Eagerly awaiting the resolution to the ‘irreverent kiss’, viewers witnessed further confusion between the pair as they fought their feelings for each other. Their embrace at No.28 was interrupted by the arrival of Sindi, and although she didn’t witness their kiss, she knew something had happened and managed to get Susan to confess. The latter was slightly dismissive of Sindi’s constant encouragement to go after Tom, owing to his devotion to the priesthood, but she later caved in and went to see him at the church. Both realised they had to make up their minds.

Meanwhile, Susan’s estranged husband’s life was anything but plain sailing, too. Isabelle’s disappearance caused Karl to frantically search everywhere he could think of, and when Max found out it sparked another argument between him and Stephanie – the latter suggesting again that Izzy’s baby wasn’t Karl’s and that her motives were immoral. Later, Boyd answered a call from Izzy at No.32, but despite his insistence, she wouldn’t reveal where she had run away. The following day, Karl drove to Castlemaine on Max’s advice, believing she may have fled there for comfort as the Hoylands holidayed there when they were children. After a frantic day of searching with no luck, Karl booked into a hotel for the night, only to discover Izzy working as a waitress at the resort. Max and Steph’s wedding, meanwhile, was still going full steam ahead, despite interferences from Lyn, and Summer made plans to celebrate her thirteenth birthday in style, now that she is “a woman”!

Jack’s relationship with the mysterious ‘Mac’ developed this week as the couple continued clubbing through the night (and often through the day). Although it has been confirmed that the character of Jack is supposedly taking drugs during this storyline, the only evidence of this so far has been a night club scene filmed in a ‘hazy’ and ‘blurry’ motion to simulate the supposed effects of a drugs trip. Otherwise, Jack has been lethargic and tired, but that could be attributed to the effects of all night dancing and not drugs. Either way, there has been no ‘hard’ evidence of drug taking thus far, and according to Jay Bunyan who plays Jack, this is due to the timeslot that Neighbours is broadcast in, where such scenes of drug taking wouldn’t be allowed. What Jack doesn’t yet know is that ‘Mac’ is in reality Constable Olivia MacPherson, Stuart’s new partner in the Police. Likewise, her colleagues don’t know about Jack and her double life, which explains her insistence that Jack leave the scene of a minor car accident the couple had after a night out. Giving in to temptation, Jack finally broke the deal with his mother and spent the night with Olivia, although he did admit to Lyn that he had done so, to ease his guilt. Lyn was speechless when she discovered that despite Jack having suggested that ‘Mac’ could be “the one”, he still didn’t know her name or what she did for a living. Comically, it was explained that the only reason Olivia hadn’t made a move on Jack was that she assumed that he was gay, owing to his excellent dance moves, good clothes and perfect hair! Stereotyping she ain’t…

The impending auction for No.30 hotted up as the boys from the House of Trouser finally managed to pursuade Lou to let them organise a pre-auction deal to secure their purchase on the house, but only after Harold had warned Lou that due to the rising rates he may get a low turnout on the day. Toadie and co. were aware of Lou’s scam, however, and vowed that they would not be tricked into paying more that the house was worth. Lou later believed his comic enemy, Valda, would be competing with the lads for the house and confidently believed he would make a tidy profit from their bidding war. Clued-up Valda had other ideas, though.

Sky and Scott’s interviews for the Council Arts Grant occurred this week, also, but in true Neighbours style, there was a stark contrast in their success. Sky managed to influence the judges with a plethora of meaningless arty words and terms in order to secure her funding. Scott, however, didn’t manage to reflect his true artistic talents in his interview, and became irritable and angry when the panel asked him questions doubting the worth of his art. Serena and Scott’s invite to the dinner party at their school friend’s was eventful as Scott turned out to be far more popular than anyone would have imagined, but Serena was embarrassed having decided previously that he would have been better staying away from it. Following a heated argument, Scott dumped his girlfriend, with Harold as witness, spying from the bedroom. Harold later told David that he believed it was Serena’s snobbish attitude to blame and he suggested David bond with her more and not to waste the opportunity while it was still there.