All Saints

- Season 8

(2005)

Life changes forever when the All Saints emergency team is caught up in the unfolding chaos of a balcony collapse at a local nightclub, where they are attending a New Years Eve charity function.

A tragic accident brings Frank's ex-wife into the ED as his worst nightmare confronts him. The ED staff is stunned to learn that Frank has a daughter. As Mac faces the possibility of life in a wheelchair, Gill and Cate try to come to terms with it. Jack comes to an uneasy truce with Charlotte and his impending fatherhood, while Dan helps two young girls at the nightclub before they face the disastrous consequences of their choices.

Cate's early morning visit with Mac sours and sets the tone of her entire day. Back down in the Emergency Department, Cate comes face to face with a past unresolved situation when a prostitute is brought in brutally bashed. When Cate finds out the patient is the mother of the child she saw in a brothel [episode 7.35], she rushes in where angels fear to tread. Engaging Nelson's help to get the Department of Child Services on side, Cate launches into her quest to save the child, Lily. Nelson watches with concern as Cate's objectivity is brought into question. It takes ...

A patient, wearing pyjamas and covered in blood, collapses in the waiting room of All Saints before being able to give any details. The trouble is he doesn't have any wounds. So whose blood is it? It's only after a young man called Dean is brought in following a motor vehicle accident that the patient, called Lyall, shows any signs of life. Dan notices Lyall's mumbling, in response to Dean's screams, and eventually deciphers he is asking for someone to forgive him. Dan puts two and two together - the blood on Lyall's clothes and the ramblings - and thinks that Lyall ...

A woman who continues to search for the daughter she lost 10 years ago, is matched up as a bone marrow donor to a 12 year old girl who is suspicious as to why none of her family share her marrow or blood type.

All Saint celebrates its 300th episode with an emotionally charged hour of drama as Charlotte is sent sprawling by a hit and run driver and fights to save her unborn child. After a seemingly chance encounter with Beth at the local pub, Vincent is convinced she's behind Charlotte's hit and run. Things with Mac are coming to a head for Cate. She suspects that he's on the verge of a decision that will send him back into arms of Gill - breaking her heart. Jessica's high-spirited but difficult bipolar patient refuses to medicate himself, but when he lets slip that he had a...

In the aftermath of Charlotte's miscarriage, Terri returns to All Saints to a cold reception from Jack. In this bitter mood, Jack has little patience for a man brought in with septic shock from self-inflicted wounds following the death of his twin brother [episode 7.39]. Unable to engage emotionally with the grieving man, Jack pushes to have the patient treated against his wishes. Cate refuses to let Jack allow his own pain to compromise his usual compassion. Putting aside their recent past, Terri visits Charlotte at home and shares some very personal history - how ...

A head-on accident between a motorcyclist and a semi-trailer, that could be a suicide attempt, creates heartache for both families in this week's All Saints. As Frank and Von work frantically to save the biker's life, they find themselves refereeing his warring relatives. As the man's wife and brother resolve their differences, Frank is given a fresh insight into his own domestic situation with Alison, the mother of his autistic daughter. Focussing on finding a diagnosis for a 16-year-old schoolboy whose limbs keep periodically failing him, Jessica doesn't see the ...

Beth is hospitalized with severe abdominal cramps. Charlotte can't find anything and asks Vincent for help. Margaret is convinced that her son is possessed by the devil.

Sasha is looking for action on her first day of ambulance duty - and she gets more than she bargained for.

A car explosion rocks a local supermarket, sending waves of paranoia through the community. When Cate and Sasha arrive on site, Sasha struggles to deal with the devastation and ends up wondering whether she's cut out to be an Ambo. Among the injured in the explosion is a man of Middle Eastern appearance whose horrific injuries place him close to the centre of the blast. A writer, Des Callahan, who has just released a controversial book on terrorism, believes this was an attack on his life. It isn't long until the media catches on and reports emerge that the terrorist ...

It's night shift in the Emergency Department and Dan is hoping for a quiet night - but even the best laid plans are destined to fail. When a patient collapses in the Waiting Room, no one expects the case will be quite so baffling. As precious hours pass, Jack is no closer to a diagnosis. Dan becomes concerned and, going over Jack's head he calls Charlotte, throwing down the gauntlet between him and Jack. Dan also has problems of his own as he is surprised to feel a tinge of jealousy at Jessica and Stuart's growing friendship. Meanwhile, Charlotte and Vincent's big ...

Terri is stunned when two faces from her past are brought into the hospital. Following a car accident, Lucy Stevens, the young daughter of Terri's late husband Mitch, is rushed into the emergency department, along with Rose's mother, Victoria. Victoria, who is the more seriously injured of the two, has been raising Lucy since the death of her parents. For Terri, the pair's shock appearance brings back countless memories as she finds herself facing her past ghosts. But Terri is in for a far greater shock. When Victoria's condition takes an unexpected turn for the worse...

