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40 Episodes 2008 - 2008
Episode 1
42 mins
Frank's leadership is put to the ultimate test when the ED team is held hostage and a deadly plan unfolds. In the bedlam that follows, threats are made, tempers are stretched and lives are lost. And at the end of it, Frank makes a decision that looks likely to cost him his job.

Episode 2
42 mins
Oliver Maroney and the hospital board grill Frank about his TV interview condemning the hospital. Later, the E.D. have to deal with injured hostage taker James Byrne being admitted. Charlotte and Dan treat a patient with a severe case of hiccups but it takes Von to save the day. A mix-up with patient results in the lab nearly causes the death of a deaf man and Ann-Marie gets devastating news whilst on holidays with Bart.

Episode 3
43 mins
Following the death of a patient under her care Zoe reconsiders her future in the E.D. and at All Saints particularly in light of Frank's favoritism towards Charlotte. Von is imprisoned in Dominic's house - one of her carers - which frightens her more than she is willing to admit and brings back memories of her time in Vietnam. Mike's estranged son Simon refuses Mike's offer of a kidney for fear that he will come back into his mother's life and destroy her once again but a talk from Frank makes him reconsider. Meanwhile, Jack has to give Ann-Marie some bad news - her cancer has returned.
Episode 4
42 mins
Mike undergoes his kidney transplant operation but experiences flashes back to his past which shows that his ex-wife Laura was the person who got him hooked on morphine. After watching Frank in action in the E.D. Elizabeth re-evaluates her decision to spy for Oliver and tells Frank why she originally said she would. Meanwhile, Bart struggles to find out what is ailing a patient who initially presented with signs of a chest infection and Gabrielle finds out that Von was raped in Vietnam and the incident with Dominic led her to neglect his care.
Episode 5
43 mins
Whilst treating Jennifer Constable, a failed overdose patient, Dan and Charlotte stumble upon a secret of Steve's which causes Gabby to ask him to step down from the case. Ann-Marie tells Von she doesn't want to have more radiotherapy as it reminds her too much of her mother's battle against cancer but later Von is surprised when she learns that she to undertake it and surmises that Bart pressured her into doing it. Dan and Ricky realise that they are excluding Jack at home as their relationship develops and try to make more time for him. Elsewhere, Mike struggles to deal with intense post-op pain without morphine but in the end gives in and asks for morphine.
Episode 6
43 mins
Kimberly Dyer is brought in unconscious by her mother Sandra who tells Von and Charlotte that she has a history of epilepsy. But when tests show that Kimberly's rapidly deteriorating condition is not due to epilepsy but poisoning Von suspects that Sandra has Munchausen by proxy and is enjoying the attention she is getting as her daughter gets worse until the inevitable happens and Kimberly dies. Even then Sandra refuses to see that she is to blame and continues to blame her daughter for her illnesses. Meanwhile, Dan and Steve treat Conor, an illegal Irish immigrant, who has set his broken ankle in a homemade concrete cast. Elsewhere, Bart tries to understand but fails to see why he should let Ann-Marie die without a fight. Elsewhere, Oliver Maroney steps up the pressure in his attempts to get rid of Frank and recruits Zoe to help him with his task.

Episode 7
42 mins
Ann-Maree's health is deteriorating rapidly. Bart finds it impossible to be by her side until he can find some kind of answer to the awful request she made of him. Bart's attempts to throw himself into work backfire as he deals badly with a woman who is unable to make a commitment to her treatment. As Bart agrees to take Ann-Maree home for what they know will be their last days together, Dan prepares to make the ultimate commitment to Erica. A horrific car accident is not the only reason behind Frank and Charlotte having to fight for a patient's life. Mike, unable to work so soon after his kidney donation, gets under Frank's feet in the ED. Zoe is caught liaising with the Director of Medicine who is gunning for Frank's scalp. Has she accepted his offer to replace Frank as the Director of Emergency Medicine.

Episode 8
56 mins
Admin pressures Frank into making a tough decision as Zoe, pressurized by Oliver, tries to get the rest of the staff to make a complaint against Frank. Dan's plans to propose to Erica at home are scuppered. Meanwhile, Bart prepares to say goodbye to a terminally ill Ann-Marie.

Episode 9
56 mins
Everyone is stunned when Frank announces that it is his last day but has Zoe a trick up her sleeve? An patient with Huntington's Disease prompts Dan to make a health choice. Elsewhere, a grieving Bart tells the E.D. that Anne-Marie has passed away.

