Next week on Neighbours, a face from Krista’s past arrives, Holly is riddled with guilt over Cara’s accident, and will Melanie and Victor get their happy ending?
Here’s everything coming up on Neighbours next week, from Monday 18th to Thursday 21st November.
1) Remi waits to hear if Cara pulls through
This week, Cara (Sara West) was rushed to hospital after falling off a ladder onto jagged guttering while working on a Lassiters job. After arriving at hospital, Remi (Naomi Rukavina) was the doctor on call and quickly realised that her wife was bleeding out.
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Next week, with Cara close to death, Remi instructs her team to take her to surgery to stop her internal bleeding. Remi follows but is convinced by her colleague, Stevie (Jazz Bell), to sit this one out.
Remi follows her advice and anxiously awaits updates from her colleagues. When Stevie comes out, she reveals that Cara needed to be resuscitated in theatre and had a brush with death. Cara briefly regains consciousness with Remi by her side, but her apparently catatonic state leads to Remi to suspect that her wife has suffered brain damage.
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Stevie gives her friend a firm talking to, encouraging Remi not to rush to conclusions. Luckily, Cara regains consciousness again and this time offers a classic Cara response, giving her wife the reassurance she needs that all is okay.
2) Holly is riddled with guilt
Elsewhere, Holly (Lucinda Armstrong Hall) feels responsible for what happened to Cara after she was manning the porter’s trolly that crashed into her ladder.
She can’t stop thinking about how this is the second time her actions have led to tragic events, having pushed Heath into the river in self-defence, where he was killed by a croc.
Krista (Majella Davis) and Sadie (Emerald Chan) attempt to convince Holly that it was an accident, but she can’t shake the belief that she’s to blame.
3) Andrew decides his next steps
After Sadie’s recent visit to see her mum in Murrayville, we hear that Wendy (Candice Leask) is settling in well. Now, after Byron (Xavier Molyneux) asked her to move into No. 32 full-time, Sadie has to take a courageous step to tell her dad that she won’t be moving back in with him at No. 26.
With Felix (James Beaufort) having just moved away from Erinsborough, Sadie fears that her dad will react badly to the news that she’s moving out for good. But surprisingly, Andrew (Lloyd Will) is happy to hear that his wife and daughter are embracing their independence.
This leads him to reflect on his need to do something similar and take some time out for himself. He decides to head to Murrayville to visit his wife, but he’ll take the journey slowly, camping along the way. Following on from his brother’s recent departure, it’s time for Andrew to leave Ramsay Street.
4) Leo’s lavish diner does a runner
Meanwhile, Krista is surprised to find out that the birthday boy who held a grand celebration at the vineyard left without paying up – leaving her boyfriend in a tricky situation.
Leo’s (Tim Kano) business, Yorokobi, had only recently recovered from a reputational scandal following dodgy Dr Gavin’s (Cameron MacDonald) wine poisonings, which led to Leo going into partnership with the Stone siblings to stop it going under.
Leo is determined not to let the culprit get away with it and lose out on the money. He gets lucky in his quest to find evidence when he develops some photos from the party, one of which features a shot of the guy who didn’t pay.
Yet when Krista spots the photo, she quickly hides it from Leo. A pic on Krista’s phone reveals that her and the guy in question were close friends…
What is Krista’s connection to the dine-and-dasher, and why has she lied to her boyfriend?
5) Nicolette’s insecurities are triggered
Nicolette (Hannah Monson) is fuming when she reads Remi and Cara’s thank you card for Aaron (Matt Wilson). It was gesture to thank him for saying that he would have supported them as a donor, if he wasn’t a carrier of the Huntingtons gene.
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Nicolette prepares to have it out on Aaron but manages to refrain when she finds out Cara is in hospital.
When Aaron and Nicolette eventually get the space to talk, she confesses that she feels insecure about Aaron wanting a baby with her neighbours, who she views as ‘rock solid’ parents. She tells Aaron that ideally she would have another child with him.
Aaron is touched and assures her that even without David (Takaya Honda) in the picture, it’s something he would have wanted too, if he could.
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6) Mel and Vic prepare to go their separate ways
Melanie (Lucinda Cowden) is getting ready to leave Erinsborough, but not before she holds her farewell bash. Attending to final preparations, Krista asks whether Victor (Craig Hall) has made the invite list.
Mel avoids answering and Krista can’t help but notice how much of an impact the Vic/Jane (Annie Jones) love triangle has had on her and how hard it is going to be for her to leave.
Meanwhile, Victor is spending quality time with his family over brunch before his departure to Gippsland where he has purchased a pub. But his enjoyment of the brunch with Nicolette, Byron and Jane is spoilt when when he finds out that he isn’t invited to Mel’s farewell.
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Determined to say goodbye, he pops in anyway to wish Mel every happiness on her adventures. Their chemistry is still clearly visible to Jane, and she later encourages Mel to re-consider her chance of happiness with Vic.
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Mel then decides that there have been enough signs from the universe to take the leap, and makes a diversion to Vic’s Gippsland pub as the first stop on her travels.
Will the pair get their happily ever after?
7) Krista gets an unexpected visitor
Elsewhere, a guilty Krista makes sure her boyfriend’s business is recompensated for the losses caused by her mysterious friend after he did a runner without paying.
Mel can tell something is up with her housemate and listens in on her call, as it’s revealed she’s trying to track down a man named Sebastian. Mel immediately realises who this is likely to be, having been Krista’s nanny when she was growing up. She remembers Sebastian, Krista’s childhood friend who got her expelled from boarding school and encouraged her to get into wild antics.
New character Sebastian is played by Rarmian Newton
Krista has not held a grudge and considers Sebastian one of her closest friends. She knows she had a part to play in his path to drink and drugs and wonders if his stunt at Yorokobi was a way to get them to reconnect.
Before Krista hears back from her enquiries to track down Sebastian, she gets a knock at her door. Seb (Rarmian Newton) has found where she lives and wants to stay with her while he gets back on his feet!
Mel, who is about to leave town, warns her not to take him in. Krista is unsure, but eventually prioritises her long-lost friend and decides to help him out.
8) Holly takes the blame for Cara’s fall
Holly feels responsible for Cara’s hospitalisation and holds vigil while Cara is in the emergency room.
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Once JJ (Riley Bryant) and Dex (Marley Williams) have seen their mum on their return from camp, Holly decides to tell them that she is the one who put their mum in hospital. Yet Cara explains to Holly that it was an accident; she’d cut corners on the job and hadn’t taken the required safety precautions.
Remi and JJ accept Cara’s version of events, but Dex struggles to forgive Holly’s culpability in his mum’s near-death experience, and later heads to the Kennedys to tell Holly exactly what he thinks of her.
