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Rhythm City in February, 2011:
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Episode 932Kop tries to get Tshidi and Mamokete to reconcile, but they find it hard to reconnect. Tshidi decides to move in with Puleng and Mamokete doesn't stop her.
Miles is obsessed with beating Franco in the election. Meanwhile Lucilla meets with Ronald and he tells her that Franco suspects Miles is behind the attempts on his life.
Franco finds it amusing that Miles wants to kill him.
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Episode 933Cuba comes by the spaza to enquire about why Tshidi has moved into her house, but Mamokete is evasive.
Meanwhile Caroline blackmails Fats to spy for him at Mamokete's choir. Fats is conflicted.
Miles apologises to S'bu about obsessing about Franco and asks him to be his best man - S'bu accepts. Franco tells Miles that he knows that Miles wants to kill him.
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Episode 934Ronald tries to get Franco to take Miles's threats seriously to no avail.
Sis Bee talks to Mamokete about Tshidi but Mamokete feels like she has reached the end of the road with her daughter. Tshidi tells Dylan that they need a little space. He interprets this as her trying to break up with him.
Lucilla wants Miles to make the hit happen quicker. Franco sits peacefully, when a bullet shatters the peace.
Friday, 4 February 2011
Episode 935David manages to spin his near-death experience to his advantage, and the pressure on Miles is cranked up to breaking point.
There's a showdown at Mamokete's church between the rival choirs, and Fats manages to come up with a solution.
Kop tries to broker a rapprochement with Tshidi and Mamokete, but it falls apart.
Monday, 7 February 2011
Episode 936Franco decides he does not need to protect himself from Miles. Kop finds the prospect of living alone with Mamokete a little daunting.
Franco plants the seed in S'bu's mind that Miles could be behind the hit on Franco. S'bu realises what an asset Thula is when the latter single-handedly convinces X9 to sign with Hustle.
Lucilla goes behind Miles's back and tries to persuade Ivan not to call off the hit on Franco.
Franco tells Miles that he will never be able to kill him.
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Episode 937Miles and Lucilla are determined to have Franco killed before their wedding and Miles gives Ivan Tshinawa a bonus to pay to Suzuki.
Meanwhile, Franco's tip-off to Suarez Baloyi results in the arrest of five Redemption artists.
S'bu asks Miles if he was in any way involved in the attempted hit on Franco and believes him when he denies it. S'bu decides he can't be Miles's best man. Mamokete's attitude towards Tshidi is hardening.
Caroline eventually manipulates Fats into spying on Mamokete's choir and Mamokete discovers Sis Bee can't sing in tune.
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Episode 938Miles is in a tizz after Redemption artists are arrested. He has a strong suspicion about who is setting him up, and hints this to S'bu.
Meanwhile S'bu thinks Suarez Baloyi has a vendetta against his family.
Franco is pleased about Redemption's predicament, but is he overplaying his hand with Suarez Baloyi?
Mamokete's challenges with the choir mount. The boys heap praises on Thula for standing up to Zondi and his friendship with Tshidi strengthens.
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Episode 939Miles suspects that Franco was behind the drug bust on his artists, but has no recourse as Lucilla warns him of attracting undue attention by pursuing the matter.
Thula and S'bu are still on a high from signing X9, but this quickly comes crashing down when Thula reminds S'bu that Hustle owes him 40% of X9's signing fee. S'bu refuses to honour his end of the bargain.
Franco's encounter with Suarez leaves him rattled. Franco goes to visit Miles and Lucilla at home with the hope of intimidating them into handing over David's estate before it legally passes on to Buhle. Miles attacks him.
Friday, 11 February 2011
Episode 940Rose and Caroline come to Mamokete's rehearsal and demand a composition she wrote for the previous year's competition. Miles gets new security.
Meanwhile, Thula visits Franco to tell him about his disagreement with S'bu. S'bu pays Thula his money.
Tshidi confides in Cuba and tells her that the conflict with her mother is eating her up inside.
Ivan commands Suzuki to speed up the kill.
Suarez hints to S'bu that Franco might be involved in the Redemption artist arrest. S'bu approaches Franco about what Suarez said and he admits.
Monday, 14 February 2011
Episode 941Arrangements are in full swing for Miles and Lucilla's wedding. Connie arrives to find maximum security at the Vilakazi home.
S'bu gets some old-style wisdom from Gail about how to set things straight with his father. Franco curses Suarez Baloyi's fixation with him as it is going to make his dastardly deeds more difficult.
Mamokete finds it impossible to tell Sis Bee that she can't sing in the choir. Thula buys Tshidi a beautiful necklace and is busy putting it on her when Dylan arrives unexpectedly.
At an impromptu bachelor party for Miles everyone wishes him good luck for the wedding.
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Episode 942Franco taunts Miles at his stag party. Miles panics when it occurs to him that Franco knows he's not with Lucilla and Buhle and he leaves his party early to see if they're all right.
