Read this bit slowly. Dan has just decided that Amanda is an unfit mother. Yeah, we know. We could have told you that way back when she was stealing money from Ryan, or getting her cracking pair of personalities out for top-shelf magazines. The irony is that Amanda's most recent (and final?) parenting mistake was a cruel set-up by her sister Kelli, a woman with the likeability of an unflushed toilet. Dan is adamant that he'll be applying for sole custody of their son. "If I leave him here," he yelps, "and something happens to him, I won't forgive myself for not stepping in." That afternoon, Kelli arrives home having found Amanda a solicitor. (Knowing her, it's probably one who has a part-time job as a serial killer too.) However, Mand is nowhere to be found.This is because she's snatched Ryan and is speeding out of Summer Bay quicker than Paris Hilton after a night on the lager tops. The police are duly summoned and Jack manages to catch her (even though we're not quite sure what the crime being committed is). After handing over her car keys, a devastated Amanda resigns herself to agreeing that her sprog will be better off with his dad. Over the past couple of weeks, she's lost Peter, Belle and now her son forever. "For what it's worth," smiles Kelli, "you've still got me." Now that's the coldest kind of comfort there is. The Jules and the thiefBelle is pootling along the beach, thinking which colour shoelace to wear around her neck tomorrow, when a guy called Jules zips in front of her on his motorbike and has a crack at getting into her knickers. "Like what you see, eh?" he smirks, as a nation thinks "Ew" in unison. Belle is suitably unimpressed, and we think she'll be even less thrilled when she finds out that he's an old friend of Drew's from boarding school.

The skinny on Jules, thanks for asking, is that he quit school like a big loser a couple of days ago. He's now touring Australia on his motorbike saying "dude" way too much and generally being a nuisance. Later that day, he brushes past Belle again and the two of them enjoy another bickering session.

Jules is then rather panicked to learn that a) Drew's dad Peter is back from beyond the grave and b) that he's the local police detective. Bearing this in mind, he sneaks outside and hurriedly takes the faked registration plates off his bike. What a dodgy boy. Tsk.

Handbags and sad dags

"First the erotic dancing," hoots Colleen (who else?), "and now she's using illegal substances!" Her shrill voice could make birds fall from the trees even when she isn't shouting, so it's no surprise that Alf and Sally soon catch wind of Martha's arrest.

While Alf debates with himself what exactly he'll do with Cameron when he finds him, Sal nips up to Martha's flat to see if she can lend a hand. Surprisingly, Martha doesn't rip her head off; instead, she smiles politely and insists that she's being taken care of.

Defeated, Sal makes herself scarce before Cam sets about sowing some seeds of doubt in his girlfriend's mind. "First your ex tries to shut me down for no reason", he whispers. "Then he gets a search warrant and all of a sudden he finds drugs." Coincidence? Surely not, Cam. Meanwhile, Jack asks Peter for some advice about how to make Martha's charges disappear. Peter implies that if the evidence were to go missing, then the case against her would swiftly follow suit. "We never had this conversation", Peter advises, as Jack sneaks off to put his career on the line yet again...

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