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Weekly
Reviews > Episodes 5088-5092 by Gareth
UK Broadcast: Monday, 29th January – Friday, 2nd February, 2007
‘Babe Runner’ written by Megan Herbert, directed by Aarne Neeme
‘Whatever Happened To Baby Kerry’ written by Drew Tingwell, directed by Aarne Neeme
‘Can You Sleep A Secret?’ written by Scott Taylor, directed by Aarne Neeme
‘Kerry-Go-Round’ written by Sarah Mayberry, directed by Chris Adshead
‘Who’s Your Daddy?’ written by Helen MacWhirter, directed by Chris Adshead
Another action-packed week for Ramsay Street with the fallout from Sky’s baby drama, a shocking kidnap, a paternity dispute – and who really does love who?
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The week was mostly dominated by the fallout of Sky giving birth, and the mysterious disappearance of baby Kerry. While the finger of suspicion was immediately pointed at psychotic Teresa, who had previously set the hospital ablaze in an elaborated kidnap attempt, she was safely locked up in police custody, leaving Senior Sgt. Allan Steiger and his team to look elsewhere. While the viewer was treated to little glimpses of someone looking after the baby, they were never shown who it was, deepening the mystery, and the police eventually thought they had their man in Stingray, who had collapsed unconscious somewhere outside the hospital grounds after the explosion. This story was played out like a true whodunit, with the finger of suspicion pointing from Teresa to Stingray with no-one really sure what had actually happened, and it called the viewer to question whether Stingray could actually have harmed the child. As well as that, like any crime, it wasn’t solved within an episode, the mystery was contained throughout the whole week, with other storylines taking place and the viewer being taken to other situations before they learnt who it was who had taken baby Kerry. The storyline also had far-reaching consequences throughout Ramsay Street, showing its strength and the clever plotting that had been involved. As well as Sky and her immediate family being affected, the Timmins and Cammeniti families also felt the effects of the kidnap, as did Elle, who thought her problems with a missing Dylan were something completely set aside from this.
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However, it turned out to be Dylan who had taken baby Kerry after finding her with an unconscious Stingray; becoming convinced that she was his child when he first took her in his arms, he absconded with her to a nearby hotel and took care of her, determined to seize control of what he considered ‘his’ child. It took Elle to work out that the conference he was at was a cover for his crime, and she tracked him down, determined to make him take back the child and confess rather than see him go back to prison. When he refused, she kidnapped the baby back, telling him she would see him back in Ramsay Street, and Sky, who had given the child up for dead, received a surprise on the doorstep in the shape of her child. Her delight soon turned to horror when Dylan hot-tailed it back to the Street, confessed to his crime and revealed that he thought he was Kerry’s true father, as opposed to Stingray!
A dramatic conclusion to the week, these episodes really brought out the best in the character of Elle, showing that she hadn’t inherited all of her father’s bad points, and that she had a conscience in there somewhere. Her motives for rescuing Kerry were understandable; her love for Dylan meant she didn’t want him incarcerated for a needless crime, and her guilt over Sky’s devastation implored her to do the right thing. However, it also brought out all the worst points in Dylan, showing him to be selfish, sneaky and callous, not giving thought to what Sky was going through. Although his motives for taking Kerry were a little convoluted and hard to believe, it made for a great mystery and another twist in the tale of Sky and her baby. With the latest development between Sky and Dylan, what does the future hold?
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Elsewhere in Ramsay Street this week, the whole situation with Kerry made Stingray finally realise he had to accept help for his problem with alcohol, and in some touching scenes at the end of the week he attended his first AA meeting. I thought it was nice how the two storylines collided and tied in together to create some truly moving scenes of Stingray confessing his alcohol problem. I know some people haven’t been a fan of this storyline, but I admire the writers for choosing to tackle it with a character who was always full of the joys of spring, and how they have followed it through by showing him attending the meetings and his family helping him through his addiction. More of this type of storyline, please!
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The other drama of the week was Katya’s continuing blackmail dilemma, which saw her unwittingly drag Ned into her crimes. When he caught her in one her stolen vehicles, she was forced to fabricate a lie about the car belonging to one of the surgeons at the hospital, and he convinced her to let him take the car for a spin, increasing her guilt as her lies increased.
Love was also on the minds of several Ramsay Street residents this week; a night of passion between Frazer and Pepper led to her feelings for him developing to love; but her sleepwalking accidentally made her confess her love to poor, deluded Zeke. Seriously: were we expected to believe that a young man of Zeke’s age wouldn’t be able to tell that Pepper was sleepwalking? The use of Zeke in the interesting relationship of Pepper and Frazer is increasingly annoying!
And Steph and Toadie’s relationship was called into question when she had a romantic dream about him, forcing him to reconsider living with her, and it took Lyn to reconcile the ‘best’ friends. This nice little storyline bubbling underneath all the dramas over baby Kerry was good to see, and added another dimension to the relationship of Steph and Toadie, without being over the top.
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