Believing Ned doesn’t share her romantic stirrings Janae sees her upcoming move to Cairns as the perfect way to forget her heartache. But Ned does feel the same way – only he’s too scared to tell Janae because he feels totally undeserving of her love. Finding themselves at cross-purposes, Janae finally divulges the news of her departure, much to Ned and Mickey’s immense shock. Sympathetic to Ned’s plight, Paul encourages Ned to fight for Janae, especially when Paul discerns how utterly devastated Mickey is at the thought of her leaving. Feeling like a failure as far as both Janae and Mickey are concerned, Ned’s pent-up frustration finally boils over when he finds out Mickey’s been bullied. Mickey makes a final heartfelt plea for Janae to stay – can she resist?Zeke is upset by the news Grandpa Tom is being put back into an aged care facility. Though they understand Zeke’s hurt, Karl and Susan insist that Tom desperately needs greater supervision than they can provide. But when Tom has a rare moment of self-awareness and apologises for landing Rachel in trouble, Zeke and Rachel feel increasingly unhappy about casting Tom adrift. Forced to wait for another place in the nursing home, Karl struggles to cope in the face of his dad’s steadily deteriorating condition, despite his family’s pledge to help. Though she puts up a brave façade, Pepper’s unable to drive Adam from her thoughts: has she lost ‘The One’ forever? Torn, Harold canvasses Lou’s opinion on whether he should tell Janelle the truth about Loris’s awful baby swap. Lou believes no possible good could come of it but Harold shamefully hopes that if Loris was ostracised from the Timmins clan she might come back to live with him.

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