{"id":378974,"date":"2026-04-14T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378974\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:52:40","slug":"home-and-aways-brax-clashes-with-the-next-generation-of-river-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378974\/","title":{"rendered":"Home and Away’s Brax clashes with the next generation of River Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week on\u00a0Home and Away\u00a0in Australia, Brax hands over the evidence that could clear Tane\u2019s name, before he clashes with the next generation of River Boys as he returns to Mangrove River.<\/p>\n

Tane (Ethan Browne) headed to Western Australia ready to spending the rest of his life in hiding, but his encounter with Brax (Stephen Peacocke) and Ricky (Bonnie Sveen) has ended up proving his innocence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Greive<\/p>\n

Tane moved onto Brax and Ricky\u2019s remote cattle ranch having decided to skip bail and go on the run after being framed on drug charges by Kerrie Matheson (Sara Wiseman).<\/p>\n

In the end, it didn\u2019t take long for Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) and Jo (Maddison Brown) to catch up with Tane and convinced him to return to Summer Bay to face his day in court.<\/p>\n

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Tane\u2019s willingness to face the consequences of his actions got Brax thinking, and he soon told Ricky that he wanted to return to Summer Bay and clear his own name once and for all after a decade on the run.<\/p>\n

After a quick trip to the station and a session in front of the magistrate the following morning, it was confirmed \u2013 Brax was now officially a free man!<\/p>\n

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Then, the actions of their 10-year-old son Casey (Austin Cutcliffe) ended up unearthing the vital evidence to prove Tane\u2019s innocence!<\/p>\n

Last week, Casey stumbled upon a baby monitor in Archie\u2019s room, and turned it on to discover a video showing Kerrie planting the drugs under Archie\u2019s bed as she enacted her plan to frame him.<\/p>\n

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Despite Tane\u2019s house being thoroughly searched by Yabbie Creek\u2019s finest, neither the police nor Harper ever thought to check the baby monitor, which Archie\u2019s parents had been using to monitor their son as he slept.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Casey then fumbled the monitor and dropped it on the floor. When he picked it back up, he found that it would no longer switch on.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Brax was at Salt, having got chatting to Mackenzie (Emily Weir) about Dean\u2019s (Patrick O\u2019Connor) attempts to help track down \u2018Uncle Fred\u2019, the man who had supplied Kerrie with drugs.<\/p>\n

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Dean had put the River Boys on the case, and Mac was waiting for someone to arrive with all of the details. While Brax wasn\u2019t across it, he assured Mac that \u201cif the boys say they have something, they always come through.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, when a tattooed River Boy by the name of Sterlo (Dave Hoey) turned up, he wasn\u2019t quite what Mac or Brax expected.<\/p>\n

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Sterlo made it clear that he expected Mackenzie to sleep with him in exchange for information on Fred, and Mac\u2019s attempts to put him in his place fell on deaf ears.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Eden (Stephanie Panozzo) was busy filling Brax in on the River Boys\u2019 latest dodgy activities, but Brax refused to believe that his old gang were anything but \u201crough around the edges.\u201d<\/p>\n

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However, when he caught wind of Sterlo\u2019s inappropriate behaviour towards Mac, he realised Eden might have been right.<\/p>\n

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He grabbed the young River Boy before kicking him down the stairs of Salt, making it clear that \u201cthat is not the way we treat women\u201d and that \u201cwe are better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sterlo asked him why he kept saying \u201cwe,\u201d before realising that Brax was himself a River Boy.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Since] day one, you muppet,\u201d Brax clarified.<\/p>\n

As a drunk Brax later returned to Tane\u2019s place, only to be kicked out of the bedroom by Ricky, he found a note on the table explaining that Casey had broken the baby monitor and that he needed to fix it.<\/p>\n

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It only took a small screwdriver to solve the \u201cissue,\u201d as Brax pushed the displaced batteries back into place in the base unit.<\/p>\n

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Replacing the screen, it just took a single tap for it to wake back up \u2013 and within seconds, Brax was watching the video of Kerrie planting the drugs in Archie\u2019s room!<\/p>\n

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This week, armed with the new evidence that Tane was indeed framed, Brax goes straight to Cash\u00a0to pass on the key piece of information.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou might have just bought Tane his freedom,\u201d Cash exclaims upon hearing the news, as Brax pops round to his former home, which is now home to Cash and Eden.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe need to talk,\u201d Cash tells David as he rushes over to Northern Districts police station armed with the baby monitor.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is the evidence that proves Tane\u2019s innocent,\u201d Cash excitedly reveals, but while David tells him that it\u2019s \u201cgreat news,\u201d he reminds Cash that \u201cwe have to do this right.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Teaser spoilers for upcoming episodes reveal that \u201cCash delivers good news\u201d in Monday\u2019s episode, as he heads to the prison to visit Tane, who\u2019s been struggling to come to terms with the idea of potentially spending years behind bars.<\/p>\n

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Will Cash\u2019s big news be enough to cheer him up?<\/p>\n

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Yet in Thursday\u2019s episode, Cash \u201cbraces to visit Tane in prison\u201d a second time, suggesting that the new evidence won\u2019t see Tane\u2019s immediate release.<\/p>\n

Will David\u2019s plan to \u201cdo things right\u201d mean that Tane will have to endure further time behind bars, despite the baby monitor proving that Kerrie was the one to plant the drugs?<\/p>\n

