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Amanda races the clock to stop the grief-stricken Belle leaving the Bay. Matilda struggles to come to terms with her horrific injuries.
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00:01How did you two cross paths originally?
00:04Oh, I tracked down Grandma when I was looking for my mum.
00:07Well, I thought she was my real mum.
00:09Sweet.
00:10And where is Belle's mother? I mean, does she live around the area?
00:13Oh, she died.
00:15Oh.
00:15Kitty Bale, she's my mother.
00:17Your mother?
00:18She works on TV. She's an actress.
00:19Well, Belle Taylor introduced her to me as her grandmother.
00:23Well, that's impossible. She's not her grandmother.
00:27Horag Bellingham. Do I know her?
00:29Would you mind telling me what's going on?
00:59Forever.
01:00Closer each day.
01:03Home and away.
01:06Darling, please understand, you were so young.
01:08Your acting career was just starting out.
01:10I didn't want to do anything to jeopardise that.
01:12I didn't want you to miss out on the opportunities I did.
01:15Mum, what has this got to do with you pretending to be Belle Taylor's grandmother?
01:19I wasn't going to be able to support you. How were you going to get the money you'd need?
01:22What are you talking about?
01:24How were you going to cope?
01:25I thought I was doing what was best.
01:27Mum, what are you trying to say? Just tell me.
01:32The baby you gave birth to 16 years ago, the baby I told you was stillborn, she isn't dead.
01:40What?
01:41Belle Taylor is your daughter.
01:53G'day.
01:54G'day.
01:56You must have thought I wasn't turning up.
01:58Yeah, I was beginning to wonder. How are you? What did the doctors say?
02:01Oh love, I'm fine. A bit of smoke inhalation. Mind you, I practically had to turn cartwheels
02:06to get them to let me leave the flippin' hospital.
02:12Oh, sweetheart.
02:13No, it's really not as serious as it looks. Rachel says it's just partial thickness burn
02:18or something.
02:19Yeah, well I suppose we should be grateful for some more mercies, eh?
02:23Um, I swung by home on my way here to pick you up a few things, but may as well
02:28have saved
02:28myself the trouble apparently. I just saw Dr Price and she reckons you could be out of here
02:32in an hour or two.
02:35Gee love, you're bowling me over with your enthusiasm here.
02:38No, I'm happy. It's just, it doesn't matter.
02:42Well love, if it's bothering you that much, it must matter. What's going on?
02:46I just keep thinking, what am I doing here? Why am I even bothering the hangar I am?
02:52Because you're recuperating.
02:53Irene, you know what I mean. I mean the whole reason I came to the bay was to find my
02:58mum
02:59and she's dead. She's been dead for years.
03:01Oh love, you've found your grandmama.
03:03Yeah, who I've met once since and left as soon as I got here.
03:05Oh come on, Belle. Look, you've made new friends, you've got a new school, you've got your whole
03:10life ahead of here. I mean the only new friend I've made has gone
03:12running back to his ex and everyone else hates me.
03:15Love, I know that you've hit a rough patch and God knows sitting around in a hospital bed feeling
03:19sorry for yourself, it doesn't help things, but you've got a home with me now and I reckon
03:24we make a really good double act. So how about I find Dr Price and get her to give you
03:29the
03:29all clear and then we can go home and start afresh, eh?
03:33I wanted to tell you sooner, believe me I did. All those years carrying that terrible, horrible
03:38secret. It was never the right time. Please darling, you've got to believe me, this has
03:44been difficult for me too. Difficult for you? Well, yes. Do you have any idea what it's like
03:50to lose a baby? To feel it grow inside you for nine months? To come to love it more than
03:56anything in the whole world? Only to have that taken away from you without even the chance to
04:01say goodbye. Darling, you were 14. I thought with time that- It's just not something that
04:08you get over mum. I have carried that pain with me every single day for the past 16 years.
04:16I know you have. No you don't. You don't know anything about the nightmares or the guilt or the
04:25days where I could barely find a reason to drag myself out of bed. And then when I was pregnant
04:31with Ryan, there was not one single day that didn't go past where I wasn't terrified that the same thing
04:36was going to happen.
04:38And now you're telling me that I went through that for nothing? That it was all just a lie?
04:50What happened to my daughter after you stole her from me? I placed Bill with the family. They were desperate
04:56to have a child. Lord knows we needed the money.
05:02Oh my God. You sold her. Oh no, it wasn't like that. It was for us. We were desperate. Look,
05:11I can't change what I've done but please if there's any way I can make it up to you.
05:14Do you honestly think you can just turn up on my doorstep and make amends now that you're dying?
05:20Wait a minute.
05:22You're not even sick, are you?
05:25I can explain.
05:27Get out!
05:28Bell's family found out that you came into money and they were blackmailing me.