Episode 10
57 mins
A young burns victim is rushed to the E.D. and the staff are stunned when his mother doesn't fight for the doctors to save his life - until they discover she's not his mother. Meanwhile, Charlotte treats Phoebe Speight for stomach problems and has an unpleasant encounter with Phoebe's husband. Elsewhere, Frank is summonsed to Admin by Oliver to tell him he has his job back and Jack is intrigued by his patient Simone.

Episode 11
42 mins
A high profile athlete is found badly injured from a vicious hammer attack. When he later accuses his team mate of being the attacker, Jack and Steve take sides over what should be done with the information. To Steve's immense and very vocal frustration Jack makes up his mind about the team mate's guilt and tells the police who cart him off for questioning. With the team mate already tried and convicted in the eyes of the media, Jack realises he might've made a terrible mistake when a second patient arrives suffering similar injuries. On Bart's first day back in the ED following the death of Ann-Maree, a shoot-from-the-lip deserted wife who can't stop talking about her failed relationship is probably the last thing Bart needs, or is it in fact exactly what he needs? Von is called in by Dan to offer home care options to devoted husband, Gavin, whose wife, Connie, is suffering chronic fatigue. But when Von recognises that this man is a part of her past that she's spent most of her life trying to forget, she has an opportunity to deal with the trauma once and for all. Charlotte is torn between motherly concern and doctorly distance when part-time hospital creche carer Rhiannon brings a fevered Zac downstairs to be examined. As the two women wait for the results of Zac's bloodwork, Charlotte is left with some very tempting food for thought about a possible solution to the challenges she faces in caring for Zac as a single working mum.

Episode 12
43 mins
New mum struggles to cope with her child's autism only to be told by Frank that her very focused husband Theo has Asperger's Syndrome. Charlotte finds the nanny from heaven to care for baby Zach but is she all she seems and Bart is reinvigorated when he tries to find out why a young man keeps lapsing into a faint every time he laughs.

Episode 13
42 mins
Frank has good reason to be angry with a private nursing home after Scott [ep 11.08], a comatose patient, is brought in after being found on the floor next to his bed. Scans and an examination shed no light on how this could have happened, however, as he's being wheeled out by the Paramedics, he has a seizure. Steve, Gabrielle and Rhiannon get the seizure under control, then the unimaginable happens - Scott comes out of his coma. But it's by no means a heartwarming reunion between Scott and his wife Donna, who has an amazing revelation waiting for him. As Steve and Gabrielle try and convince the couple to start afresh, they realise the same advice could apply to their own relationship. Dan's younger brother Luke is brought into All Saints after an accident during a wheelchair basketball game. A paraplegic since the age of 16, Luke now faces further hindrances to his mobility and independence. And his recovery is thwarted by a secret he is keeping from Dan. Meanwhile, Dan is keeping a secret of his own - and Erica isn't happy. Charlotte joins the Medical Rescue Unit for the first time, the final hurdle before she attains her Emergency Fellowship. She and Jack are called to a dramatic situation at a worksite where a builder has been impaled through the head by a hook attached to a steel girder. While the Rescue Team works to free the man with an angle grinder and Jack monitors the man's condition, Charlotte must keep him calm through a terrible ordeal, knowing the slightest movement of his head could be his last.

Episode 14
56 mins
Pregnant, schizophrenic and distressed, Becky is brought into the ED. Her waters have broken and she's in the early stages of labour. Jack tries to balance care for Becky without compromising the healthy delivery of her baby, no easy trick. Finn is an uncooperative and abusive heroin addict who's been brought into the ED after being bashed. Steve is happy to ship him out of the ED so he's someone else's problem. However when tests come back it is clear that Finn is very unwell. When Steve confronts him about his HIV status he realises that Finn has no idea how sick he is and Steve gets to see the scared young man behind the emotional scar tissue. Bart and Charlotte spend the day doing an Emergency Simulation Course. Frank helps set them up and they humourously crash and burn. Afterwards Frank tells Charlotte she's received her Fellowship. Jack tells Gabrielle that he'd like to accept her offer of accommodation. Steve is less than thrilled.
Episode 15
54 mins
Heath and Suzi are called out to attend an MVA in which a feuding husband and wife have been injured. Once the warring couple are in the Resus Bay - separated only by a curtain - the wife pleads to see her husband while the husband angrily refuses to have anything more to do with his wife. Steve, who is treating the wife, Corinne, becomes increasingly concerned that her distress is exacerbating her medical condition. He asks Jack to arrange a brief meeting but Jack refuses, citing both medical and ethical reasons. His patient, Richard, has issued strict instructions and Jack's hands are tied. Finally Corinne takes matters into her own hands and the resulting tragic outcome brings Steve and Jack to blows. Angus, just twenty years old and with a burning ambition to become an international soccer player, is admitted with what appear to be mild, flu-like symptoms. Bart feels duty bound to make Angus well but despite treatment, Angus' condition deteriorates rapidly. It takes Frank's experience to finally recognise the disease for what it is with the final diagnosis stunning them all. Dan's brother, Luke, normally an independant and energetic paraplegic, has been rendered helpless with a broken arm and is living in the share house. He's deeply appreciative of all that Dan's doing for him but he's also very conscious of the fact that he's intruding on Dan and Erica's life together. Von persuades him to think outside the box. If he's not happy, then it's up to him to come up with a solution to his problem. Charlotte finds herself in an awkward predicament when she confronts Rhiannon about her growing attraction towards Bart.

