Barely a MONTH after fans got the shock of their lives watching an untimely death, by another death, this time in the form of a drowning. I know what you're thinking — soap opera, set on a beach, a drowning should be fairly routine, right? Well, WRONG, actually. This time the death would be best described as (accidental) manslaughter or a killing by self-defence.
Look, I don't know, I'm not a lawyer. I'm employed to write about Anyway. Here's a refresher to follow the story: Perri arrived in Summer Bay a couple of months ago as part of youth program to help troubled teens.
It's hard to say what happened to the rest of the wayward teens, but Perri stuck around for some time with Tane taking him under his wing. Perri told Tane that his aim was to stay out of trouble as he was soon to be 18, and if he f**cked up again, he'd be sent to prison, not juvie. Enter Perri's troublemaker criminal dad Carl, who is not only emotionally and physically abusive, but coerces his son into carrying out illegal activities for him.
Fast forward to present day, and Perri has a restraining order out on his dad, except Criminal Carl was hardly going to adhere to that. So in last night's episode of , Perri arrives home to find his AVO stuck to a chopping board with a knife, and his dad waiting for him. When Perri refuses to help his dad get money for a "fresh" start, chaos ensues.
Carl drags Perri out to the pool and attempts to drown him in some graphic scenes that I wasn't quite ready for. This u.