On Rhythm City in February, 2008:
Friday 1 February 2008
Episode 150
Gail agrees to accompany Thembi to the gynaecologist on Monday. It’s D-day for Fats to put his words into action. S’bu tells Miles of Thembi’s suspicions about Ngidi. Miles tries to get Rachel to see the amount of control she’s given Ngidi over her life. Ngidi and Nokuthula take Thembi’s absence as an opportunity to make themselves even more at home.
Monday 4 February 2008
Episode 151
Bernard finally asks Gail out on a date but she becomes suspicious of his motives. When work commitments prevent Gail from accompanying Thembi to the clinic for her termination, S’bu gallantly steps into the breach. Encouraged by David, Sunay investigates Rachel’s suspicions about Ngidi and Nokuthula and makes a startling discovery. Armed with Sunay’s photographic evidence Rachel confronts Ngidi. Despite Stone’s increasing pessimism over the whole romantic enterprise, he and Fats manage to cook up a drastic new plan to win Charlotte’s heart.
Tuesday 5 February 2008
Episode 152
Upon learning that Nokuthula is Ngidi’s traditional wife, Rachel goes into a tailspin. She turns to Sunay, who tries to encourage Rachel to take matters into her own hands. Stone writes a letter for Fats to give to Charlotte, having set things in motion for the Lovin’@Lunchtime shout out live on 9-Nine FM.
The plan works like a bomb and Fats finds himself going out on a ‘date’ with Charlotte. Unfortunately his nerves get the better of him and Stone finds himself standing in. The Redemption office is abuzz with rumours of Gail’s upcoming date.
Wednesday 6 February 2008
Episode 153
There’s open warfare between Rachel and her husband, Pastor Ngidi. Nokuthula is happy to side with him. Rachel discusses the matter with Miles, opening up the question of divorce. Rachel returns home and asks Ngidi whether he plans to sleep with his two wives on alternate nights.
Fats, ashamed of his behaviour when he fled from Charlotte at the club last night, asks Stone to help him repair the damage. It takes Tshidi to notice that Charlotte and Stone get on far better than Fats and Charlotte ever have. Thembi resumes work at 9-Nine FM.
Thursday 7 February 2008
Episode 154
Rachel is still torn between her love for Ngidi and the domestic situation with Nokuthula. Encouraged by Stone, Fats screws up his courage and asks Charlotte out for a romantic one-on-one date. Stone is unhappy about his role in what is becoming a triangle of love. At 9-Nine FM, Thembi is struggling to adapt to her new job and cope with the malignant presence of DJ Ngwazi. Thembi tells Rachel she had a miscarriage.
Friday 8 February 2008
Episode 155
Rachel discovers Pastor Ngidi is plundering her finances and confronts him. Fats is very excited about his second date with Charlotte, but Stone knows she has agreed to meet him just so she can break up with him. DJ Ngwazi loses the plot on air and gives out David’s cell phone number to field complaints. David is not amused and hunts DJ Ngwazi down. David also makes a shocking offer to Rachel on how to deal with the Pastor Ngidi problem.
Monday 11 February 2008
Episode 156
Rachel decides she must take action after Ngidi withdraws money from her account. Miles encourages her to move her money to a safer place, but Rachel doesn’t take him up on the suggestion. She decides rather, that in order to outplay Ngidi, she needs to beat him at his own game.
When Fats is a no show at breakfast, Stone assumes the worst. DJ Ngwazi finally decides he’s had enough of David, Thembi, and 9-Nine FM and has a minor melt down in the studio that ends with him resigning on-air.
Tuesday 12 February 2008
Episode 157
Lucilla proposes a press conference to shame Pastor Ngidi, and smoke him out. But there are two complications to her plan: Rachel will have to get Nokuthula on her side - as well as lay Ngidi’s suspicions to rest. A conflicted Stone avoids a pining Charlotte, but his secret catches up with him when Charlotte learns he is the author of Fats’ love letters to her. DJ Ngwazi conducts his last radio show at 9-Nine FM.
Wednesday 13 February 2008
Episode 158
Pastor Ngidi is pretty sure he’s got his bread buttered on both sides. Little does he know that the two women in his life are plotting a media expose of his lying, cheating ways. Nokuthula is finding it difficult to betray her husband... but with Rachel, she plays the doting wife and Lucilla gets on board to help them organize a press conference. Charlotte musters the courage to confront Stone about his feelings for her, but Stone does the right thing and stands by Fats.
Thursday 14 February 2008
Episode 159
Rachel and Nokuthula meet with Miles and Lucilla to prepare for the press conference. Ngidi begins to suspect that something may be going on behind his back. Stone is wracked with guilt because of his stolen kiss with Charlotte. Fats is over the moon about the fact that he and Charlotte are now official.
S’bu brings a couple of friends to the Kilowatt Club who are interested in having a bachelorette party at the club. David confronts Gina about her dealings behind his back and she realizes she is in serious trouble with him.
Friday 15 February 2008
Episode 160
The press conference is well attended. Rachel addresses the media on the subject of her marriage and hands the microphone to Nokuthula for her to reveal her true identity then Ngidi makes an appearance. Nokuthula buckles, turns on Rachel and the others and praises her husband as a latter-day saint before running off with him.