Episode 16
58 mins
Dan takes Erica to meet his parents and announce their engagement but his over-protective mother Rhonda doesn't take the news as well as he'd hoped. While there, Dan's dad has a heart attack. Meanwhile, Charlotte tells Rhiannon about her previous lesbian affairs.

Episode 17
56 mins
Frank is presented with an ultimatum by Admin - lose one of his fellows Charlotte or Zoe but who does he choose? Dan's gets some devastating news about his father and the team try to help a semi-paralyzed man who was attempting to impress his young wife.

Episode 18
56 mins
Frank tells Charlotte that he cannot pay her for her emergency fellowship promotion due to budget cuts. This upsets Charlotte greatly and after treating a woman with a calcified fetus Rhiannon misreads the situation and kisses Charlotte. Charlotte is taken aback which causes Rhiannon to run in fear of being found out and ends up telling Gabby that Charlotte made a pass at her. Elsewhere, Erica refuses to attend Dan's fathers funeral and later Dan tells her that he has invited his mother and brother to live with them for a few weeks.

Episode 19
56 mins
As the investigation into Rhiannon's alleged sexual assault by Charlotte begins Frank orders Charlotte to stay away from Rhiannon. Gabrielle tells Frank that he should have Zoe conduct the staff interviews on the assault as Frank is too close to Charlotte. Rhiannon tells Bart her version of the events but he is disbelieving. When Charlotte learns that Rhiannon has been telling staff about her private life she forces a confrontation with Rhiannon causing Frank to send her home. Later, Frank calls to see her but Charlotte tells him she thinks it is time that she moved on from All Saints. Meanwhile, Dan takes some time away from the E.D. to look after his mother causing strain in his relationship with Ricky.

Episode 20
56 mins
Von goes to the assistance of a heavily pregnant Iraqi illegal at a disused site. After the baby girl is born she develops complications and Von must take the baby to the hospital alone. Gabby finds out the Zoe has been offered the job of Director of Emergency Medicine at St. Angela's. Charlotte gets a letter from the board telling her if she admits to sexual harassment of Rhiannon and gives a written apology the matter will go away. Charlotte tells Jack she's going to resign but Jack forces her to fight the charge against her. After tending to a man who had been injured by a charging pig in a park Rhiannon nearly has a change of heart but decides against it. Zoe finally tells Frank that she is leaving and he admits to her that he recommended her for the job in the first place.

Episode 21
56 mins
Rhiannon arranges to meet Charlotte in the Park to talk but before anything can be said they witness a hit and run incident. Charlotte tells Rhiannon to drop her complaint but she refuses. Nadir and Adenna continue to stay at Von's place as they try to work out a way to get back their baby girl. Nadir begins to feel unwell and Von sees the extent of his wounds from his life in Iraq. She enlists Mike's help in treating him. Bart and Rhiannon treat Debbie, a patient who displays panic attack symptoms. Whilst she is left unattended she grabs a scissors and attacks Brad Kelberg, the man who was involved in the hit and run. Brad was convicted for the rape and murder of Debbie's daughter but got off. Jack finds it hard to try and save Brad's life and walks away. Charlotte tells Frank that she has started a defamation case against Rhiannon because the internal process isn't working and she needs to clear her name.

