A new Home and Away promo has aired in Australia, giving a look at the exciting and dramatic stories in store in the months ahead, including a first look at Cash and Eden’s wedding.
Tonight’s Australian episode of Home and Away saw Irene Roberts (Lynne McGranger) leave Summer Bay after more than three decades.
Irene’s departure has been heavily promoted across 7 and 7Plus over the past month, with a series of promos featuring flashbacks of Irene’s three decades on the show.
Perhaps in anticipation that a number of lapsed viewers would tune in to watch her departure, a huge promo aired after the episode, promoting a number of storylines coming up over the next few months.
A press release later sent out to accompany the promo promises “romance, laughter, celebration, tears, high-speed chases, and heart-stopping tragedy that will rock the Bay forever. For some, it’s the end of the line.”
The fast-paced promo featured a number of different action scenes, and it’s at times difficult to tell which scenes are connected.
However, in the coming months, the trailer reveals that we’ll see at least one car chase, an accident leaving lives in danger, and the long-awaited wedding of Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) and Eden (Stephanie Panozzo).
The promo begins with the message ‘Welcome home’, over a shot of longest-serving character Alf (Ray Meagher), who has been in Home and Away since the very first episode in 1988.
Under the text ‘Welcome old friends’, we see Leah (Ada Nicodemou) and Marilyn (Emily Symons) at the diner, Alf looking after baby Archie, and Roo (Georgie Parker) hugging foster child Cohen (Nathan Murray).
In the first hint of what’s to come, we see the unlikely trio of John (Shane Withington), Tane (Ethan Browne) and Mali (Kyle Shilling), who appear to be heading out of Summer Bay on a boys’ camping trip.
“Welcome to paradise!” shouts John as he throws his hands up in the air, while Tane and Mali take in their surroundings. But what causes such an unusual trio to head out into the bush together?
And will they have a more enjoyable time than the last Summer Bay camping trip, which saw Cash and Eden’s holiday take a dark turn when Eden was taken by two men attempting to dispose of Remi’s (Adam Rowland) body?
Overlayed by the text ‘Welcome new friends,’ we see Mali and Abigail (Hayley Pinto) frollicking on the sand as John watches on, and recent arrival Sonny (Ryan Bown) walking along the beach.
We then see new couple Theo and Lacey (Sophea Pennington) kiss.
It looks like a party is getting underway as Mackenzie (Emily Weir) and Remi (Adam Rowland) walk towards some balloons, as Mackenzie hugs another female character.
The promo also shows new couple Dana (Ally Harris) and Sonny dancing together later in the evening, in what appears to be the same party.
The festivities feature at various points in the promo, as we see Mac and Levi (Tristan Gorey) sitting with their arms around each other, and later see Mac, Levi, Mali and Abigail hug.
The promo also shows Leah running to hug Lacey (Sophea Pennington), with both Lacey and Theo smiling.
In a different scene, Leah tells Theo: “We’ve gotta keep the ones that we love close.”
In a hint that new arrivals David (Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) and Lacey eventually repair the rift between them, the new trailer also shows what appears to be the father and daughter sitting on the beach together, with David putting his arm around Lacey.
We also hear David say, “I’ll do whatever it takes to keep my daughters safe,” as he’s seen hugging both Lacey and Jo (Maddison Brown).
As we’re told to welcome “the unexpected,” we see David – who arrived in late May as Yabbie Creek’s newest Sergeant – involved in a police chase in a grey unmarked police car, seemingly speeding after a white car ahead of him.
The chase is picked up later in the promo, as David overtakes two other cars, where we see that Cash is in the car with him.
We later see the driver of the white car looking through their rear view mirror as David and Cash continue to give chase along the country roads.
Towards the end of the promo, David’s silver BMW skids as it screeches around a corner.
At Northern Districts Hospital, we also see Bree strugging with a patient, who seems to be fighting back as she attempts to restrain him.