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Rhythm City this March, 2011:
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Episode 952Miles, freaked out by Suzuki's late night visit, calls Ivan. Ivan tells Miles to pay Suzuki if he wants to keep his family safe, but Miles doesn't have that kind of cash available, and begs Ivan to lend it to him.
Ivan basically tells Miles, "you make your bed, you lie in it." Miles is gutted.
Later that night Ivan forces Lucilla's hand; if she wants the threat to her family, David, eliminated she must accept his indecent proposal.
Tshidi continues to be torn by her feelings for Dylan and Thula. Thula pulls out all the stops to convince her that they belong together.
She goes to Dylan and confesses that she slept with Thula; he is devastated, and Tshidi is guilt-stricken.
Fats gets caught red-handed by Mamokete and Kop spying for Caroline and Rose. However, rather than expose their trickery the Khuses decide to teach them a lesson.
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Episode 953Lucilla is trying desperately to avoid her pact with Ivan Tshinawa. When Suarez Baloyi begs her to rethink prosecuting David Genaro she thinks this might be her way out.
Mamokete coerces Fats to become a double agent and spread untruths back to the other choir. Fats is finding himself increasingly compromised. Tshidi feels awful about telling Dylan she slept with Thula.
Miles talks Lucilla out of testifying ensuring that she has no choice but to continue her pact with Tshinawa. Dylan tells Tshidi that he does not want to be with her any more.
David meets with Ivan and asks him straight if he is out to get him.
Thursday, 3 March 2010
Episode 954David's convinced Ivan was helping Miles with the hit and tells Ronald to switch his surveillance to him.
Meanwhile, Ivan phones Lucilla and tells her to meet him in a seedy motel to consummate their deal. She balks, says she's having second thoughts and turns him down.
Ivan later explains to her that nothing will stop David except bullets and she feels her choices narrowing down again.
Tshidi feels terrible after Dylan broke up with her and Puleng advises her to have some down time. She tells Thula about the breakup, but doesn't mention she told Dylan they'd had sex together.
Thula is understandably blindsided when Dylan confronts him, tells him Tshidi told him and says he doesn't want to see Thula ever again.
The sing-off takes place between the two rival choirs and ends badly for both of them.
Friday, 4 March 2010
Episode 955Mamokete thinks there can still be a way to save the choir to enter the competition.
With Suzuki breathing down his neck, Miles is forced to resort to desperate measures. On the other hand, Tshidi's world is falling apart as both men in her life turn against her.
Lucilla makes a decision about Ivan's demands while Suarez Baloyi hammers her about pressing charges against David.
Meanwhile David manipulates Gail's trust to his own advantage.
Monday, 7 March 2010
Episode 956Miles and Lucilla are keeping secrets from each other. They're both about to do something immoral in order to protect their family. They seek solace and justification from each other without revealing anything.
Miles defrauds Redemption to pay off Suzuki and, after some agonizing, Lucilla gives in to Ivan's demands.
Meanwhile, David doesn't understand why his surveillance on Ivan Tshinawa hasn't produced any positive result. Ronald suggests that they call the whole thing off, but David decides to keep it on for one more day.
Thula and Tshidi are finding it increasingly difficult to navigate their way through a crumbling relationship. X9's growing influence on Thula and Tshidi's pride are proving to be major stumbling blocks.
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Episode 957
Lucilla feels dreadful about having slept with Ivan Tshinawa. Later she demands he fulfil his end of the bargain and have David Genaro taken out.
Ivan promises to take care of it - but we have a strong suspicion he intends doing nothing of the sort.
In the meantime, Ronald reports that Lucilla and Ivan have been spotted going to a hotel together. David instructs Ronald to bug both Miles and Lucilla's phones - which he does. He wants evidence of Lucilla's adultery.
Meanwhile, Rhonda comes to Miles to quiz him about the money missing from their account. He tries to quell her suspicions.
Thula is avoiding confronting the issue of his slow-burn betrayal of Tshidi. She, in the meantime, is urged to talk to Thula about her feelings by Puleng.