During a violent siege at a brothel, Sasha and Cate witness Connie, a prostitute, being slashed by a knife-wielding assailant while another victim lies close by. When Patrick, the assailant, lunges at a cop he is shot and apprehended. In the ED Patrick abuses Jessica, forcing Nelson to replace her with Dan, who eventually finds out the source of Patrick's emotional pain. The Emergency Department is stunned when Vincent is arrested for assaulting Beth Chandler. Cate and Charlotte watch in disbelief as Vincent is taken away in handcuffs. Charlotte finds herself ...

Cate's day starts badly when she and Sasha find a teenage girl, Erin, seriously injured in a fall from a railway bridge. Cate makes a controversial decision in a last ditch attempt to save Erin's life - it's a risky decision and is not well received in the Emergency Department. Vincent faces court, charged with assault and accused of stalking. With Charlotte by his side, Vincent listens to Beth's lies on the stand, realising with horror that the truth will not necessarily win the day. Jessica is pleased to see Ross Weston, a patient previously diagnosed with ...

Inside a middle-class suburban house, Cate and Stuart step into one man's living nightmare when they discover his wife has cut off his penis with a kitchen knife. Worse, she has hidden the severed member and refuses to disclose its whereabouts. Battle lines are drawn in Emergency. Jessica supports the wife's actions, believing she is a battered spouse. Dan, along with the other male members of Emergency, vehemently disagree. When the appendage is finally located, it's Vincent who uncovers the truth behind the drastic actions of the wife. Von finds herself in awkward ...

Tensions are high between Cate and Stuart when they deal with Nathan, a young father who is trapped in workplace machinery. For Cate, the situation brings back memories of losing her father. As far as Stuart is concerned her hand-holding exercise is way beyond their call of duty and, by the end of the day, both Ambos have gone through significant personal and professional changes. Nelson, Jessica, and Charlotte are all involved in looking after a high spirited 72-year-old man, Bill, who has had an accident while parachuting. His 'live-life-to-the-fullest' attitude ...

Terri finds herself nursing a girl suffering from stress related migraine headaches - and she's only 14. Six months earlier [episode 7.36] her father was brought into All Saints Hospital suffering hypothermic cardiac arrest. Charlotte, his doctor, moved heaven and earth to save him. The girl, eternally grateful at the time, is now paying the hefty price of Charlotte's miraculous resuscitation, leaving Charlotte to question if she made the right decision. Charlotte desperately wants to help the young girl and the situation brings Terri to a life altering decision. ...

An horrific accident brings a family into the Emergency Department, and Terri finds herself spending her last day at All Saints on a crusade to alleviate a young girl's guilt. Her last day is fraught with complications as a family's celebration goes horribly wrong and their hot-air balloon crashes in dense bushland. The All Saints team find itself juggling multiple casualties as well as the news that a member of the family has gone missing at the scene. Terri nurses the daughter of the woman the team could not save and finds her patient is burdened with survivor guilt...

Jessica is finally honest with Stuart as to why they broke up and admits she is still a virgin. Full of guilt and confusion over Beth targeting Jessica with a car bomb, Vincent is unable to shake the feeling Beth is watching him and his friends' every move. Sasha and Stuart arrive at a call-out to witness a young man, Leo, recently dumped by his girlfriend, Claudia, set himself alight in front of her. Leo's obsession with Claudia becomes a backdrop for Vincent's on-going fear of Beth hurting the people he cares about - as Claudia notes: "with obsessed people like Leo,...

What starts as a normal day in the Emergency Department is quickly thrown into chaos when Frank receives an urgent call informing him his house is on fire. The torment of previous weeks is taking its toll on Vincent. He can't sleep, can't concentrate and is only just staying on top of things. On a trauma callout, Vincent and Stuart have a heated exchange over the treatment of a patient. Vincent feels Stuart is trying to undermine him. When confronted, it is revealed Stuart's anger is coming out of concern for Jessica, giving Vincent some serious thinking to do. Cate ...

When young couple Craig Mendolsohn and Megan Harris are brought in after an MVA, Charlotte and Jack take a special interest in their treatment after it's discovered that Megan is five months pregnant. Jack meanwhile has been treating Craig and he is touched by Craig's concern for Megan and his baby, only to be confronted with the bitter truth about the accident. Frank's criticism of Constable Peter Saunders when he learns that it was a pursuit gone wrong, confirms his original conclusion that the young constable is a gung-ho cowboy with little regard for the ...

When Vincent takes a call from Beth claiming that she's planted a bomb in the Emergency Department, a major evacuation of the hospital is triggered. However, the morning has also seen the admission of a Chinese diplomat potentially suffering from coronavirus . The patient is in isolation and unable to be transferred. After some wrangling, Vincent and Nelson stay with the patient while Frank and Cate organise continuing treatment for patients at a Muster Point in the hospital grounds. As the Bomb Squad move in to try to find and disable the bomb, Vincent and Nelson can...

The after effects of the bomb scare are still being felt by all. As Frank and Nelson deal with the administrative aftermath, Vincent deals with the police investigation surrounding the disappearance of Cate that afternoon. The police have no news to offer at this stage and an exhausted Vincent elects to go home. There, Vincent finds Beth with Cate, drugged and tied up. Beth is delusional, believing Cate is a major factor in Vincent's rejection of her and tonight, someone will die. While Vincent deals with the consequences of obsessional love, Nelson is fighting his ...

