UK Air Date: 15th September 2005
Writer: Dan Bennett, Sam Meikle
Director: Scott Hartford Davis
Cat No: HAW5-059
The Stalker attempts to murder Sally. Cassie tries to heal the rift between Ric and Henry. A new arrival heats things up for Jesse.
Extended Summary
Now that Cassie and Matilda are getting on so well, they’ve turned their attention to healing the wounds between Ric and Henry. Cassie reckons it’d be cool if the four of them could hang together more often and todays a great day to start.
Sally has been whisked off to hospital after her mystery collapse. Flynn panics as soon as he sees her. Dr Hill says it looks like slow bleeding on the brain. This is serious.
Matilda and Cassie’s attempt to bring Henry and Ric together is heading for abject failure until Martha arrives and frantically tells Ric about Sally’s collapse. He races off with her to the hospital where Dr Hill’s previous diagnosis has been confirmed; Sally needs to have an operation to release the blood buildup in her head. Flynn blames himself for not having picked it up earlier, but Zoe assures him that he wasn’t responsible. That’s cold comfort for Flynn.
Martha tries to console a worried Ric but he reckons she’s got no idea. Martha shares with him the story of how her own mother died in front of her when she was 16. There’s a new understanding between the two, and Martha reckons it’s time for Ric to give his grandad a go. Ric does as well. He tells Alf that he’d still like to do the fishing trip they had planned before he left. Morag, Ric, Alf and Martha have dinner together; a family.
Alf introduces Martha to Jesse and the girl can’t take her eyes off him. Jesse ends up offering her some shifts in the bar. Things could heat up between these two. Colleen is buzzing around, trying to get people interested in the murder mystery event.
Sally is out of the operating theatre and everything is okay. She just needs rest. When she wakes up, she has blurred vision, but manages to make out someone tampering with her drip settings.
She sets off the alarm and Flynn and Zoe arrive to find her raving about the ‘intruder’. Flynn thinks the haemorrage is affecting her mental health. No-one believes her except Josie. Josie asks Morag to speak to Peter again – the Stalker is still out there. But when Morag goes to Peter, he says unless Morag has evidence to the contrary, all the evidence points to Marc. Morag agrees.
Henry’s surprised to hear about Ric’s emotional reaction to Sally’s accident. The girls cotton on to this and know that it might take time for any warmth, but the boys are at least tolerating each other. And that’s confirmed later on when the two of them have an awkward ‘blokey’ chat and we get the sense that a friendship is building.
We see the gloved hands with the flyer advertising the murder-mystery event. Sally was right. The Stalker is still out there!
Guest Cast
MORAG BELLINGHAM (CORNELIA FRANCES)
PETER BAKER (NICHOLAS BISHOP)
DR GREG HILL (ALEX SIDERATOS)
ZOE MCCALLISTER / EVE JACOBSEN (EMILY PERRY)
Trivia
‘The Stalker’ is seen for the eleventh time, trying to sabotage Sally’s drip in hospital. It cannot be Flynn as he arrives on the scene just as Sally calls for help.
Matilda Hunter’s mother was rolled over by a tractor 2 years ago.
Sally Fletcher’s age is mentioned as 25 years old, her middle name is ‘Louise’.