Season 2

2002

Mar 6, 2002 · 60m

Amanda and Alastair continue their affair as Amanda fights Kieran for everything he's got. However, Amanda is not pleased that Kieran isn't fighting her back and giving in which causes severe tension in the Macefield home and ends up causing Sascha to go on a drink bender at a party. After Kieran sees what the divorce is doing to his kids he decides to fight and offers her 60/40 of the property and joint custody. Amanda decides to move to Auckland with Taylor and as she prepares to leave she tells Nicky what she thinks of her. As a parting gesture to Kieran she torches his new vineyard and leaves Alastair to wait at their motel room. Elsewhere, Ken asks Dana out on their first date together but it doesn't work out very well as he's called to an emergency rescue of a toddler and subsequent tries at dates always end with an emergency.

E2. Stand by Your Man

Oct 2, 2002 · 60m

Nicky and Cliff nearly come to blows after she refuses to tow the line with Manu Bishop until she finds out from Dana that Cliff is being groomed to take over from Manu. Lynda Bracey makes a complaint about William and on top of him missing the symptoms of a heart-attack he tells Louise he's thinking about leaving. Louise tells Ross that she's pregnant and at Liam's going away party he announces it to everyone there but Louise isn't happy that he did it so publicly.

E3. The Making of Him

Oct 9, 2002 · 60m

With William having stepped down from his position at Mercy Peak Alistair is now officially in charge and he would rather not be which causes his own personal groundhog day. Henk van der Welter is hospitalized and he's convinced he's got cancer until it's discovered that the problem is poisoning and the poisoner is rather nearer to home than he would have taught. Enid's trial begins as she tries to get Arthur's ashes spread on the bowling green. She's denied her request by the club secretary because he's horrified about what she did to Arthur. She is later found ...

E4. Put Away Childish Things

Oct 16, 2002 · 60m

Ken's prized toy collection is stolen from his home when he is away judging the Radford House senior speech competition. Ken is sure the suspect is Todd and gets a warrant to check Todd's house but finds nothing. Meanwhile, Grace Stringer, the winner of the Radford House senior speech competition, becomes obsessed with Nicky.

E5. Death and Taxes

Oct 23, 2002 · 60m

In order to avoid people William goes out early playing golf and encounters his accountant Ian Enderby. Through much probing William learns that Ian owes over 3 million to the Inland Revenue and is adamant he is going to take his own life at the 18th hole. As they reach the 18th hole and no sign of William being able to talk Ian out of his course of action William takes matters into his own hands to stop him. Meanwhile, Wayne is hospitalised but Nicky cannot find out what caused him to collapse and whilst there he meets Lydia from the Inland Revenue who has been in a ...

E6. Fear and Loathing

Oct 30, 2002 · 60m

Cliff continues to push Nicky into a more permanent commitment but she is very wary. This escalates when she is attacked and robbed of her car, purse and drugs bag. She immediately believes that the culprit is Henry Chadwick which causes rifts between her and Cliff leading them to eventually break up.

E7. Festival of Romance

Nov 6, 2002 · 60m

E8. Desire and Its Undoing

Nov 13, 2002 · 60m

Mike Malloy causes a stir when he admits to Dana, after she asks him to babysit Jordan, that he cannot be near kids because he was in jail previously was assaulting three young boys. The news spreads like wildfire igniting outrage amongst the townspeople except for William who takes pity on him. Meanwhile, Gabrielle decides she wants to be a mother and firstly tries to get Nicky to get her to a sperm donation bank and then she asks Kieran to be the father, which he refuses. Kieran tells Nicky that he's not over her and what he feels for her is very strong.

E9. Cruel to Be Kind

Nov 20, 2002 · 60m

Helen's lax attitude to life and work and her constant clumsiness begins to cause tension between her and Nicky eventually causing her to move out and into Alistair's home. Gil's wife Denise is involved in a minor accident and is brought into Mercy with her two daughters. She asks Helen can she switch doctors to her and Helen agrees. Denise asks for a prescription for epilepsy drugs for her daughters and Helen writes her one without checking the family history. Nicky objects which starts a rift between her and Alastair. Nicky gets the family history and talks with ...

E10. To Kill a Minah Bird

Nov 27, 2002 · 60m

William takes Helen for a driving lesson as Alastair has an early hospital appointment and frightens William with her reckless driving. Jordan is brought in with a cut to his head and he eventually tells Dana that he has no friends at school and the cut was not an accident but caused by his former friend Carlos. Dana confronts Carlos' mother Paula and finds that Jordan has been bragging about Ken living with them which caused him to be targeted. But things get worse between Dana and Paula and it takes an intervention between Jordan and Ken to sort things out. Cliff ...

