Blue Heelers Season 4 Episodes

Episode 1

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

44 mins

Panic sweeps Mt. Thomas when an outbreak of a rare animal disease begins to kill humans. When Maggie suddenly collapses, PJ is desperate not to let the disease, which has already claimed two lives, take his beloved Maggie. Nick's reign as Acting Sergeant is rapidly turning into a nightmare as he deals with Keith Purvis and a mob of panic-stricken farmers. Having decided the spate of deaths had been caused by rabies, they slate the responsibility home to a couple of English migrants, their young daughter, and her dog.

Episode 2

Under Siege

44 mins

As more people become sick and die, rabies is now blamed and the English family's dog is now under threat. Mal Truesdale gets farmers stirred up and promptly arrested, and in the heat, the police station is blocked and besieged with Keith Purvis instigating the trouble from outside, and cutting off everyone inside with no way of communicating with the outside world. Nick's command of this situation will be fully tested and what is to blame for people getting sick?

Episode 3

Working Lunch

44 mins

Dash discovers that her penchant for gossip may very well get her, and other people, into hot water when she and Adam overhear the Shire President, Roger Payne, having lunch with a woman who is definitely not his wife. While out on a surveillance operation to catch an extortionist who's been threatening to blow up a restaurant, the pair, bored with three days of sitting in the car with nothing to do except listen, finally hear something interesting. Unfortunately, while Adam and Dash are preoccupied, the real extortionists manage to get away, much to PJ's chagrin. PJ appeals to Tom to hold the investigation over longer, but the matter is out of Tom's hands - the surveillance equipment and manpower belong to another unit and he can't retain them without very good reason. PJ's worried - he's given his word to Bluey, the frightened restaurateur, that he'd solve the case, and now he may not be able to keep it. Dash is still obsessed with finding out who the mystery woman is, but is thwarted at every turn. When Roger Payne is brought in to see if he can assist with the identities of the extortionists, he admits he's been seeing another woman - his Human Resources manager, Katrina Hagen. Then a bullet hole is found in one of Katrina's windows and Dash is suspicious. She believes that somehow, Roger is involved, having formed a bad opinion of him from previous experience. It's up to Dash to prove that Roger is somehow connected to the shot fired through Katrina's window - but how will she do it? And will PJ manage to save Bluey's restaurant before the real extortionists come back?

Episode 4

Immaculate Misconception

44 mins

Leonie is pregnant and her father is upset and angry and wants justice. But what really is going on and who is the father? All evidence seems to point to Clancy. Meanwhile, the police station toilets are blocked up and this brings plumber Charlie Drake out, who will become yet another suspect.

Episode 5

Reports of Damage and Loss

43 mins

Heavy rains are falling and as Nick and Adam make it back to Mount Thomas, they recount their stories of how they tried to save two sisters, one stuck in a watery drainpipe the other in a car. Nick is full of anger and rage and Adam is more or less quiet, both forced to help each girl separately.

Episode 6

Fowl Play

43 mins

Duck hunters and wildlife protection activists clash but someone has been shot from the beginning. This brings the local doctor under Nick's radar again and Adam gets involved with a girl of one of the hunters, but her bullying father is fighting with everyone, including the cook at the pub and then he falls ill. But was it the duck meal?

Episode 7

The Luck of the Irish

42 mins

There are mixed reactions among the Heelers to Chris' sudden wedding announcement. Tom feels that she's rushing into things, a sentiment echoed by Chris' cousin, Dominic, who doesn't approve of Sean, sure that he's just trying to cash in on the Imperial's lucrative business. As Tom does a little digging into Sean's past, he discovers there's no record of him, or his teenage son, Conor, entering Australia. Sean explains away the anomaly with a smile, but Tom isn't convinced. When Chris starts talking to Maggie about her plans for a huge wedding, Sean seems to be less than enthusiastic, and they argue about their plans. Sean storms out of the pub, but moments later, comes back and apologises - they'll talk about the wedding later. The next day, Sean hasn't returned and Chris is worried. He doesn't know anyone else in the district - where would he have gone? The Heelers try to placate her, but the mystery surrounding Sean deepens. Chris' fears for his safety are justified when the Heelers discover a body in the cemetery bearing shotgun wounds - it's Sean. An investigation ensues, and Chris discovers the man she was in love with was a stranger to her in many ways. His past is a secret he was trying to escape from, but as the Heelers discover, there are many things that will follow you to the grave. Meanwhile, Nick and Adam look into a series of complaints of harassment against a Turkish schoolgirl but their job is complicated by her refusal to identify the persons responsible.

