Neighbours spoilers: Hostage HORROR for Elly Conway and Chloe Brennan!
There's big danger in store for Elly, Chloe, Yashvi and Kirsha when criminal Raymond Renshaw holds them hostage at Harold's Cafe...
Ivan Renshaw may be under arrest after the shock shooting at The Waterhole. But his big, bad brother Raymond is still on the loose and holds neighbours Elly Conway, Chloe Brennan, Yashvi and Kirsha Rebecchi hostage at Harold's Cafe...
With the police circulating his photo on social media, Raymond realises he is a wanted man. But he's not going down without a fight!
After barricading the doors and whipping out his gun, Raymond makes it clear the terrified customers aren't going anywhere. But little does he know, schoolgirl Kirsha has secretly dialled the police on her phone! What will Raymond do when he finds out?
Meanwhile, the hostages' worried families race to the scene. But they fear the worst after a gunshot is heard from inside the Cafe! Has there been a second shock shooting in Erinsborough?
Elsewhere, Leo Tanaka and his dad Paul Robinson still fear for Terese Willis who is in hopsital after being shot by Ivan at The Waterhole.
Paul's worry over Terese doesn't go unnoticed by new lady in his life, Jane Harris. But as Paul keeps a vigil by Terese's hospital bed, his guilt gets the better of him and he starts to reveal the reason he is to blame for the appearance of the Renshaw brothers.
Is Paul about to confess the shock secret that he was behind the death of bad boy Mannix Foster last year?
Neighbours continues weekdays at 1:45pm and 5:30pm on Channel 5
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