Mirror, Mirror

- Season 2

(1997)

Daniel McFarlane arrives at Limerick House to see the father he hasn't seen for 15 years. it's alarming, meeting a new step-family. And as if that's not enough an antique mirror provides a gateway to the past.

Greedy Aunt Lily has locked the attic door so that the children can't get to the mirror.

The boys are trapped in the past. Lily has moved the mirror and will realign it only if Daniel acquires the crown for her. So Daniel pretends to go along with her bribery with smashing results.

Lily scoops up the crown and gets Fergus to help her get it to the goldfields bank. When he realises what she's up to, he protests and Lily abandons him.

Unquiet spirits work in mysterious ways. Back in the 1860s, a strange shadow appears on a photograph while in the 1990s, the dark shape appears on a computer screen.

When Mai-Ling, the De Lutrelles' servant, is dismissed as a thief, Constance is determined to prove her friend's innocence.

Daniel and Fergus discover a body preserved in a glacier natural cryogenics. Can it be Gervaise De Lutrelle?

Gervaise hires a widow to make Constance more lady-like. But Mrs Graveney is less a lady than an Antipodean Fagin, ruling over a gang of orphan thieves.

The Limerick House's first guests are the obnoxious Rickenbackers. When Constance is mistaken for a ghost, Daniel comes up with a hoax to scare them away. But his plan misfires.

Fergus is in the grip of gold fever, which changes his personality alarmingly. When faced with the responsibility of a prospector's imminent death, will he see that some things are more important than gold?

Spike, the young pickpocket from Episode 8, comes through the mirror to the present and finds himself accused of robbery and arson. But Mandy is on his side.

Ideologies clash when the children try to persuade a trapper that what he's doing is wrong.

A faith-healer arrives in Jamieson's Gully and starts stirring up racial prejudice against the Chinese. But Gervaise and the children determine to reveal the Reverend Josiah Pinbody's true colours.

Constance announces that the 20th Century is a very much better place for women and she's not going back to her own time. However, when she attends a disco, she realises that 19th Century living does have some benefits.

When Gervaise removes some sacred greenstone from the river, Constance becomes worried about breaking a 'tapu'.

Mandy is miserable when it seems everybody has forgotten her birthday. Until the family turns on a surprise party and a surprise present: Victor, a golden retriever pup.

A travelling circus on the goldfields features a deformed 'elephant boy' a freak for the audience to ogle. The children decide to help him by bringing him through the mirror for plastic surgery.

When the mirror declares that Lily is not the fairest of them all, Lily decides to settle for smartest and wealthiest.

When a party of tourists spot and photograph a scary, hairy 'Jamieson Gully monster', the media swoop down in droves. The boys set off of to track down the 'Yowie' but when they do come upon it, they run back to the house, terrified.

One wild night in 1867, a cargo vessel runs aground near the goldfields. A young midshipman Jake is accused of negligence - a crime punishable by hanging.

Lily is leaving Limerick House to go to a high-flying, corporate job. Or so she says. What she really does is depart with the mirror, while Ned Kelly steals Constance's.

Constance comes upon Fergus and Daniel playing naked by the river. Panicking, she runs off and falls on to some rusty barbed wire. Tetanus.

There are no baby photos of Fergus in the family collection. Feeling left out, he goes off to visit Constance. So when Mandy discovers a snap of baby Fergus, she attaches it to the mirror frame, where he will see it on his return.

Caroline feels jealous when she returns to Limerick House and sees how well Daniel is getting on. Hoping to renew her bond with her son, she takes part in a kayak expedition.

It's Daniel's last day at Limerick House and emotions are fraught. Constance's parents are arguing, too, and when Lily reappears and unknowingly burns down the de Luttrelles' stables, Gervaise decides to sell the crown.

Mandy and Fergus try desperately to reassemble the shattered glass while Daniel and Constance find themselves in the Hall of Mirrors.