Episode 8

Bloodstained Angels

43 mins

Responding to a complaint from a concerned parent about his underage son being in a local pub, Maggie and Dash are on hand when a young woman emerges, screaming and covered in blood. The girl is uninjured, the blood is fake, and the fan is actually flattered to have been chosen to be the band's "Bloodstained Angel", so the band get off with a warning but Tom is worried by their presence. His fears appear to be confirmed when he discovers one of the station's vehicles defaced with graffiti resonant of the band, MCD (Mad Cow Disease). But that is only the beginning of the Heelers problems with the band. A vandalised angel in the cemetery relates to the band's signature song "Bloodstained Angel" and then a blazing car in front of the Commercial Hotel conjures up another line of lyrics from the same song. Meanwhile, a father seeks the help of the police in rescuing his son from the spell of the "demonic band". Tom is sympathetic, but there is only so much the local police sergeant can do, despite the gallery of death and destruction on the boy's bedroom walls. By now the peace of Mt Thomas appears to be shattering and the Heelers must determine whether they are looking at a publicity stunt, an avenging father or an adoring fan. As they look more closely at the lyrics, they realise that they have to act quickly because a direct attack on the police is next on the agenda. Adam's relationship with Stacey Norse take a turn when Adam's bank account is cleaned out.

Episode 9

Charity Begins at Home

43 mins

A case of domestic violence, involves the local Salvation Army and police in protecting the woman, when Dash intervenes. The husband seems contrite and apologetic and the wife breaks the intervention order against him. But the husband just won't take no for an answer .

Episode 10

Fool for Love

44 mins

Adam is getting married to Stacey. It's a bit fast, but his friends and colleagues are there, even if his family can't turn up. Meanwhile, a dating service has sprung up in Mount Thomas. One upset client is not happy and the police know it's a dodgy business, but they have to prove it.

Episode 11

The Last Night

44 mins

A teenager is brought in and when his seemingly uncaring father gets involved, its Tom who recognizes a fellow Vietnam veteran who is still suffering from that war. His son is involved with a gang who are at odds with a Vietnamese gang, seems to bring the war out in Mount Thomas with the police trying to keep the peace.

Episode 12

Gold

43 mins

Maggie and PJ are in serious trouble when an investigation into a suspicious goldmine goes wrong, and they find themselves trapped. Two newcomers in town, Matt Kinsella and Jamie Burgess claim that the goldmine is theirs, but old Hec O'Farrell, who has been working the mine for as long as anyone can remember, insists that Matt and Jamie are the trespassers - and what's more, they've stolen his gold dust. Dash and Adam discover Hec's fellow prospector, Bert, bashed, and PJ is happy to assume that Hec beat up his mate and took his own gold, hoping to pin the crime on Matt and Jamie. Tom and Dash however, are not so sure - Hec's friendship with Bert is legendary and why would he risk it for such a small amount of gold? Bert is also denying that his mate had anything to do with his bashing. PJ is still sure the case begins and ends with Hec, and takes Maggie out to talk to Matt and Jamie about the license to the mine. While they are there, Matt and Jamie suddenly discover a huge gold nugget, which Hec insists would never have come from his mine. Tom too is getting a little skeptical - how often do people find gold with police as witnesses? A bit of checking into Matt and Jamie's background shows that they both worked as security guards in Kalgoorlie, and both were on duty when a gold bullion robbery took place. Both are very cagey about their pasts, and PJ begins to think there's more to this situation than meets the eye. After Hec and Bert explain how to manufacture a convincing a gold nugget, PJ is sure that Matt and Jamie fabricated their nugget from the missing gold bullion. He and Maggie go to the mine to do some more investigating. Down the mine, Matt tells them to wait while he gets a larger light. Left alone, they find some of the equipment needed for fabricating a gold nugget, but are then knocked off their feet by an enormous explosion which caves in the mine behind them. When they realise they're trapped in the mine, PJ is confident that they'll be discovered, but Maggie's claustrophobia makes her panic, she reminds him that they came to the mine without letting anyone know where they were - neither of them are expected at work tomorrow, so the other Heelers won't know they're missing. In the forced intimacy imposed by the situation, Maggie and PJ at last have time to explore the nature of the relationship between them.

Episode 13

Fool's Gold: Part 2

Maggie and PJ are still trapped together underground, unbeknownst to the other Heelers, who are busy trying to locate Matt Kinsella, now suspected of attempting to murder his mining partner, Jamie Burgess. They discover both the men are ex-security guards from WA, who were involved in a gold bullion heist more than seven years ago during which a colleague was killed. It's only when PJ's car is discovered abandoned and carefully wiped clean of fingerprints that Tom realises something is seriously wrong. A search finally leads to the collapsed mine and mere chance and a Mintie wrapper leads to the discovery of Maggie and PJ's living tomb. The rescue is complicated when the removal of rubble causes the mine to collapse some more, but eventually PJ and Maggie are rescued - only to insist on tracking down Burgess and Kinsella who left them to die. But Burgess is in hospital with head wounds and Kinsella has disappeared. The key seems to lie with Burgess's girlfriend, Deanna, who turns out to be the widow of the third security guard who died in the bullion heist. How is she connected, who tried to smother Burgess in his hospital bed, and where is the elusive Matt Kinsella? Having found the answers to all these questions, Maggie and PJ have a decision to make about their mutual future.

