Ebony
With Home and Away off air for the next two weeks for the Commonwealth Games, we were treated to a rare and action-packed mid-season finale on Tuesday, just a little over 9 weeks after the show returned from its Christmas break.
It’s no surprise that the trial of Robbo (or is that Beckett Reid? Or Ryan Shaw?) played a big part in Tuesday’s finale, after his escape from prison in the 2017 season finale resulted in Kat tragically losing her life.
However, if, like us, you were expecting ‘Guilty’ or ‘Innocent’ to be the final word before the mid-season break, you were in for a shock when a number of Federal Police stormed the courtroom, just as we were on the cusp of finding out the verdict!
Not only that, we were left with one other million-dollar question, as Ava’s mysterious disappearance turned out to be neither a vengeful Dean, nor a case of Ava wanting to escape the stresses of daily life in the Morgan household.
The final moments introduced us to Ava’s captor, while a jam-packed promo left us with even more questions surrounding her kidnapping, as we were introduced to the Bay’s newest villain – Ebony!
Join us as we recap the final few minutes of the episode, and explore all the clues we’ve got as we try and piece together two key questions: Who is Ebony? and just what is Robbo’s real identity?
Who kidnapped Ava? “Her name is Ebony”
To start with one of the burning questions, who is the mysterious woman who has abducted Ava Gilbert (Grace Thomas)?
Whilst Justin was quick to blame Dean for his daughter’s disappearance, after he made what could be seen as a veiled threat towards Ava the previous day, it soon became apparent that he wasn’t involved.
The mystery thickened when we saw Ava in the house of a middle-aged lady played by Genevieve Lemon, credited only as ‘Hazel’.
As the sun is setting, and with a frantic Justin pleaing that he just wants to know that she’s safe, the mysterious woman enters a bedroom where Ava’s sat, and tells her: “I just heard from your dad, he has to work late, so we thought you might be able to stay the night here, if that’s okay?”
Ava doesn’t seem too startled by the turn of events – but this peculiar character, whilst seemingly friendly, certainly isn’t somebody we’ve seen before. However, if we were to reveal to you that her full name is actually Hazel Easton, then you may start to get an inkling of what’s going on…
Viewers may recognise the surname as being the same as Boyd (Steve Le Marquand), the biker thug who Willow owed money to when she first turned up in Summer Bay…
In true Morgan fashion, Justin was quick to make an enemy of Boyd, receiving a beating in the process, so it’s perhaps no surprise that the family haven’t heard the last of him (or, as it seems, members of his own family).
Episodes to air after the break will also introduce us to another new character involved in the kidnapping—Ebony, played by Cariba Heine.
In a dramatic promo which aired in some regions after the finale, Ebony is seen with a wealth of photos and information on Justin, Brody, Ava, Tori, Willow, Colby and Dean, commenting that she will “make every one of them pay”, with Hazel also stating that they should burn them to the ground.
As the search for Ava intensifies with news coverage and police searches, Ebony is seen seemingly concocting a series of elaborate plans to reel in those on her list.
Whilst we don’t know much about the Bay’s newest villain, her connection with the Easton family means she’s likely looking for revenge after the way Justin treated Boyd – and that can’t end well.
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