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Rhythm City this November, 2011:
Tuesday 1 November 2011
Episode 1127Lucilla changes her game plan against Naomi and deliberately leaves Buhle with Elizabeth. Miles is endeared by Lucilla's apparent change of heart, but Niki fears Lucilla's new strategy could backfire.
Naomi is disconcerted by Lucilla's altered attitude. Naomi witnesses Niki and S'bu in a compromising position and has a surprising reaction. Puleng resents declaring her feelings for Suffocate after Fats shares his pearls of wisdom with her.
A gentleman comes into the club and is taken by Puleng. Tshidi asks Maidi to take her away for a weekend and he declines.
Meanwhile, the Khuses and Fats plan Tshidi's twenty-first birthday party, but she is not excited by the idea. Suffocate reopens the club and Lucilla graces the Kilowatt stage.
Wednesday 2 November 2011
Episode 1128Naomi manages to portray herself as a rational and caring person. Naomi brings Elizabeth round to the Vilakazi house to babysit Buhle. Miles is besotted with his daughter - and later comes home to play with her. Naomi joins him in admiring her "genius" child.
In an interaction with Stone, Maidi nearly reveals the fact that he is married. Later, when Mamokete suggests that Tshidi meet with Maidi in the outside room, Stone reacts negatively. He doesn't want to give Maidi opportunities to seduce his sister.
A woman comes round to the house and introduces herself to Stone and Tshidi as Maidi's wife.
Puleng refuses to believe that Suffocate is no longer interested in her. The she overhears Suffocate telling the boys that Puleng is just a friend. She weeps as she tells Tshidi that she has abandoned hope that Suffocate will ever feel what she feels.
Thursday 3 November 2011
Episode 1129S'bu's sad about Christmas. Mamokete is surprised she didn't know Maidi was married. Niki tries to back out of her intrigues against Naomi, but Lucilla is adamant.
Puleng is furious with Suffocate. Lucilla is suspicious of Elizabeth and Naomi. Sihle asks Puleng on a date. Niki finds a photo of Thembi while watching TV. Tshidi has a hypothetical conversation with Puleng.
Friday 4 November 2011
Episode 1130Naomi continues to cultivate her friendship with Niki. She gives her the impression that she's more interested in Niki and S'bu's blooming romance than Lucilla. This forces Niki to re-evaluate her stance on helping Lucilla bring Naomi down.
Puleng forces Tshidi to take a realistic look at her relationship with Maidi. She makes a grave decision that sees her effectively eliminating Maidi from her life.
Lucilla is forced to pretend she's okay with Naomi doing impromptu favours for Miles but when Miles suggests they hire Elizabeth as a full-time nanny for Buhle, Lucilla panics as she senses that she may be losing Miles.
Monday 7 November 2011
Episode 1131
Lucilla finds Millicent's prescription and tries to extract details from Elizabeth - to no avail. Suffocate learns that his plan to keep Sihle away from Puleng has not worked.
An aloof Maidi agrees to go back to tutoring Tshidi, from Chilas. Gail tells Niki that replacing Thembi in S'bu's life will be close to impossible.
Tshidi encourages Puleng to go ahead and date Sihle and make Suffocate eat his heart out. Lucilla catches S'bu and Niki kissing on the couch. Naomi threatens to pull the plug on Millicent's medication if Elizabeth crosses her in any way.
Tuesday 8 November 2011
Episode 1132Lucilla gets increasingly anxious about the hold Naomi has over Miles with Millicent. Niki tries to back out of her alliance with Lucilla, but Lucilla blackmails her with her knowledge of Niki and S'bu's affair. Niki is terrified that her relationship with Miles is in jeopardy.
Naomi and S'bu bond as she promises to keep his secret from Miles and gives him advice on his relationship with Niki. Meanwhile, Elizabeth is frightened by the extent of Naomi's obsession with Miles.
