Coming up on Rhythm City in June, 2008:
Monday 2 June 2008
Episode 236
Stone's relationship with Thula is developing much faster than Stone can handle. Charlotte pressurizes him to make a decision about their relationship and he decides to get back with Charlotte.
S'bu is anxious about Sunay's album; he turns to Miles, who confirms his suspicions that the album is not good. Tshinawa tracks down Sunay and asks her out. Pule irritates everyone at the gym when he tries to help.
Lucilla fights to hide her revulsion when Miles makes advances on her.
Tuesday 3 June 2008
Episode 237
Bernard gives Miles his honest opinion about the lack of commercial potential he feels Sunay's album has. In the wings Sunay warms up to Tshinawa, driving both S'bu and Miles crazy.
David schemes anew with Alfonso aka Ronald.
Things appear to be returning to normal: Stone scores major points with Charlotte but the unresolved tension between Thula and Stone make Charlotte's suspicions grow.
Momokete and Kop are sceptical about Pule, can he be trusted?
Wednesday 4 June 2008
Episode 238
David begins his plot to take over Redemption Records and he briefs Ronald about his mission.
S'bu and Miles are both at their wits end with Sunay and neither of them is aware that the other is involved with her. S'bu tells Miles that she has been meeting with Ivan Tshinawa and Miles becomes more suspicious when he discovers Sunay asked Gail for a copy of her contract.
Thula accuses Stone of ruining his life and gives him one chance to tell him why he should stick around. Tshidi begins to suspect there is something wrong with Stone and she confronts him. She later gets an unexpected surprise when she confronts Thula.
Pule tells Fats and Suffocate he's off to live with his aunt.
Thursday 5 June 2008
Episode 239
Stone has a difficult moment of reckoning when he learns from Charlotte that Thula plans to leave town. He makes an important decision but things don't turn out as he planned.
Meanwhile, Lucilla is encouraged by David to keep up her pretence with Miles. Lucilla and David share a passionate kiss when David unveils his first step and assures her that the end is near.
Suffocate realises he hasn't managed to solve the problem with Pule when he discovers that he is still parking cars outside the club.
Ivan Tshinawa makes a promise to Sunay; she finally drifts away from the Vilakazi sphere of influence.
Friday 6 June 2008
Episode 240
David and Lucilla give their plan to take over Redemption Records the green light, sending Ronald - posing as the representative of an American record giant. David casts his hook, and Miles rises to it like a salmon to a fly.
Rachel urges Thembi to commit herself to living with her mother on a permanent basis. S'bu tries to tempt her to share a flat with him, but she ultimately decides to stay with her mother.
Suffocate has no desire to get further involved in the life of Pule. When he finds the boy sleeping under the backstairs at the club, he turns away, leaving a plate of food and a stash of money to help him make it on his own.
Monday 9 June 2008
Episode 241
In response to Lucilla's scepticism, Miles asks her to do a due diligence on the American Recording Company. Miles sounds Bernard out and is encouraged by his positive response to a possible international partnership.
When Lucilla admits that ARC's after-tax profits for the last quarter were $1.2 billion, Miles seems to have taken the bait hook, line and sinker.
Rachel is dismayed when Thembi tells her she plans to write an article about absent fathers. She turns to David to dissuade her from writing it. Suffocate and Fats can't make up their minds what to do about Pule.
When an angry customer drags Pule into the club for stealing, Suffocate has to make a choice.
Tuesday 10 June 2008
Episode 242
Thembi frantically tries to finish her article about absent fathers and this brings a lot of unresolved feelings to the surface. Rachel is furious and blames David for agreeing to the article.
Tshinawa meets with Miles and drops a bombshell that he wants to buy Sunay's recording contract from Redemption Records. Miles is excited but has to convince S'bu to agree.
Pule tries to integrate himself into Suffocate's life.
David and Lucilla develop their scheme to take over Redemption Records and their relationship to another level.
Wednesday 11 June 2008
Episode 243
Lucilla is surprised when she finds out that Mile's affair with Sunay has ended and he plans to dump her and sell her contract to Tshinawa.
