“A stranger in the bay” is how the new promo begins, as it shows a blurred (and yet vaguely familiar) figure walking along the beach holding a large black carry case.

We then see panic outside the Surf Club as beachgoers race away from the sand, while club president Alf (Ray Meagher) screams out, “Get inside now you lot, go!”

“I need an ambulance and police to Summer Bay,” Alf tells the person on the other end of the 000 call, and a police car soon speeds up, stopping outside the club.

“But who won’t make it?” asks the promo’s voiceover, before flicking through shots of Mackenzie (Emily Weir), Cash (Nicholas Cartwright), Leah (Ada Nicodemou), Remi (Adam Rowland) and Dana (Ally Harris). Felicity (Jacqui Purvis) is then heard on the phone to Tane (Ethan Browne), who is preparing for his day in court for the abduction of baby Maia. At that moment, Tane spots the suspicious-looking figure walk past, still carrying his black carry case.

While the promo makes out that it’s either Mackenzie, Cash, Leah, Remi, Dana or Tane who won’t survive next week’s dramatic scenes, there’s one name missing from that list – Stevie Marlow (Catherine Văn-Davies).

Actress Stevie spent months being tormented by a stalker, who went as far as to break into her house and take photos of her sleeping.

She employed Cash as her bodyguard and was moved to safer accommodation – first an anonymous hotel in the city, and later to Cash’s house in Summer Bay – to keep her location a secret from her stalker.

There had been concern about how far the stalker would go when Stevie later informed Cash that Crystal (Sheridan Harbridge), her co-star from her latest horror movie, had recently died after falling from a cliff.

Stevie was certain that Crystal would never have gone near a cliff edge, being afraid of heights, so was convinced that her friend must have been murdered.

Stevie eventually grew tired of hiding away and fired Cash, before attending the red carpet event announcing her new film, All Our Tomorrows.

Yet it wasn’t long before her stalker showed his face, waiting in the crowd for Stevie to come outside and sign autographs.