23 October

TV Guide Best on the Box People’s Choice Awards

Congratulations to all the Outrageous Fortune finalists nominated in this year’s TV Guide Best on the Box People’s Choice Awards.

Once again, Outrageous Fortune and the cast have been nominated in key drama and entertainment categories – and we’ve also got some of the sexiest talent on the telly!

Categories that include Outrageous Fortune finalists (highlighted in bold) are:

BEST DRAMA

  • The Insider’s Guide to Love
  • Maddigan’s Quest
  • Outrageous Fortune
  • Shortland Street
  • Taonga
  • The Lost Children

BEST ACTOR

  • Antony Starr – Outrageous Fortune
  • David McPhail – Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby
  • Frank Whitten – Outrageous Fortune
  • Renato Bartolomei – Shortland Street
  • Taungaroa Emile – The Market
  • Tim Balme – Maddigan’s Quest

BEST ACTRESS

  • Alison Quigan – Shortland Street
  • Danielle Cormack – Maddigan’s Quest
  • Jaime Passier-Armstrong – Shortland Street
  • Kate Elliott – The Insider’s Guide to Love
  • Robyn Malcolm – Outrageous Fortune
  • Zoe Naylor – Orange Roughies

SEXIEST MAN

  • Antony Starr
  • Benjamin Mitchell
  • Dominic Bowden
  • Michael Galvin
  • Shane Cortese
  • Simon Dallow

SEXIEST WOMAN

  • Alison Mau
  • Bernadine Oliver-Kirby
  • Charlotte Dawson
  • Siobhan Marshall
  • Toni Marsh

So what are you waiting for? Get voting!

You can have your say by filling in a special voting form included in the TV Guide issues on sale October 5 and 12 or make your picks online
at www.tv-guide.co.nz/BOTB. The Best on the Box Award results will be published in the TV Guide issue on sale November 9. For a full list of categories, visit: www.tv-guide.co.nz/BOTB

17 October

The steep and thorny way to heaven

At the police station, DI Grisham is taking a team briefing on some sort of gang ‘summit.’ Judd notices the ‘accountant’ in the surveillance photos but he can’t say a word without getting a hard time about banging Cheryl West.

At the Rusty Nail, Van is with Munter hard at work on a plan to free Aurora from the clutches of the Horsemen.

At the charity office, out the front, Hayden is talking to Judd. No, he hasn’t seen Wolf. Judd notices the ‘accountant’.

There are some lines you just don’t cross, y’know? Never.Loretta

Jethro tries his best to get Van to come back into the fold on the big job. With Van out, Jethro is in for some dirty work. And he’s shit scared. When Van refuses to get involved, Jethro turns sour and tells Van that Mum had been screwing Judd.

Van goes to the station and asks Judd straight up: is he sleeping with his Mum? Judd’s honest response and the unmistakable parallels with his and Aurora’s situation go a long way towards winning Van over.

A police briefing session. They are going to raid the big gang meeting. Judd has reservations. What if it’s more than a meet-and-greet? Grisham assures him they have no intelligence to the contrary – but if, through his close association with the West family, DS Judd has another lead…?

Pascalle is being the happy home-maker at Hayden’s house. But Hayden is in no mood for Pascalle hanging around him when he’s about to pull a job. And where the hell did she get the idea he would marry her?

At the West house, Pascalle crashes in, carrying her bags and in floods of tears. She and Cheryl commiserate over man-problems with several drinks. Loretta joins them. Cheryl reveals she’s been having an affair with Judd. Pascalle bursts into tears and runs from the room. Loretta fumes.

A White Knight takeaway van rolls into the Horsemen’s headquarters. Munter is at the wheel and Van is hiding in a chest freezer beneath heaps of frozen goods. They’re bringing in food for the gang party.

Hayden, Sparky, Wolf, and Jethro watch via surveillance the various gang leaders offload their cash in a common safe as The Accountant inventories the money. Each gang leaves behind one representative to guard the cash.

Soon, the cash guards find strategically placed liquor and dope about the office and set to work enjoying themselves while Wolf and the others set about drilling through the wall adjacent to the safe.

With the guards passed out, Wolf secures the safe and Sparky enters to cover their tracks with arson on a timer.