David is excited by the news but is more concerned about buying out half of Redemption Records. Miles and Ray-Ray Burmeister meet and hash out a mutually beneficial deal. David is thrilled that he is about to take over Redemption.
Rachel reveals her concerns about the article to Thembi. Thembi assures her it's not a criticism of her mothering skills but Rachel remains doubtful.
When she voices her concerns to Miles, he assures her that her secret is safe.
Thursday 12 June 2008
Episode 244
Miles and S'bu strike a deal of a lifetime with Tshinawa, while at the same time getting rid of Sunay. Lucilla isn't so pleased when she's told of their victory.
Thembi decides to meet with a complete stranger who claims to be her long lost father, this stirs up emotions that she's tried to hide all her life.
Meanwhile Suffocate is dealing with his own daddy issues with Pule. The boy requires a lot more supervision than Suffocate thought. Suffocate becomes more concerned about his well being than he thought he would be.
Friday 13 June 2008
Episode 245
S'bu comforts Thembi after her disastrous meeting with the con man. He gets the sense that Thembi's search for her father is becoming increasingly important. S'bu enlists Gail's help to try and find him.
Lucilla tells David that Miles is thinking about backing out of the ARC deal David briefs Ronald that he needs to be more convincing. Ronald goes to see Miles with the revised contract and Miles rejects it, telling him that Redemption is no longer interested in the deal. David is furious when he finds out and accuses Ronald of blowing the deal.
Rachel accuses Thembi of being naïve when she discovers about the meeting with her would-be father.
Miles and S'bu motivate Redemption staff after selling Sunay's contract. They reckon that with the cash injection received from selling Sunay's contract, Redemption will be back on top.
Monday 16 June 2008
Episode 246
Its youth day and Miles has a romantic surprise for Lucilla, she in turn is running out of patience with David's plan to get revenge on Miles.
Meanwhile a lapse in concentration means that Thembi uncovers Lucilla and David's secret. When Miles discovers Gail going through company records, he and Rachel become very concerned about the prospects of a search for Thembi's father.
A terrific possibility begins to raise its head, exactly who is Thembi's father?
Tuesday 17 June 2008
Episode 247
Miles is less aware than either Gail or S'bu that Lucilla does not share his enthusiasm for their Mediterranean Cruise.
Thembi realises that this, combined with the moment of intimacy she observed yesterday between David and Lucilla is enough to confirm a possibility that David and Lucilla are having an affair. She shares this with S'bu who, after observing his father and step-mother together, realises that she could be right.
Gail tracks down Shakes Selani who, she believes is Thembi's father. She tells S'bu who tells Thembi that he is alive and well and living in Richard's Bay.
Wednesday 18 June 2008
Episode 248
S'bu suspects Lucilla is lying to Miles about her whereabouts, he decided to set a little trap for her to prove once and for all that she's having an affair with David. He confirms his suspicions and undertakes to tell his father the truth about what's going on. Miles doesn't want to believe it, but when he realizes S'bu is right, he decides to confront Lucilla.
Meanwhile, Thembi decides she's going to take a trip to Richard's Bay to seek out the family of Shakes Selani and before she goes, she decided to confront Rachel about why she and Miles are so keen to conceal her father's identity from her. Suffocate continues to act like a father to Pule.
Thursday 19 June 2008
Episode 249
Thembi abandons her trip to Richard's Bay after Rachel's revelation about her family, S'bu supports her decision and Gail is critical. Gail drops a comment about the possibility of Miles being Thembi's father. This completely floors Thembi and sets her off on another round of soul searching.
Miles is demented about Lucilla's affair with David, he wakes up to find that she spent the night elsewhere, which drives him more insane. Miles and Lucilla end up at each other's throats and David persuades Lucilla to try and patch it up with Miles so they can pursue their strategy to take over Redemption Records.
Suffocate believes Pule has run away because of an argument they had.
Friday 20 June 2008
Episode 250
Miles informs Lucilla that he wants a divorce and makes it clear that she won't be getting any shares in Redemption Records. David, on the other hand, is not about to give up his plans to get the company and assures Lucilla that he has a way of stopping Miles from initiating divorce proceedings.
S'bu is thrilled to be taken into his father's confidence with regards to the battle about to commence for Redemption.
