Episode 4978

Episode Title: Every Which Way But Bruce
Episode Number: 4978
Australian air date: Wednesday 31st May 2006
UK air date:
Writer: Jeff Truman
Director: Tony Osicka
Quotes: None.
Guests: Katya Kinski (Dichen Lachman), Kim Timmins (Brett Swain), Robert/Cameron Robinson (Adam Hunter), Big Kev Rebecchi (Don Bridges), Angie Rebecchi (Lesley Baker), Sister Josephine (Joanne Davis), Miss Nova (Lauren Louroes), Grant Freedman (Adam Wells).
Music: Sacramento (Deep Dish), Shower (Sandrine).






Robert backs Connor’s Ute out of the driveway of number 30 Ramsay Street and drives out of the street. Connor is nowhere to be seen after his confrontation with Robert yesterday as he entered number 22 without realising the danger Robert posed. The back of the Ute is covered by tarpaulin and there seems to be a body shaped lump rising in the middle. Whilst out Robert visits his brother who is still lying unconscious in the hospital where Robert left him. Robert updates Cameron’s comatose form with how his plan is going and how he got rid of the hurdle which was Connor. A sister enters and Robert enquires as to how his request to have Cameron moved to a hospital further away is going. The nun attempts to explain that it is proving difficult to organise and Robert expresses his desire to have it done quickly even offering to make a donation to the hospital if it will help speed things up. Robert then returns to the street without incident and calmly integrates himself back with his family. Having realised that Izzy may have taken his MP3 player which he used to record Izzy which he then manipulated to set her up he heads to the Scarlet Bar and begins searching through the back room for it. Izzy interrupts him and tries to order him to leave. She gets a bit of a shock when he turns on her in a threatening manner. Robert then protects himself further from Izzy by warning Paul that she may attempt to see him having concocted lies about Robert. Izzy does just this calling at number 22 later. Paul cuts her short and Izzy sees the state of affairs as Robert appears behind his father. Paul tells Izzy to leave as they have nothing to say to each other.

It’s the day before Janelle and Kim’s re-marriage and family and friends converge on the street to wish them well. This includes the arrival of Kev and Angie Rebecci who settle into as the bride and groom get ready for the big day. Janelle is having a small gathering in number 26 though it is fairly low key as Susan and Lyn have organised it. Angie is a little disappointment at the level of life though and is upset when she finds out that they haven’t booked a stripper though Susan and Lyn come through as a stripper dressed as a policeman arrives at the door later. Meanwhile in number 30 Kim, Kev, Dylan, Stingray and Toadie have started with beers and food as the bucks party gets underway. The house is filled with Kim’s friends and Kim finds himself losing some of his resolve to stay sober for Janelle having been so drunk at their first wedding that he required a bucket throughout the service (and which he used several times during the event). Kev seems keen to settle his ongoing bad feelings towards Kim and his relationship with Janelle and attempts to show him up several times. Kim reacts well though and manages to turn most of the jokes around fairly easily. Once the party is in full swing Miss Nova arrives as the stripper hired by Kev. Kev delights in telling Kim that Miss Nova was a guy and seems sure he has shown up Kim this time but Kim laughs this off saying that she was the best looking guy he’d ever seen. The next morning sees Janelle up early with no signs of a hangover. She tells Lyn and Susan that she smartly chooses to drink only water during the Hen’s night the previous evening. Things are much worse over at number 30 though as discovered by Janae who calls Angie to help her out. Kim is strapped naked to a surfboard outside the house and is barely conscious. Angie and Janae are forced to drag him inside still attached to the board. Toadie, Dylan and Stingray are woken by Angie yelling for them and stagger out of the back rooms of the house. Kev is slumped on the kitchen table and comes around a bit as Angie berates him for getting Kim in such as state. A bigger problem arises as Kim burst into the kitchen crying out that he has lost Janelle’s wedding ring.

Convinced that there is something incriminating on Robert’s MP3 player she took from number 22 Izzy asks Toadie how she could retrieve files from the device. Toadie suggest that she tries something like sending it off to a computer specialist to see what they can do with it. Izzy finds herself the joke of Susan, Lyn and Janelle as they tease her behind her back at the hen’s night and on the wedding day. Their first tactic is to force Izzy into a bridesmaid outfit that she hates to aggravate her. This works as she soon becomes frustrated and leaves. The next day Izzy turns up and announces that she can’t make the wedding Janelle shrugs her off explaining that she didn’t really expect Izzy to attend anyway.