But there’s smoke! Wolf dashes in and pulls Sparky away. What happened to the timer? Sparky is unapologetic. How else would I get to watch the flames?

They drive speedily off, Sparky activates his cellphone, rigged to kill the building’s power, and the angry gangs are in the dark.

Van hides with Munter and Aurora…before the irrationally jealous Tyson comes to lock his girl in her room.

Van resolves to follow her. He finds a large coat and hat on a passed out gang member, as well as a stray sledgehammer.

The noisy party provides perfect cover – the rescuing hero triumphs and hides in the truck with his princess. Suddenly news of the robbery spreads. Munter joins them in the truck and smashes through the gates. The gangs roar past them eager to recover their cash.

The money divided, Wolf remains to get rid of remaining evidence. A figure steps from the shadows. It’s Judd.

What Judd wants is very simple. He wants Wolf out of his life. Forever. Lest the Horsemen get an anonymous tip as to who ripped them off…

Judd and a uniformed officer arrive at the West house. A car has been found, out in the bush, burnt out. A car with possessions nearby that belonged to Wolf.

Cheryl and her daughters take in this news.

  • Gutter Black

    (David McArtney)
    Southern Music Publ. Co. (A’Asia) Pty. Ltd

    Performed by Hello Sailor

    Licensed courtesy of Zodiac

17 October

Episode 7

Kids – don’t do drugs.

Talk about coming down. You take one E and accidentally happen to lose your Grandfather for a while (but we found him again so no harm done there) – and the next day your family implodes. Nowhere did I ever read about THAT as a side-effect.

Most of me doesn’t want to actually know what happened – and Mum and Jethro aren’t saying shit about anything – but Dad has taken off. Headed for the hills. He’s hack-sawed his ankle bracelet off and legged it – left bloodstains all over the duvet on Mum’s bed (which thrilled her no end).

The cops are kinda looking for him, I guess – going through the motions like you do when someone skips out on home detention. I don’t care, really. Knowing Dad if he doesn’t want to be found then he won’t be.

So now Mum is being all stoic and stiff-upper-lip about everything – assuring us we’ll get along okay without him. Of course we will – it’s not like this is the first time he’s hid out from the cops and we’ve got along fine before.

But that’s not that point: the point is why now? Why did Dad fuck off right at this very moment? I tried bringing it up with Mum – and talk about avoidance behaviour. She knows more than she’s letting on but no way do I want to break down that wall.

Meanwhile, over in La-la Land, Pascalle is being all Drama Queen about it – surprise surprise. But that’s probably more to do with her uber-plan to snare dork-features Hayden as a hubbie by crying on his shoulder, than actually any concern for Dad. Deluded bitch.

Not that there’s anything to be concerned about. Dad’s been alright every other time he’s been in the shit – why should this time be any different?

He’ll be okay for sure. I reckon.

On the upside, Grandpa seems okay after taking a handful of E’s. Well, he doesn’t seem any madder than usual so that must be a good thing, right?

10 October

Episode 6

I don’t want to talk about it.

I don’t want to talk about anything.

I don’t care what Grandpa says (he is mentally ill, after all) I do not have *feelings* for Hayden bloody Peters.

Feelings are pointless, useless evolutionary leftovers from a long-distant past when, in order to keep the species alive, humans needed to find a mate and have 12 children by the time they were 21 because 11 of them would die from disease or be eaten by hyenas or whatever.

Idiots like Van fall in love. Idiots like Van think bumping into the girl who, back when he was 15, was the first one to let him touch her tit – idiots like Van think seeing this girl, dancing round in her underwear in front of 200 pissed blokes, is a sign that he and Aurora are *meant to be together*.

Give me a break! Wake up Van! She’s a gang ho and when the Horsemen find out you’re trying to steal their property, they will kill you in new and interesting ways. That is what love gets you, you idiot! Dead!

There could be about a million reasons why I was throwing up when I never throw and NONE of them have anything to do with love. Mum’s cooking, for example, has been pretty shit-house lately. When she’s here, that is. When she’s not swanning off to flash hotels with her tragic girlfriends to do *business deals* – read: get pissed and embarrass themselves. Meanwhile I’m chucking my ring up AND I’m stuck at home with Mr. Happy Pants (a.k.a. Dad).