Charlotte informs Fats that she can’t go to the bachelorette party that night. David appears to forgive Gina for her misdemeanour. He asks her to meet a business associate of his on Monday and to wear something that shows off her assets.
Monday 18 February 2008
Episode 161
Rachel is still trying to recover from the press conference. Lucilla, Miles and Thembi do their best to comfort her but they cannot understand how Pastor Ngidi found out about it. Rachel tells the pastor she wants a divorce. Ngidi and Nokuthula leave together, but not before he makes it clear to Rachel that she’ll never be rid of him.
Fats protests his innocence about Grace and narrowly avoids being beaten up by her jealous fiancé. David introduces Gina to Alfonso, a somewhat seedy millionaire. Alfonso offers Gina a large amount of money to sleep with him. She refuses.
Tuesday 19 February 2008
Episode 162
Miles tells Rachel that the pastor has taken half of the money in her bank account, a figure of nearly one million Rand. Unhappy at the fact that Thembi has not yet come home, she tells Miles that she probably deserved it. When Thembi does come home, it's only to tell her mother that she’s not ready to move back in. She tells her, almost as an afterthought, that she didn’t have a miscarriage.
Charlotte tells Stone that she intends breaking up with Fats. When Fats comes clean with her, she graciously tells him that she never did deserve him. Gina meets the man she believes is the millionaire Alfonso to tell him she will not accept his offer to sleep with him.
Wednesday 20 February 2008
Episode 163
S’bu tells Miles that he thinks Redemption Records should change its direction, but is stopped in his tracks when Miles offers him the job of doing the final mix and launch of Rachel’s new album. However, S’bu’s interest is in auditioning as a presenter for a new reality TV music show.
Now that Fats has broken up with her, Charlotte feels the way is clear to have a relationship with Stone. Stone, however, still feels guilty for having gone behind Fats’ back. Gina finally decides to have sex for money with Alfonso.
Thursday 21 February 2008
Episode 164
Miles and Lucilla are hit with a sudden, shocking, new financial demand - one that they realise will have severe repercussions for Redemption Records. S’bu is determined to become a television celebrity. Gina, badly rattled by her evening with Alfonso, is determined to put it behind her. But is it all exactly as it seems? What is David up to? Stone is still suffering agonies of guilt, but with a little timely intervention from Tshidi, his relationship with Charlotte takes yet another twist.
Friday 22 February 2008
Episode 165
S’bu is a little over-confident going into his audition for the reality show he wants to host. Part of his confidence is based on knowing Thembi is on the selection committee. Stone and Charlotte decide to keep their relationship secret. Fats’ one-night stand, Grace, rocks up unexpectedly at the club. David meets with Alfonso, now revealed to be someone called Ronald, and pays him for services rendered. Gina finally discovers she’s been had and gets horribly drunk.
Monday 25 February 2008
Episode 166
S’bu makes it to the short-list as presenter of “Star Struck”. Thembi still has her reservations about the job. When he hears there’s going to be some stiff competition, S’bu asks Thembi if he can count on her support. Although Suffocate is convinced that Grace has the hots for Fats, especially when she comes to see him yet again, Fats is convinced she has problems with her fiancé.
Stone and Charlotte still go to great lengths to keep their relationship a secret. They meet in their secret place behind the club, Suffocate walks in to find them kissing.
Tuesday 26 February 2008
Episode 167
S’bu gets a call back for the presenter job. He is convinced that, with Thembi’s help, he can get the job. Suffocate unsuccessfully tries to alert him to the dodgy ethics. David talks Thembi into writing an article about the Pussycat Lounge and manipulates her into telling him what Gina has said about him. He then uses this against Gina.
Grace seeks Fats out at the gym … again. S’bu and Suffo desperately try and get Fats to nip the Grace situation in the bud. Bernard remains convinced that he is going to be retrenched. No one is able to stop his rampant paranoia.
Wednesday 27 February 2008
Episode 168
S’bu is completely thrown by the unexpected request to sing during his audition. He consoles himself with the thought that Thembi will surely support him. Grace pitches up at the club wearing her wedding dress. She is pursued by her angry fiancée. Grace confides in Fats that the reason she can’t marry Thabang is because she must be in love with Fats.
Bernard braces himself for life after Redemption Records. He is pleasantly surprised, however, when Miles congratulates him on taking a smaller stand and thereby saving the company money.
Thursday 28 February 2008
Episode 169
Miles gives Bernard a choice: retrenchment or a twenty five per cent cut in salary. Bernard is in a state of shock. Fats, faced with the dilemma of a girl claiming to be in love with him and wanting to marry him, calls on her friends to dissuade Grace from this perilous determination. Lineo and Bianca fail to shift Grace. Suffocate and S’bu fails to persuade the girls to stay on for a night of passion.
Thembi tries to persuade Gina to consider a career outside the sleaze industry. But as Gina confesses to David, she can’t conceive of a world beyond the Pussycat Lounge.
Friday 29 February 2008
Episode 170
S’bu and Thembi have a flaming row when he fails to make the cut. Grace announces her intention to marry Fats, and Thabang announces his intention to kill the man who cuckolded him. Sunay moves into Rachel’s house. Bernard struggles to accept developments in his professional life. David - with a little erotic innuendo - stirs more trouble between Gina and Thembi.
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