She was very disconcerting looking for a start, with strange staring eyes. We're always wary of people with strange staring eyes. But then something happened and by the end of the weird "You thought I was single when I wasn't" misunderstanding between the newcomer, Kyle and flappy Georgia (she wouldn't let this one go, like the odd drama with the bloody painting of Brad, we couldn't work out why everyone was making such a fuss) we were completely hooked on Gemma "Gemfish" Reeves.

It must have been when she began her campaign of what can only be described as random mayhem. Amid being caught rifling through the files in Susan's office at the school (an offence punishable by execution in Erinsborough since mediaeval times) Gem somehow managed to wangle a job at the school. Her references didn't check out, and her interview was totes awkward, but hey. This is the school that put car mechanics on the syllabus solely as a reason to employ gambler and convicted criminal Lucas Fitzgerald, so they clearly aren’t that fussy. But lessons with Gem were clearly going to be fun. Well, for half the class anyway.

As she sat on her desk with her feet up showing the class music videos (oh we'd have killed for a teacher like this) she also tore into poor Imogen Willis for... well, for no reason at all actually, apart from the heinous crime of being a girl. Hmmm, what WAS she up to? Meanwhile at home, Little Miss set about stopping Georgia from moving in with dim but loveable boyfriend Kyle Canning, a character whose sole purpose is to be bemused while various of Ramsay Street's women run rings around him. Poor Kyle. Georgia, you see, had hatched a plan to move her and her perpetually confused bloke into the empty Ramsay house. This titanic icon of a Ramsay Street Property once housed Maria, Max, Shaaaane and Danny Ramsay and all his socks, yet Georgia reckoned it would be perfect for just her and Kyle. Well, juggling a career as a nurse AND an international singing star, the money must be rolling in. It was at this point that another 'strand' of possible motivation for Gem crept in, and that was an obsession to keep Georgia for herself. Perhaps she has one of those weird slightly-too-close-for-comfort attachments to her cousin going on. Is that what it is?

Ah, but Gem's efforts to sabotage first the house-move (still the Ramsay Property stands empty! It demands to be filled!) and then Georgia and Kyle's engagement was just the start of the fun. Far more deliciously creepy is her encouragement of gonky genius schoolboy Bailey Turner. For reasons TO BE DETERMINED, Gem took as much of an instant liking to the lego-haired pop dolly as she took against troubled Imogen. In fact, soon she had labelled him a "special friend", was bumping up his assignment grades and was holding hands with him in the park. This kind of edgy storyline is the sort that keeps my interest peaked, and with hindsight it's a shame that nosey Imogen rumbled them before there'd been so much as an illicit peck on Bailey's flushed little cheek. But why is Gem doing it? Bailey has nothing she wants. She seems more keen on keeping her cousin under her thumb than getting a man. And he brings her no kind of power or advantage. What's it all about?