05:32I don't care. Pack your bags and get out of my house now.
05:39Now!
05:43Hey, at least now you've been transferred. Now you're way closer to home and there's better snack machines here too,
05:47which is a definite bonus.
05:49Oh, I don't know. I reckon that poached fish for lunch was pretty good. Yeah, give me that jelly and
05:53custard today.
05:53With any luck you won't be here long enough to have to worry about it, sweet.
05:56Oh, hi guys. I was wondering when you'd get here.
06:00Oh, hi, Ren.
06:01Hey, sweetheart. How's it going?
06:04Pretty good.
06:07So, Kit's not with you?
06:09No, we're going to transfer her in a few hours.
06:15How's Nettie really doing, darling?
06:17She hasn't said a word all day.
06:19Oh, no. I've got the same thing going on with Bell.
06:23What did the doctor say about her burns?
06:26Oh, well, they won't know how extensive the damage is until they take off the bandages.
06:29Which will hopefully be sometime today.
06:31Yeah.
06:32If they're not known, it's just so awful.
06:34Yeah, true.
06:36Well, all we can do is stay strong for them.
06:52Is Ryan back yet?
06:54I didn't think it would be appropriate for him to be here.
06:57So he's staying at his friend's this morning.
06:59So I won't get to say goodbye?
07:01No.
07:02It's not like you deserve it.
07:04Ryan shouldn't have to suffer.
07:06Well, as usual, any unhappiness in this family is as a direct result of you.
07:11Surely we can work this out. For the children's sake, as well as ours...
07:14For the children?
07:16You talk as if there's some normal functional family here.
07:20I trust that Bell doesn't know about me?
07:22Of course not.
07:23Oh, that's something at least.
07:25Do you think you'd be where you are today if things had been different?
07:29Look at all you've achieved. This house. Your film. Your career.
07:32All of which I would have given up in a second if it meant I could have kept my baby
07:35girl.
07:36I was only ever trying to protect you.
07:38To enable you the life you never could have had with a baby holding you back.
07:43We both know the only person you were protecting was yourself.
07:48I'll call you a cab.
07:50Amanda, I know what I did was unforgivable, but I'm the only mother you've got.
07:54As far as I'm concerned, I no longer have a mother.
08:02Do you need another pillow?
08:05It's been four hours since you had any pain relief. I can give you something if you like.
08:10It's okay.
08:11Let me know if it gets any worse.
08:13There's no prizes for being a martyr.
08:16Dr Price is just with another patient, but she'll be in soon to change your dressings and have a look
08:20at your burns.
08:22You have a very brave daughter, Mrs Hunter.
08:24Oh, thank you.
08:26What did she mean by that?
08:28She was just being supportive.
08:30I mean, you've been through a lot, love.
08:31Yeah, I mean, stuck on an emergency trolley for 24 hours, that's pretty brave in itself.
08:35It's important that we all stay calm now.
08:37Yeah, and once those bandages come off, you'll be back home in no time.
08:41Yeah, sure.
08:44This is healing very nicely.
08:46Even better than I would have expected.
08:48Must be in the jeans.
08:50Nothing to do with me, darling.
08:51Keep the dressings clean and dry, and we'll get you back in for a checkup in a few days.
08:56So she can go?
08:57I'll organise the discharge papers.
09:00Won't be long now.
09:00We'll have you home in no time.
09:01The nurse will be in to finish up the dressing.
09:04Thank you, Doctor.
09:06Despite what you're thinking, girly, like I said before, you do have a home to go to.
09:10Now how about we get your stuff together and head off, eh?
09:14Irene, there's no reason for me to be here anymore.
09:17I came looking for my mum.
09:18She's gone.
09:18End of story.
09:19Belle, where are you going to go?
09:21You said before you didn't want to go back to your family.
09:23My foster family.
09:24Well, why should I?
09:25They don't care about me.
09:27Dave made that pretty clean and tried to buy me off the other day.
09:29Well, all the more reason to stay with the people who do care for you.
09:33Love, believe me, you will feel so much better once you've had a good night's sleep in your own bed.
09:39Irene, there's the best thing about this place.
09:42Seriously.
09:43The only reason I'd stay, but I can't.
09:47I have to go.
10:01Hello?
10:03Amanda?
10:06Dan, I'm really not in the mood for this.
10:08No, I'm just here to get Ryan.
10:09Oh, sorry. He's at a friend's house.
10:12What's wrong? Is it what I said?
10:14No.
10:16It's all right, Amanda. Come on.
10:17Tell me what happened.
10:22Love, look, why don't you give it a couple of weeks, eh?
10:25See, if we can't sort it out together.
10:28Irene, if it hasn't worked up until now, it's not going to start, is it?
10:30Yeah, but Belle, before you were focused on finding your mum.
