Next week on Home and Away, viewers will witness one of the most harrowing storylines the series has delivered in recent years, as Levi’s carefully held-together world

finally shatters. What begins as quiet grief and emotional distance spirals into a public breakdown that leaves Levi under arrest, his medical career hanging by a thread,

and his family questioning how everything went so wrong so fast. At the heart of this devastating arc is Levi’s relationship with McKenzie, a love story already tested beyond endurance.

After months of hope, heartbreak, and resilience, the couple finally believed their dreams were within reach when their second round of IVF proved successful. It was a moment they had waited for—imagining a future that had felt painfully out of grasp. But that joy was brutally short-lived. Only days later, McKenzie suffered a miscarriage, ripping away not just a pregnancy, but the fragile optimism that had sustained them through months of struggle.

For McKenzie, the loss was unbearable. Rather than leaning on Levi, she retreated inward, consumed by grief she couldn’t yet articulate. The pain deepened when her brother Dean announced that he and Ziggy had welcomed their second child. While happy for them, McKenzie was blindsided by the cruel contrast—new life arriving just as hers was taken away. Overwhelmed and unable to cope, she made a sudden decision to leave Summer Bay and head to Queensland, claiming she needed to help care for her niece while Dean and Ziggy adjusted to life with newborn Danielle.

Levi agreed to give her space, though the decision came at great personal cost. He understood McKenzie’s pain, but the silence that followed quickly became suffocating. When Eden later discovered that McKenzie had stopped taking calls from her sister Abigail as well, alarm bells began to ring. Desperate to reconnect the fractured couple, Eden borrowed Molly’s phone to contact McKenzie directly, urging her to stop shutting Levi out and face the grief together.

The call ended abruptly. McKenzie hung up, leaving Eden wracked with guilt, convinced she had made everything worse. Although Dean later reassured Molly and Levi that McKenzie was “doing fine,” both men knew the truth—McKenzie was putting on a brave face, hiding behind distance instead of healing.

Trying to escape the emotional pressure cooker, Levi threw himself back into work, insisting that routine would help steady him. Molly and Eden worried he wasn’t in the right headspace, but Levi brushed off their concerns, determined to keep functioning no matter the cost.

At the hospital, Levi’s inner turmoil becomes impossible to ignore. Bri updates him on her ongoing campaign to introduce personal alarms for hospital staff, a cause she’s been deeply committed to since surviving a terrifying stabbing by an unstable patient the previous year. Still haunted by the tragic death of a junior doctor in 2019, Bri is determined to improve safety—but her efforts have stalled after the board claimed there was no budget to support the initiative.

It quickly becomes clear Levi isn’t fully present. Bri notices his distracted responses and gently presses him to open up. Eventually, the truth spills out. Levi admits that McKenzie has miscarried and left town, cutting off contact and leaving him terrified that she may never come back.

That evening, Bri tries to offer support, inviting Levi to dinner at Salt. Over drinks, he finally allows himself to voice his deepest fear—that McKenzie is slipping away for good, and that their shared grief may have permanently fractured their relationship. Bri listens with compassion, but even her reassurance can’t calm the storm building inside him.

The next day, Levi’s emotions erupt. His raised voice echoes through the hospital corridors as he leaves a furious voicemail for McKenzie, begging her to at least tell him when she plans to return. When Bri checks in, he insists he’s fine to continue his shift—but the cracks are already showing.

Everything comes to a head when Levi encounters Lars, a patient involved in a road rage incident. What should have been a routine interaction quickly escalates. When Levi issues a warning, Lars responds with aggressive defiance. Moments later, Levi steps out of a lift to witness a horrifying scene: Lars is violently shoving Bri, demanding to confront the other driver involved in the incident.

Without thinking, Levi reacts on pure instinct. He punches Lars, knocking him to the ground. The hospital falls silent as shock ripples through the staff. Bri is stunned—not just by the violence, but by who it came from.

Levi immediately apologizes to Bri and Nurse Joe, but the damage is done. For Bri, the incident feels like a devastating betrayal. After everything she has fought for to improve staff safety, Levi’s actions threaten to undermine her campaign entirely. Violence, even in defense, is exactly what the hospital board fears—and now she worries her cause may never recover.

Bri later confides in Joe, making it clear how serious the situation is. Levi is likely to be suspended, possibly even dismissed. His medical career, built on professionalism and restraint, now hangs in the balance. While she acknowledges the immense personal pain he’s enduring, Bri is firm: grief does not excuse what happened.

When Cash arrives at the hospital later that day, Levi expects family support. Instead, he’s met with devastating reality. Cash isn’t there as a brother-in-law—he’s there as a police officer. Levi is under arrest.

As Levi is led away in handcuffs, the full weight of his collapse becomes clear. This is his lowest point yet. At the station, Cash carefully explains the process, doing his best to balance duty with compassion. Eden is notified immediately, and she rushes to the station with Abigail, arriving just as Levi’s mugshots are being taken.

Eden tries desperately to reach him, insisting that this isn’t who he is. Levi doesn’t argue. Instead, he accepts responsibility, quietly admitting that McKenzie’s absence has pushed him further than he ever thought possible.

Later, Eden makes a decision that could change everything. Realizing that silence has only worsened the situation, she picks up the phone and calls McKenzie. With Levi’s arrest now impossible to ignore, the question hangs heavy in the air: will this crisis finally bring McKenzie back to Summer Bay—or has Levi’s breaking point pushed their love past the point of no return?

As Home and Away delivers this raw, emotionally charged storyline, it becomes clear that Levi’s meltdown is about more than one bad moment. It’s a powerful reminder of how unspoken grief, isolation, and fear can push even the strongest people to the edge—and what it costs when they finally fall.