Episode 14

Grave Matters

When the Heelers are called in to investigate vandalised graves at the Mt. Thomas cemetery, Tom discovers that Nell's grave site is amongst the desecrated. The vandals have spray-painted an obscenity on the headstone and Tom's deep hurt, fuelled by rage, drives the Heelers to find the culprits. Father Brian Hegarty points out that only the Catholic section of the cemetery was attacked, and that the Blue Lite basketball team was thrashed by St. Stephen's the same night. As the coach of the Blue Liters, Nick defends his players. But then evidence gives the Heelers cause to suspect Jed Russell, one of the teenagers on the team who is a Legacy charge of Tom's, causing Tom to rise to Jed's defence. Nick, Maggie and PJ have to work hard to persuade Tom to let down his protective guard and interrogate Jed. The following night, Father Brian takes it upon himself to do some undercover work at the cemetery and has to call on the Heelers again. This time a double grave has been desecrated, that of Alice and George James, her "dearly beloved brother". One half of the grave has been dug out, and when the Heelers inspect the coffin, they discover that the skeleton of Alice James is missing a hand. Chris Riley has childhood memories of Alice James, telling the Heelers about "Alice and the Legend of the Scarlet Woman", a story about a local spinster with a rich lover who showered her with jewellery, none of which was found after she died so she assumed it was buried along with her. This leads PJ and Maggie to Helen Bremmer, Alice's only remaining family. Helen Bremmer, a widow with two teenage kids, is battling to keep her head above water with financial burdens on the farm. She doesn't know much about old Aunt Alice, but she does know one thing - Alice didn't have any brother George. Father Brian helps the Heelers substantiate this through the parish records and, in the meantime, Alice James' hand turns up in a shoe box on the church steps. Lateral thinking on Maggie and PJ's part reveals a new strand to the Alice Scandal - her secret lover was a man called Walter Starling. Some persuasive detective work on Walter Starling's remaining relatives then unearths a startling revelation - that the fictitious body of George James is really Walter Starling, who was buried beside his true love as a dying request. So, if graveyard vandals were after the jewellery, who are they? And where's the jewellery? The Heelers eventually find the missing pieces to the story and the Alice James mystery is resolved. And when the culprit who desecrated Nell's gravestone is finally caught, Tom is forced to revisit his feelings of grief and family loss, and then to restore the damage caused to his relationship with young Jed Russell.

Episode 15

Loose Cannons

Shane Thompson is a professional shooter with a volatile temper and his return to Mt. Thomas creates a rift between Tom and Nick. Tom is concerned that his return spells trouble for Shane's wife and young family while Nick has been Shane's sponsor, getting him out of town following the breakdown of his marriage, finding him work as a shooter, and facilitating the exchange of letters between Shane and his son. Shane is desperate to return to his family and reconcile with his estranged wife. Unfortunately, she now has a new boyfriend and will not have him back. To Tom's dismay, Nick takes a close personal interest in the situation and offers Shane temporary accommodation at the Watchhouse Keeper's residence, his box of guns stored for safe keeping in a corner of Nick's living room. When Zoo Hamilton's gun goes missing, the culprit turns out to be Shane's son, angered by his father's broken promise to buy him a gun and disturbed by the tension and conflict between his parents. The new boyfriend also earns his living with firearms and fosters the boy's interest in guns. As he is showing the boy his weapons, one of them accidentally goes off and puts a hole in the ceiling of the Imperial. Nick decides enough is enough and confiscates the boyfriend's guns, leaving himself open to accusations of favouritism towards his friend Shane. Already doubting Nick's judgment, Tom wonders whether the boyfriend might have right on his side. The boyfriend is returning to Queensland and Shane's wife accepts a long standing offer to go with him and take the kids. Naturally, Shane reacts angrily to the news and Nick has to work desperately to defuse the situation. He thinks that he has succeeded, only to find that Shane has gone behind his back and ended up at the Imperial, drunk as a skunk. Nick decides that it's time for Shane to head back to New South Wales and enlists the support of a local truckie mate to make sure he gets there. Unfortunately, Shane has other ideas and comes back to wreak revenge and take his kids back. If Nick has any doubt he should feel responsible for the abduction of the children, Shane's wife soon dispels it. Nick makes a solemn promise - he'll get her children back. He thinks he knows where Shane has taken them, but must disobey a direct order from Tom to get to them. In this he enlists the help of a most unusual ally.

Episode 16

Lean on Me

As Maggie and PJ are investigating what caused five teenagers to collapse at a local nightclub, Adam and Dash are consoling a farmer's son whose goat has died under suspicious circumstances. PJ suspects the neighbouring farmer - the irascible Albie O'Connell - but Adam and Dash are unable to find any evidence of foul play. When a sixth teenager is found unconscious in an alleyway, the Heelers realise someone is flooding Mt. Thomas with home-made amphetamines. But who? A possible answer comes in the form of a couple of new bikers that Adam and Dash see riding into town. Perhaps they have joined forces with the local gang, the Legends, to manufacture amphetamines? A chat with the bikers reveals nothing helpful, but the Heelers remain convinced of their involvement when a newcomer to town is found beaten up by someone using chains and knuckle-dusters. Meanwhile, Adam finds he has a new best friend in the young goat owner, who comes to him in frantic distress early one morning to report that his second goat has also been killed. This time Adam organises an autopsy, and when the goat is found to have traces of cyanide - a by-product of amphetamine manufacture - in its stomach contents, the Heelers realise they are close to the source of the drugs. A chance encounter with the "bird-watching" visiting bikers leads Adam and Dash to check out an old shed on a neighbouring property to the goats. And sure enough, they find the amphetamines cooking. The Drug Squad is called in, in the form of the Clandestine Lab Crew, and the Heelers assist in staking out the shed to catch the bandits red-handed. But just as the Drug Squad are about to pounce on the amateur "cooks", the visiting bikers come thundering up with shotguns at the ready, and the intention of blowing the lab sky-high. It takes some quick heroics from the Heelers to save the day.

