This week on Home and Away in Australia, Tane lashes out when his care for baby Maia comes under question from local gossips.
Tane (Ethan Browne) found a 3-month-old on the beach last month, and since then, he has hardly left her side at Northern Districts Hospital as they started looking for emergency foster caregivers. His friends are starting to get worried.
Tane was certain that he would be the one to look after the kid after they quickly bonded, but he was dismayed to hear Harper (Jessica Redmayne) clarify that he wouldn’t be able to because he doesn’t have permanent status in Australia.
Ethan Browne of TV Week said, “Tane feels protective of her, but he has been visiting the baby at the hospital on a regular basis, which the staff begin to notice.”
Tane chose the Maori term for bravery, Maia, for her instead of calling her “Baby X.” Rose (Kirsty Marillier), though, clarified that the name shouldn’t be taken outside of the hospital room. The true parents might feel even more cut off from the child if it became public knowledge.
Reporter Peter Rolfe of Coastal News was the stranger Alf (Ray Meagher) saw poking around the surf club and snapping photos of the appeal sign and donation form. After reading a few of Peter’s dramatic pieces in the past, Alf declined to speak with him.
Dana wasn’t as clued up, however. After handing Peter a poster, she let slip that the baby was doing well, and that she knew so as she was a nurse at the hospital. Peter immediately latched onto his newfound source and invited Dana for a drink.
Peter was just looking for information about the kid, but Dana was too busy pretending to be infatuated with Xander (Luke Van Os) and showing him that she wasn’t still in love with him.
She accidentally revealed the name that the baby had been given, explaining that it was Tane who had suggested it, and gave Peter enough info to identify who exactly Tane was.
It didn’t take long for an article to appear on the Coastal News website, with Alf, Roo (Georgie Parker) and Marilyn (Emily Symons) all reading it in distaste as they saw the unsavoury angle they’d taken.
In addition to calling Rose and her fellow policemen inept, the article questioned Tane’s fixation on infant Maia and brought up the fact that both of his late brothers, Mikaere and Ari, had served time in prison for armed robbery.
Alf was further incensed the next morning when the print version of the paper was delivered, showing a photo of Tane on the front page.
This week, Harper had to apologize to Tane as she gives him a copy of the Coastal News with his face all over it, according to TV Week. It not only identifies him but also reveals that he is the owner of the surf club’s gym.
When Peter later decides to pay a visit to the hospital to fish for more gossip, he comes face to face with Tane, who doesn’t appreciate his presence.
Tane angrily lashes out at Peter, who is forced to leave the hospital. But will he cause further issues for Tane as a result, as he threatens to make a formal complaint?
Elsewhere in Summer Bay, Remi is quickly caught out by Bree over his motorbike subterfuge.
Bree was horrified when Kirby (Angelina Thomson) and Justin (James Stewart) presented Remi with his newly fixed motorbike last week, following the accident in the season finale that nearly cost the Lyrik guitarist his life.
Although Bree enjoyed riding the bike for herself in the days prior to the accident, she had expressed her disapproval of Remi taking up riding again. Bree had not liked the concept of Remi taking care of his buddy Mercedes (Amali Golden)’s bike in the first place.
Reminding him that motorcyclists are known amongst the medical profession as organ donors, Bree issued Remi with an ultimatum after catching him sitting on the bike and revving the engine—if he got back on that bike again, their relationship was over.
As he spoke to Eden (Stephanie Panozzo) about Bree, it seemed that she managed to convince him to see things from Bree’s point of view, having sat by his side in the hospital watching him fight for his life.
“I love that bike, but I love you more,” Remi told Bree after he apologised to her. “I’m hanging up my jacket, I’m never getting on that bike again.”
However it quickly became apparent that Remi was lying, after we saw him on the phone to Justin asking whether he’d be able to store his bike at the garage for a month or two.
When Remi told Bree that he was speaking to Mercedes, who was arranging for the bike to be picked up, Bree thanked him again for his understanding and was astonished at how quickly he’d changed his mind.
As a promo for tonight’s episode shows, Justin and Leah (Ada Nicodemou) are pleased to see Remi up and about in the surf club with Bree.
Justin nearly drops Remi in it by commenting he’ll be back on his bike before he knows it, but when Bree questions Remi on it, he insists Justin was just talking in general.
But despite his fragility, we soon see Remi back on the bike and taking it for a ride around Summer Bay.
When Eden later discovers Remi’s secret, he tells her that he can’t have Bree finding out.
“What?” Eden replies. “That you’re LYING to her?”
In the end, Remi decides to come clean to Bree.
“I lied about the bike,” he tells her. “I never had any intention of getting rid of it
Is this the final curtain for Remi and Bree?
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