Suffocate hides his angst over Puleng and Sihle's date. Puleng turns the date sour. Tshidi is distressed about Maidi not fighting for their relationship. The Khuses treating her on her birthday does little to ease her pain.
Meanwhile, Stone saves Tshidi from having to tell Kop the real reason why she and Maidi are no longer meeting at the house.
Wednesday 9 November 2011
Episode 1133Frightened of losing Miles, Naomi brings Millicent round "on the way to the doctor". Lucilla insists - on threat of disclosing her affair with S'bu - that Niki find out more about Millicent's health problem. Niki goes to see Naomi, but has no luck in finding out what she's after.
Naomi takes the opportunity to further charm the girl. Later, Lucilla suffers another setback, when Miles repudiates her advances, and goes to see Millicent instead. He rejects Naomi's advances as well. A frustrated Naomi reveals just how close to the edge she is.
Kop invites Maidi to the party. Tshidi later urges him to bring his wife to the party. Puleng realises that Suffocate is jealous of Sihle. He thinks she slept with him.
In a fit of vindictiveness, Suffocate fires Sihle, in the face of Puleng's protestations. Tshidi thinks that Puleng should use Sihle to inspire yet more jealousy in Suffocate.
Thursday 10 November 2011
Episode 1134Miles picks up on tension between Lucilla and Niki, but this time doesn't say anything. Tshidi asks Thula to be her date for the party. Puleng invites Sihle to the birthday party.
Puleng and Suffocate quarrel. Miles finally mentions the tension between Lucilla and Niki, but nothing comes of it. Naomi takes the baby to the hospital.
Friday 11 November 2011
Episode 1135Elizabeth and Naomi await news about Millicent's condition. Naomi realises that she can twist the situation to her evil advantage.
Suffocate is still stewing about the Puleng situation. He finds it hard to believe that such a lovely woman can have such poor taste in men. Preparations are complete for Tshidi's party. She is extremely nervous, especially as Maidi and his wife are coming.
Miles is dragged further and further into Naomi's trap, believing her anguish about her child is genuine. Lucilla tries to extract information about Naomi from Elizabeth.
Niki tells Lucilla she doesn't want any more part of her vendetta against Naomi. Lucilla is furious.
Tshidi's party is going well until all hell breaks loose!
Monday, 14 November 2011
Episode 1136Tshidi's 21st birthday party continues to be full of surprises. Despite her reservations, she finds herself bonding with Maidi's wife.
Lucilla is not impressed with Miles's continued worry for Millicent. He spends more time at the hospital and less time with her. Suffocate learns of Puleng's declaration of love and they finally give in to their real feelings for each other.
Puleng ends up spending a night with Suffocate. S'bu is worried that his confession may have pushed Niki away. He's pleasantly surprised by her reaction.
Tuesday 15 November 2011
Episode 1137In spite of Lucilla's warnings, Niki tells Naomi what Lucilla was trying to make her do. Lucilla speaks to Millicent's paediatrician to see if negligence could have caused her condition and finds out Naomi was not to blame.
Nevertheless, she lies to Miles about this and he knows she's lying because he's spoken to the paediatrician himself. It looks like Naomi has everything going her way, until she overplays her hand by giving Miles a kiss that lingers just a bit too long.
Puleng's puzzled when Tshidi speaks disparagingly about Nozipho. She is concerned that Nozipho saw her and Maidi almost kiss at her 21st. Maidi assures her she didn't, but Tshidi becomes very brittle and professional when he wants to know what she and Nozipho were talking about.
Suffocate has difficulty convincing the guys his love bite is really a mosquito bite, but he and Puleng agree to hook up again.
Wednesday 16 November 2011
Episode 1138Miles is stressed out about his kiss with Naomi, and takes it out on Lucilla. Naomi has a hard time dealing with the prospect of Miles being angry at her.
Tshidi is disappointed when she realises how important Maidi's marriage is to him. Puleng, taking Tshidi's advice, gets Suffocate to agree to taking her out on a date.
Miles tells an apologetic Naomi that, from now on, he will only talk to her when he comes to visit Millicent.