Episode 17

Random Breath

Dash's career is on the line when is seems she waved her new boyfriend on instead of breathalysing him. Dash explains that it was because she saw a couple, in the car behind, changing seats and when she pulled them over. The driver was proven to be under the limit while the passenger was clearly drunk. The only way Dash can clear her name is to find some evidence that the couple did in fact swap seats. Unfortunately, it takes a fatal accident to finally prove she was telling the truth.

Episode 18

Close Encounters

A baby disappears in suspicious circumstances, but only Adam believes the mother's story when she claims the child was kidnapped. The woman's credibility is questioned when not a single picture of the infant can be found. Crime Scene call in with news of the discovery of what seems to be a shallow grave in the couple's backyard, but the only thing the Heelers find buried there is an apparatus for faking a pregnancy. As investigations continue, the mother's sister turns up at the station and tells Tom she holds grave fears for her sister's sanity. It turns out the mother was a successful journalist who had a nervous breakdown following a well publicised "close encounter" with alien beings. Could it be the mother has done something to the baby? Was there a baby at all? Or was it all a product of the woman's fevered imagination? Adam and Nick find themselves at odds over Adam's support for the woman. A bond forms between the mother and Adam and she extracts a promise from the young constable that he will leave no stone unturned to find her child. The Heelers find themselves called to a domestic dispute at the woman's house, only to discover her husband has been trying to get her to sign a Power of Attorney and she is throwing him out. Adam believes this is part of an elaborate plan to permanently relieve the woman of her money, but her husband claims he was acting only out of love and concern - someone has to pay the bills while his wife is ill. After a chance encounter at the pub, Adam finds an unlikely ally in Nick, but just as he is finally convincing the others, the woman is found unconscious in her bedroom from an overdose of tranquillisers. Adam doesn't believe the mother is the suicidal type and points the finger at the husband. Nick comes up with some interesting information about the man's background and a fishing expedition at the Imperial Hotel reveals an interesting liaison. The Heelers are now working on a conspiracy between the husband and the mother's sister, but will they get to the baby in time or will it be too late? With the plans of the conspirators already unravelling, Zoe calls from the hospital to say that the baby's mother is awake. The Heelers are now hot on the trail and track the husband and sister to a holiday cottage in the bush. But Adam still has a couple of unwelcome surprises ahead of him before the case is closed.

Episode 19

Buckley's Chance

Jack Buckley has won the Lotto and looks like all his troubles are over, then the ticket goes missing and with a jackpot so high, this is only the start of the problems for Jack. Adam has to deal with Stacy's pregnancy issues that are affecting his job.

Episode 20

No Means No

Nick hasn't shown up for the start of his shift and a worried Maggie reports to Tom that he is not at the Watchhouse Keeper's residence either. Later it is discovered he has been at the home of Danielle Carter, an ex-prostitute at the centre of a major criminal trial in Mt Thomas. While this draws sniggers from his uniformed colleagues, PJ fails to see the humour. It will be hard enough to get a conviction for the rape of an ex-crow without Nick's personal involvement complicating the case. Dash is appalled to receive a love letter from crusty old farmer Keith Purvis only to find this is yet another of Nick's practical jokes. Nick thinks it's Dash getting her own back when he receives a note from a "love sick secret admirer" suggesting an rendezvous in the park. Nick ignores the letter only to receive a much more threatening missive - his shredded clothing smeared with blood. Quite obviously, this is no practical joke, so who is stalking Nick? Maggie and PJ suspect Danielle when she turns up at the station with a heavily bandaged hand, but Nick is having none of it. Danielle needs reassurance about her decision to give evidence in the case. Will the jury take the word of an ex-prostitute accusing a respectable married man of rape? Her confidence is further undermined when she finds herself suspected of stalking Nick. Her refusal to give a sample of her handwriting does nothing to quell Maggie and PJ's mistrust. To the Heelers' consternation Nick continues to offer Danielle his unqualified support and their relationship continues to grow. Just when Nick thought things couldn't get much worse, Monica Draper arrives to investigate an anonymous allegation of sexual harassment against him. What should be a straight forward investigation turns sour when Nick's history as a prankster comes back to haunt him. When Monica asks him about his relationship with Danielle, Nick refuses to answer, it's none of her business. Monica issues an ultimatum, answer the question by the end of his shift or face disciplinary charges. But the Heelers soon have other worries. Nick unwittingly puts Maggie in the firing line with his larrikin sense of humour. While PJ wants to protect her, Maggie thinks his time would be better spent finding the person making the threats. PJ reluctantly leaves her in the care of Dash, but the stalker already has her target in sight and it doesn't take long before she is given the opportunity to strike. The Heeler's, meanwhile, discover the identity of the stalker, but it could be too late for Maggie who is now facing a knife wielding fanatic in the living room of her home.

