When another staff member is brutally attacked in the hospital car park, police step up the investigation. Drew comforts Jazz who is distraught after she learns that her mother has died.
Extended Summary
While Sam thought she had been followed in the hospital car park when she went home earlier in the evening, Rachel is unaware that she narrowly escapes being attacked when she arrives for work. At home Sam is still shaky from her ordeal and moves into defensive mode, locking up the house. Rory is worried about Sam and phones Jack, asking him to come home. Jack arrives with flowers to make up for an earlier tiff he had with Sam when she finally found out that he and Martha still aren’t divorced. Jack’s presence calms Sam, but she is annoyed when Jack doesn’t appear convinced that she had been stalked. Things remain frosty between them when Jack goes off to work.
Later in the evening, when Rachel and Gloria are about to leave work together, Rachel is called back and Gloria heads out alone. She tires of waiting for security and heads for her car where she is grabbed from behind, bashed and left semi-conscious. Rachel finds Gloria when she finally gets away from work and manages to get her back inside for treatment. The police are called and Jack attends.
Next morning, Jack tells Sam about the attack. She had clearly narrowly missed being attacked herself the night before and Jack’s sorry if had sounded disbelieving. Staff meetings are called to discuss the bashing of Nurse Gloria and tensions are running high. Jack informs everyone that the attacks on Nurse Julia and Gloria, although weeks apart, appear to have been committed by the same person. He confirms everyone’s worst fears – a serial attacker appears to be targeting the Hospital staff.
Drew out at the Surf Club with Jazz discovers her upset. It seems she has just found out that her mother, who she has been estranged from, died some months ago. Drew tries to comfort Jazz who regales him with stories on how badly her mum had treated her. Later that evening Morag, at the Bar, sees another city lawyer, Dane, who drunkenly tells her that he’s in the Bay to read a will for an attractive client who is trying to swindle her son out of his inheritance.
The next day Jazz tries to ingratiate herself with Drew prior to the reading of the will. When the will is about to be read Drew learns that he, and not his mum, is the sole beneficiary. Drew is outraged on his mother’s behalf. He feels the money is rightfully hers – which was Jazz’s plan all along. However, Morag has sniffed around and discovered that Jazz was Dane’s client and becomes suspicious that she’s out to cheat Drew. But what will she be able to do about those suspicions?