As publicity for her novel, The Bogan’s Tipped Hair, started this week, Janelle was also fulfilling a dream as she was invited to appear on Rove Live. After asking Harold to help her out with a practice interview, she agreed to take Bree with her – the fact that she wasn’t her biological daughter never far from her mind. Once at the studios, Janelle started to panic about not having enough amusing anecdotes to tell Rove and, when she was finally sitting on the sofas being interviewed, her nerves got the better of her. She then suddenly announced that she hadn’t written the best-selling novel and pointed to Bree in the audience. Bree was brought down to the stage by Rove, who asked her if what her mother was saying was true. Although Bree tried to deny it, Janelle said that it was true and, by the next day, the revelations had caused sales of The Bogan’s Tipped Hair to go through the roof.

Robert continued his plot to pick off Paul’s loved ones, one by one, this week, and his first target was Dylan. After staging a robbery and a food poisoning outbreak, Paul’s doubts about his young protégé were already growing, and it took just one more evil action to finish Dylan off for good. When some new shelves for the store needed to be put together, Dylan quickly volunteered, hoping to win back some of Paul’s trust, but as soon as Dylan’s back was turned, Robert took the opportunity to remove a couple of the screws. Later that day, as Elle started putting products on the shelves, they fell forward, knocking her out and narrowly missing baby Charlie, who was in his carry cot on the floor nearby. When Paul found out that Dylan had been distracted by problems with Sky, who had called by the store earlier that day, it was the final straw and he sacked him. Robert was delighted with the outcome, though Izzy once again spotted him smirking and began to have her suspicions. And it looked like Izzy was about to become the next victim of Robert’s campaign, as, having already cut out Dylan from a photo which also featured Paul, Elle and Izzy, he set about cutting out his father’s girlfriend…

Robert’s relationship with Katya, meanwhile, was developing. During their second date, at the Scarlet Bar, Robert was embarrassed when one of the hotel receptionists came in and asked if he still needed the keys to the presidential suite. Katya overheard and quickly walked out on him and he was forced to spend the night in his car to save face. The next morning, he told his father, who already knew that the suite hadn’t been used, that he’d spent the night at Katya’s place, while admitting to the girl herself that he was quite inexperienced with women, but he (or rather, Cameron) had something of a reputation as a womaniser. Katya admitted that she wasn’t that experienced either and was grateful for his honesty. Meanwhile, Zeke was finding himself in more and more trouble at school, caught scribbling on lockers and desks, and even beginning a fight with another kid who called Bree a loser. Susan spoke to Katya about her concerns for Rachel and Zeke, and made it clear that she could always turn to her if she was finding it difficult to cope. It later became clear that Zeke’s behaviour wasn’t simply random acts of rebellion, but attempts to defend Bree by scribbling out the nasty things that other students had been writing about her. Rachel, meanwhile, was growing concerned for Stingray, who seemed to be drinking when he was on his own and during breakfast. The final straw came when she found him sitting alone in the park with a bottle of beer and he attempted to hide it from her, so she came out and asked him if he had a problem with alcohol…

Lyn continued with her quest to have Charlie baptised this week, despite warnings from Max and Steph to drop the subject, as they would be having a naming day, with Karl and Susan as his life mentors. After arranging to baby-sit her grandson, Lyn dressed him in a Christening gown and was set to take him to be baptised when Susan realised what was going on. Although Janae overheard the conversation and warned the Hoylands, Lyn had already come to her senses. She admitted that she’d asked the priest to simply say a prayer for Charlie, but Steph was horrified and warned her mother that she’d gone too far this time. Meanwhile, Paul noticed the tool belt that Steph had adapted to carry all of her baby paraphernalia and was impressed with the design. He mentioned it to Lyn and said that they could easily make some money from the idea. When Lyn went to mention it to Steph, she was met with an icy response and Steph was left feeling guilty as her mother walked out, saying that she was only trying to help and wouldn’t sit around and be insulted by her own daughter.

Finally this week, during dinner with Harold, Susan finally opened up about her grief over Alex’s death and realised that it was Rachel and Zeke who had been helping her to cope. She admitted that, without them around, her life was empty and she was struggling with her feelings. Ned’s attempts to be nasty continued as he dished out the parking tickets to anyone and everyone, before stealing Connor’s ladder and leaving him stranded as he fixed a camera to the roof of the Scarlet Bar. Ned did do one good deed, however, as he agreed to accompany Janae to her school ball, making Boyd jealous in the process. Believing that his ex was happily moving on, Boyd agreed to go to the uni medical ball with Sasha.