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Later, Clara takes the kids’ stuff over to Dom’s house and asks him how long he’s going to keep them away from her. He tells her that he will until she stops being friends with Heidi as he wants to keep them safe. She tells him that she’s not going to see Heidi anymore. When Jamie comes up and asks him when he can go back to Clara’s, he agrees to let them move back the following week. When the kids have returned home, Clara is about to take them to a birthday party when Heidi drops by unannounced, inviting her to lunch at her parent’s house. Clara scrambles to make an excuse about having chores to attend to, as the kids keep poking holes in her other excuses, and leaves to take them to the party. Afterwards, Clara meets up with Margie in the home that Margie’s mother is living in as she had a stroke three years earlier, Margie tells Clara that she needs to let the case go. They then get texts from Daniel as he can’t find his money.

When Margie, Ollie and Clara go over to Daniel’s house to find out more, Daniel reveals he plans on turning himself in for taking the bribe, however he has a new problem to deal with when Zoe returns home with a new car, which she paid for with the bribe money, so he wouldn’t have to turn himself in. She also reveals that she managed to buy the car and drive it without being pulled over as she borrowed the driver’s licence of a Year 12 girl from her school.

When Margie suggests discussing the situation over tea, she tells Daniel that she did research on the punishment for taking bribes during trials and tells him he could end up spending years in prison, which would leave Zoe all alone. Clara points out that he’s only punishing himself if he turns himself in, and then calls Heidi to take up her lunch offer, so she can figure out if she did get Walsh to bribe Daniel.

Meanwhile, Margie goes home and hears noises, only to discover Trish has come home with an injured knee and was breaking up an ice block. Daniel and Zoe go to the car dealer to return the car, only for Ollie to show up and manage to convince the dealer to return $37,000 so he can make a profit without the authorities being alerted. Daniel has the dealer write the cheque out to the cancer foundation, donating what’s left of the bribe money.

After they leave the dealer, Ollie drives Zoe to the friend she got the fake ID from so she can give it back to her. Whilst they wait in the car, Ollie points out to Daniel that Zoe’s heart was in the right place and asks what will happen to her if he turns himself in and goes to jail. Ollie tells him that he needs to stick around for her, and reveals that he was raised by his single mother. When Daniel asks what happened to his father, Ollie tells him his dad was an arsehole. Daniel tells him it explains a lot because he’s always worried about being an arsehole.

When Heidi and Clara arrive for lunch, it’s clear that her family weren’t expecting her nor are happy to see her. Heidi’s father, Vincent, tells Clara that his own father started the self-storage family business and Heidi’s brother, Angus is set to take over, as he’s set up an office in London. When her sister-in-law mentions that she, Angus, and their son, Jasper, plan on living in Australia for good, Heidi doesn’t look too pleased. When Jasper is bothering Angus with his toy plane and Angus puts it down on the table, Heidi tells him that Jasper needs discipline and throws it at him. Heidi also makes a remark about the family’s former chef, Ricardo, which angers him further.

After the lunch, Heidi apologises for how it turned out. When Clara asks about Ricardo, Heidi tells her that he stole stuff, she caught him in the act, and Angus resents her for reporting him. However, Heidi finds an article about Ricardo stabbing Angus in the shoulder on her way home. When she gets home, she finds Daniel waiting for her. She tells him that she doesn’t think Heidi’s family were behind the bribe or Belinda’s murder as they don’t like her enough and she doesn’t think they were even invited to lunch. She also tells him that Ricardo did five years for stabbing Angus and Daniel says they should find and speak to him.

Later, Ollie sees Eliza and tells her it may have been a mistake to get the cops to look into Paul and tells her that Daniel took a bribe. Eliza tells him that she has an obligation to report it and he in turn tries to blackmail her, as her reporting it will out them as a couple, however this doesn’t work and she leaves.

Later, Clara and Daniel go to see Ricardo at his home. Clara tells him that her brother went to school with Angus and questions him on whether Heidi really stabbed Angus, and if her parents bought him his house to pay for silence, but Ricardo doesn’t answer. Meanwhile, Margie admits to Trish that she is still caught up in the case, and tells her what’s going on with Heidi and Paul. When Clara and Daniel go back to her house, he asks about water balloons she has lying around, she tells him it’s to compensate for not having a pool. Clara then kisses Daniel, but admits it was a mistake and he leaves.

Towards the end of episode, Ollie lashes out at a prospective buyer when she thought she would be getting a house, and then goes over to Daniel’s house and lashes out at him. Ollie tells Daniel to hit him, believing he can’t fight, only for Daniel to punch him in the stomach. Daniel then takes him fishing on the pier near his house, where Ollie reveals he plans on buying his mother a house and admits to his feelings for Eliza.

Clara goes back to see Paul and tells him about Ricardo. Later, she goes to see Angus as he comes home about Ricardo. Whilst he dismisses her to her face, when he gets to the house, he tells Vincent that they need to cut Heidi off. When Heidi goes back to her apartment, she finds out she has been evicted as her parents cut her off.

The episode ends with Clara playing with the kids and Margie showing up to stay, and Heidi begging for her parents to let her into their house, only to be ignored and destroying the security buzzer at the gate and walking away.

Overall, I felt that this was a solid start to the second half of the season as Heidi is beginning to look more guilty, especially as her family don’t want anything to do with her, she could have possibly stabbed her brother, she lied about buying her own place, and violently lashed out when she was ignored. It will be interesting to see where we go from here with her. I also appreciated the character development with Ollie, Daniel and Zoe.  

Best one liners and interactions:

• “Have you always been this morally bankrupt, or is this a recent development?” (Eliza to Ollie)
• “You still think we’ll be together in a year.” “That’s not what I said.” “No, you said we were a mistake.” “Yeah, we are!” “And you’ve given us a year, you’ve committed to this mistake. That’s what marriage is, did you just propose to me? I do, by the way!” (Ollie-Eliza going back and forth)
• “I don’t know what century you come from, but you need to stop telling me what I can and can’t do.” (Clara to Daniel)
• “How did your mum put up with your smartarse all on her own?” “Smart, Lebanese woman.” (Daniel-Ollie)