As Heather accuses Marilyn of abuse this week on Home and Away in Australia, is Maz’s secret daughter about to get her arrested?
In the past few weeks, Marilyn Chambers has experienced a lot (Emily Symons). It has been relatively quiet since she was poisoned with organophosphates in September, which left her with a new, abrasive personality and necessitated that she take daily medication to keep her acting herself.
That was the case up until Heather’s (Sofia Nolan) recent arrival.
Last month, Heather came to Summer Bay to study under Roo (Georgie Parker), but it soon became clear that she was really there for Marilyn.
She was friendly with Roo and Nikau (Kawakawa Fox-Reo), with whom she quickly formed a friendship with benefits, but she immediately began tormenting Marilyn.
It started with awkward looks and understated remarks and ended with Heather leaving Marilyn’s name on an envelope outside Summer Bay House that contained a baby photo and the words “Guess who?” written on the back.
Last week’s dramatic episodes finally made it known that Heather is in fact Marilyn’s child. According to a birth certificate that Heather had stashed away in her caravan, she was born in April 1995 to Timothy Frazer, a grazier, and Marilyn Chambers, a housekeeper.
Maz eventually admitted the truth to Leah, though Marilyn and Heather have not yet acknowledged that they are mother and daughter.
She and her boyfriend took a trip around Australia when they were younger. After their breakup, Marilyn started working as a housekeeper at a cattle station, where she later had an affair with her boss, a man named Tim, leading to the birth of a child.
Tim informed his wife after she informed him that she wanted to keep the child. Marilyn was allowed to stay with them until the baby was born, and the couple remained together. Prior to the birth, everything appeared to be fine, but soon after, everything changed.
The couple steadfastly insisted that they wanted to adopt Marilyn’s child in order to provide a better life for her. Marilyn, who was unemployed and had nowhere to live as well as no money, believed she was acting morally and that the baby would live a better life with her father in a stable environment.
She admitted that, “not to [her ex-husband] John, not to anyone,” she had never previously spoken it aloud.
Her daughter has grown up and is now looking for her 27 years later.
This week, Marilyn’s situation continues to deteriorate as Heather makes every effort to ruin the life of the person she believes abandoned her when she was a child.
After telling Leah her shocking secret, Maz doesn’t feel any better; instead, she is terrified that everyone else will find out. How will her closest friends react if they ever find out the truth if she has kept it a secret from them for so long?
It won’t be long before Heather takes action. Heather discovered last week that Marilyn had an adopted son named Jett (Will McDonald), which made her feel even worse. Jett is now included in her strategy.
This week, according to TV Week, John (Shane Withington) receives a call from his and Marilyn’s adopted son. When Jett tells John that Marilyn had just texted him, John (Shane Withington) is reportedly shocked: “An adopted child can never compare to a biological one.”
Jett and John worry about Maz’s mental health because it’s cruel and totally out of character. Marilyn is adamant that she had nothing to do with it and cannot believe anyone would think she is capable of doing such a thing when John questions his ex-wife about it.
However, it doesn’t take long for Roo (Georgie Parker), who has had trouble understanding Marilyn’s perspective in recent weeks as Heather and Maz have sparred, to develop more grounds for suspicion regarding Marilyn’s mental state. When she gets home, she discovers a depressing online review of her brand-new tutoring company, and she assumes Maz is to blame.
When Marilyn calls the police to report the incident, it backfires because she learns that she is the main suspect and is being falsely accused of abuse.
At her wits’ end and knowing that Heather is to blame for everything, she makes the decision to confront Heather. Maz breaks into Heather’s van and finds the birth certificate that confirms what she had already suspected—that Heather is her long-lost daughter!
Once Marilyn receives confirmation, she is prepared to meet Heather.
In the triple feature on Thursday, Maz confronts her at her caravan and says, “I know you’re my daughter,” while displaying the birth certificate and making a profound life change for Heather.
Continuing with her cold demeanor, Heather tells Marilyn, “Now we can stop pretending!”
Is there a chance for Heather and Marilyn to start a relationship now that the truth is out in the open?
