As you already know The Home and Away action spin off The Stewart Conundrum is still rumbling on on Australian TV. But it seems the critics have turned. One review saying: "It makes Lost look like an object lesson in linear plotting" Well here is what all the fuss was about as I keep you up to date with the action.
When we left it. Morag had worked out the mysterious anagram and Alf was surrounded by gun toting rebels. Morag and Lance walk along the beach. Then they come to a halt.
"Well here we are"
"But what are we looking for ah?"
"The name Alfred gave me was an anagram of The Bait Shop. So let's find out what is so important here"
Cut to Alf encircled by rebels. They jostle him to move, taking Alf deeper and deeper into hostile territory.
"What the flamin' hell is going on here, where's Sally?"
"All that will be revealed when we get to our leader" The head rebel curtly replies.
Eventually they come to a shabby village. The people look hungry and frightened. Theo St Pahib stands there waiting for them.
"I suppose you're the flamin' leader" Alf shouts at St Pahib.
"No Alfred, I am" a shadowy figure whispers, emerging from a ramshackle hut.
"Celia! Hogan's ghost!"
"Is that the only saying you know" St Pahib says shaking his head.
"But Celia how are you the rebel leader?"
"It's only temporary. The last leader was killed by the army and if anything happens to me, I will be replaced" Celia explains. "You see Alfred, the rebels are the true heroes of this country. The President, Julius Limbani, has been using conflict diamonds to wage war on his own people. We have papers that prove it"
"Well use them. Where are they?" Alf asks.
"We have hidden them in your bait shop"
"Hogan's ghost?" St Pahib chips in.
"Sally is on her way there now. Hopefully Morag will have found the papers by the time she arrives"
Alf sits down, stunned by all the revelations. But there is more to come.
"Also Alfred I think you know President Limbani's head of security. It's Mitchell Rafferty"
"You mean Captain Rafferty? Old Chips?... But he's a top bloke. He saved my life when we served together in Vietnam. Are you sure you've got your facts straight Celia?"
"I want you to go pay him a visit. For old times sake. See what Old Chips knows, if he is in with Limbani"
"So that's why I've been brought here. This whole thing"
"Look around you Alfred, the people are starving, while President Limbani lives like an Emperor. The fate of a nation lies in our hands Alfred. Can you really say no?"
"When do I flamin' well meet Old Chips? "
To be continued Over.
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