Season 5

E1. Opening Night

Feb 5, 2002 · 60m

It's business as usual, in Ward, as Bron heads off to help Lyle through his ""opening night"" nerves. But the best laid plans go horribly wrong when an earthquake set of events, including a train disaster in which one of the team from Ward 17 dies.

E2. The Show Must Go On

Feb 12, 2002 · 60m

Terri breaks down and confesses her feelings to Mitch, Rebecca and Scott argue about how he performed on the job at the train disaster, but it rapidly turns into a passionate love scene. Jared discovers his love affair with Kylie could be on the rocks.

E3. In the Lap of the Gods

Feb 19, 2002 · 60m

Terri discovers Bron isn't coping with the tragic loss of Lyle, and Nelson is harbouring a dark and personal secret that unexpectedly reveals itself.

E4. Slings and Arrows

Feb 26, 2002 · 60m

When a patient in Jared's care leaps off the balancy of Ward 17, Jared feels enormous guilt and he knows he will most likely cop the blame. The shocked staff of Ward 17 needs a debriefing and Terri's management of the ward is also questioned.

E5. Private Affairs

Mar 5, 2002 · 60m

Rumours circulate Ward 17 that Von is having an affair with one of her patients. Terri is placed in difficult position when Mitch admits Rose's mother, Victoria, with a suspected heart condition.

E6. Loose Lips

Mar 12, 2002 · 60m

Rumours that Mitch and Terri are having an affair run wild throughout Ward 17 and, in order to protect Terri from the gossip, Mitch thinks about taking a post to another hospital.

E7. Invisible Things

Mar 19, 2002 · 60m

Von and Mitch are shocked when their patient reveals his dying secret - he got terminal radiation posioning inside from All Saints hospital. Bron's emotional farewell end with Ben getting more than he bargained for.

E8. All Choked Up

Mar 26, 2002 · 60m

Mitch and Rose must decide their future - stay together or divorce? Mitch tells Terri he has made the difficult decision on whether or not he'll divorce Rose.

E9. Flaws in the Glass

Apr 2, 2002 · 60m

Mitch and Rose finally decide whether to save their marriage or go seperate ways. Nelson nurses a formidable, fiercely intelligent ex Head Mistress, who gives him hell. Von and Luke treat an epileptic woman who refuses the drugs that will control her seizures.

E10. Only Human

Apr 9, 2002 · 60m

Paula is assigned to keep a patient happy but is subjected to sexual harassment, and later accused of accepting money. Luke first day back in surgery nearly ends in disaster.

E11. Chemistry

Apr 16, 2002 · 60m

Rose makes a surprise visit to ward 17 to deliver a news bombshell to Terri. Terri and the team look on in horror and disbelief as Mitch hesitates to save his patient's life. Mitch is torn between his duty and his heart as his patient doesn't want to live. Mitch and Terri confront their conflicting notions of love, when an older couple decide to die together.

E12. No Respite

Apr 23, 2002 · 60m

The rumour mill switches to overdrive when Jared catches Matt and Scott in bed together - but, through the day, Matt has a sad reunion with an ex-girlfriend, while Rebecca decides to save Scott's reputation.

E13. Thicker Than Water

Apr 30, 2002 · 60m

When amnesia patient Ross awakes, he tells Paula he has just had a shocking recollection of what he did to his children. Jared and Kylie finally come to loggerheads over a melanoma patient when a very jealous Jared suspects Kylie and Luke are an item.

E14. Pride & Prejudice

May 7, 2002 · 60m

Mitch finds that he is up against formidable opposition, with his proposal to set up a herion detox centre and puts Terri offside with his desperate actions. Von makes an unusual discovery on a patient convinced he is 'hexed' by his ex-girlfriend.

E15. Overload

May 14, 2002 · 60m

Nelson calls a strike in Ward 17 which puts everyone under pressure; a pressure which eventually proves to be intolerable and results in a death, and the resignation of Jared. Mitch cops the wrath of a strung out Terri, who gives him an earful for abusing his staff, and Mitch attacks Paula, accussing her of jeopardising a patient's life.

E16. Swept Away

May 21, 2002 · 60m

Terri is forced to face her ultimate fear - losing her true love Mitch. When Mitch comes into contact with a possible Ebola Virus patient, he and another doctor quarantined along with the patient. Fearing for Mitch's life and unalbe to reach him, Terri becomes increasingly distracted from her work.