E11. The Day That the Rain Came Down

Feb 14, 2003 · 60m

Nicky returns to Barrett from vacation to find emergency vehicles preparing to move out- a flash flood has washed out a group of college students in the Waipuru Valley. Nicky joins the Search and Rescue effort along with Alistair, Ken, and Helen. Almost before they begin Helen joins the ranks of the invalids, and is told to look after Ryan, one of the walking wounded. The troops reach the site of the devastation to find everything in a state of chaos, with one student dead and several missing.

E12. Reality Bites

Feb 21, 2003 · 60m

Louise is worried, since a sudden upswing in pregnancies in Bassett has an Auckland bigwig coming to town to look into the hospital's budget management.

E13. Pride and Prejudice

Feb 28, 2003 · 60m

When Eric votes in favor of funding for the Youth Correctional Facility, there is an uproar which leads to a fight. Kieran is accused when there is a suspicious fire outside the iwi authority. Nicky tries to calm everyone down but this seems an impossible task, because everyone seems to be beyond the call of reason.

E14. Light My Fire

Mar 7, 2003 · 60m

The Bassett Volunteer Fire Brigade is called to the Radford House, where the school's teenaged students have been doused by the sprinklers. Another suspicious fire is all in a day's work for the Brigade, but this is something new. Sascha is acting out, trying to get expelled so that she can save Kieran from having to pay the school's fees.

E15. One Wedding and a Funeral

Mar 14, 2003 · 60m

Ken yearns to move his wedding plans forward, but when duty calls he puts them on the back burner. When Wasim washes up on Bassett Beach Ken fears the town is about to be invaded by boat people of dubious background. Nicky, however is touched when Wasim tells her that he has arrived from Pakistan to find Cherie Ruskin, a local teacher. Unfortunately, Cherie seems less than thrilled by his arrival, and Ken feels vindicated. But Cherie takes pity on Wasim and decides that she has only one choice- to marry him! Ken and Nicky argue about this risky step, and Ken ends by taking Wasim into custody.

E16. An Angel at My Wash House

Mar 21, 2003 · 60m

Nicky gets a birthday surprise- a visit from her mother Valda! Nicky feels ambushed by the whole affair, and Alistair tries to convince her that turning thirty isn't as bad as it seems. Nicky says that it isn't about her age, it's about her mother's attitude, which makes Nicky feel like a hopeless loser. Valda makes things worse when she learns that Nicky isn't seeing Cliff anymore, and suggests that they go off to England together. Nicky confides in Alistair, who happily takes this as a sign that they have even more in common than he thought, and decides the time is right to send her the message that he's more than interested in her himself. To do the trick he creates a mixed cassette of love songs that tells her exactly how he feels about her.

E17. Fork in the Road

Mar 28, 2003 · 60m

Alistair is down in the dumps when he learns that Helen and Eric are getting married, his father is moving on to a new family, and that his scientific research has been stolen by his former partner Gunther. Everyone is sympathetic about his woes, but that only makes things worse, leavin him feeling like an angry wimp.

E18. Saturday Night Fever

Apr 4, 2003 · 60m

Nicky is woken at 5am when there are casualties from the Bassett High School Ball. Gemma has a suspicious broken ankle and bruising after falling from a first storey window. Nicky is also surprised to see Sascha and Matt, Ken's younger offsider at the Ball. But Sascha is more concerned to find that her father isn't at home, but Nicky is acting a bit suspiciously on that note herself...

E19. Great Escape

Apr 11, 2003 · 60m

Nicky is wondering what is going on when she doesn't hear from Kieran after he left her a box of the world's finest pinot gris on her doorstep. Distracted by the situation, she gets talked into accepting Helen's request that she be her bridesmaid. Then she discovers that Kieran has a very good reason for avoiding her- he has received an offer for his vineyard and is considering selling. In fact, Kieran is in Auckland discussing the deal. After Gabrielle points out the financial benefits for Kieran as well as the chance to be closer to his son Nicky becomes more understanding, and realizes that her own wishes are selfish.

E20. Do It for Love

Apr 18, 2003 · 60m

The day of Helen and Eric's nuptuals draw near, and Kieran sees this as the perfect opportunity for he and Nicky to go public about their relationship, but she isn't sure. They know that there will be a good deal of disapproval when they do. But their secret is blown when Alistair makes an unannounced visit. He has come to tell Nicky some great news- he and Gunther have settled their dispute, and Alistair has bought a farm to carry on with his research. Nicky is pleased for him despite her worries that he has ulterior motives.