Episode 22
57 mins
Charlotte and Rhiannon's day in court arrives and Frank is called as a character witness for Charlotte. But will Rhiannon eventually tell the truth or will Charlotte's reputation as a doctor go up in smoke? Tanya Foster Wallace, an alcoholics anonymous colleague of Steve's, presents herself at ED with burns to her face and neck caused by her sister after she told her she had an affair with her sisters husband. Gabrielle's curiosity is piqued as Steve refuses to be drawn on who Tanya is and it awakens dormant feelings for Steve that she thought she had buried. Erica asks Bart to help her shop for her wedding but has a rethink of their friendship and tells her she should involve Dan instead.
Episode 23
57 mins
Charlotte rescues Rhiannon after she attempts suicide after her court case and to prevent her politician father David Wilson from finding out about her private life as he is an outspoken critic on gay & lesbian affairs. Leon Warner, a patient suffering from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), is admitted to All Saints with frequent nose-bleeds. Bart diagnoses leukemia and treatment of this will nearly certain put Leon in a wheelchair. Ricki and Dan's mothers cannot agree on what they want for their offspring's wedding. Dan's mother tells him he is making a mistake marrying Ricki but he tells her to stop interfering and that he will choose Ricky before her if he has to. Frank offers Charlotte the vacant 2IC position which she accepts.

Episode 24
57 mins
Dan's mother tells him that she and Luke are going back to their farm. Dan doesn't tell Ricki and she is unaware of problems until Luke tells her and it forces a confrontation between all. Charlotte, in her new role, refuses to delegate which annoys Frank and which causes her to miss a stroke in a pole dancer. Meanwhile, Mike operates on Mitch Collins, a teenager who was brought in with horrendous injuries resulting from a collision between a shopping trolley he was riding in and a pick-up truck. His devastated father John learns that a mobile phone video is being circulated and after he confronts them he is beaten with a cricket bat and dies in the E.D.

Episode 25
58 mins
Von finds home care patient Robyn Simms unconscious from an unprescribed batch of barbiturates and she is hospitalized at All Saints. Bart suspects that her home care nurse and Robyn know more than they are saying and that she is trying to commit suicide. Jack reluctantly asks Steve to Dan's bucks night party and Ricki asks Gabrielle to be her maid of honor.

Episode 26
57 mins
Frank's niece Amy Fielding starts work in the E.D. but doesn't want Frank to tell the other staff that they are related. But she makes a mistake which has tragic consequences for the patient she is treating. Steve collapses in the E.D. whilst working on a patient and later the same happens to Mike leading the team to discover that the patient was in contact with fertilizers and Frank has to carry out the procedure. Rikki and Bart look after a cystic fibrosis patient and whilst out on a bucks night Dan is tied to a tree and his friends are then involved in a serious car accident.
Episode 27
58 mins
Following the aftermath of the bucks night accident Dan tends to his injured mates and the couple they hit and insists on being involved in the operation of the female passenger. Dan and Rikki initially cancel the wedding but Frank insists it goes on and Dan and Rikki are eventually married. Gabrielle becomes jealous of Steve's attraction to Amy unbeknownst to her than he is jealous of her closeness to Jack. Gabrielle gets very drunk and Jack insists on calling her a cab but on the way out she kisses Jack in front of all the guests.

Episode 28
57 mins
Rikki and Dan arrive back from honeymoon to find that Jack and Gabrielle are avoiding each other since the wedding kiss but in the end Jack makes her see that it is Steve that she is still interested in and not him. Mike becomes close to a badly injured skydiver who comes from the same background. Bart sees Amy in a new light but Amy refuses to hear him out and Von acts as an intermediary between a young man with Leukaemia and the family that he's never met.

Episode 29
57 mins
Frank and Mike attend deadly inmate Mathew King at a high security prison leaving Charlotte in charge. Diagnosing internal bleeding, he is admitted to All Saints hospital. There, he compromises the lives of the staff of the E.D. New locum doctor Tony Clark starts in the E.D. but he's not who he says he is. Meanwhile, Mike meets Juliet again at his regular blues club.

Episode 30
57 mins
Bart and Amy continue to disagree as Frank puts them together at work which makes Bart question Frank's motives. Charlotte and Mike disagree over a head injury diagnosis which puts a single mother at risk. Elsewhere, Gabrielle and Steve work together causing Gabrielle to ask him if they still have a chance to be together but Steve bottles it and denies any spark exists.
Episode 31
57 mins
Rikki gets accepted to do a six-week intensive Diploma in Emergency Medicine which will take her away from Dan. Jack and Dan attend a former pharmacist who is now living rough and who may have taken mercury to poison himself. With the lab results unavailable Jack guesses the diagnosis and gives him antidote to correct the mercury. But the patient arrests and dies. Jack must now wait for the coroner's report to see what actually killed him. Meanwhile, Jack and Amy tend to Paula Griffin who has Proteus Syndrome and thinks that she is in danger of getting an embolism. Amy bonds with the patient and gets her to stay overnight so that she can be checked out and Von agrees to home help nursing on her release. Elsewhere, Mike visits Juliet in Melbourne but his night out at a jazz club is interrupted by a glassing incident to the neck of a club party goer.

