restaurant business during the week, Angelo organizes a singles night. The female turnout is minimal, but the males worry him more when the River Boys arrive, a local ruffians gang around the Baxton brothers, who hold a grudge against Angelo for arrests in his cop days and soon start a fight. Liam is surprised how jealously and insecurely Bianca misinterpreters his first inactivity in bed since their reunion. Nicole's bad attitude makes Morag turn away from the adoption project.

As if a damaged restaurant and wrecked liquor stock weren't bad enough, Angelo has to deal with female fingers pointing at his 'threat to public safety' and a visit from gang leader Darryl 'Brax' Braxton, who wants him to help keep the police out and offers 'cheap' booze. Even Romeo feels intimidated by the adult River Boys and vents his frustration near-violently on their kid brother in his class, Casey. Miles, who was beaten up just at his return, decides to risk filing a formal complaint.

Romeo and Casey soon realize they shouldn't be enemies just because of the rowdie big Braxton brothers. Miles, who was ordered to take 'trouble kid' Casey under his wing, just sends both boys to detention. The news that Elijah is on a plane back home completes Leah's confusion. Casey just snaps at Dex for soemwhat intrusively video-recording him constantly, but the other River Boys eagerly resort to physical terror.

Casey fails to talk his elder River Boys mates out of roughing up poor Dex, who is thrown in their car boot. Casey tries to tell Romeo, but is scared off by Indy. The next morning, Sid alerts the police as Dex didn't come home. Romeo smells a rat and makes Casey own up. The River Boys say they just dropped the boy in the bush as a joke, but a search has to be broken off for nightfall without result. With great effort, Dex stumbled back home. Sid however snaps it's time Dex 'adjusts' so as to stop being an obvious butt of jokes.

Xavier is first avoided by April, and when he finally gets to speak to her he is dumped, despite defending her to ma, with a mean accusation to 'ruin everything for her'. John orders Romeo as life-guard to keep the River Boys in check. Romeo was doing surprisingly well and even gets assistance when VJ nearly drowns, but John charges at them all without even checking the facts. Dex makes and Internet-posts a video asking people to teach him what 'normal' is.

Although Heath saved VJ, who initially can't remember it yet, Palmer calls it an excess of River Boys brutality. Brax visits Angelo, takes his advice to avoid trouble and donates an old, yet safer foam board to VJ. The kid confirms Heath saved him, yet Charlie maintains the hostile tone John inspired. When Leah finally sees Elijah back, he's accompanied by an African family - now his!

Elijah tells Leah a sob story about his new family being victims of another cholera outbreak, yet Miles urges him to come clean with the truth. The whole episode inspires Marilyn and Sid, who actually appreciates any delay, to consider overseas adoption if they don't get Nicole's baby, but she assures them to have made up her mind.

Angelo's restaurant suffers more vandalism, but again the culprit is found and not a River Boy. Charlie maintains her icy hostility when not apologizing to Brax, who renews his cheap booze offer to Angelo, who now accepts being at the brink of financial ruin, having had Morag as sole guest that weekday evening. Elijah is pleasantly surprised that VJ got interested in religion for him, and reassures him he, not God, broke up with Leah. Colleen's open hostility culminates in falsely accusing two River Boys of theft, so one of them lurks around and her caravan is handled at night.

Being cruelly ignored again by April, Xavier cutely tries a love declaration in french, only to find she's hanging out with Dex, whom she uses as messenger to express no interest, returning to helping him with his bullying blog. Xavier provokes Hearth, who is luckily patient until Palmer rescues him. Brax get to deliver cheap wine to Angelo, whose restaurant is virtually bust, hence considers Brax's idea to launch fancy pizza. River Boy Brody Upton enjoyed scaring Colleen to death by towing her caravan, but after the gang covers for him Brax's sermon marks him with a black eye before making him do amends.

Angelo warns VJ the cool surfboard Brax gave him is too dangerous, but the kid rather listens to his hero. When his minor wounds scare Leah, Brax changes his tune to 'listen to your ma', earning a lunch date. Charlie just assumes the River Boys committed the latest liquor store theft, but the serial numbers on the bottle Brax sold Angelo prove differently. Grace learns her son's benefactor Elijah and Leah are in love.

Realizing Casey can't cope with a poetry assignment, Romeo volunteers to tutor him, even goes surfing together first, but constant abuse from loutish brother Heath, although held back by Brax, ends up enraging the boy, so it's all wasted. Leah dates Brax, but deduces from his questions he's really after Charlie and runs off to tell her. Elijah lets Morag convince him, even now the boy is released from hospital, he should consider self-centered Grace 'intimate' needs, although not part of his generous agreement.