Episode 21

Poetic Justice

A $1 million dollars worth of cigarettes appears to have been hijacked. With local characters and a cigarette company P.I. who's pulling in weight on the investigation; finding the missing truck may hold the answers for the police. Nick is driving Maggie up the wall with his poetry, trying to get her to join in on the local talent night.

Episode 22

Left in Trust

A 16 year-old girl goes missing and her Polish mother who speaks very little English turns up looking for her. But accusations fly and it seems people are lying about her and she is still missing. Stacey does not like being given the brush off by Adam, and is beginning to blame Dash.

Episode 23

Sick Puppy

Tom becomes worried when his schoolteacher daughter, Susan, fails to arrive in Mt. Thomas. She was driving up from Melbourne to take up a temporary posting at the town's primary school. Dash and Adam discover Susan Croydon's car abandoned on the roadside. It has been involved in an accident with another car, also abandoned, and there is no sign of either driver. Bryan Maxwell, Andy's older brother, comes to the police station, anxious about Andy's failure to arrive at the family farm. Tom has just about convinced himself that Andy has done Susan harm when the missing pair are found - they were only hiking for help after the side-swipe accident which Susan insists was her fault. To Tom's chagrin his daughter has struck up a friendship with this dubious young man and invites him home for dinner. Bryan, the brother, invites himself too. Conversation after the meal takes a sinister turn when Andy holds forth with some morbid details from the history of hanging. It seems to be a hobby of his. Tom tries to prevent Susan from having any further contact with Andy Maxwell after discovering he was accused of murder a few years before, but his daughter is too stubborn to listen and goes off on a picnic with Andy while Tom works fast to find out all he can about the murder case. Jodi Dunn, the sister of the dead girl, is interviewed and remains convinced Andy murdered Michelle Dunn in a fit of rage after being dropped as her boyfriend. Bryan Maxwell is interviewed and is concerned to hear Andy is out with Susan. The impression grows that Andy is a timebomb and Susan might be his next victim. Maggie and Nick round up Andy and the unharmed Susan. Back at the station, PJ grills Andy concerning his role in Michelle Dunn's death. Andy, although under stress, sticks to his story. However, the Heelers have discovered a lie about his movements on the day of the murderand Homicide is contacted to reopen their investigation. Meanwhile, the second of two disturbing burglaries occurs in Mt. Thomas, each involving the strangulation of a dog. In one case, a real dog is killed with a cord, in the other a toy dog is found hanging from a noose. There is a strong link here with Andy Maxwell, whose dog breeding aunt, Nita Maxwell, blamed Andy for hanging three of her best breeders from a tree the last time the boy was in the area. There's yet another alarm for Tom Croydon when he finds that Susan has departed from his house, leaving behind an angry note and no clue where she's gone. The next day he starts a worried hunt to trace her. Where has Susan gone and is her life in danger? All the Heelers know is that the murderer is poised to strike again. Can they find him before he claims another victim?

Episode 24

Sisterly Love

Maggie and PJ are embroiled in a series of burglaries, which look as though they're originating from the school where Susan, Tom's daughter, is assisting as a relief teacher. PJ has analysed every possible link between the burgled houses. After eliminating the Juicy Rooster Chicken delivery man he is left with no alternative but to investigate the school. While Susan has her hands full with students such as Chloe Bassetti, who stole valuable coins out of her desk and tried to hock them, PJ is convinced that an assignment Susan set was designed to find out details of where valuables are kept in the kids' houses. Susan isn't happy being the immediate suspect but the Heelers can't forget her somewhat chequered past. She finally explains that it wasn't her that set the assignment, but the principal of the school, Guy Ashfield, a problem gambler who has previously been investigated for embezzling funds. Guy pleads innocence, and when a locket is found at the scene of a recent break-in, it seems he's telling the truth - it's traced back to Chloe's mother, Domenica Bassetti. Unfortunately for the Heelers, it seems Domenica has disappeared - and neither Chloe or her older sister Natalie, know where she is. A huge attempt at tracking down Domenica leads the police no closer to finding her - until PJ starts trying to get information from Natalie. He's sure Domenica is using the girls to cover for her, and finally Susan suggests that she mind the girls overnight and radio the Heelers when Domenica arrives. Unfortunately, the girls are gone and there's no sign of Domenica - however, another burglary has been attempted, and the burglar was female. She was also shot by Henry Biggins, a man who believes it's his right to protect his home by whatever means necessary. However, when the Heelers find the burglar, they're shocked to discover that it's not Domenica Bassetti at all. The burglar's real identity and Domenica's fate are more intriguing than anyone could've guessed.