After learning that Lucilla is planning on telling Miles about their relationship, S'bu suggests to Niki that they move out, but she declines. Tshidi can't bring herself to tell Nozipho the truth about Maidi.
Elizabeth gets the fright of her life when she finds Naomi in a state.
Thursday 17 November 2011
Episode 1139
Lucilla insists that Niki recommit herself to her vendetta against Naomi. When Niki refuses, Lucilla promises to tell Miles about her affair with S'bu.
Meanwhile, Miles tells Naomi that she must stay out of his life. Naomi, cuddling Millicent, tells the baby that it's now up to her to lure Miles back to her. Frightened that Lucilla blow the whistle on them, Niki goes to see Miles. Naomi later gives Niki some advice.
When Lucilla tells Miles, he responds by saying that he already knows. Maidi warns Tshidi not to mess with his marriage. Nozipho comes to see Tshidi, and pressurises her into having a drink with her at the club. She learns that Nozipho sacrificed her own ambitions to become a doctor in order to support Maidi's studies.
Suffocate is playing his romance with Puleng very close to his chest. He informs the boys that he won't be watching the soccer game with them tonight.
Niki tumbles to the truth when Puleng, dressed to the nines, arrives at the club just as Suffocate descends from his room in his best outfit. The date, at Ponto, is a disaster.
Friday 18 November 2011
Episode 1140Niki reveals to Lucilla that she told Miles about her and S'bu. Lucilla is livid and Miles is extremely confused. Fats is desperately trying to find out where Suffocate was the previous night, to no avail.
S'bu tries to give some context to his relationship with Niki, to help Miles understand.
After his and Puleng's disastrous last date, Suffocate decides to give it another try. Puleng tries to get some clarity about their relationship from Suffocate. Suffocate tells her that he just likes to do stuff. He doesn't like to talk about it.
Maidi is furious when he finds out that Tshidi met with his wife. He tells Tshidi that she must never see Nozipho again. Niki tries to get Miles to understand her relationship with S'bu, but Miles is finding it very difficult.
Monday 21 November 2011
Episode 1141Fats is intrigued to see Puleng emerging from Suffocate's place. Stone advises Tshidi to try harder to stay away from Nozipho. Fats informs Thula about seeing Puleng and Suffocate together.
Meanwhile, Niki makes a special breakfast for the Vilakazis in the spirit of reconciliation, but it fails dismally. Suffocate is not too impressed to learn that Puleng cleaned up his place.
Naomi advises Niki to be open and honest towards Miles. Nozipho bulldozes Tshidi into going out with her. Miles tells Niki that he doesn't intend on breaking up her relationship with S'bu.
Lucilla blackmails Ronald into finding dirt on Naomi. Maidi punches a guy for flirting with Tshidi.
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Episode 1142Suffocate is troubled when Puleng wants to leave some of her stuff at his place. Fats makes his concerns worse.
Miles promises Lucilla he won't see Naomi any more. Naomi is suspicious of Ronald and calls in a surveillance company. Tshidi wants to know what Maidi was thinking, punching that man, but he doesn't know. To her surprise Nozipho apologises to Tshidi for Maidi's behaviour.
S'bu and Niki reveal their relationship to the boys, who don't really seem fussed.
Naomi begs Miles to consider seeing her therapist with her.
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Episode 1143
Miles is very uncomfortable at the first therapy session with Naomi and it doesn't go well. Naomi begs him to try it one more time. Miles feels guilty about not telling Lucilla - who is happily planning their engagement party.
Elizabeth makes plans to escape, but Naomi finds out about them. Tshidi asks Maidi about a particular traumatic event Nozipho referred to, but he just clams up.
After she's written her final exam, Nozipho persuades Tshidi to go back to Club Liberation. Nozipho confides in Tshidi that she and Maidi haven't slept together for almost a year and Tshidi exchanges an intimacy by saying she's in love with someone who is unavailable.