Miles is furious with Franco for gate crashing his stag party, but Lucilla says he needn't worry as hit time is up.
Tshidi tells Puleng Dylan's jealous of Thula, but has no reason to be. Kop tells S'bu he heard Hustle's doing well and asks for his old job back. S'bu eventually agrees.
Franco decides to kill Buhle.
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Episode 943Thula struggles to come clean with S'bu about X9's request that he not be part of the press conference. Minutes before the event, he finds the courage to do it and S'bu's reaction is just as bad as he anticipated.
Lucilla opens up to Connie about the potential threat to Buhle's life.
Franco prepares to do the necessary to ensure that his estate does not pass on to baby Buhle.
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Episode 944Preparing for her wedding, Lucilla laments the fact that she'll be leaving Buhle at home, although she realises that he'll be safer under the protection of Voelstruis.
Ronald goes to Lucilla, intending to tell her about the plot against her son, but can't bring himself to spill the beans.
Ivan tells Suzuki to take Franco out today.
Arming himself, Franco prepares to put his plan into action.
Lucilla and Miles leave for the wedding. Thula invites Tshidi to a celebratory dinner. She accepts.
Under pressure from his mother, Fats tries to shoehorn some info out about Mamokete's plans for her new choir - but fails.
Friday, 18 February 2011
Episode 945Suzuki manages to get into Franco's flat, gun at the ready. But Franco has slipped down the fire escape. Where he is going? ..
Voelstruis, who Miles and Lucilla think is guarding their child, is in league with Franco and is waiting for him.
Thula is still in the afterglow of last night's success, and is persuaded by X9 to spend even more on kitting himself out like a man who is rolling in money.
This gets the guys thinking, firstly, that he is challenging S'bu on some level and, secondly, gets Fats thinking about the spoils of moving into management.
Monday, 21 February 2011
Episode 946
Miles and Lucilla decide to carry on with their wedding even though David has slipped through Suzuki's grasp. Suzuki finds out that Franco is heading for the Vilakazi house and hunts him down.
Ronald feels awful that he is not doing anything to stop the murder of the child.
Tshidi gets ready to have supper with Thula. Miles and Lucilla say their vows to each other with the horrible sense that big trouble is coming.
When the priest asks if anyone has any reason why these two should not be legally wed a familiar voice calls out from the back: "I do!"
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Episode 946
In the aftermath of David's revelation, Miles punches him. S'bu feels betrayed and Lucilla panics about Buhle.
They rush home and discover the six unexplained dead bodies in the living room.
Tshidi and Thula go out for dinner ... one thing leads to another until there's a charged moment on the backstairs.
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Episode 948Lucilla insists on taking Buhle back to Mafikeng after the David Genaro reveal but Miles tries to persuade her that everything is okay now.
Meanwhile, Cuba is upset that Tshidi didn't sleep at home and accosts Puleng about the matter.
Miles advises Suarez Baloyi to investigate Genaro for all his past sins - Suarez is excited. Thula is freaked out about spending the night with Tshidi and struggles to concentrate at work.
David comes to appease himself to S'bu but S'bu is too angry a him.
Puleng questions Tshidi about spending the night with Thula but she is evasive.
David calls a meeting with Miles, Lucilla and Ivan to finally make a truce.
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Episode 949 David Genaro holds a press conference at which he confesses to various "misdemeanours" but pleads self-defence. David finds time to try to explain to Sbu why he lied about his identity.
Miles and Lucilla discuss the truce proposed between them and David. Lucilla and Miles agree on the truce and decide not to press charges against David.
In return, he promises to keep away not only from Lucilla and Miles and Buhle, but also from S'bu.
Suarez Baloyi is irritated when she learns that the Vilakazis are no longer willing to testify against David Genaro.
Tshidi tells Puleng she slept with Thula Tshidi tells Thula that what they did must not be repeated. It was, she says a regrettable mistake ...
Friday, 25 February 2010
Episode 950Gail tells David she will stay. Lucilla feels Miles out about the Ivan situation, and Miles unconsciously pushes her towards Ivan.
Thula tells Tshidi he would like to have a relationship with her. Dylan and Tshidi try to connect.
An opportunistic Nana uses Caroline and Rose's offer as leverage to make more demands on Mamokete.
S'bu acknowledges that Miles has been right all along, and Miles assures him that David will keep his distance from now on.
A determined Suarez tells David she is onto him and vows to get him - no matter how long it takes.
Monday, 28 February 2010
Episode 951Gail tells S'bu that she has no problem working for David, and gives him pause for thought on the matter. Kop persuades Mamokete and Cuba to set a trap to catch the rat in their choir.
Tshidi and Thula finally talk about their issues. David threatens Lucilla and reawakens her desire to eliminate him.
Suzuki reappears and makes a terrifying demand on Miles.
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