Episode 25

Can't Take a Joke

Maggie is on a private visit to the panel beater's shop when her attention is drawn to a small car sitting on top of a pile of pallets. The car belongs to Molly, the sole female employee of the shop who is stoically enduring the actions of her colleagues. While the Heelers persuade the boys to return the vehicle to its owner, Maggie and Dash believe Molly has been the victim of systematic victimisation and with Tom's consent they return to the shop to warn off the foreman and his mates, but their pleas fall on deaf ears. They are soon back at the shop in answer to a fire alarm only to find a soaked Molly who has set off the sprinkler system after being locked in the changing rooms. It seems someone has stolen the boss' keys to shut her in, but were they just intending to keep Molly trapped or were they keeping her on ice for other, more sinister reasons? A description from the locksmith leads the Heelers to a young apprentice in the shop. When questioned by the Heelers, the boy not only admits doing the deed, but seems proud of it. Meanwhile, the foreman's brother has returned to town from Queensland. To Adam's chagrin, he turns out to be Stacey's old boyfriend and she wastes no time renewing his acquaintance. Stacey decides to try and save her marriage by playing the two males off against one another. Adam is irritated when he discovers the two have been to the movies together and retaliates by stopping the ex-boyfriend in his car and doing a thorough roadworthy test. This backfires when the ex-boyfriend complains, landing Adam in hot water with the boss. There is more trouble at the panel beater's when some spray paint equipment is sabotaged, seriously injuring one of the workers. The person who mixes the paint and had the greatest opportunity to sabotage turns out to be Damian, the male apprentice. However, when PJ goes to interview him, he discovers Damian has absconded from the scene - guilty behaviour indeed. The young man's despair has driven him to desperate measures, but Maggie talks him out of doing something drastic. The Heelers must now determine whether he is the culprit or just another victim. Adam and Dash are out on patrol when he sees Stacey's ex-boyfriend's car parked outside the Imperial Hotel. Adam, hot-headedly rushes inside where he discovers Stacey in a highly compromising situation. He resists the temptation to resolve the matter with his fists, but on the way out, Adam spots Damian drinking with his mates. The Heelers have already spoken to the boy but Adam doesn't know this and he tries to order him back to the station for questioning. An ugly confrontation ensues, ending with a major injury and Adam's career in tatters.

Episode 26

Every Contact Leaves Its Trace

PJ and Maggie are called to the U Wreck panel repair works where the foreman, Jeff Dimmock, lies injured outside - a victim of a hit-run driver. Dimmock is a feared bully with any number of enemies who must be regarded as suspects but Dimmock himself believes the culprit to be Molly Beggs, one of two apprentices whose lives at work have been marred by the culture of torment and vicious practical jokes. While PJ and Maggie begin their investigations, another mystery surrounds one of the Heelers themselves - Adam Cooper is missing. The pressures mounting recently in Adam's married life as well as a disaster in his career give Tom Croydon and Nick Schultz some unease about whether he may have suicided. Dash McKinley does not believe Adam would suicide over the misbehaviour of his wife, Stacey. From slender clues, Dash uses her detailed knowledge of the Mt. Thomas landscape to work out where Adam may have gone. She and Nick discover Adam in the bush, lying near death with a bullet in his chest and his own gun in his hand. It certainly looks like a suicide attempt. Meanwhile, Maggie and PJ are narrowing the field in their hunt for the hit-and-run driver - who proves to be someone unexpected. Dash persuades Inspector Monica Draper to be allowed to look over the crime scene where Adam was discovered, she believes he was ambushed by an unknown gunman. They discover blood near some car tracks and further down the track, a car has slid into the bush. Inside is the badly wounded Brad Dimmock, who gasps out the accusation that "Cooper shot me". Adam certainly had some motivation. Brad, the brother of Jeff Dimmock, is his wife's lover, and the real father of the unborn baby Stacey lost. Adam revives in hospital, and gives the story of the ambush Brad had staged, intending it to look like a suicide. Brad himself does not recover from the wound Adam gave him in self-defence. Brad's death leaves Dash McKinley tracing the full plot against Adam. The truth she discovers is tough for everyone to take.

Episode 27

Playing Games

A couple are trying to build a resort on their land but their local neighbours object. The main opponents end up on a Murder Mystery weekend at the pub with Maggie and P.J. participating, but things get more serious and real along with the fun. Adam is still recuperating in hospital and Chris has a new admirer.

Episode 28

Counting Chickens

Nick and Dash arrive at Betty Freer's funeral to pay their respects, but instead they find her two sons fighting in her grave. Alex Freer is the younger son, and has been working on the family's free-range farm since his father's death. When the older son, Jerry, returns home from America wishing to make some changes to the farm, an intense feud erupts. The fight at the funeral is a symptom of the mounting tension within the family. When Mrs. Freer's bedroom is ransacked and her jewellery stolen, PJ and Maggie become involved in the investigation. Was Jerry Freer simply trying to scare his brother off the land, or is it a straightforward case of theft? This is soon accompanied by the theft of two thousand dollars worth of feed. Dash manages to find a lead - the Freers' neighbour Griff Hoekstra, a pig farmer, seems to have sufficient motive presenting itself in the form of forcing the Freers to sell. The plot begins to heat up when Jerry Freer's son is almost killed. PJ must make some headway soon before someone really is killed. Who is the perpetrator hiding in the one place that PJ has as yet not checked? At the same time, Nick is absorbed in compiling receipts for his tax return and removing Adam's stitches. PJ is thoroughly impressed by Nick's stunning accountant, much to Maggie's distress. But why is she curiously uninterested in taking his business.

