Next week on Home and Away in Australia, Felicity’s drink-spiking ordeal gets worse as her attacker begins to blackmail her.
Felicity (Jacqui Purvis) was assaulted at the Battle of the Bands tournament at the beginning of June by an unidentified assailant.
Felicity’s ongoing nightmare is about to get much, much worse as she receives a text from her assailant demanding money, according to a new Home and Away commercial.
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As Felicity and Bree danced along to their friends’ performance, Flick briefly left her drink unattended on a nearby table.
An unidentified person was spotted pouring a vial of liquid into Felicity’s drink as she and Bree danced, just before she picked it up again and took a sip.
Felicity excused herself to get a drink of water shortly after feeling faint. She quickly lost her ability to walk normally, stumbled down a flight of stairs, and then passed out at the bottom.
She had no memory of what had happened when she awoke, but when she saw that her dress was torn and that her bra was on display, she realized that she had probably been attacked.
Her sexual assault was later confirmed when she visited the hospital.
Since then, Felicity and her husband Tane (Ethan Browne) have struggled; however, Felicity has recently shown signs of improvement after deciding to go to counseling.
However, as a new promo shows, the drama is far from over for Felicity, as her attacker sends her a message and begins to blackmail her.
The promo begins with Felicity back at work at Salt.
She tells an off-screen character “I’m fine,” before we see her hard at work on her laptop.
Then, her phone buzzes.
Picking it up, she’s stunned by what she sees in her message inbox.
A photo of her passed out at the club, with the message “Pay up or everyone sees the rest.”
She explains the attacker’s horrible plan to Tane:
“He’s gonna post a video of what he did to me.”
The promo then shows Felicity in the back garden of the Parata house, under the caption ‘Scared’.
As she struggles to process the news, Tane comes out to comfort her.
“What is this, blackmail?” Tane asks, as Felicity nods.
“If I don’t do what he says, then everyone will see what happened to me.”
After the initial attack, Felicity was reluctant to tell her brother Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) what happened, worried that he would judge her for leaving her drink unattended.
After some persuasion from Eden and Tane, she finally agreed to open up to him, and he’s been nothing but supportive.
However, she decides to keep this latest development from him.
“You won’t tell Cash,” she tells Tane.
Of course, with Felicity deteriorating once again, Cash soon picks up on the fact that something’s wrong.
We see him storm into the garden, where he lays into Tane.
“You still wanna tell me nothing’s going on?”
“She’s not fine,” he adds.
Will Tane tell him the truth?
We then see Tane and Felicity staring at Flick’s phone, presumably after she’s received another message from her attacker.
Next are shots from recent episodes, of Tane’s anger as he struggles to deal with the ongoing situation, before a shot of Felicity in tears behind the wheel of her car.
Then, another notification sound from Felicity’s phone.
Her hair made up, and wearing a white dress with large gold earrings, Felicity runs towards her phone – what will the attacker have sent her this time?
“Tell me I’ve got nothing to worry about,” demands Cash.
Before a final shot of Tane, struggling to comprehend how the situation is getting worse by the minute.
Will Felicity open up to her brother, and will they ever catch her attacker?
UK viewers will see Felicity’s attack in early August, while the blackmail part of the storyline will begin in late August.
