Yahoo News Hollyoaks airs shock arrest in Rayne death storyline
Hollyoaks spoilers follow.
Tonight's (September 26) Hollyoaks saw a shock arrest as the soap properly kicked off its big whodunit mystery following the death of Rayne Royce.
On Monday night's hour-long episode, Rayne was hosting a luxury villa party to impress the producers of reality series Love Cave.
While Rayne had carefully curated the evening's guestlist, the event ended up being gatecrashed by her her arch-nemesis Peri Lomax and Brent – Rayne's supposedly-dead ex-boyfriend.
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The party saw Rayne finally being exposed for all her lies and manipulations however it ended in an unexpectedly shocking twist as the influencer was found dead in the pool at the end of the night.
The episode ended with a tearful Romeo shouting: "She's dead. Who did this? Who did this? Someone here did this to her," perhaps ruling him out as a suspect.
Tonight Peri tried with no avail to resuscitate Rayne after Romeo pulled her body from the pool. After her death was confirmed, Zoe tried to keep things calm telling everyone to wait inside as the police were on their way.
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Speaking to Peri, Zoe revealed she saw an injury on Rayne's head and also shared that Brent was now missing. Meanwhile, inside the house, Nadira told Lacey that she suspects Rayne was murdered.
After arriving on the scene the police took the group into custody, with Peri and Romeo taken into one room. Feeling under pressure, Romeo immediately spilled that Brent was missing before turning on Peri and saying it's her fault that Rayne is dead.
When interviewed alone, detectives told Romeo that Rayne had suffered a blunt force trauma to the head before quizzing him on his relationship with her.
Meanwhile Lacey confessed to arguing with Rayne before her death after finding out that Brent was still alive.
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During his grilling, Prince tried to rule himself out sharing that he has an alibi - he was in bed with Faye at the time of Rayne's death.
When Hunter was in the hot seat he pleaded for Phoenix to be let out and, during her turn, Nadira smartly asked for a lawyer. During Peri's questioning she thought about asking for a lawyer but didn't want to look guilty, instead she tried to convince police that Romeo couldn't be responsible.
Police then revealed to Peri that Brent had been found, before he was then brought into the station in handcuffs, telling police he "just freaked out".
However, once an officer told the detective what was found in Brent's car he was immediately arrested for Rayne's murder.
What has Brent been hiding and is he the real culprit?
From Monday, September 25, Hollyoaks will stream first online via Channel 4 each weekday. Episodes then air on E4 the following day, before getting their YouTube premiere a week after that.
Selected omnibus episodes are available via Prime Video.
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