Are the Bartons going to pot?
APRIL and Vanessa are convinced that Marlon has driven Carly out of the village with his no-good, cheating ways – and the fact that he’s just woken up in Lydia’s bedroom wearing a nightdress doesn’t exactly help his case. Can he persuade them he never made a move on Laurel (or Lydia) and that Carly had her own reasons for leaving?
The factory staff discover Nicola’s phobia and are using it to torment her, yet she’s the one who ends up getting sacked when she wrongly accuses Jai of being behind the pranks. She takes her anger out on Jimmy, who heads to the Woolpack to drown his sorrows, and gets so drunk that he reveals that Rakesh was behind the mill fire.
The next day, Jimmy regrets his actions, but the police are already on their way to question Rakesh.
Jimmy himself risks falling foul of the law for keeping quiet about what he knew for so long. Could he and Nicola be charged as accessories after the fact?
There’s no let up in the misery for the Bartons either. The family is struggling to raise their rent, and sadly Finn’s escort service is unlikely to make up the shortfall. However, when Ross literally stumbles upon a large-scale cannabis enterprise, he comes up with another solution.
Elsewhere, Debbie encourages Belle to act on her feelings for Lachlan, although frankly, we feel she could do better.