10:34Now you can focus on yourself, on building the sort of life that you've always wanted.
10:38I don't fit in here, Irene. I never have. I never will.
10:41But, love, where are you going to go?
10:43I don't know.
10:44And what about school, eh? Have you thought about that?
10:47I'll get a job. I'll live in a share house. I'll work it out. I've been on my own before.
10:51I've been fine. I can do it again.
10:53No, that is the whole point. You don't need to do it on your own.
10:55Irene, please drop it. I'm not going to change my mind.
11:04Remember how I told you that I thought I heard my baby cry when it was born?
11:08Well, it was true. All of it was true.
11:12My mum told me that it was my mind playing tricks on me, and I believed her.
11:18So what happened to the baby?
11:20She sold her to another family.
11:22You're kidding.
11:23You're no kidding. She never does anything for nothing.
11:27I was haunted by that sound for years.
11:30How could she do that, Dan?
11:32How could she do that to her own daughter?
11:34This is kidnapping. Are you going to call the police?
11:36No, I couldn't. I couldn't drag it through the court system.
11:40I've told my mum I never want to see her again.
11:43Does Kitty know where your daughter is now?
11:46She's here in Summer Bay.
11:48Who is it?
11:50Belle Taylor.
11:52Oh, I know. It's ironic, isn't it?
11:55Well, at least she's close by.
11:57I mean, this will give you a chance to set things right.
11:59I could never tell Belle.
12:01She hates me too much.
12:02That'll probably change when she realises who you are.
12:04No, that's exactly when she's going to walk away.
12:07It's just so messy and ugly and, like, it's just too late.
12:14I think maybe it's better if it just remains a secret.
12:18I don't know.
12:18I don't know.
12:18I don't know.
12:21Just sit up for me a little more, Matilda.
12:23I know it's painful.
12:24I'm almost there.
12:27You're doing really well, Matilda.
12:36You've got some blisters here that need to be removed.
12:40What's wrong?
12:41Nothing's wrong.
12:42Why is everyone looking at me like that?
12:43Hey, no one's looking at you like that.
12:45He is.
12:46Is it bad?
12:48Some of the burns may be full thickness.
12:51What does that mean?
12:53Full thickness burns extend through all the layers of the skin.
12:55They won't heal themselves.
12:57But with skin grafting and plastic surgery,
13:00there's a good chance we're looking at minimal scarring.
13:02Sick skin grafting.
13:03I know this must sound extreme, but these days there's so much we can do.
13:06I want to see it.
13:08Would you find Matilda in a mirror, please, Gloria?
13:14What you can see is the first few layers of skin that have burnt down to the dermis.
13:18Oh, God.
13:19You've got a combination of burns.
13:21The white area is the full thickness, and the red area is superficial.
13:25Those will heal nicely by themselves.
13:28I know they don't look very nice, and this is a huge shock for you.
13:31But you are doing really well.
13:34The plan is we'll redress the wounds and keep up the pain relief.
13:38And later, when you've had time to take all this in,
13:39I'd like you to talk to a counsellor if possible.
13:46Belle has a right to know who her mother is,
13:48and you have a right to a relationship with her.
13:50It's so much more complicated than that, Dan.
13:52Yeah, of course it is.
13:54You've been saying you've been living with the pain of having lost a child.
13:56Here's a chance to heal that.
13:58And what happens when she says she wants nothing to do with me
14:01and slams the door in my face?
14:02You don't know how she's going to react.
14:04Well, it's a pretty safe bet.
14:05Is it not worth the risk?
14:07I've lost a daughter once, Dan.
14:09I don't think I can do it again.
14:12Amanda, you've lost the first 16 years of Belle's life.
14:14Do you really want to lose any more?
14:18I reckon you'll be glad to be tucked up in your own bed tonight.
14:21Yes, well, that's what we're hoping for.
14:23Not that there's anything wrong with our beds.
14:26Don't hesitate to give us a call if you have any questions.
14:29Good on you, Gloria. Thanks.
14:31Um, actually, there is something.
14:34Uh, how often should Belle come back to get her leg redressed?
14:38Uh, twice a week for about two or three weeks,
14:40depending on how well they're healing.
14:42Really? Thank you for that.
14:44What are you looking at?
14:49Hello? Are you alright?
14:51Uh, I've just come to see someone.
14:54Congratulations.
14:56Can I go now?
15:05I couldn't do it.
15:06I opened up my mouth to speak and nothing would come out.
15:09Well, that's understandable. It wasn't only your first shot at it.
15:12You should have seen the way she looked at me.
15:13It was like I'm some kind of freak.
15:16Oh, I cannot go through that again.
15:17I think you're reading into it a bit much.
15:19I'm just not ready for this.
15:21Amanda, I know it must seem overwhelming.