Thembi asks Gail for advice regarding the possibility that Miles may be a father; she is surprised by Gail who questions her on her feelings for S'bu.
Rachel is relieved that Thembi has stopped the search for her dad but unwittingly arouses Thembi's suspicions again. Suffocates disappearance is proving to be too much of a distraction to Suffocate.
Monday 23 June 2008
Episode 251
Miles decides to delay divorce proceedings because of the forthcoming MIA awards, thinking that the timing of the divorce may tarnish Redemption's image.
He bribes Lucilla into appearing at the event with him as his wife but David has other ideas. He persuades Lucilla to commit to a cunning plan that sees Miles doing the impossible…taking Lucilla back.
Thembi and S'bu's trip to Richard's Bay has proved to be depressingly fruitful. Thembi learns that her surname is bogus and that Rachel is hiding her father's identity.
Suffocate continues his search for Pule in a chock full of homeless kids.
Tuesday 24 June 2008
Episode 252
Miles and David have a row when Miles confronts him about his blackmailing Lucilla into sleeping with him. Miles retreats from the encounter with bruises. David tells Lucilla that it's time for her to force Miles to give her half of the shares in Redemption. If she doesn't, she must threaten to tell S'bu about Miles' affair with Sunay.
S'bu and Thembi come to a conclusion that Miles is her father, Thembi confronts her mother with this suspicion, Rachel denies it but Thembi is cynical. Rachel comes clean with Thembi at last. Meanwhile S'bu asks the boys at Kilowatt how he might go about having a DNA test.
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Episode 253
Thembi struggles to come to terms with the shocking news that Rachel has given her about her father. S'bu lets slip to DJ Ngwazi that Thembi terminated their baby, when DJ Ngwazi confronts her, she assumes its Rachel.
Meanwhile Lucilla is wrestling with consequences and the timing of putting David's plans into action and blackmailing Miles. Miles on the other hand is making a concerted effort to repair the damage in their relationship. David is putting another arm of the plan into operation, and sends Ronald on a criminal mission.
Thursday 26 June 2008
Episode 254
Miles attempts to reconcile with Lucilla; she uses the opportunity to ask him to sign over half the company to her. Miles hesitates, and she issues him an ultimatum: that he signs over the share or she tells S'bu about Mile's affair with Sunay. Miles is obviously gob-smacked by this threat and is forced to make a decision.
S'bu helps Thembi move into the Vilakazi home following the fallout with Rachel over Ngwazi learning of Thembi's pregnancy. S'bu keeps quiet about his role in the affair, feeling guilty that he's letting Thembi blame Rachel.
Pule accuses Suffocate of being a liar and a murderer when he overhears Suffocate talking about his role in his brother, Zorro's disappearances.
Friday, 27 June 2008
Episode 255
Lucilla tells David that Miles has called her a bluff; he tells her that the time has come for S'bu to be the truth about Miles and Sunay. Lucilla arranges a meeting with S'bu but can't bring herself to tell him the truth. David is surprisingly supportive and tells her to move in with him and says he will be her partner at the MIAs.
Suffocate decides to throw a party on Monday night for the MIAs so that everyone can see his friend S'bu getting an award. Bernard meets Delroy Rice, Representative of ARC, the company supposedly interested in buying Redemption Records.
Thembi tells Gail that she is not angry with S'bu and says she feels that DJ Ngwazi had to be told.
Thembi arranges to meet Ngwazi at Kilowatt and they make peace. As they kiss goodbye, S'bu enters and reads the situation the wrong way.
Monday 30 June 2008
Episode 256
Lucilla is finally forced to make her last move in her effort to get Miles to sign over half of his estate as well as Redemption Records. Thembi once again living at the Vilakazis is beginning to regret the article about her real dad but her anger towards Rachel doesn't allow her to admit this to anyone.
David's evil plans all go into play now that Lucilla is living with him. Rachel almost has a nervous breakdown after finding out about Thembi's article and decides she's too distraught to attend the MIAs. Miles gets Bernard to convince her otherwise.
Everyone is excited about the MIAs and the Kilowatt after party plans are underway.
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