After being asked to find Carmella by her mother, Connor was shocked to discover her at St. Clare’s Convent, under the new name of Sister Mary Catherine. After recovering from the shock of seeing Connor alive after she’d heard that he’d died in the plane crash, Carmella told him that she had two weeks until she takes her vows and commits herself to God. She tried to apologise for the hurt she caused Connor & Serena shortly before the crash, but Connor refused to accept and told her that nothing she could say or do would put right the hurt she caused. By the end of the week though, Connor returned to the convent to apologise to Carmella and forgive her before she rushed into becoming a nun for the wrong reasons. He asked her to return to Ramsay Street for a week so she could make an informed decision before taking her vows, but she refused, saying that her mind is made up, her life belongs to God now.

As Mishka continued to smoke, Harold suggested that she was using cigarettes to deal with her emotional problems, leaving Lou trying to convince her to undergo hypnotherapy. Despite Lou, Harold, Karl & Susan’s best efforts to convince her, she refused, but after listening to Karl & Susan’s speeches at Charlie’s naming day about enjoying a long, happy life, Mishka told Lou she would do whatever it takes to sort out her problem. Karl & Mishka went back to number 24 so she could undergo the hypnotherapy, but as Karl was trying to send her into a trance, she stopped him and admitted why she smokes… she is still married to a man in Russia. After Karl urged her to tell Lou, Mishka went over to The General Store and confessed everything. Lou was shocked to learn that Mishka has a husband, named Igor and a grown up son in Russia. She then explained that Igor was a senior member of the Politburo and that he and some others tried to organise a coup against the Russian government in 1991, but their plan failed, leading to them being arrested and sent to prison. As his wife, Mishka was also punished, but in other ways so she asked her estranged husband for a divorce, but he refused. Finally, she told Lou that as her husband is a political prisoner, the government won’t let her travel and she entered Australia under the false name of Schneiderova. Worried that Lou would want nothing more to do with her, she was overjoyed when Lou said none of that mattered and if he had to, he would fight to keep her with him, no matter what it takes.

As Dylan became involved in Kim’s DVD pirating business, he decided to make the operation bigger, however, this combined with a near miss with the Police left Kim worried. After Bree & Zeke found the money he’d earned from the DVD’s hidden in the garage and she pointed out that what he’d done was affecting people like her and like Stingray aspired to be, Kim told his associates that the DVD business was over.

Despite “Cameron” seemingly continuing to push Katya away as they were getting close, they slept together and as Robert visited his comatose twin to get his fingerprints on some tools, he admitted to Cameron that he wasn’t sure if Katya loved him as Robert or Cameron, or a strange combination of the two. Meanwhile, as Katya prepared for a conference at St. Luke’s Hospice, Robert felt his evil schemes coming undone and desperately tried to find a way to stop her going. After his initial plan of pretending to get lost failed, he then swerved and drove the car off the road, saying he did it to avoid a rabbit and as Katya hit her head in the process, he insisted on taking her back to Erinsborough Hospital. Robert’s evil plans continued as he tried to convince Elle that Izzy was coming on to him and when Elle suggested getting proof, Cameron set about recording his conversations with Izzy on his MP3 player.

As Izzy became increasingly annoyed at the way Elle treated Paul as a human ATM, Elle decided to apply for a telemarketers job with Sky just to spite her “stepmother”. Elle soon found herself with another job though as Lyn & Paul railroaded her into babysitting for Oscar, albeit with good rates of pay, and the chance to wind Izzy up. Of course, it ended in disaster as Elle lost Oscar and after a frantic search by Lyn, Paul, Steph, Max & Janelle, Ned found Oscar playing by Lassiter’s Lake, about to go in to fetch his ball. Impressed by Ned’s heroics, and Oscar’s fondness of him, Lyn offered Ned a job as Oscar’s nanny, which, being unemployed after quitting his job as a traffic warden, he accepted.

Boyd was ecstatic when Janae agreed to marry him and despite warnings from Max and Janelle remained determined to go ahead with their plans to tie the knot as soon as possible. Melody told Bree to dumb down a bit to sell more books, and when Susan suggested finding a cause she could support to gain public sympathy, Bree came up with a plan to use Zeke as a boy in a bubble. After constructing an oxygen tent in the living room at number 28, they called the Erinsborough News to do a story, and as Susan saw the reporter leave, she berated Bree, saying that her actions were appalling and told her that if people didn’t like her being precocious, they won’t like her being a liar either.

Also this week, Lyn decided to fund the baby belt project herself by taking out a second mortgage on her house, Karl & Susan remembered good times as they prepared their speeches for Charlie’s naming day and Steph was amused to discover that Janelle had a ‘favourite neighbours list’ and bemused to discover that Izzy rated higher than her.

Notes: Earlier this year, it was announced that, in the ten-week build-up to episode 5000, the writers would be slipping the episode block number (a block being a set of 5 episodes) into the scripts each week. This week, the number 994 was mentioned in Tuesday’s episode, when Elle & Sky were familiarising themselves with the products they had to sell, Sky explained to Elle that the object she was holding was item 994, a boiled egg remover.