It's been few days since Beth unleashed her final campaign of terror upon Vincent and Cate. The fallout of that sees Vincent a broken man, holed up in a seedy hotel with many bottles of scotch for company. Charlotte is frustrated by Vincent's refusal to contact her, assuming he's chosen Cate as his support. Cate, meanwhile, has assumed that Vincent has sought solace in the familiar company of his ex-wife. Both are alarmed to discover that Vincent has chosen neither, and it is Cate who finally makes a breakthrough with Vincent, leading the pair to an unexpected ...

Stuart is in no mood to pick up Bradley, a middle aged man who is behaving strangely in a park. When Bradley refuses to be transported, Stuart hastily puts it down to eccentricity and washes his hands of the guy. Later when Stuart allows himself to be drawn into a sparring match with a badly injured brawler, who then collapses, he knows he has gone too far - that afternoon, Dan finds Stuart packing his bags. Nelson is not impressed when his wife Leanne contacts him about the divorce papers he has sent. However, after nursing a highly camp HIV-AIDS patient and ...

Jessica is still stinging from the mysterious disappearance of Stuart a week ago and Dan is keeping close tabs on her. An early morning trip to a supermarket sees them seek refuge in the walk-in freezer with a dying security guard when a gunman runs rampage through the complex. Fearing for their lives and unable to determine what's happening outside the room, they are forced into extraordinary actions to keep their patient and themselves alive. A patient who has little chance of survival hits resus and her son insists the medical team have ulterior motives for ...

Nelson receives a surprise visit from Trish Turner, a social worker who lives and works in the same Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory where Nelson previously lived with his first wife, Diane. Nelson has decided he needs to see his daughter Kahlia, the child he left behind when he couldn't cope after Dianne's death. Is he now planning to take the child away from the only family she's ever known? When Nelson says he won't be making it in to work, Jessica, as deputy, immediately becomes Nursing Unit Manager for the day. With a backlog of patients left over ...

A light plane carrying a group of kids from the far west of the state to Sydney for the upcoming state Eisteddfod crashes at the city outskirts. The pilot is dead and many of the kids seriously injured. Of course the All Saints Emergency Department receives its share of casualties, among others, a boy with major head injuries, a girl with severe internal bleeding, and a boy with a crushed spinal column. Frank, Vincent, Jack, Charlotte and the nursing staff move swiftly to save lives and limbs. Cate finds herself assigned to the kids' teacher and ex Christian Brother ...

An illegal drag racing meet leaves a young man pinned to a concrete column with metal spike through this leg. Frank sends Vincent and Cate out to deal with the situation. Cate, acutely aware of Vincent's recent emotional challenges, is concerned he won't be up to the task. But, as the day progresses Cate watches Vincent perform under enormous pressure changing both her professional and personal opinion of him. In the ED, Frank assists Jack in discovering the mix of drugs taken by a woman to attract the attention of her husband. As the mystery unfolds an attempted ...

Nelson, yearning to make contact with the young daughter he hasn't seen for years, is uncertain it's the right thing to do. He almost misses the reunion when events in the Emergency Department get out of hand and he suffers from cold feet. Charlotte feels that Vincent is hiding developments in his personal life from her. Her suspicions confirmed when she witnesses him being overprotective of Cate. A showdown between the two women doesn't seem far away. Two bikies from rival gangs, the Hangmen and the Vipers, are brought into the Emergency Department after a brawl. ...

Any thoughts of a quiet day are quashed as the Ambulance Bay doors crash open delivering Jamie and his mum Karen from one motor vehicle accident, closely followed by Kent, a cyclist who's gone under a bus. Moving from one medical crisis to another, the staff marvel at the fact Kent made it through the doors at all. Jamie and Karen are known to the Emergency Department staff and Von and Charlotte bonded with them the last time they visited [episodes 7.38 and 7.39]. Back then Karen, was denying the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter three months earlier. This ...

Jacks has a crisis on his hands. A strangely evasive patient has been triaged and asks for Jack to treat her.

The ED is on code red and understaffed. To say it's chaotic is an understatement.

Patient's journey to conceive by IVF threatens her life, Nelson decides to stay at All Saints rather than return to Northern Territory, Cate and Vincent go public with their relationship.

Storm takes out hospital power and back up generators don't work. The staff works in the dark.

Vincent's mate is sleeping with his ex and he doesn't like it. Charlotte and Spence have spent the night together and she seems very happy, until Vincent tells her his old friend knows she's gay and might just see her as a challenge.

Charlotte receives a spontaneous offer from Spence, who asks her to come overseas with him, to work for Doctors Without Borders.

Ambulance officers are called to a vast auto wrecker's yard where a young man appears to have been attacked, and left for dead by a pair of rampaging guard dogs.

Nelson's about to go on leave for his wedding and honeymoon and his replacement arrives in the shape of a sexy, ambitious young woman called Deanna.

The day of Nelson and Kerry's wedding sees the ED filling up with victims of a chemical explosion in a paint factory.