Neighbours has always been a wealth of subtle literary allusion for the entertainment of its many highly cultured fans, with past references from Aeschylus, Homer, Shakespeare, Goethe,etc. Recently the reference was visual, with Elle lying in bed reading Dostoyevsky's "Crime And Punishment". Needless to say no character on Home & Away would do anything of the sort.

The context is that Lucas has to break the news to Elle that he was indirectly the cause of Bridget's death, when a man he owed gambling debts to sabotaged one of the cars his garage was working on, and Bridget died in an accident in this car. So Lucas is nursing a guilty secret, and Elle is the Sonya (or perhaps Porfiry) that he as a Raskolnikov must eventually confess to.