'Home and Away' spoilers for Dec. 5 - 8: Drug syndicate makes its presence felt; Zac and Bianca spend time together; Matt, Ash, VJ and Billie feel uncomfortable withholding the truth

The holidays are here but the next week will be far from pleasant at Summer Bay. Bullets will fly over the bay as one character gets shot and another gets held hostage. A violent drug syndicate takes its grip on some characters and causes some violence to tear them apart.

Spoiler alert! This article contains “Home and Away” spoilers. Read on if you would like to know what happens next before the next episode airs.

On Monday , December 5, Justin Morgan (James Stewart) and Kat Chapman (Pia Miller) will put their lives on the line as they try to find out if Ranae Turner (Sacha Horler) has some degree of participation in the syndicate. Hunter King (Scott Lee) unintentionally pushes Olivia Richards (Raechelle Banno) closer to Mason

Back to the Bay reports that on Tuesday December 6, Ranae doubles down and pursues to Morgans. Justin will take a risk through a call and puts their lives in peril. Zac MacGuire (Charlie Clausen) and Bianca Scott (Lisa Gormley) spend some time with each other and viewers will see where that leads to in this episode.

On Wednesday, Evelyn MacGuire (Philippa Northeast) gets scared to get things moving forward with her and Matt Page (Alec Snow). VJ Patterson (Matt Little), Billie Ashford (Tessa de Josselin) and Ash (George Mason) get uncomfortable leaving Leah Baker (Ada Nicodemou) with no clue about Billie’s baby.

On Thursday, Heath Braxton’s (Dan Ewing) past will haunt him. Ash almost discovers the identity of Billie’s rapist. Matt’s efforst to help Phoebe Nicholson (Isabella Giovinazzo) backfires at them.

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Other spoilers reveal that this week’s drama will be centred on a flash drive which contains Atticus Decker’s (John Adam) files on his research about the drug syndicate that killed the Morgan’s parents. The event had pushed the siblings to resort to witness protection. They will find the flash drive and think that it holds the answers to their questions about the syndicate and that it could set them free.

“Home and Away” airs Monday to Thursday at 7:00 p.m. on Seven Network in Australia. In the UK, “Home and Away” airs during weekdays at 1:15 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. on Channel 5.