As Steph languished in hospital, she had plenty of time to think and started to contemplate the strong possibility that she wouldn’t be alive to see Charlie grow up. She asked Boyd to get Stingray’s video camera, so she could make one final precaution – a video for her son to play, in case she died before he could get to know her properly. After watching the video, Boyd was left more concerned than ever, but Steph assured him that she was still going to beat the cancer. However, the news from Karl later that day wasn’t too good, as the lump was growing and the cells were spreading at an alarming speed. Steph realised that she couldn’t go through the whole experience without Max by her side, so Boyd called his father. With Summer still unable to fly until she got the all clear from the doctor, nobody was quite sure when Max would be back in town, but he assured his wife that he was on standby for every flight for the next week. Although Steph quickly perked up at news of Max’s imminent return, and as she watched the footy surrounded by her friends and family, it was clear that time had almost run out.

With Ned still away in Sydney, Elle’s friendship with Stuart was growing as the two spent an evening together before going back to number 30, where she spent the night on the couch. The next morning, though, the mood quickly changed and the pair ended up sharing a kiss – only to be interrupted by Ned, who had returned realising that he couldn’t live without Izzy. The brothers fought – in a manner of speaking – but quickly patched things up as Ned was more concerned with Izzy staying with her “terminally-ill” boyfriend. Things on that score suddenly became more complicated than Izzy could have anticipated, when she received an email from the anonymous ‘Concerned Friend’ with a video attached, a video of the security camera in the Scarlet Bar office, which showed Izzy and Ned getting down to some serious action. Realising that it had also been sent to Paul, Izzy then spent the day maniacally ruining his laptop by spilling coffee on it, before attempting to ruin Elle’s, which Paul had borrowed, by tripping over the cable. Finally, Izzy managed to distract Paul long enough so that she could access his account and delete the email. Paul, of course, was too distracted by his ongoing feud with the General Store to read email, and things stepped up a notch when an unwitting Lyn delivered an eviction notice to Lou and Harold.

The feud between Lucinda’s Café and the General Store was also affecting Sky and Dylan’s relationship, with Sky finally convincing her boyfriend that if Lucinda’s stayed open for much longer, Lou and Harold would go out of business. Dylan finally confronted Paul about it, claiming that Harold was a good man and didn’t deserve this kind of treatment, only to be told the truth about the attempted murder at Christmas. Refusing to believe what his boss was telling him, Dylan resigned and stormed over to Sky to tell her about the lies Paul was peddling. Sky’s silent reaction made Dylan realise that what Paul had said was true and he went to get his job back, before Paul then made him question whether he could actually trust Sky any more. With Dylan ignoring her, Sky used her radio show to win him back and managed to bad mouth Lucinda’s Café in the process, but it looked like the first crack in her relationship with Dylan could only get bigger. Meanwhile, another Timmins had a fight on her hands, as Janelle went into training for her big fight with Angie, complete with Janae as her trainer. And Kim had far more serious problems, as he had to find a way to pay for his re-wedding to Janelle, and with only a lowly hot dog cart to fund the extravagant event, he started to worry that he’d have to let the family down – again.

Finally this week, Lou was immediately suspected of being up to no good when he asked the boys at number 30 if he could use their computer to receiving some large files. However, when Connor later checked, it turned out he’d been downloading nothing more offensive than 70s British comedy. And on the advice of Susan, Karl got back in touch with old girlfriend Jenny – she of the tasteless key-swapping party jokes. When Jenny brought up the subject of Karl’s feelings for Susan – a problem which had caused them to split up last time, he assured her that he had moved on and was ready to start a new relationship, so they sealed their reunion with a kiss.