Dramatic scenes are depicted in a new Home and Away teaser as scammer Bronte abducts Dana just as she is about to reveal her secret.
After visiting Irene (Lynne McGranger) at a hospital in the city for Irene’s yearly physical, Bronte (Stefanie Caccamo) traveled to Summer Bay last month.
When Irene introduced her to Harper (Jessica Redmayne), Bronte explained that Irene had approached her after seeing she was upset, and that she had poured her heart out to her.
Irene later explained to Harper that Bronte was very sick, and was undergoing tests for an autoimmune disorder.
However, before long we discovered that Bronte wasn’t sick at all, as we saw her on the phone to an associate telling them that Irene owns her own home and business, and that she’s a pushover.
In the weeks that followed, Bronte explained that her last remaining option was an experimental treatment in Canada, with a price tag of roughly $100,000.
Irene then made it her duty to raise the funds, and as more and more of Summer Bay’s residents fell under Bronte’s spell, Xander (Luke Van Os) helped her set up a crowdfunding campaign.
The money began rolling in, with Salt making a substantial donation, and many across the bay more than happy to help.
Then, when the Diner was shut due to a contamination incident, and Irene let slip that one of the affected customers was suing them for $50,000, Bronte conveniently mentioned that she too had been affected by the poisoning.
Her apparent exposure to the benzine – which had leached into the diner’s water system – had supposedly sped up the progress of her mystery autoimmune condition, leaving Irene wracked with guilt.
When the diner’s insurers announced that they wouldn’t be covering the claims, as Irene and Leah (Ada Nicodemou) had failed to adequately service the pipework, Irene decided that she’d fund Bronte’s compensation herself, and began working out how to raise $50,000.
The only person who doubts Bronte is Dana (Ally Harris), who quickly spotted the holes in the fraudster’s story. Yet despite her best efforts, she’s been pushed aside by Irene, and even boyfriend Xander and sister Harper have been unwilling to entertain her theories.
In a previous teaser from mid-June, it was first suggested that when Dana got closer to disclosing Bronte’s secret, she would find herself imprisoned by Bronte and her associate.
We now have a closer look at the action in a new trailer that ran following the most recent Australian episode. In it, Luke Van Os’ character Xander worries that his fiancée has vanished.
“We need to shut her up,” Bronte tells her mystery associate, as the promo voiceover reminds us that “she’s conned the bay, but one person sees through the lot.”
We then see Bronte and an as-yet-unknown man enter Irene’s beach house one evening, as Dana is home alone.
Dana tries to make a break for it, but she’s quickly grabbed by Bronte.
Through the window of the beach house, we can see her kicking and flailing as Bronte’s mate holds his hands over her mouth.
The next thing we see is Dana locked inside a metal shipping container.
She reaches out through the small gap in the door and grabs the padlock, but it’s no use – she’s firmly locked in, and seemingly in the middle of nowhere.
“Now she’s gone,” says the voiceover.
Given that Dana has vanished, Harper concludes that her sister has ran away, citing her sister’s propensity for doing so.
She informs Irene, “She takes off needing space whenever things get tough.”
“Do we need to worry?” Harper tells Irene that “it’s fine, she always comes back” in response to her question.
Harper is asked if she had an opportunity to talk to Dana the night before when Xander finds her the next day.
Harper tells him, “Actually, she’s gone away,” with Bronte trailing closely behind. “And she hasn’t returned my calls or messages.”
As the promo cuts back to a miserable Dana trapped in the shipping container, with only a sliver of daylight to allow her to see her surroundings, Bronte is busy working to convince everyone that Dana’s disappearance is a good thing.
“Maybe this is exactly what she needs,” Bronte tells Xander in Salt.
However, Xander can’t stop himself from worrying.
“I just, I can’t help but feel like Dana’s not okay,” he tells Alf (Ray Meagher).
“Where on earth is Dana?” asks John (Shane Withington), throwing his arms up in the air in frustration at the disappearance of his newest surf lifesaver, before the promo cuts back to Dana screaming for help.
It seems Bronte admits that she was the last person to see Dana, but tells Xander that his girlfriend has headed off on a retreat.
Xander isn’t sure whether to believe her, and he tries to get Bree (Juliet Godwin) and John on side.
He manages to convince Bree that the story doesn’t add up, and the two of them head to Yabbie Creek Police Station, where they file a report with Rose (Kirsty Marillier).
“These are some serious accusations,” Rose reminds her brother, and it seems like she’s another person who’s not about to believe Bronte is anything but an innocent dying woman.
“She was the last person that saw Dana,” Xander insists. “Tell me that’s not suspicious.”
Will Dana be found in time, and will she expose Bronte’s secret before Summer Bay’s residents part with more of their hard-earned cash?
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