26
Episodes / Broadcast 2000
1. A Princess in a Tower (1)
gs: Lenka Kripac (Dee Ann
Williams) Meme Thorne (Sunny
Rodriguez)
Pete Murray is caught and is
sent to jail, leaving his
daughter Olivia Murray in
charge of the family business, a
vast criminal operation.
Pete's assistant Bill Peterson
takes Olivia to "The Metro"
an inner city aparment block
where Pete owns the penthouse on the
top floor from where he runs his
business, and a police station
has just been set up on the
bottom floor. Given no choice in
whether she stays or goes,
Olivia is forced to learn things
about her father that she
never imagined.
Meanwhile, Con and Debbie at the
police station are confronted
with a young girl, Belinda
Clark, who is being stalked by
an old friend. Debbie's
flatmate Vicki is devastated
when her co-worker Sean, with whom
she was having an affair, is hit
by a car and permanently
crippled while attempting to
help a man.
b: 01-Feb-00 w: Tony Morphett s:
Inga Hunter & Tony Morphett
d: Scott Hartford-Davis
2. A Princess in a Tower (2)
gs: Meme Thorne (Sunny
Rodriguez) Lenka Kripac (Dee Ann
Williams)
Pete Murray is caught and is
sent to jail, leaving his
daughter Olivia Murray in
charge of the family business, a
vast criminal operation.
Pete's assistant Bill Peterson
takes Olivia to "The Metro"
an inner city aparment block
where Pete owns the penthouse on the
top floor from where he runs his
business, and a police station
has just been set up on the
bottom floor. Given no choice in
whether she stays or goes,
Olivia is forced to learn things
about her father that she
never imagined.
Meanwhile, Con and Debbie at the
police station are confronted
with a young girl, Belinda
Clark, who is being stalked by
an old friend. Debbie's
flatmate Vicki is devastated
when her co-worker Sean, with whom
she was having an affair, is hit
by a car and permanently
crippled while attempting to
help a man.
b: 01-Feb-00 w: Tony Morphett s:
Inga Hunter & Tony Morphett
d:
Scott Hartford-Davis
3. Zoomboom
gs: Meme Thorne (Sunny
Rodriguez) Lenka Kripac (Dee Ann
Williams)
Olivia demands that Bill let her
see her father in jail. However, she
becomes more upset with her
father when he sends someone
else to talk to her instead
of seeing her in person.
Belinda's stalker Dee Anne
becomes angry with Con, who is
protecting Belinda, and destroys
his prized motorbike infront of
the Metro. Sean dies while
in hospital and Vicki meets his
wife, Narelle, who
takes an instant disliking to
Vicki.
b: 08-Feb-00
4. Snapshots and Cottontails
gs: Meme Thorne (Sunny
Rodriguez) Lenka Kripac (Dee
Anne Williams)
Belinda is at the mercy of
psychopath Dee Anne, who locks
both of them inside her
apartment and no-one else at the
Metro suspects that anything
is wrong with Belinda.
After almost letting their
emotions get the better of them,
Olivia and Matt slow down
their relationship when they
decide it's too complicated
because he works for her.
Vicki's lawyer Zac attempts to seduce
her, despite the fact that Sean
has just died, and Vicki is having
difficulty coping. Vicki's
brother Skeez convinces both
Debbie and Vicki to let him move
in with them.
b: 15-Feb-00
5. Send in the Clown
gs: Lenka Kripac (Dee Ann
Williams)
Olivia overhauls the business
accounts and takes charge,
realising she may have
bitten off more than she can
chew after a nasty encounter
with Norman Bateson.
Debbie's ex-husband John, also
in the police force, arrives to handle
the aftermath of Belinda's
ordeal with Dee Anne, who jumped off
the top of the Metro building,
but both John and Debbie find it difficult
to work around each. Con
provides Belinda with the
support she needs in the
aftermath, staying with her the
whole night, but
his attraction to her is
obvious.
b: 22-Feb-00
6. Behold a Pale Horse
Olivia has continuous nightmares
about horses and demands that
Bill tell her what her
connection to horses is. Bill
explains to her that her
father also owns a racetrack,
stables and horses. Olivia
decides
that in order to balance out the
accounts she might have to sell
the stables, and, of course
Bill disagrees.