When she attempts to do so, however, Thula holds her at bay, preferring the company of x9 and the babes. x9 encourages Thula to blow Tshidi off.
Rose reluctantly accedes to Fats's request to allow Nana to join the choir - but then, when the girl arrives late to a rehearsal and cheeks her, Rose promptly fires her.
Wednesday, 9 March 2010
Episode 958Lucilla is feeling guilty after her assignation with Ivan, and Miles is feeling anxious about the secret he's keeping from her.
Tshidi is still shocked at Thula's behaviour toward her, and is beginning to regret ending it with Dylan. She tries to throw herself at Dylan's mercy, with poor results.
David takes some pleasure in teasing and tormenting Lucilla, but his real pay-day comes when Ronald's electronic surveillance of Lucilla pays off.
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Episode 959David salivates over the tape Ronald has brought him featuring Lucilla and Ivan. Gail plants a seed of doubt in S'bu's mind about Miles and the hit on David.
S'bu asks his father if he had anything to do with the assassination attempts on David. Miles denies it fervently.
David blackmails Lucilla into telling S'bu that it was Miles who ordered the hit.
Tshidi is caught in a whirlwind of regret and confusion over Thula and Dylan. Suffocate gently leans on Thula to clean up his act. Thula tries to apologise to Tshidi but she rejects it.
Fats has been trying to understand why his mother is so happy and then he walks into the yard late at night and he sees the reason why - it is shocking.
Friday, 10 March 2011
Episode 960Lucilla comes to the conclusion that not only was Ivan playing with her when he promised to dispose of David, but now David is increasingly serious about forcing her to tell S'bu the truth about Miles.
Tshidi gets briefly hopeful that Dylan wants to get things together again, but all he wants is his lobola money back. She starts to accept that she has messed up... again.
While Thula is finding rather crass ways of getting over his feelings for her, with the help of X9.
Fats is trying hard not to get his mother to tell him the details of her relationship with Kagiso. But she is determined to rebuild their relationship.
Monday, 14 March 2010
Episode 961Lucilla calls Ivan again, hoping to convince him to keep his end of the bargain and kill David, but Ivan has had enough fun and games. He tells her in no uncertain terms that he's not going to do it.
Lucilla follows him to Ponto and accuses him of recording their conversation and giving the tape to David.
Tshidi and Dylan continue to dispute whether or not the lobola money was paid back into Dylan's account. Tshidi approaches her father and he tells her the truth.
Seeing no other way out of David's blackmail, Lucilla confesses all to S'bu. She tells him that Miles was behind the attempt on David's life.
Tuesday, 15 March 2010
Episode 962Ivan makes sure David doesn't plan to do anything with the information he has on his sexual liaison with Lucilla and they form a non-aggression pact.
S'bu discusses Lucilla's revelation with Gail and she says he must ask his father if it's true. He's afraid to because he feels his world will come tumbling down, but he goes to see Miles and puts the question to him.
Miles admits he hired someone to kill David.
Kop talks to Mamokete about Tshidi and cracks are showing in her resolve to cut off her daughter. Meanwhile, things go from bad to worse with Tshidi and Dylan when she tells him Kop can only pay off the lobola in instalments.
Fats is mortified when he tells Suffocate about the affair between Kagiso and his mother. Later, he meets Kagiso and tells him to back off or else.
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Episode 963Caroline gives Fats hell for trying to interfere with her relationship with Kagiso. She begs Fats to try tod come to terms with it by going out with them.
S'bu is reeling after Miles's revelations about the hit on David. Miles is desperate to find out who told S'bu.
Lucilla, in an attempt to assuage her own guilt, tells him this is not the right time. He should be concentrating on S'bu.
David is celebrating his manipulation of Miles and S'bu when Suarez Baloyi arrives and tells him she is going to press charges against him.
Kop asks Thula for a very big favour and Thula agrees, to Kop's great happiness.