Romeo's patient tutoring paid off, Casey hands in a surprisingly good poetry essay. After hearing Romeo's observation the knave needs help, given the unhealthy Braxton family context, Miles reconsiders. He suggest to Gina Casey may be dyslexic, but a test requires parental permission. Dex's new videoblog chapter on dating requires cross-dressing, tasteful according to April. Marilyn discovers he used her wardrobe and make up and tells Sid the knave may be a transsexual. Romeo notices Ruby kissing Casey, actually just because Charlie told her to keep away from all River 'bad' boys.

Romeo warns Ruby not to start another head over heals affair with Casey, who unfortunately thinks his only mate sabotages his chances. Romeo can't fail studying for a test when Indy reserves one night for him without notice, yet she deduces 'it no longer works', so Sid and Marilyn shouldn't have worried about her contemplating taking the next step. Romeo ends up dropping by with Ruby, who tells him he's her dream-price and steals a kiss. Nicole is designing again and feels great. Seeing Liam struck with writers block, Palmer and Sid insist to help him (drinking and) rhyming, yet Bianca gets the wrong idea.

Romeo wrestles with the dilemma whether to tell Indy, who practically dumped him anyway, that Ruby seduced him. The prejudiced hunt for the Braxtons continues. Elijah's dilemma is how to square his father-roles for VJ and his African 'new family'.

Angelo is happy with Brax's investment, but John makes a fuzz about allowing any River Boys meet in his surf-club. He calls the police after finding a suspicious bag and Brax's refusal to leave. Romeo is dragged along by Indy to visit Ruby, who was hospitalized for a diabetes crisis after obvious negligence, and meanly abused as if careless. Sid suspects her real problem is psychological, but only inspires Charlie to hears about the 'affair' which she blames absurdly on Romeo. Ingrate Thabo scolds both Elijah and his ma for using him as an excuse to 'trade people' viz. get married. When Charlie arrives at the club, Brax steals a kiss, but she arrests him for 'harrassing a police officer'.

Despite Angelo's bitter comment she only digs into the 'liquor theft' out of personal spite, Charlie maintains formal charges against Brax. She calls his fancy city lawyer typical for organized crime, yet drops all charges once warned only a counter-charge against her wold stick, as confirmed when the whole liquor story only shows Darryl's generosity. Xavier initially hates being teamed up for a science project with Casey, who only came to class being forced to accept a lift from Gina, and Dex, whose video-blog restored his confidence, while his cahoot April is now shunned. The boys eagerly use the Mad Max car and Sid's medical expertise for their project.

Xavier, Dex and Casey's car-girls-attraction-presentation is a blast. However when Gina finally gets to see Casey's ma about testing him, she refuses most rudely without actually listening. April is too depressed even to care much that Bianca forgot about her birthday.

The boys' experiment about sexy cars making girls' hearts beat faster inspires team Xavier with an irresistible urge to try it out in the mad max car he restored with Palmer, who is expected to be away long enough to 'borrow' it unnoticed. Casey hoped to go steady with Ruby but is turned away in favor of Romeo, whom she 'dumps' in turn after hearing from Indy they never broke up.

Xavier can't resist taking the Mad Max car for a spin with Casey, nor against his advice stopping for Ruby. She blackmails both boys - threatening to tell Charlie, as neither knave has a license - to let her drive. At River Boys meeting place Deakin's Point, Xavier's superior car expertise outsmarts Heath, who offers a courting lesson, mistaking Casey warding off Ruby for a move. Later the kids run out of petrol, so Xave runs to get some, while Casey and Ruby watch the car, making up as she shamelessly blames Romeo and getting intimate. Xavier ignores that Plamer noticed the car missing, was blamed absurdly by Gina and asked Charlie to find and scare the knave, nor realizes what his mates got up to.

Although surprised when Charlie tells him she found Casey having sex with Ruby in the Mad Max car, Darryl remains supportive of his hardly spoiled kid brother, defends their freedom and cleverly lectures Charlie on cunningly picking one's fights while raising teenagers. Xavier is desperate when Gina says the car must go as punishment. Although Palmer pretends to be as angry, he tells Gina she has no right being so cruel or to dispose of his property. Casey declines entering a science competition after Heath's bitter attack on Miles, who brings a registration form, so the teacher hopes to mend the rift by dropping his complaint. Jealous Ruby tells Charlie to butt out, still dumps Casey and spitefully tells Indy her Romeo isn't perfect, having had her.