Belinda is still having a
difficult time readjusting to
normal life, and has a
mental breakdown when she goes
back to work for the first time
since the ordeal.
b: 29-Feb-00
7. Wiser Counsel
Olivia makes a final decision
about her father's stables,
after meeting with some of
the workers. Difficulties
handling the aftermath
continue for Belinda and Con
takes matters in hand.
b: 07-Mar-00
8. Sweet Rides
Vicki is taken in for
questioning, she is now the main
suspect in Sean's murder,
following an interview with his
wife, who denies a meeting
that the two of them had when
Sean died. Olivia takes
Debbie to the stables on her day
off, and the two of them
spend the day riding horses.
However when Bill decides to
send
a "message" to Norman
Bateson in the form of
destroying his car, Debbie
realises it was all a clever
setup to give Olivia an alibi.
b: 14-Mar-00
9. Little Acts of Kindness
Belinda leaves Sydney for
London, without any notice,
leaving just a note for
Matt, asking him to look after
her apartment. This prompts Con
to become jealous, since he was
the one who helped her through the
aftermath.
Despite being advised by both
her lawyer Zac, and the police
not to attend Sean's
funeral, Vicki attends anyway,
and becomes entangled in
another argument with Sean's
widow. Several bodies are
discovered
in a local park, and Con and
Debbie fear that a serial killer
may be on the loose.
b: 21-Mar-00
10. Chaos Theory
gs: Peta Toppano (Mrs Giovanelli)
Vicki seeks solace at her
mother's house when she knows
that there will be no way
out of her murder charge. But,
when another patient unexpectedly
dies in hospital, Con and Debbie
discover an interesting
twist to Vicki's case, which may
just save her, with the
help of an old woman who
voluntarily cares for the
patients who are sure to
die.
b: 28-Mar-00
11. Virgins and Whores
gs: Mercia Deane-Jones (Joan
Bartlett) Sarah Aubrey (Mary
Stafford) Simone Kessel
(Rosa Montes) Vivienne Walsh
(Sharon Wilkes) Benjamin O'Reilly
(Baz Hannaford) Fiona Biue (Lou
Hannaford)
Olivia visits one of her
father's brothels and wants to
shut it down because she
doesn't agree with the morality
of it. In an act of protest,
Bill gets her to have a talk
with some of the workers there,
Mary, Rosa and Sharon.
After being kicked out of Vicki
and Debbie's apartment, Skeez
moves in with Matt, who is
also looking after Belinda's dog
Kenworth while she's in
London. Not coping with the
combination, Matt sleeps with one
of the workers from the brothel
when she stops by his restaurant,
not knowing that she's a whore.
Skeez, meanwhile takes some time
out to mourn the anniversary of
the death of his friend
Jesse, who died of a drug
overdose.
b: 04-Apr-00 w: John Banas d:
Grant Brown
12. Special Services
gs: Mercia Deane-Jones (Joan
Bartlett) Jonathan Hardy (Stan
the Fingers) Meme Thorne
(Sunny Rodriguez) David Bowers (Josip
Andric)
Bill employs Stan to check over
Joan, the manager of the
Murray's brothel's,
accounts. When he discovers that
a significant amount of money
each year is unaccounted for,
Bill goes on his own vendetta against
Joan, without Olivia knowing.
In the meantime, Sunny seeks
help when she can't stand the
beatings her husband gives
her at home anymore, and spends
the night in Belinda's
abandoned apartment, but won't
let Bill, Olivia, or anyone else
help her anymore than that.
b: 11-Apr-00 w: John Banas d:
Scott Hartford-Davis
13. Happy Families
gs: Scott McRae (Michael Curtis)
Murray Bartlett (Nathan Peters) Meme
Thorne (Sunny Rodriguez) Nandy
McLean (Teresa Rodriguez) Maya McLean
(Isobel Rodriguez) Mark Ferguson
(Annie / Andie) Oscar Bravo (Rad)
After Matt kicks Skeez out of
his apartment, Skeez runs away
and loses contact with
Vicki, who becomes worried, and
desperately searches for
him, hoping he's okay. She
tracks him down at the rave club,
where he tells her he wants
nothing more to do with her.