Episode 29

Drag Line

A local peer of the community is found dead but it is what he is dressed in that causes a stir. There are plenty of suspects from friends and strangers, who all seem to not tell the police the whole truth, until the police confront them after investigating further.

Episode 30

Closing Ranks

While on routine patrol, Dash and Nick pull over to attend to a car that has driven off the road and discover that the pregnant driver has gone into labour. After taking her to the hospital, Nick is assaulted by a man found breaking into a truck in the car park and is himself admitted to the hospital with a head wound. Responding to the incident, the Heelers are on hand to see the child born but when the baby's health takes a sudden turn for the worse and subsequently dies, the bereaved father, drunk and in search of answers, takes Nick and Zoe hostage. The man is easily subdued but Nick takes up his cause, and, along with PJ, investigates the baby's doctor. What they uncover provides the painful answers sought by the grieving parents and sheds some light on Nick's assault. Meanwhile, Monica Draper arrives to interview Adam in relation to his assault on Damien Allenby. After bumping into Damian in hospital, Dash learns he is considering a civil lawsuit against Adam and the police. With Adam facing the end of his policing career, Dash makes her own enquiries into the incident leading to a surprising turn of events.

Episode 31

Off the Air

A radio broadcast from Mount Thomas seems to go after the police officers one by one, putting them on the defensive. With security and thefts happening, the DJ stirs things up even more by calling it a crime wave. The police may have no choice but to go to him for help. But who is helping whom?

Episode 32

The Scarecrow

The scarecrow comes into to report a stolen car but Maggie stops him from using his other one as it is not roadworthy. This leads him to the 'troll' (his father), whom Dash is terrified of, but all he wants is to be left alone which it appears, Maggie won't do. Maggie also gets a surprise visitor and with car thefts increasing, there can only be trouble ahead.

Episode 33

Safe as Houses

A family's home is been repossessed by the bank and they are not happy with this which brings out the police. The situation will only get worse and thefts in the area and the family auctioning their personal possessions, all seems to be linked and it all points to Sam Chalmers, who happens to be a friend of Dash.

Episode 34

Our Patch

Three out-of-town workers take rooms at the pub for four weeks. They are loud, boisterous and drink heavily and seem to take delight in winding up the police at every opportunity they get and Chris too. There is bound to be trouble, even though they are not who they say they are. Robbie is making more of an impression on Dash and it's not good each time.

Episode 35

The All-Seeing Eye

A couple come to town looking for their daughter that was taken two years earlier. The wife asks the local gypsy woman for help but a local witch contradicts her findings. Who is lying and why? And where is the missing girl? Suspicions are falling on Robbie but Maggie does not want to hear it, as it is about her brother.

Episode 36

Playing Possum

PJ is on the trail of a cat burglar known as the Possum. This thief is responsible for a number of jewellery thefts in Mt. Thomas and has proven virtually impossible to catch. PJ enlists Maggie's help but she is having trouble focusing on the case as her thoughts are firmly fixed on her brother Robbie and her discovery that he is using heroin again. Maggie realises that the only way she can help her brother overcome his addiction is with the help of her family so asks their father, Sgt. Pat Doyle, up from Melbourne. Maggie and Pat face Robbie who tries to convince them that he can stop using heroin whenever he likes. Maggie and Pat realise that this is just another junkie line and explain that they will help him any way they can if he is willing to combat his addiction. Robbie suggests that with their help he can go cold turkey. Maggie and Pat decide that they will take shifts in watching Robbie while he goes through withdrawal. However, this makes it even harder for Maggie to concentrate on the jewellery thefts. Gail Russell, a victim of the Possum, arrives at the station claiming that she' seen her stolen emerald dress clip in a local jewellery shop. However, when PJ questions the shop owner he discovers the feature stone of this piece is a garnet, not an emerald. Could she be lying as part of an insurance scam? Maggie discusses Robbie's heroin addiction with Dash but asks her to keep it to herself. However, PJ knows something is wrong and manages to heavy Dash into telling him about the heroin. With this knowledge he tries to lend support to Maggie but she shuts him out. She just wants him to keep quite about it and leave her alone, everything is fine. But everything is not fine. Robbie is going through the horrors of cold turkey, and there is little Maggie can do but watch her brother try to deal with the pain. Meanwhile, PJ is making progress with the jewellery theft investigation. It now seems that Gail Russell could be right about her dress clip, the stones may have been swapped. This may be the piece of information PJ needs to unmask the Possum. Maggie wakes the next morning to find that her brother has made it through the worst of the withdrawal and seems relieved to have his addiction behind him. Pat Doyle leaves Maggie and Robbie for Melbourne, sure that everything is under control. Then Dash announces that her CD player has gone missing. Is Robbie as clean as Maggie hopes?