As if 'exposed' Romeo weren't miserable enough, actually worrying more about Indy then himself, the females gang up against him or his entire gender; even Bianca turns on Liam, but later repents that. Only Nicole tries to mediate after Sid bars Romeo entry, only to feel caught between bitching 'friends'. A hospital visit from Leah with VJ goes well, until jealous brat Thabo, having heard Leah was engaged to Elijah, takes ingratitude too far.

Angelo is utterly delighted with Brax's help after the pizza line-launch goes great, yet dutifully reports to Charlie a suspicious handover to River Boy Brodie. It turns out to be a setup, not a drug deal, but probably costs him Darryl's favor. Nicole nearly bails out from her date at Angelo's with Angus, but he persuades her to go and explains his family past made him baby-friendly.

Although now scared of Braxton's expected wrath, so far Angelo enjoys the restaurant's growing success, albeit thanks to presumably dubious relations. Palmer is delighted with the US consultancy results of Roo, who returned unexpectedly, saying it's for good; only Morag keeps questioning her. Sid doesn't share Marilyn's concern about Nicole's date. Elijah's marital worries subside as Thabo's condition worsens dramatically.

Miles is not amused to wake up with Roo in his bed. Her blurted-out experience makes Nicole doubt again about giving up her baby. After Thabo died in surgery, Elijah feels he can't give up his fake marriage for true love with Leah and to be a father for VJ.

After talking to Roo and Xavier, Romeo goes to see Indy again, letting her choose the next step, only to be coldly dismissed. Xavier fails to make Ruby admit her fault. Casey is accepted by Charlie, but an anonymous Internet post embarrasses the budding couple. Leah tells Elijah to wait until he has dealt with Thambo's death, but is told his shambles marriage has been consummated.

Overprotective boyfriend Casey verbally attacks Xavier and actually gives Romeo a black eye for supposedly facilitating the Ruby video. Gina has no choice but collaborate with Charlie's police investigation, which Ruby resents even more then the blog on double standards for dating boys/girls which puts delighted Dex on the map, yet cahoot April wants to remove it for Ruby. Xavier and Marilyn convince Romeo and Indy they should really talk, not just give up.

Angelo is pleased with the restaurant's growing success thanks to Brax, yet worried about his insistence to start tabs for mates under fictitious names. Sensitive, helpful Angus impresses Nicole, Marilyn feels passed-over. Dex and Irene gradually notice April's obsessive perfectionism on a geography assignment. Roo fishes for works with Palmer and Angelo, who offers to let her move in but wrongly assumed she was romantically interested too.

Angelo is puzzled how well the restaurant does financially and surprised that Brax simply agrees to let him repay Brax's loan fast. Angelo also lets Roo move in. Liam reports at school April's obsessive behavior after confiscating a pen and is attacked by her again at home.

Liam suggests Bianca finds it a bit too convenient to move back to town on account of April, whose compulsive behavior is presumed to be mere exam-stress, but Sid pushes on. Liam keeps camping alone rather then move in with Irene, then gets Angelo to take him in without asking Roo first. The home-front convinces Nicole Angus deserves to explain his position after finding out she's not keeping her baby. He actually reacts carefully, but another date doesn't work for him.

Casey thinks of a way to earn tickets for the Mountain Music festival with Xavier for them and their girls, delivering pizza for Angelo's on scooters, braving Darryl's objection school should come first and Charlie's latest absurd cop arrogance, which only makes the gang, especially Ruby, more determined, and allows Brax some more romantic innuendo. Marilyn and Nicole get help to make up.

Xavier gets crucial support from Palmer, who feels it will teach him responsibility, to get the pizza delivery job. It requires a scooter driving course, but Gina insists to be there and when Xavier is late on his first test ride 'borrows' the instructor's heavy bike. Charlie again embarrasses everyone by insanely accusing Casey of abusing Ruby for his study, while Ruby finds out he gets dyslexia's help from Miles. Elijah tells the bishop he can't remain in the clergy and Grace their marriage is a shambles.

Romeo arranges a new start with Indy by staging a second 'first date', despite vindictively suspicious Sid, but at the last minute she shies away from kissing again. Elderly surfer Keith Irwin offers capable, free massages to meet ladies, which fuzzy Colleen first refuses, then accepts and again regrets. Elijah tells he now doubts his vocation and his marriage, but Grace stick to it.