In case you haven’t been paying attention, Australia is about to experience one of the greatest moments in modern television history (second only to Jack’s “We have to go back!” flash-forward in Lost).

Dee Bliss (Madeline West), who died (or so we were led to believe) in a car accident just minutes after marrying Jarrod ‘Toadfish’ Rebecchi, is making a return to Neighbours after a 13 year hiatus.

Despite teasing Dee’s comeback all summer, we’re now into the second week of the show’s 33rd season and she’s yet to make an onscreen appearance. However, according to this Irish beauty website, which inexplicably got the scoop and exclusive pictures to boot, we know that Dee will arrive on Ramsay Street sometime later this week.

Okay, so Dee is definitely coming back. But where the hell has she been and how did she survive the car crash? We reckon we’ve cracked it.

The Clues Are All There

There’s so much actual evidence for this theory, I don’t even know if we should call it a “theory”. It’s basically canon.

Here’s what we know for sure: Just after Dee and Toadie tied the knot, Toadie drove the pair off a cliff and crashed into the ocean. He survived with nothing but a minor scalp wound, but Dee’s body was never found so everyone presumed she was dead and moved on with their lives.

Then Channel 10 started promoting Dee’s return with this clip:

It’s important to watch the clip in full because all the clues we need to unpack the mystery are there.

“Where Are You Now”

Let’s start with the song. It’s Alan Walker’s ‘Faded’, an absolute scorcher of a tune dropped in November 2015 that became one of the most played tracks of last year. ‘Faded’ is the key to solving the riddle of Dee Bliss.

The promo only runs for slightly over a minute, while the full song lasts three and half a minutes. So let’s look at the bits of the song the producers included, and more importantly, the bits that they deliberately left out.

The clip starts with the opening verse of ‘Faded’. “You were the shadow to my light, did you feel us…”. Very romantic and sad. We get the full first verse and then the start of the pre-chorus. But here’s where it gets interesting.

The promo skips the start of the track’s chorus (which is a crime, because who skips the drop?!) and ends with the lyrics “I’m faded”, the final words of the chorus. Now why would they leave out most of the chorus? Let’s look at the lyrics they didn’t include to find out:

“Atlantis
Under the sea
Under the sea
Where are you now”

OH SHIT.

Swap around two words in the final line and you have a literal description of where Dee Bliss has been for the past 13 years.

“Atlantis… under the sea… under the sea… where you are now.”

That’s why they didn’t include those lyrics. It would’ve given the whole game away. The clues were there, the producers wanted us to know, but they didn’t want to make it too easy.

The Seat Belt Mystery

Not convinced yet? Let’s go back to the trailer. About 27 seconds in we hear a voiceover (probably Toadie’s brother Stonefish Rebecchi) remark “They never found the body did they?”. Stonefish is right, Dee’s body was never recovered.

But if we review the footage from the crash it’s clear that not only did Dee’s body not surface, it went missing just seconds after the car hit the water.

Here’s a picture of Toadie’s Commodore just after the crash.

There’s the passenger seat, but there’s no Dee. Maybe she fell unconscious and floated out through the open window? That only makes sense if she wasn’t wearing her seat belt. But reviewing earlier footage from before the crash proves that she clearly was belted up.

As you can see there’s evidence demonstrating Dee was practising road safety.

Here’s the seat belt from another angle:

Based on the fact that she was wearing a belt and yet still went missing immediately after the car hit the water, there’s only one possibility.

Dee unfastened her seat belt (demonstrating she was conscious after impact) and swam out through the open passenger window. If she was able to do all that she could have easily swum up to the surface, just like Toadie did.

But for whatever reason she didn’t. As we now know she swam, or was taken by persons unknown, to the lost city of Atlantis, which apparently exists off the Victorian coast.

The last clue revolves around Dee’s name. Dee Bliss is an anagram for Dibs Eels. Another underwater reference. Is Dee secretly an eel? Is eel some kind of food delicacy in Atlantis that is both delicious and rare, prompting Dee to regularly “dibs” it at meal time? We don’t know for sure, but the evidence just keeps piling up.

Somehow Dee travelled to the lost underwater city of Atlantis and now, 13 years later, she’s returned to suburban Melbourne. How? Why? We don’t know. Hopefully we’ll get the answers we deserve soon. But it’s clear the show’s producers have been gently prodding us in this direction for a while now, hoping that we put together the obvious clues.

And I’m proud to say we have.