Townsend loses his rag again

Townsend has decided to press charges against Casey, who's now facing a prison sentence, so Sasha tries to plead his case. But the teacher loses his temper again, an incident witnessed by Gina and John and, after talking to Sasha, Gina decides to look into Townsend's past, discovering that he's had complaints made against him before. She confronts Townsend and convinces him to drop the charges and move to another school. Casey will have to go through counselling but he's no longer facing jail time. Colleen is still upset that her friends haven't organised a farewell party and sounds off about everyone to Roo and Marilyn, unaware everyone's hiding waiting to give her a surprise party. When they all appear, she is so overcome she starts to think she shouldn't be leaving Summer Bay at all and it's up to Roo to convince her that joining her family in Las Vegas is the right thing to do. And when Gina finds Jett at the beach she asks why he hasn't been at school. He's short with her but explains his mother has been ill before rushing off. When he's out of sight, he pulls out a stolen purse and takes the cash.

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.