Miles asks Tshinawa if he told David and gets more than he bargained for. David visits Lucilla and blackmails her again, this time to be his star witness in his trial.
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Episode 964Miles is freaking out about S'bu, and assumes David is the one who told him about the murder attempt. He assumes the truce is broken and confronts David about it. David waters the seed of doubt in S'bu's heart.
Tshidi discovers Dylan has received his money, and is horrified to discover where the money came from. The drinks date with Fats and his mom doesn't go as planned.
Friday, 18 March 2010
Episode 965After his session with S'bu, Miles feels as if everything is spinning out of his control. Rhonda lets him know that she is increasingly concerned about the missing R850K.
Later, we see him toying with the idea of suicide. Lucilla surprises him with a handful of sleeping tablets - but manages to talk him out of doing anything foolish.
David instructs Ronald to let Lucilla know that her best course of action is to testify on his behalf in court. Reluctantly Suffocate agrees to let Puleng bring Matric to work for a few days while her mother's out of town.
In the meantime, Suffocate tries to enthuse S'bu about the track X9 has recorded -- but without much success.
Later, Tshidi, confirming that Thula lent her father the money he needs to repay the lobola to Dylan, tells him to keep his nose out of her affairs in future. She goes to her mother, hoping for some sort of reconciliation - but receives a final rebuff: her mother doesn't want her coming home again at all.
Fats and his mother have a set to in the backyard of Mamokete's house. Fats is scared that she's going to embarrass the family by revealing her affair with Kagiso.
Mamokete draws them into the kitchen, where between them, Caroline and Fats let the cat out of the bag. Mamokete and Kop are shocked.
Monday, 21 March 2010
Episode 966
Caroline opens up to Mamokete about her relationship with Kagiso. Totally thrown by Miles's behaviour, Lucilla turns to Ivan for answers. But Ivan is enjoying the situation too much to help.
Ronald tells David that he thinks Lucilla is on board. In an attempt to make Cuba understand where she is coming from, Mamokete tells her the truth about Tshidi's abortion.
Lucilla suggests to Ronald that they kill David, but Ronald tells her that he will never turn against David again. In light of the new information, Cuba tells Puleng that she has decided to charge Tshidi rent with immediate effect.
Miles attempts to enlist Gail's help to reach out to S'bu, but Gail tells him to forget it.
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Episode 967S'bu debates the wisdom of telling David that Miles was the man who tried to have him killed. Puleng tells Tshidi she'll have to start paying rent.
When Suarez Baloyi learns of Lucilla's defection, she swears vengeance. Fats's tension builds with Kagiso.
The pressure builds to breaking point on Miles when Rhonda tells him she's calling in the forensic auditors.
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Episode 968Kop and Mamokete have an argument about Mamokete's decision to banish Tshidi from the house.
S'bu tells Gail that he's going to spill the beans to David about his would-be assassin. Lucilla finds Miles passed out after an overdose of whisky and tablets.
Meanwhile, Thula and Suffocate find Fats in a bad mood kicking clients out of the gym. Suffocate tells Puleng that he's not too enthusiastic about Matric spending time at the club.
David comes to Lucilla's house and tells her that she's done well thus far, and that he'll leave them alone if they leave him alone.
Mamokete asks Kop if she can invite Caroline and Kagiso over for dinner.
Lucilla begs S'bu to forgive his father. Rhonda meets up with Lucilla to tell her that she thinks that Miles has taken money from Redemption.
Thursday, 24 March 2010
Episode 969Lucilla tells Ivan about Miles's suicide. He calms her and says that Miles is a good man, but a weak man. Fats gives the guys hell about being so nice to Kagiso.
S'bu tries to tell David about his father and the hit and David, the great peacemaker, says he doesn't want to know anything that will affect the peace with Miles and Lucilla.
S'bu is seriously impressed. S'bu and David reconcile.
Suffocate buys Matric a new doll and tries to give it to her, but she will not let go of Ngozi's doll.
