Spoilers: Home and Away's Cash held at gunpoint: 'Final showdown'

The action is ramping up on Australia’s most popular soap opera.

Since the show’s return to Australian television two weeks ago, viewers have been soaking up the action, and recent advertisements have hinted at an explosive conclusion to the bikie gang plotline. When a group of bikers, including Tex Wheeler (Lucas Linehan), showed up at the Parata family’s door last year to retrieve stolen money, Summer Bay was rocked.

After Cash Newman (Nicholas Cartwright) and Rose Delaney (Kirsty Marillier) conducted a perilous raid on Tex’s headquarters, that plot thread appeared to be over. The gang’s leader Marty was murdered by Cash in a horrific gunfight, and Tex was imprisoned, but none of the important characters perished.

Fans were shocked when a terrible vehicle catastrophe involving Felicity Newman (Jacqui Purvis), Eden Fowler (Stephanie Panozzo), Justin Morgan (James Stewart), and Leah Patterson (Ada Nicodemou) occurred in the 2023 return of Home and Away.

Cash was first furious with Justin for fitting the Newmans’ ute with subpar brakes, but when he discovered that Tex and the bikies had “put a hit out on him,” his rage changed to shock.

The most recent sneak peek for this week’s episodes shows Cash vowing vengeance on the group and telling Eden, who is comatose, that he will “make them pay for what they’ve done.”

Knowing that he may not come out of his brawl with the bikies alive, he utters a heartbreaking secret to Eden in hospital.

“Just in case it doesn’t go my way, I wanted to tell you how much you mean to me. It’s time for me to do this,” he tells her.

In the following episodes, Tex manages to break out of jail and brings Cash to a remote rural area. With the bikie gang outnumbering him, things doesn’t look good.

Tex orders Cash to look around as he is brought to his knees. You won’t see anything like that again.

Tane Parata (Ethan Browne), who is lurking behind a car and ready to surprise the group, offers some hope for Cash. Police policemen with guns storm what appears to be the gang’s property, but will they arrive in time?

Ziggy and Dean face ‘tough challenge’ after becoming parents

Fans will be thrilled to learn that Dean Thompson’s (Patrick O’Connor) mother Karen (Georgia Adamson) is returning, although Ziggy Astoni (Sophie Dillman), who is significantly pregnant, isn’t overly thrilled about the prospect.

Ziggy and Dean finally welcome their new child into the world following a stressful labor. They are not yet out of the woods, though. The parents are set to confront “their hardest obstacle yet,” according to the network, thus their happiness will only be “short-lived.”

Will they have a happy ending, or may something evil be on the horizon?

Mackenzie opens herself up to love

Mackenzie Booth (Emily Weir) has been extremely unlucky when it comes to relationships. She was smitten with Ari Parata (Rob Kipa-Williams), who ended up leaving her for Mia Anderson (Anna Samson), and Dr Logan Bennett (Harley Bonner) was driven away by her illegal casino ring.

Fans have been waiting impatiently for her to discover true love, but when her ex-fiance Gabe Miller (Arkos Armont) unexpectedly showed up in Summer Bay last week, they were both taken aback.

Mackenzie ultimately found out why Gabe had previously abandoned her at the altar: he had accepted $50,000 from her father, Rick Booth, to call it off. Gabe reassures Mackenzie that he still loves her, and she immediately enters a passionate connection with the unknown man. If Gabe still has any unresolved issues, only time will tell.