Niki encourages Puleng to tell Suffocate how she feels, but when she tells Suffocate she's in love with him, he reacts badly.
Thursday 24 November 2011
Episoe 1144
Naomi grows increasingly suspicious of Ronald when she sees him plotting with Lucilla. Naomi uncovers their agenda through a crafty device which also reveals Elizabeth in compromising disclosure to Ronald. With intense hardship, Miles starts to open up in his therapy session with Naomi. Niki and S'bu are frustrated by having to tame their affection. Meanwhile, Lucilla suggests to Miles that the two lovebirds should move out. Stone advises Tshidi to cut ties with Nozipho, but Tshidi pursues the association. Nozipho unwittingly pushes Tshidi towards Maidi. Puleng surmises that Suffocate's inability to declare his love for her means that he is only using her for sex. She calls on outside help, much to Suffocate's annoyance. Fats and Thula hit upon indisputable evidence of Puleng and Suffocate's relationship, but Suffocate continues to deny the facts.
Friday 25 November 2011
Episode 1145Tshidi is in a delighted mood after her night with Maidi. Her family picks up on her mood, but has no idea what is causing it. Stone does and is stewing.
Miles is caught in a fraught emotional therapy session and has to confront the trauma of his relationship with Naomi. Naomi subtly threatens Ronald that should he think of betraying her, there will be hell to pay.
Lucilla's insecurity about Miles is growing. When he says he can't attend a marriage-planning meeting, she is extremely suspicious.
Puleng moves her stuff out of Suffocate's place. Suffocate turns to the guys for advice in trying to understand women. Stone catches Maidi and Tshidi together and lets rip.
Lucilla walks into Miles and Naomi together and is horrified.
Monday, 28 November 2011
Episode 1146Ronald is on the verge of discovering that Millicent is not Naomi's child. Naomi realises this and tells him that she's transferring him to their sister Cape Town station. He is to leave at once.
When he tells Lucilla, she threatens to tell David that Ronald plotted with her to kill him. Miles tries to justify his accompanying Naomi to her therapy sessions - but Lucilla doesn't buy it.
Later, Naomi pops in on Lucilla to bring her flowers, "as a peace offering". Lucilla invites herself to the next session with the psychiatrist, surprising both Naomi and Miles.
Tshidi appeals to Stone to give her and Maidi a chance. Nozipho discovers that Thula is not Tshidi's mystery man. Nozipho invites Tshidi to Club Liberation - and asks her directly whether she finds Maidi attractive.
In the hopes of getting them to settle their differences, Fats contrives to lock Suffocate and Puleng in the storeroom. This does not have the desired effect. After they escape, Suffocate descends on Fats, who makes his escape.
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Episode 1147Lucilla has cleverly manipulated herself into attending Naomi and Miles's session with Dr Mazibuko. She is however unable to contain her rage against Naomi, leading Dr Mazibuko to suggest that she needs to attend counselling herself.
Lucilla steals a few pages from Dr Mazibuko's prescription pad. She then manipulates Elizabeth into helping her switch Naomi's medication for a bottle containing double the dosage. Naomi, meanwhile, plans to get rid of Millicent in an effort to bind Miles, in their grief, to one another forever.
Tshidi freaks out to Maidi. She's convinced that Nozipho is onto their affair. Tshidi, determined to "get it over with" agrees to meet Nozipho for a drink. She is stunned when Nozipho "comes out with it": she wants Tshidi to sleep with Maidi.
Puleng and Suffocate are furious with Fats for locking them in the storeroom. He forces them to think about their relationship when he admits how much he misses Karabo, and how he would do anything to have her with him.
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Episode 1148
Thula works out that Tshidi's seeing Maidi. Lucilla's plan to switch Naomi's drugs goes into operation. Miles says he can't wait for the engagement party.
Tshidi tells Maidi about Nozipho's indecent proposal, and Nozipho begs her to reconsider her refusal. Suffocate confesses his love to Puleng, and the club hears. Naomi collapses.
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