Mali gets sucked into the River Boy drama on Australia’s Home and Away the following week when the group asks for a favor.
A few weeks ago, Mali (Kyle Shilling) opened a can of worms in an attempt to exact revenge on the Allens for kidnapping and beating up his brother Iluka (Dion Williams).
After robbing the group of small-time crooks in his hometown of Mantaray Point of $8,000, Iluka quickly fled to Summer Bay in order to hide.
Mali messaged the gang leader Nat Allen (Claire Lovering) to inform her that they were prepared to return the money after discovering what his brother had done.
However, the Allens’ goal went beyond only getting their money back, so they went to the bay to kidnap Iluka and left him lying wounded on a nearby country road.
Mali couldn’t let it go, and decided to get revenge on the Allens’ revenge. He called on his old mate Dean (Patrick O’Connor) for help, and Dean put him in touch with his River Boy contacts.
Rory (Joshua Orpin), the River Boys’ latest leader, and Dingo (JK Kazzi), turned up for help, and the trio faced off against Nat and her two brothers in a remote location.
In the end, Rory and Dingo didn’t even have to do anything, as the fight was broken up by Rose (Kirsty Marillier) and the cops before things got too out of hand.
The storm in a teacup led to Rory sticking around in Summer Bay, where Felicity (Jacqui Purvis) soon caught his attention.
His rather old-fashioned flirting method of catcalling initially put Flick off, but she soon came around to his River Boy charm and they’ve been practically inseperable ever since.
By some freak coincidence, Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) has just decided to return to the police force. Yet with no vacancies at Yabbie Creek or Reefton Lakes, he’s been assigned to Mangrove River, home of the worst police station in the region, and, of course, the River Boys.
Cash soon discovered that Felicity’s new boyfriend Rory was the head of the gang, but despite his warnings to stay away from him, Flick has been determined to continue with her exciting new fling.
When Flick first faced Rory, she was afraid, but he reassured her that he hadn’t been arrested in years. He convinced her that the guys were the only reason he was still alive because he was alienated from his parents.
Flick quickly made the decision to move on with their developing relationship after deciding that he wasn’t bothered by Rory’s dubious existence.
Cash returned to his new position at the end of Thursday’s triple bill to find a horde of the boys waiting for him. As he pulled up, they menacingly surrounded his car, leaving onlookers to worry what they would do next.
We can now see a preview of what’s to come thanks to a recent promo.
In the upcoming episodes, John (played by Shane Withington) expresses his emotions by asking Flick, “Are you sure you want to get involved with this character?”
“I know all about the River Boys,” she assures him, reaffirming that Rory’s gang connections don’t phase her.
Next week, Flick visits Mangrove River for the first time, as Cash finds his sister hanging out with Rory and the boys in the dodgy town.
“You being here is a mistake,” Cash tells her.
“Well are you arresting me?” she replies.
“We think they’re involved in a murder,” Cash responds, but it seems unlikely that even that will change Flick’s mind.
“You’ve been watching us, now we’re watching you,” Dingo tells Cash as the boys surround him as he steps out of his car outside Mangrove River police station.
“They’re getting drawn in, one by one,” says the promo’s voiceover.
In this week’s show, Rory asked Mali to create him a personalized surfboard with the River Boys’ famed “Blood and Sand” motto—which the members had tattooed across their chests—emblazoned on it.
Mali said that he would be avoiding the guys as soon as the board was finished after Alf (Ray Meagher) forewarned him to do so.
However, the new teaser for the episodes airing next week makes it clear that Mali will stay in the gang’s sphere of influence for some time to come as they ask for a favor.
We see Dingo drop around to the farmhouse where Mali is living with landlord Mackenzie (Emily Weir), and housemates Tane (Ethan Browne) and new arrival Perri (Cantona Stewart).
He hands him a sports bag, ominously padlocked shut, as he tells him, “I need you to look after this.”
“What is it?” Mali asks, but Dingo replies with a “You don’t need to know, mate.”
We can only speculate about what’s inside as Cash is presently looking into whether the River Boys were involved in his predecessor’s death at Mangrove River police.
At Salt, Tane tries to get the low down from Mali, but he tells his housemate, “you don’t want to get involved.”
When Tane comes home, he asks Mali the same question about the contents, as the pair stare at the dodgy rucksack.
The promo tells us that “it will end, one way or another,” as we get a glimpse of Cash and his colleagues storming the gang’s headquarters.
We hear Cash say, “he’s got no place in Felicity’s life,” before the promo shows numerous police cars descending on the boys’ hideout.
“Let’s get this done,” Cash announces.
“Police, stay where you are,” Cash shouts, as he holds up a warrant and he and the cops run towards the warehouse.
He is startled, though, when he turns to see Mali standing next to Dingo with his hands raised.
Confusingly, Rose is also part of the sting operation, despite not working for Mangrove River police.
As the cops begin rounding up the boys and Mali is led out by Constable Jo Devlin (Ariadne Sgouros), Rose is shocked to discover her ex-boyfriend in the fray.
“What are you doing here?” she asks.
What has Mali found himself caught up in?
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