15:23You're probably terrified.
15:25Terrified doesn't even come close.
15:26Okay, but you can't make it back in the way of telling Belle the truth.
15:29I think you owe it to her.
15:30Well, you owe it to yourself.
15:33Why would she even want me as a mother?
15:35I mean, I'm ditzy. I'm self-absorbed.
15:38I make a terrible lunchbox.
15:40Well, that's true.
15:42You are also kind and loving.
15:44And fiercely protective of your children.
15:46Look, you've been living with too many regrets for too long.
15:49Do you really want to add another one to that list?
15:52I just need some more time.
15:54I'll give it a few more days and I'll see what happens.
15:57Yeah, fair enough. I've got to go and pick up Ryan.
15:58Do you want to come?
16:00Yeah.
16:01Hey, um, thank you for everything.
16:11Like Dr. Price said, it's still early days.
16:14Yeah, and the stuff that they can do with plastic surgery these days is incredible.
16:17Have you seen some of those shows on telly?
16:18We're not talking about Extreme Make over here, Lucas.
16:21Yeah, I know. I just, I meant that they can do incredible things now.
16:26The doctors can help you. That's the important thing.
16:29I mean, we could have lost you, Maddie.
16:31We could have all been killed.
16:33I mean, we are so lucky to be alive.
16:35Can everyone just stop talking about it, please?
16:39Well, I didn't, I didn't mean to upset you, sweet.
16:41I'm not. I just, I need some space.
16:43Yeah, of course you do luck, okay?
16:45We've been all hovering around like a brood of old mother hens, haven't we?
16:48Why don't we just wait outside?
16:50Well, if you need anything...
17:06I meant what I said before.
17:08I'm really grateful for your support today.
17:12I was hoping that maybe I could offer some in return.
17:16I'd really like to go to Peter's funeral tomorrow.
17:19But only if your mum and dad would think that that's okay.
17:24No, I think they'd be very okay with it.
17:29Dan?
17:32Hi.
17:34Love, I just wanted to let you know how very sorry I am about Peter.
17:39Yeah, thanks.
17:41We were just talking about the funeral.
17:43It's tomorrow at mum and dad's place.
17:46Well, I'll be thinking of you, Sweeney.
17:48We all will be.
17:49Yeah, thanks. How are you?
17:51Oh, love, good. I'm fine.
17:55Maddie's not so good, though.
17:56She got some terrible burns in the fire.
17:58Poor thing.
18:00It's taken its toll on everyone.
18:02Even Belle's thinking about leaving the place.
18:04Belle? When?
18:06If she had her way, she'd be on the next bus out of town.
18:09Is she still at the hospital?
18:11No, no. No, she's back with me now.
18:14Speaking of which, I'd better get these back to her.
18:19I'll be thinking about you tomorrow, love.
18:29Well, it looks like you won't have the few days you were hoping for.
18:36Please just go away.
18:38No, I wanted to apologise.
18:40What are you looking for?
18:42For being such an idiot when the bandages came off.
18:46You were the only one who was honest enough to show how they really felt.
18:49No, no, you don't understand.
18:49So don't start lying to me now to try and make me feel better.
18:54I look awful.
18:56No, you don't look awful.
18:58You are gorgeous with or without those burns.
19:01Lucas, I'm going to be scarred for the rest of my life.
19:03How do you think that makes me feel?
19:05Well, it might not be that bad.
19:09Even if you are scarred, what does it matter?
19:11Look, Maddie, my reaction before was stupid, but what's happened doesn't change the person that you are.
19:20You're right.
19:22I'm being ridiculous. It's about what's on the inside too.
19:26Yeah, that's exactly right.
19:28Sorry, I've been carrying on.
19:30No, no, it's totally understandable.
19:35I'm a bit tired.
19:37Okay, I'll go tell the others you're having a rest then.
19:41You, you are amazing, you know that?
20:13I thought we agreed that you were going to leave it for a couple of weeks, give yourself some time
20:17to think about it.
20:18I'm a fast thinker.
20:19Love, you only just got back from the hospital. You need your rest.
20:22I got all the rest I needed there.
20:26Belle, where are you going to go? You haven't got any money.
20:28Irene, it'll be alright.
20:33Well, at least let me make you something to eat before you go. I got you muffins.
20:38Alright, but only if there's a hot chocolate to go with it.
20:45I need to speak to you. It's important.
20:47I doubt it.
20:48Belle, please wait. It's about your mother.
20:55My name's Colin. I'm going to be your pilot this afternoon, so if you'd all like to say your final
20:59goodbyes, we can get moving.
21:01I don't believe this is actually happening. It's amazing.
21:03Mayday, Mayday, 05.
21:05Oh my God!
21:07Please do something!
21:10We're going down!
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