Next week on Home and Away in the UK, Cash makes an enemy out of the city cop overseeing Dana’s case, before he makes a surprise discovery – Dana herself!
Irene (Lynne McGranger) and Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) are unaware that Harper (Jessica Redmayne) is concealing her sister Dana (Ally Harris), who is on the run after being accused of stealing medications from her hospital job, in her room at the Beach House.
Harper has so far denied knowing Dana’s whereabouts, while Dana insists she is innocent and that her ex-boyfriend and housemate Olly is the one who is framing her.
As Cash investigated the case, he was perplexed by the city’s local area command’s reluctance to turn up the file. When he did, however, he was able to discover that the case had multiple flaws.
Next week, Detective Will Madden (Jonny Pasvolsky) arrives at Yabbie Creek police station looking for Cash, curious as to why the country cop is taking a sudden interest in Dana’s case.
Cash responds that he saw the warrant and thought the case looked interesting; the more he read, the more questions he had. Cash is amazed that Madden would travel so far from the city to ask him that.
Madden invites Senior Constable Newman to explain what he has discovered that he appears to have overlooked because he is very interested in learning more.
Cash notes that despite the fact that they shared a home and that Olly had easy access to Dana’s medical pass, no one ever asked him about it, and when Cash did ask him, Olly was evasive.
Additionally, he challenges the hospital security guard’s allegation that the CCTV footage from the day of the robbery is missing.
Madden states that glitches like that are common, but Cash is already one step ahead. He’s spoken to the IT company which maintains the hospital’s system, and they claim that it’s never happened before…
Madden is seemingly doubtful of Cash’s theory that there’s more to the case—he observes that Dana being on the run is surely a sign of guilt, until Cash points out that scared people run too.
Madden smiles and once again asks Cash why the interest in this case, to which he simply replies that he wants to get to the truth. With a distinct hint of contempt, Madden tells Cash that they could do with more officers like him, before allowing him on his way.
Once Cash is out of the room, Madden puts in a call to a colleague and asks them to dig up anything they can find on Cash.
It’s clear that if Dana is indeed being framed, Madden is in on it!
Later, Cash reveals to Harper that he believes Madden is fabricating information regarding the case, and they speculate about the possibility of Madden and Olly collaborating.
Sarge calls Cash back into the station, where he finds Madden waiting for him with his minion’s assignment turned in. Cash is confronted by Madden about his previous employment with Dana’s sister, Harper, and is reminded that doing “favors” for friends is improper.
Madden then begins to show his true colours, by warning Cash to let him arrest Dana before he finds himself in real trouble… before then pointing out that Dana has a prior drugs charge on her record.
“Oh…” Madden gloats as he clocks Cash’s shock at the revelation. “Your friend didn’t mention that?”
Cash is reeling as he heads over to the Beach House to confront Harper, only to find that it isn’t the only thing she’s kept quiet about.
Letting himself in through the open door (will these people never learn), Cash is stunned when Dana casually emerges from the bedroom.
Cash is furious with the sisters. Not only has he spent the entire afternoon defending them down at the station whilst they’ve been lying to him, but both he and Irene are now compromised and could be thrown in jail for assisting a fugitive.
Believing the only way forward is for Dana to hand herself in and face her charges, Cash tells her that he has no option but to take her down to the station.
As Cash leads Dana out to the car, she tells him that he’s throwing her to the wolves. Her prior charge was over some party drugs, and being caught had saved her from becoming an addict, enabling her to turn her life around and go to Uni.
If Cash hands her over to Detective Madden, who is clearly setting her up by using her past against her, then she will lose everything.
Will Cash be tempted to continue helping Dana?
If you’re a long-term fan of the show, you may recognise Jonny Pasvolsky from a previous stint in 2012. Jonny appeared in seven episodes as Tim Graham, the former colleague and boyfriend of Roo Stewart (Georgie Parker) from New York.
Tim astonished Roo by showing up in Summer Bay and declaring that he had left his wife in the hopes of making amends with Roo, since Roo had ignored his calls.
At this point, Roo was engaged to Harvey Ryan (Marcus Graham), and although she wanted to collaborate with Tim to launch a company in the city (the concept had actually been hers from the beginning), she rejected Tim when he tried to kiss her.
Roo ultimately decided to resign from her position in order to demonstrate her devotion to Harvey.
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