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Or will his escape from custody mean and jaunt to WA mean that he\u2019ll be facing time behind bars regardless?<\/p>\n

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Next Monday, \u201cTane is losing patience,\u201d suggesting that he\u2019s far from out of the woods.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Brax takes Ricky and Casey on a trip to his old stomping ground this week, as they head back to the infamous Mangrove River, where the River Boys\u2019 journey first began.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ricky isn\u2019t so sure that it\u2019s a good idea, questioning Brax on why they\u2019re there, but Brax explains that he wants Casey to see where they grew up.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s clear that in reality, he wants to find out what the River Boys are up to these days, having realised that they no longer play by the rules they did back in his day.<\/p>\n

They take in the sights and sounds of the dodgy town, including the \u2018Population 2800-2\u2019 sign, which was graffitied by Dean when he and Colby (Tim Franklin) they left the town for the final time back in 2018.<\/p>\n

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Dean added \u2018-2\u2019 to the Mangrove River sign back in 2018 as he and Colby left the town<\/p>\n

Before long, Casey spots two men sporting \u2018Blood and Sand\u2019 tattoos, the same slogan that his dad just so happens to have emblazoned across his chest.<\/p>\n

Casey has no idea of his dad\u2019s chequered history as part of the surf gang, so immediately asks why the guys have the same tattoo as him.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019ve seen the place; let\u2019s go before Casey has any more questions,\u201d Ricky urges after Brax manages to avoid giving away too much.<\/p>\n

Yet not long after, they come across the latest recruits once again, who don\u2019t take too kindly to the sight of an OG River Boy on their turf.<\/p>\n

Brax races over after spotting Casey talking to Sterlo, the same River Boy who harassed Mackenzie last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cReckon you\u2019ve picked the wrong place for a day trip,\u201d Sterlo warns when Brax asks him if there\u2019s a problem.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis joker thinks he can tell me what to do in my own town,\u201d Brax replies with confidence.<\/p>\n

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However, as numerous River Boys line up behind him, Sterlo retorts: \u201cExcept it\u2019s not your town any more, is it? What are you gonna do about it?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Knowing that he needs to put his violent past behind him, Brax does the right thing and backs down.<\/p>\n

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Home and Away<\/a> on Facebook<\/p>\n

\u201cHe feels obligated to [the River Boys],\u201d Stephen explains to Aussie magazine TV Week<\/a>. \u201cThey\u2019re the reason that he has been able to disappear and raise a kid that doesn\u2019t have to worry about any of the stuff he and Ricky had to worry about growing up. He doesn\u2019t forget that.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, as he heads back to Summer Bay, he soon gets chatting to Leah (Ada Nicodemou), who he and Ricky briefly reunited with at the Surf Club last week.<\/p>\n

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During their chat at the end of last week, Eden told Brax that if he needed any proof that the River Boys weren\u2019t the men he thought they were, he should ask Leah what happened to her nephew.<\/p>\n

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For those who need a refresh, Theo was hospitalised after nearly being crushed under his own car by the River Boys\u2019 then-leader Gage (Tom Wilson), after Gage discovered that Theo had been hooking up with his then-girlfriend Lacey (Sophea Pennington).<\/p>\n

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When Brax finds out about the incident, he races back to Mangrove River to have it out with the boys once and for all.<\/p>\n

Ricky soon realises that Brax has gone awol, and jumps in the car with Casey to stop her partner from doing something stupid.<\/p>\n

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Home and Away<\/a> on Facebook<\/p>\n

She finds Brax in the midst of a brawl with Sterlo, with the rest of the River Boys circling him.<\/p>\n

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Home and Away<\/a> on Facebook<\/p>\n

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Home and Away<\/a> on Facebook<\/p>\n

She manages to break up the fight before anyone does anything they regret, but with Casey having seen the whole thing, he\u2019s got plenty more questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrax is very protective of Casey and wants him to have the upbringing he didn\u2019t have, so he\u2019s slotted into being an upstanding member of the community,\u201d Stephen continues.<\/p>\n

How will Brax explain his past to his son?<\/p>\n

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Home and Away<\/a> on Facebook<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the full spoilers for this week\u2019s Home and Away episodes in Australia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Monday 13th April (Episode 8696)<\/p>\n

Brax takes a trip down memory lane.<\/p>\n

Cash delivers good news.<\/p>\n

Jo\u2019s guilt spirals.<\/p>\n

Tuesday 14th April (Episode 8697)<\/p>\n

Mackenzie is vindicated.<\/p>\n

Dana\u2019s too busy for Harper.<\/p>\n

Brax and Sterlo go head-to-head.<\/p>\n

Wednesday 15th April (Episode 8698)<\/p>\n

Brax is torn.<\/p>\n

Sonny reclaims some independence.<\/p>\n

Lacey\u2019s caught in the crossfire.<\/p>\n

Thursday 16th April (Episode 8699)<\/p>\n

Jo is consumed by guilt.<\/p>\n

Cash braces to visit Tane in prison.<\/p>\n

Lacey sees the weight Mali is carrying.<\/p>\n

Brax joins Alf for a spot of fishing.<\/p>\n

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Home and Away has announced that Nicole da Silva has joined the cast as new doctor Dr Amelia Carlisle and will arrive on screen in the coming months.<\/p>\n

Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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