Coming up this week on Home and Away in Australia, tragedy strikes for Xander following a brutal attack, and are Cash and Eden engaged?
After some troubling issues when he first began work at Yabbie Creek’s ambulance station, Xander’s (Luke Van Os) work life has largely gone smoothly over the past six months.
When Xander’s sister Rose (Kirsty Marillier) saw firsthand how hard it was for him to handle his paramedic duties, she was astounded. She also had serious worries for his mental health when he confessed that he had tattooed himself for each patient he had lost.
Thankfully, he quickly discovered new coping skills after getting expert advice from his place of employment, but this week, everything threatens to crumble once more.
We were first introduced to Jamie, a colleague of Xander’s that we had never met previously, in a recent episode. (Hugo Liu). During their break, they spent some time on the bay talking to Mali (Kyle Shilling), when Jamie noticed someone trying to break into their ambulance that was parked nearby.
Jamie yelled out and the three men gave chase, but the would-be thief had already made his getaway without gaining access to the ambulance.
Xander told Mali that the guy would have been after the drugs stored inside, with Jamie adding that it happens more often than you’d think.
“You guys have got a tough gig, eh?” Mali commented. “Mate, you’ve got no idea” Xander replied.
When they are sent to an accident at a far-flung property in the bush this week, Xander and Jamie are once again working shifts.
When they arrive, they cannot see any indication of any victims having been hurt, but a guy soon approaches them and claims to have called them out.
It’s obvious that they’ve stepped right into a trap when they find themselves being approached by other men with weapons and realize that the man they had earlier chased away is among them.
“Xander asks the man to lead them to the patient, but is ambushed by three men wielding bats,” Luke told TV Week. “They don’t stand a chance.”
The men severely assault Xander and Jamie before stealing all the medicines from the ambulance and fleeing, leaving the paramedics for dead.
Despite being severely hurt, Xander musters the courage to phone Rose for assistance.
When Xander, the flatmate, is later brought into the emergency room at Northern Districts Hospital, resident doctor Bree (Juliet Godwin) is appalled and immediately begins evaluating him.
But when Xander inquires about his colleague, Rose is compelled to break the heartbreaking news that Jamie passed away there. His card was marked from the beginning because we had never seen him among the regular paramedics Xander works with.
The news hits Xander like a freight train, and it’s clear that the trauma could well push back the progress he’s made with his mental health.
“It hurts deeply as Xander asks himself why he survived and not Jamie?” Luke continued. “This eats away at Xander as he struggles with survivor guilt.”
Rose vows to catch the perpetrators and get justice for Jamie, but it’s of little comfort to Xander as he wallows in grief for his fallen colleague.
“Xander loves helping people and, as a paramedic, you get to be everyone’s hero, but that obviously comes with its pitfalls,” Luke added. “He definitely loves what he does, but it’s growing more challenging for him.”
Will this horrendous incident put Xander back to square one?
Plus…
Having finally got together in recent weeks, Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) and Eden (Stephanie Panozzo) are on top of the world as they celebrate during Tane and Flick’s reception at Salt. With the shots flowing and the band playing, the pair soon find themselves somewhat inebriated.
The next morning a rather fragile Cash wakes up to find himself in bed with Eden. That’s normal enough, but he’s confused to see her hand laying on his chest complete with a ring on it.
And it’s not just any ring, it’s the engagement ring he’d planned to propose to Jasmine with!
Cash looks over at the empty ring box on the dresser as he struggles to comprehend what’s going on, but he has no memory of what happened the previous night.
Are Cash and Eden engaged?!
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