E17. All The Right Reasons

May 28, 2002 · 60m

Lovemaking has occuppied Mitch & Terri's night, and Terri decides to call in sick. Meanwhile, Nelson, acting NUM in Terri's absence, and eager to perform well, urges the others to a team effort. Bron returns from England to bizarre welcome from Jared & Scott who fued over Jared's interference with Scott's study.

E18. Coming Clean

Jun 4, 2002 · 60m

Luke finds out there's a new Coronial Inquiry into the death of Dawn (Ma) O'Connell, Luke knows more than he's prepared to admit and it could ruin him and his family forever. The presence of the Coroner's Investigating Officer, creates ripples in the ward as, one by one, the staff are interviewed. Jared is going for a job interview. Or is he?

E19. Shame

Jun 11, 2002 · 60m

Terri loses her respect for Luke when the coroner's inquest into Ma O'Connell's death. Bron feels preesured to confess to Ben during her time overseas she was unfaithful to him. Victoria arrives to tell Mitch that Rose has decided to fight for full custody.

E20. White Noise

Jun 18, 2002 · 60m

Mitch and Terri part company for a while as the pressure over the custody battle for Lucy pushes them to the brink. After rescuing a young boy from a treacherous situation, Von realises that he has no idea how to play games or have fun and decides to teach him. Jared makes a surprise visit to Ward 17. Rebecca starts to question her career as an ambulance officer.

E21. Personal Matters

Jun 25, 2002 · 60m

Bron's overseas affair with another man is coming back to haunt her. Paula's mother is in a car accident with Paula's son Max, and she has to face the fact that Max has problem. Rebecca's accidental overdose of Paula's mother pushes her to resign.

E22. M For Memory

Jul 2, 2002 · 60m

On the verge of opening his repid induction clinic, Mitch is visited by his cousin Paul. The visit gives Terri a new insight into the childhood episode that shaped Mitch's life - the death of his sister Lucy. Mitch has to deal with a very determined Rebecca who is desperate to join the detox clinic's staff.

E23. Running On Empathy

Jul 9, 2002 · 60m

Mitch's world is falling apart when Rose has delivered a news bombshell that baby Lucy is not his daughter. Terri seems distant, unsupportive and it looks like she's returning to the religious order. Luke's prowess as a physician and is put to the test when he has to find a medical solution for a Tourette's sufferer.

E24. First Steps

Jul 16, 2002 · 60m

Mitch makes a decision to tack a NDA test and fight for custody for Lucy. It's also the first day for treatment in his new Detox Clinic. Von is attacked by Adam because of her interference with his horron addicted mum.

E25. Judgement Day

Jul 23, 2002 · 60m

It's crunch time for Bron as she finally plans to tell her fiance', Ben, that she had an affair with another man. A dark shadow emerges over their marriage. Terri's wish for more romance in her relationship gives Mitch the cheeky idea to plan her a surprise romantic dinner - in her office.

E26. Due Diligence

Aug 6, 2002 · 60m

Terri can't hide the news from Mitch any longer... she is pregnant and unsure of how Mitch is going to take the surprise. With only seven days until their wedding, Bron is desperate to repair her relationship but delivers an unexpected announcement. Nelson has hots for the new Ward 17 doctor Charlotte, and asks her out on a date which turns into a shocking revelation.

E27. In the Family Way

Aug 6, 2002 · 60m

With Mitch's cousin Paul is confronted in pain of watching his lover, Hannah trapped in a nightmare of a permanent comatose state, he is determined to become her full time carer. But her parents have other ideas. Paula sees a glimmer of hope that Max's delinquent father Michael will become involved in his life after saving a little boy from a car fire.

E28. An Itch To Scratch

Aug 13, 2002 · 60m

Paula is forced to consider medicating her son Max to ease his behavioural problems, after he hijacks an ambulace. With their first baby on the way, Terri and Mitch decide it's time to move in together... and they soon find the perfect home.

E29. No Expectations

Aug 20, 2002 · 60m

Jared's personal crusade to save herion addicts living in the underground take a tragic turn when he loses one to an overdose. Kylie realises how empty her life outside work is when she treats a man completely at peace with the fact that he is dying of cancer.

E30. The Untouchables

Aug 27, 2002 · 60m

Jared is ambushed and sexually assaulted. Terri knows the sex of the baby - and Mitch will bribe anyone to know too. Dr Warwick Ellies cuts himself during an operation an a transsexual patient and is convinced that he might have been exposed to HIV.