Very Shocking Update: Home and Away Spoilers – Tane is attacked moments after being freed
Next week on Home and Away in the UK, Tane’s cleared over Kerrie’s fake charges, but his ordeal takes a devastating turn moments before his release.
Tane (Ethan Browne) has spent recent weeks behind bars after being framed by Harper’s (Jessica Redmayne) mother Kerrie (Sara Wiseman), who planted a packet of
elicit white powder in baby Archie’s room before disappearing.
With the evidence against him mounting and Kerrie nowhere to be found, Tane briefly went on the run to Western Australia with help from Mackenzie (Emily Weir) and the River Boys, before eventually returning to Summer Bay and being placed on remand.
Last week brought the breakthrough everyone had been waiting for, when young Casey Braxton (Austin Cutcliffe) uncovered a blindingly obvious piece of evidence—footage on the baby monitor in Archie’s room, that Yabbie Creek police had missed during their extensive search of the property.
After Brax (Stephen Peacocke) fixed the baby monitor when Casey accidentally dropped it, the footage clearly showed Kerrie sneaking into the house and hiding the packet beneath Archie’s cot.
Next week, Jo (Maddison Brown) is anxiously waiting at the station for an update, desperate for Tane to be released now that the footage has been found.
David (Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) eventually confirms that the tech team have verified the video as legitimate, finally proving that Tane was telling the truth all along. The charges will be dropped.
But there is still one complication. The court must decide what to do about Tane having skipped bail, meaning he will not be released immediately.
The delay leaves Jo frustrated, while Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) tries to focus on the fact that Tane is getting out at all.
The process continues to drag on, and by the next day, there’s still no clear timeframe.
Jo presses David for answers, unable to understand why an innocent man can’t simply be released once the charges are withdrawn.
David explains that the court still has to formally record the withdrawal and order Tane’s release, but he can’t guarantee how quickly that will happen.
Later, David confirms that the new evidence has been presented, but the court may not make a decision until the following day.
Cash is angry that Tane has to spend another night inside, but David points out that he’d had been warned not to tell Tane too early.
As far as David is concerned, any anger Tane feels about being given hope too soon now sits with Cash.
The delay also leaves Jo with her own guilt. Her first visit to Tane ended badly, with Jo admitting that she had not thought through what a relationship with someone behind bars would really mean.
When Cash asks her to come with him to visit Tane and help keep him positive, Jo can’t face it. She later breaks down to David, admitting that when she heard Tane wasn’t being released that day, part of her was relieved that she wouldn’t have to see him yet.
She worries that this says something terrible about her, especially after she left Eddie (Stephen Madsen) to be with Tane, but David reassures her that she’s been through more than most people should have to.
From his point of view, she was simply protecting herself from more pain.
At the jail, Cash visits Tane and is forced to tell him that he won’t be coming home that day after all.
Tane is devastated. Archie’s first birthday is the next day, and he can’t bear the thought of missing it. Cash promises that he’ll personally come back and collect him, but that still leaves Tane facing one more night inside.
Nearby, the threat around volatile inmate Knox (James O’Connell) continues to build.
Peterson (Cameron Jones)—the guard who tried to encourage Tane to socialise—is forced to break up a confrontation between Knox and another inmate, with Knox making it clear that Peterson’s “dead man” as he’s led away.
When Peterson later overhears that Tane’s due to be released, he congratulates him, but quietly warns him to keep the news to himself, knowing it could make him a target among the other prisoners.
By the following day, Jo’s made a decision. She wants to be there when Tane’s brought home, determined not to let her fear keep her away from him again.
At the diner, Harper is trying to mark Archie’s first birthday whilst still waiting for news. She reflects on the fact that this whole nightmare only started for Tane because she wanted Archie to have a grandparent in his life.