Home and Away Spoilers – Cash makes an enemy of new detective.

 

This week on Home and Away in Australia, a new detective arrives in Summer Bay and demands that Cash stop digging into Dana’s case. Just what is Detective Madden hiding?

Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) is furious when he learns his old friend Harper (Jessica Redmayne) has been lying to him, after coming to Summer Bay for his help with her fugitive sister Dana (Ally Harris). Answering Irene’s ad for a lodger at the Beach House, Harper moved in and has been hiding Dana in her room.

Dana, a hospital nurse, is on the run after being accused of stealing drugs from her workplace. The stash was found in the apartment she shares with her boyfriend Olly, with Olly apparently having put all the blame onto Dana.

It took a lot of persuasion from Cash to have a copy of Dana’s case file sent to him, with the LAC in the city seemingly very uncooperative.

When he eventually received it, there wasn’t a huge amount to go on, with the only evidence against Dana being that the drugs had been accessed using her pass. Any hope of CCTV evidence was dashed by the fact that the hospital’s system has apparently malfunctioned, a fact that both Cash and Harper thought quite convenient.

It was obvious to Cash and Harper that Olly could equally have been seen as a suspect—living with Dana and having the opportunity to steal her access card—but the police apparently hadn’t entertained this line of enquiry. In fact, they hadn’t looked into any other possible suspects at all.

Cash decided that he was going to start at the beginning and speak personally to anyone involved in the case, including Olly and any of the police officers who oversaw it. Though when Harper reported this to Dana, she worried that Cash would only be hitting a dead end, considering he wasn’t officially on the case.

In promos for this week’s episodes, the lead officer in Dana’s case—Detective Will Madden (Jonny Pasvolsky)—arrives at Yabbie Creek police station looking for Cash, and is immediately curious about why he’s been asking questions about their investigation.

With a lot of things not lining up for Cash, he explains to the detective that the more he looks into it, the more questions he ends up having.

Madden dismisses Cash’s claims that there could be more to Dana’s case by reminding him of her fugitive status.

We both know guilty people run,” he points out to Cash. “Scared people run. I just want to find out the truth,” Cash replies.

The promo then shows Madden making a phone call after Cash leaves the room. Seemingly confirming his dodgy status, he coldly asks for someone to find “all the information you can get on Senior Constable Cash Newman“…

A further scene shows Madden delivering an outright threat for Cash to back off, explaining: “Why don’t you just stop this right now, before you get yourself into some real trouble.”

Meanwhile, with Irene currently away visiting her granddaughter (don’t ask, we don’t know who she is either!) who has just given birth to twins, the worry of her discovering the extra housemate in Dana isn’t an immediate threat… but the same can’t be said for Cash.

The promo shows Cash asking Harper if she’s heard from Dana at all, as he could really do with talking to her himself. Although she trusts her old friend, she can’t bring herself to tell him that Dana is hiding out at the Beach House.

She doesn’t need to though, as we later see Cash coming face-to-face with Dana in Irene’s living room.

Cash is furious that he’s been lied to, and he seemingly isn’t willing to overlook her presence.

“Dana, there’s a warrant out for your arrest and I’m going to take you in,” he tells her.

“You are throwing her to the wolves,” Harper pleads. “Please don’t do this“.

It seems that Cash won’t be swayed though, as we see him leading Dana out to his police car.

Is Cash actually going to put Dana in danger by leading her to the shifty detective?