My life is currently tragic beyond words and Hayden Peters is a knob and Grandpa is senile and wrong.

10 October

All that fortune, death and danger dare

Judd has been called in to his senior officer, DI Grisham. Grisham asks if he can offer any explanation as to why Van West is hanging round the Horsemen? Judd cannot, but is interested to find out…

Van and Sparky pull in to a supermarket loading bay, and Van nicks a lifting trolley.

Hayden has a lot of work on for the next week or so, so he and Pascalle must part, but he leaves her with a few ‘friends’ – some ecstasy pills.

I only went to law school, Mother, to figure out how to break the law better than them.Jethro

Grandpa is going through one of those phases so Pascalle decides that he should have some nice, new medicine.

Loretta, meanwhile, has fled to the safety of the Video Hut. Munter arrives, gloomy, missing Van.

Eric interrupts Van, Wolf, Sparky and Hayden’s planning session at the charity office. He thought Wolf should know that Judd’s been sniffing around.

Jethro has come home to pick up his ironing as Judd arrives to inquire about Van’s activities. After he leaves, Cheryl tries to make light of his visit but Jethro doesn’t buy it. Especially after he saw Judd leave Cheryl’s hotel.

At the Video Hut, a gloomy Eric arrives, as do a very happy Pascalle who’s eager to share the love and an equally joyous Grandpa. Munter and Eric enjoy some ‘medicine’ too, and they all wait for Loretta to join.

Cheryl finds Van in his room. She’s heard about him and Aurora, and is surprisingly sympathetic. Van cracks and tells his mum about the big job: there will be a meeting of several biker gangs, who plan a major drug deal. They will all be bringing significant cash to this meeting and Wolf is planning to steal it. Needless to say, Cheryl is furious with Wolf.

Back at the Video Hut, Loretta has taken her meds.

Van, at the Rusty Nail, meets Munter on an urgent errand from Cheryl. Van must go home…where he finds his princess Aurora. Cheryl has organised her to come to their house for a two-hour visit as the new Hoochie Mama model.

Pascalle wakes up to find that Grandpa has taken his medication without her say so. Grandpa thought they were his new pills, and after Loretta gives him some tough love, he’s off to find his dead wife.

Jethro gets a visit from his mother. He’s not the goody-good boy she thinks she is. He’s taking care of the money – the clean end of things for Wolf. This is his decision, his alone.

Van is stricken at the thought of letting Aurora go. Van tells Wolf that he’s out. Aurora is worth more than a cut of some money. Wolf is furious.

Judd arrives at the Rusty Nail to see Cheryl. She wants Wolf stopped and out of the picture, before it’s too late. Whatever it takes.

Wolf’s phone rings. It’s Judd. He just had a drink with Cheryl. Very convivial. Though not half as much fun as when he was boffing her.

Wolf picks up car keys. There’s somewhere he has to be.

Wolf storms in to the Rusty Nail only to find that Judd is with Hickey and a number of off-duty police officers. He had violated his parole. Wolf clocks Judd in the face before assaulting Hickey to escape.

On the search for Grandpa Loretta is suddenly inspired. The last place he saw Rita! Pascalle and Loretta arrive back at the house to find Grandpa standing on the balcony, a far-away expression on his face…he’s staring at the lawn where her ashes were spilled when Van dropped the urn.

Cheryl gets a call from Judd. You did what?! She arrives home and walks through to the bedroom, not sure what she’ll find. She finds a bloody hacksaw, and, Wolf’s home detention bracelet ankle bracelet which has been crudely hacked off.

As the sound of sirens comes closer, Cheryl looks at the sawn-off band. The end of her marriage.

But where is Wolf?

  • Gutter Black

    (David McArtney)
    Southern Music Publ. Co. (A’Asia) Pty. Ltd

    Performed by Hello Sailor

    Licensed courtesy of Zodiac

  • Finality

    (S.Carter)
    Control

    Performed by Dimmer

    Courtesy of Warner Music New Zealand

  • Menace

    (P.Dodge/R.Beehre/R.Carr)
    Control

    Performed by Minuit

    Courtesy of Tardus Music

  • Dance Floor

    (J.Bree)
    Native Tongue Music Publishing

    Performed by The Brunettes

    Courtesy of EMI Music