Kop is extremely unhappy about having to host Kagiso and Caroline for dinner. But it turns out that he has plenty in common with Kagiso and they are getting on like a house on fire until ... Miles confesses to Lucilla about stealing the money from Redemption. They have to find some money and they have to find it fast.
Friday, 25 March 2011
Episode 970Miles is grateful that Lucilla has forgiven him his embezzlement, and relieved that she has undertaken to go to Ivan and borrow the money he stole.
He meets with Gail in the hope that she can broker a peace between him and S'bu. She makes it clear that she won't get involved in their relationship.
Lucilla meets with Ivan. He realises something's up when the amount she wants to borrow is the exact amount Miles still needed in order to pay Suzuki out.
A young pretty and mysterious stranger turns up at Lucilla's home, looking for Miles.
Thula and X9 are high on life and celebrating. They plan a night of wine, women and song. Tshidi pitches up to the club ready to take care of Matric.
She looks all over the club, but can't find the child anywhere. Caroline, to her horror, discovers that Sis Bee knows about her affair with Kagiso.
Monday, 28 March 2011
Episode 971A girl in her early twenties, accompanied by a louche companion, arrive at Redemption in search of Miles Vilakazi.
Ivan makes a clumsy play for the girl, who charmingly brushes him off. Ivan tells Lucilla that Miles has been embezzling money from Redemption. If she wants him, Ivan, to conceal the theft, she must pay him the usual fee.
When Miles eventually returns, the girl introduces herself as the daughter of Miles's ex-wife.
Matric has gone missing. Amidst an air of gradually increasing panic, Tshidi, Puleng and Suffocate launch a series of searches to find the little girl.
Eventually, Suffocate finds her in the car park out back: she has been run over. She is dead.
Fats challenges his mother with information he's found that she's applied for a loan: it's for Kagiso, her toy-boy, isn't it? Later when Kagiso arrives at the gym for a workout, Fats attacks him.
Caroline, happening to pass by, defends her man from her son, and in so doing reveals to a fascinated Rose that she is dating someone decades younger than herself.
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Episode 972Niki fills Miles in on her backstory and as they piece the puzzle together, Miles becomes increasingly convinced she could be his daughter.
Just before Lucilla goes out to get the money and pay Ivan the interest, Miles arrives home with Niki and announces to Lucilla that she's going to be staying with them for a while.
Suffocate, Puleng and Tshidi wait in vain for an ambulance and then rush the unconscious Matric to the hospital in Suffocate's car, where she is immediately taken to the trauma unit.
Fats arrives at the Khuses and asks for the key to the backroom because Caroline has kicked him out of her house. Mamokete and Kop undergo phase 1 of the invasion by Fats.
Wednesday, 30 March 2010
Episode 973While Miles is thrilled at the possibility of Niki being his daughter, Lucilla thinks she is not to be trusted.
Puleng learns that, although Matric's condition is stable, it is also critical. Mamokete's efforts to intervene in Caroline and Kagiso's affair come to nought. Lucilla is having a hard time trusting Niki, so she asks Ronald to investigate her.
S'bu tells Gail that she and his discussions with David are the only things bringing him joy at the moment. Thula finally gets the details of the accident and can't help feeling he might have been the culprit.
Thursday, 31 March 2010
Episode 974Miles bonds big time with Niki becoming ever more convinced that he is related to this girl. Lucilla has other ideas.
The community is trying to come to terms with Matric's accident. Mamokete is devastated feeling that if she had been baby-sitting this would never have happened.
Lucilla tries to get Ronald to dig some dirt on Niki. He refuses saying he serves only one master. David, however, has other ideas.
Miles wants Niki to meet S'bu. Lucilla tells him to slow down, but he goes and tells him about her anyway.
Kop and Jafta are united in disapproving of younger men pouncing on their women. Miles bursts into S'bu's apartment and tells him that there is a young woman at their house that claims to be his sister.
Tshidi tries to get Puleng to leave the hospital, just to have a break, a meal. Puleng refuses saying she will not leave the hospital without her child.
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