Tane Parata was indeed one of the key characters who tried to warn Roo about Eliza. Here’s the context:

 

• Eliza’s Disturbing Behavior: Since Eliza arrived in Summer Bay as Roo’s foster child, she has exhibited increasingly strange and manipulative behavior. This includes a creepy obsession with medical procedures (especially surgery), stealing things (like Alf’s knife and Harper’s ultrasound scan), and a disturbing lack of remorse.
• Tane’s Experience at the Youth Programme: As part of her foster placement, Roo enrolled Eliza in Tane’s youth programme at the Surf Club. Tane, who is experienced with troubled teens, quickly noticed something was off with Eliza. During one session, Eliza became violent and punched another student, Scott, when he urged her to return Harper’s stolen ultrasound photo. She later even threatened Scott with a broken bottle.
• Tane’s Warning to Roo: After this incident and other unsettling encounters, Tane privately expressed his concerns to Roo. He told her bluntly that Eliza’s behavior was far from acceptable and that she might not be the right fit for the programme because she had deeper issues. Tane was particularly unsettled by Eliza’s lack of remorse and her bizarre fascination with Harper’s unborn baby.
• Roo’s Initial Defensiveness: Despite Tane’s and Marilyn’s repeated warnings, Roo was initially very defensive of Eliza, attributing her behavior to past trauma and her difficult background in the foster care system. She wanted to give Eliza the benefit of the doubt and believed she just needed guidance and a stable home. Tane, reluctantly, agreed to let Eliza continue in the programme but under strict new rules.
• The Escalation: Unfortunately, Tane’s warnings proved to be tragically accurate. Eliza’s behavior spiraled further, culminating in her refusing to help Harper when she went into premature labor during a bushwalk, secretly deleting Tane’s calls to Harper’s phone, and even filming the birth. Most disturbingly, Eliza later withheld Alf’s heart medication, putting his life in severe danger, which finally made Roo realize the full extent of Eliza’s malicious nature.

Tane’s early warnings were crucial in highlighting the true danger Eliza posed, even when Roo was reluctant to see it.

  Eliza’s Disturbing Behavior: Since Eliza arrived in Summer Bay as Roo’s foster child, she has exhibited increasingly strange and manipulative behavior. This includes a creepy obsession with medical procedures (especially surgery), stealing things (like Alf’s knife and Harper’s ultrasound scan), and a disturbing lack of remorse. Tane’s Experience at the Youth Programme: As part…