Episode 32
58 mins
Jack is called to the scene of a serious accident near his home and it quickly becomes known that the only way to save the female driver is to amputate both her legs. On hearing that Jack is at the crash site Frank sends Bart to assist Jack and to monitor him in light of the incident which killed a patient the previous night. Elsewhere, Rikki leaves for her college course but later Dan reports that she has not turned up at the college or checked in at her dorm. Meanwhile, Amy continues to bond with Paula Griffin and agrees to go round to visit her regularly. Von warns her about getting Paula's hopes up but Amy tells her she won't let Paula down. But on going to Paula's home she finds Paula dead from an embolism - a condition which she has been hospitalized previously for.

Episode 33
56 mins
Dan's fears about Erica's disappearance are not helped by a difficult patient and he finally relents and goes to the police station to report Erica missing. Elsewhere, Jack finds out from Frank that admin are pursuing a case against him over the death of his patient Brian Carey and which might see Jack de-registered.

Episode 34
57 mins
Timothy Carey's widow visits the E.D. whilst Jack and Frank are attending the morbidity and mortality meeting. Steve and Gabrielle fight to save the life of a worker who has suffered prolonged exposure to chemicals at his workplace. Dan continues to be in denial about Erica's disappearance and Mike is challenged by Juliet to step out of his comfort zone.
Episode 35
57 mins
Mike, Charlotte and Gabrielle deal with Rohan, a store owner who has been shot during an armed robbery, and Sean who has temporary amnesia from his ordeal. When Sean starts to recall the incident it moves Dan to reassess how he's dealing with Erica's disappearance and takes some time off. Bart offers to go with him to search for Rikki. Gail Henderson brings in her 25 year old son Rhys, who has an acquired brain injury and who's suffering from cellulitis. Due to the lack of nurses, Von offers to help Bart for the day. Von realises Gail isn't coping and Von hopes to get some help for her before it is too late. Jack opts to take Triage and Amy comes in to finalise her resignation.

Episode 36
57 mins
Dan and Bart begin their search for Rikki but it turns fruitless and Dan must face the fact that something has happened to her. Mike faces the possibility that his girlfriend Juliet is hiding something from him. Elsewhere, Frank and Jack are at odds as is Steve and new doctor Dr Adam Rossi.
Episode 37
56 mins
Frank is frustrated as to how new doctor, Adam Rossi, and Von know each other but neither are telling. New agency nurse Claire takes a personal interest in a patient who has been beaten by a baseball bat by his jealous wife. Dan continues to have hope for finding Rikki unknown to him that some of her belongings have just been found.

Episode 38
57 mins
Frank sees Juliet outside of E.D. and brings her in as she's close to fainting. New nurse Claire is tested on her first day in the ED when she has to deal with a very difficult patient with emphysema. Dan is not amused with her being there as he sees her as taking Rikki's place and instead puts his time and energy into finding out the identity of a Jane Doe patient in the E.D. Bart and Frank treat a married man with erratic memory loss and insomnia where blood tests lead them to diagnosing him with Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) which will kill him within a year. Adam crashes on Von's couch not knowing where he will go from here but which tests Von's patience. Jack makes a decision about his future handing in his resignation to Frank. Juliet tells Mike about her real job and tells him he either accepts what she does or move on.

Episode 39
56 mins
The police call to All Saints with bad news for Dan. Erica's body has been found and it appears she was murdered. Dan leaves with the police and later phones Frank to tell him that he is going home to the farm to be with his family indefinitely. Jack's final day at All Saints is anything but quite as he is challenged by a difficult patient. Elsewhere, Frank puts Adam through hoops in telling him if he will get Jack's job and Mike questions the decision he made to honor a dying patient's wish.

Episode 40
56 mins
Angie Clayton is brought into the ED after an explosion at her workplace and is discovered to have a piece of explosive embedded in her neck that could spell disaster for her as well as the entire Emergency Department. Frank and Mike come up with a solution to operate in the morgue where Mike puts his life on the line giving him reason to make a radical decision about his future and his life with Juliet. Meanwhile, Morgan is brought in suffering from severe hypothermia after a camping trip went wrong and the ED team wrestle with balancing the risk of cardiac failure over the risk of brain damage. Adam's persistence with a "Frequent Flyer" patient puts him at loggerheads with both Frank, Von and Gabrielle. Elsewhere, Frank's niece comes back to the E.D. asking for her job back which Frank agrees to.