Debbie's brother Michael and his
boyfriend Nathan announce that
they want to get married,
and Debbie shares her concern
about such a grand sweeping
declaration of love between two
gay men, and the
implications it may have on
their parents who live in a
small country town, and are
unaware of their son's
sexuality. When Sunny
mentions to Bill she is having
problems with her twin daughters,
he takes it upon himself to
lecture the twins which triggers
a runaway situation.
b: 18-Apr-00 w: David Phillips
d: Robert Klenner
14. Backlash
gs: Scott McRae (Michael Curtis)
Murray Bartlett (Nathan Peters) Mercia
Deane-Jones (Joan Bartlett) Meme
Thorne (Sunny Rodriguez) Frederick
Miragliotta (Carlos Rodriguez)
Nandy McLean (Teresa Rodriguez)
Maya McLean (Isobel Rodriguez)
Andy Pike (Terry Forbes) Jason
Paul-Hayes (Jack Glover) Nick
Sidiropoulos (Phil) Marilyn Eccles
(Mrs MacNamara)
Bill and Sunny go on a desperate
search for Teresa when they find Isobel
and she reveals that they were
kidnapped by Joan Bartlett and Terry
Forbes in an act of retalliation
for closing down their whorehouse.
Tensions rise amongst the group
of Olivia, Bill, Sunny,
her husband Carlos and their
daughter Isobel as they fight
over affairs, beatings and
whether or not to involve the
police. Meanwhile, Debbie's
life takes an interesting turn
with the arrival of a
handsome journalist, Jack
Glover, who is writing a story
about community policing
for a local rag.
b: 25-Apr-00 w: Louise Crane d:
Paul Faint
15. Lives of the Party
gs: Scott McRae (Michael Curtis)
Murray Bartlett (Nathan Peters) Meme
Thorne (Sunny Rodriguez) Emily
Stewart (Ginny) Sarah Savage (Dana)
Biatra Rhys-Jones (Deena) Micah
Thompson (Darren) Paul Cotter (Paul)
Vicki and Skeez throw an
impromptu party in celebration
of Michael and Nathan's
departure and imminent marriage.
With the party in full swing,
Matt decides to take Olivia
along, but the two of them get
held up at Olivia's apartment.
Debbie is convinced that she
will have a good time at
this party, and goes all out on
clothing, and drinking. And
Belinda unexpectedly returns in
the middle of party, giving
them reason to continue the
festivities!
b: 02-May-00 w: Tony Morphett d:
Lesa Griesdale
16. Mother Love
gs: Amanda Wenban (Lola Vernon)
Helen Scott (Sylvia Kramer)
Caitlin McDougall (Chick
Carslow) Meme Thorne (Sunny
Rodriguez) Shane Briant (Norman
Bateson)
Olivia meets Sylvia, her
allegedly dead mother, for the
first time. When Bill
suspects that there's more to
Sylvia's story than meets the
eye, he employs a private
detective to keep an eye on her.
He discovers that she is
seeing Bateson, which throws
further doubts
onto her claims. Skeez in
the meantime, after a lot of
begging and pleading, moves in with
Belinda, while Debbie and Con
are under pressure over their
disappearance from the party,
with Vicki intent on figuring
out their secret.
b: 02-May-00
17. Girl's Day In
gs: David Bowers (Josip Andric)
Meme Thorne (Sunny Rodriguez)
Geri, Belinda's mentor from
London, arrives. However,
Belinda is concerned when
she finds Geri crying.