Episode 37

Collateral Damage

Drugs at a local school incites the parents and has the police looking into a nightclub amongst other things. Maggie is trying to help Robbie whose girlfriend is still using and Dash's things keep going missing. Is Maggie over her head on this matter with Robbie?

Episode 38

The Big Picture

Continuing the drug problem in Mount Thomas, the effects are far and wide reaching, from the citizens, their families, an undercover drugs squad, the local police, Maggie, her brother and a nightclub. Such is the gravity and scope of the problem, even more people will be thrown into this problem and for Maggie is will turn more serious.

Episode 39

Settlement Postponed

It's Melbourne Cup time in Mt. Thomas and the Heelers are watching the race in the pub along with a number of other notables, such as Richo, Celia Donald and Compo Hayes. When Compo introduces them to his angry mate, Stacker Nicholl, as his best friends, the Heelers begin to get suspicious. Their suspicions are increased when they learn the TAB takings for the Cup are well down on last year's, and Tom deduces that an illegal Starting Price bookie must be in the town. Maggie and PJ are convinced that Compo is involved in some way after Chris discover that his room at the Imperial has been trashed and he has gone missing. A short search of the hotel soon finds him asleep in the cellar, but Compo's explanation satisfies no one. When Stacker is brought in and charged, Nick is able to establish that he is a customer of the new SP bookie - even though Stacker denies all knowledge. So who could the SP be? Celia Donald is very anxious about her missing Filofax, and she is well-known to like a flutter on the horses. Could it be her? Could it be Stacker himself? While they are puzzling over this, Compo reports another future crime, and talks his way into sitting off the Steam Packet bottle shop with Nick and Adam, waiting for it to be robbed. It isn't. Nick throes Compo out of the car and tells him to get lost. Then Nick feels incredibly guilty, because the next day it seems Compo has taken him at word. He is missing, and all a search of his room produces is Celia's Filofax, which contains an SP booking sheet listing a number of local punters - including Richo, Stacker and Celia herself. The only punter not mentioned is Compo, so he must be the SP bookie. Meanwhile PJ is dismayed to discover that Maggie has borrowed $5000 to put Robbie into Thea Copeland's clinic in the hope that its alternative use of hypnotherapy and the like can finally cure him of his addiction. Robbie seems to be doing very well there - until he too disappears. When the Heelers learn that Compo Hayes has also been attending the clinic to get therapy for his gambling addiction, they are not too surprised to learn that Compo and Robbie have taken off together. It is not long before they're found, in circumstances which make Maggie realise that her battle against Robbie's heroin addiction is far from over.

Episode 40

Containing the Rage

43 mins

Tom is incensed when he discovers that red paint has been thrown over the war memorial two days before Remembrance Day and gives up his day off to find the person responsible. Meanwhile, Keith Purvis comes in to pay a traffic fine which turns out to be bogus, there must be a fake cop operating in the area. Tom goes to interview a suspect in the desecration case and finds him to be an old policemate from NSW who has just been forced to retire amid corruption allegations and is now looking for somewhere to retire. Could he be the fake copper? Then an angry motorist reports he is the victim of "road rage" - a young hoon just tried to run him off the road. Tom is convinced there is some sort of link between these diverse incidents. And Dash also runs into an old friend, under suspicious circumstances also. Her old schoolmate, Rosie, has just punched Adam in the eye after he attempted to break up a fight over the darts board in the Imperial. Tom finds his link, but it's not what he thought. Rosie (now calling herself Blade) admits to being part of the road rage incident, but absolutely denies anything to do with the war memorial. Dash sticks her neck out for Rosie, guaranteeing that she will appear in court and organising accommodation for her at the hotel. But Rosie disappears and in searching for her Dash discovers that her step-father died only two days ago and that her mother has not heard from her in years. Rosie turns up during another road rage incident, in which she is terrorising a young mother in a car, but stops when she notices the baby in the back seat. When questioned by the Heelers, she reveals the reason for her anger problem - she had to leave town when she was impregnated by the stepfather who has just died. Meanwhile, suspicion returns to Tom's old mate as the fake cop when his vehicle is firebombed. Could this be a motorist's revenge? Other motorists are reporting bogus fines and the fake cop is obviously still at work. The Heelers set up an operation to catch him in the act but the first car he chooses to stop is driven by Rosie. This time she is able to control her anger and effects a relatively peaceful citizen's arrest. The fake cop turns out to be someone quite unexpected.

Episode 41

The Civil Dead

Two cases go to court but with court appointed lawyers in short supply with funding cutbacks, one defendant opts to defend herself and Luke Darcy is let out on bail but the police do not trust him. Dash will be involved in both cases and it will seem like the police versus the Darcy's is back on and it will turn violent. Tom has his first meeting with Sally Downie and they seem to like each other.

Episode 42

Possession

A reclusive artist has a painting go missing then it turns up again but that's just the start, as more thefts with violence occurs. Maggie and P.J. are at odds over Robbie's involvement with all of this. Just who is the mystery motorcycle rider? Is Robbie up to his neck in it and just what will Maggie do about it all?