Meanwhile, a lazy Sunday afternoon
at the Metro finds the girls
over at Olivia's for an afternoon
of tarot card reading. Debbie is
deeply affected by the outcome
of her reading, that points to
hidden pains she is yet to
overcome.
b: 09-May-00
18. Daddy's Girl
gs: David Bowers (Josip Andric)
Skeez promises to help his
friend Caitlin, pregnant to a
boyfriend who abandoned
her, yet Skeez feels a lot
stronger about the unborn child,
going so far as to lie to the
boyfriend. Uncomfortable with the
attention and love, Caitlin asks
Skeez to back off and let her take
care of her own problems,
sending Skeez into a spiral of
depression. Meanwhile,
Vicki begins to believe that
perhaps Josip may be the right
man for her, and asks him out on
a date.
b: 16-May-00
19. Redline
When Con discovers that his
chilhood friends Tibor and Sam
are into drug dealing, he
becomes torn between loyalty to
friends and loyalty to his
duties as a cop. It's an
important turning point as he realises
he can't go back once he chooses
his path. Meanwhile, Debbie
is having problems with a young
man who continually
graffitis the outside of the
police station with personal
insults directed at her.
b: 23-May-00
20. Friendship First
gs: John Adam (John Morgan)
Matt's life is thrown into
turmoil with the unexpected
reappearance of his former
love, Anna. Anna was the one
Matt was going to marry, but his
dreams collapsed when she dumped
him for another man. Meanwhile,
Con has been suspended from
service in the police force, leaving
Debbie as the lone police
officer at the Metro Police Station.
b: 06-Jun-00
21. A Day, A Life
gs: Shane Briant (Norman Bateson)
Meme Thorne (Sunny Rodriguez)
John Adam (John Morgan)
When Vicki calls Debbie out to
assist at the scene of an
infant's death, she
unwittingly touches a highly
emotional subject for Debbie,
forcing Debbie to reveal a
secret.
Meanwhile, Bateson is going to
make a profit from the demise of John's
operation, and in doing so,
opens the door to Con's salvation.
Bill is attacked, and kidnapped,
leaving Olivia very worried
about his whereabouts.
b: 13-Jun-00
22. Learning Curve
gs: Vic Rooney (Pete Murray)
Bill Charlton (Father Stanton)
Meme Thorne (Sunny
Rodriguez) Amanda Wenbun (Lola
Vernon) Leo Taylor (Colin
Waterford) Nick Sidiropoulos
(Phil) Tania Mustapic (Sister
Jeanne)
When Pete is stabbed in prison,
Olivia is devastated, and
maintains a vigil by his
bedside in hospital. When he
regains consciousness, he
and Olivia finally have an
opportunity to make up, and set
things straight.
Meanwhile, Bill is found
horribly bashed at the base of
The Metro building. He
refuses to give any information
to Debbie, who believes that
tensions are going to escalate.
b: 27-Jun-00 w: Tony Morphett d:
Paul Faint
23. Grave Matters
gs: Vic Rooney (Pete Murray)
Meme Thorne (Sunny Rodriguez)
Leo Taylor (Colin
Waterford)
Bill discovers Olivia with the
dead body of Colin Waterford,
who she shot when he
attempted to rape her. She wants
to contact the police, but
Bill convinces her to keep
quiet, not quite convinced of
what he'll do either, so
they seek advice from Olivia's
father, Pete, in
hospital.
b: 04-Jul-00 w: David Phillips
d: Nicholas Williams
24. The Devil You Don't Know
gs: Vic Rooney (Pete Murray)
Meme Thorne (Sunny Rodriguez)
Olivia is visited by Colin
Waterford's widow, and discovers
he was a father. Her guilt
over Colin's death intensifies,
and she spirals out of
control. Pete isn't much help
either, brushing it aside as a minor
incident, and telling her that
she needs to control herself.
b: 11-Jul-00 w: Tony Morphett d:
Paul Faint
25. Flatline Fever
gs: Anthony Wong (Dr James Tang)
Michael Donnelly (Rescue Worker)
Vicki and Josip are called to an
emergency in a condemned
building. A man has been
assaulted and left for dead at
the bottom of a lift shaft.
As Vicki discovers that he went
to high school with her, she
fights to keep him alive, but
the building soon proves to be a
death trap. When
Olivia refuses to share her
problems with Matt, he begins to suspect
that all is not all right, and
breaks up with her because she
won't trust him, throwing her
further over the edge.
b: 18-Jul-00 w: David Phillips
d: Jovita O'Shaugnessy
26. Moving On Up
gs: Vic Rooney (Pete Murray)
Caroline Brazier (Carla Benning)
Meme Thorne (Sunny
Rodriguez) Anthony Johnson
(Clement Michaels) Rachael Gorham
(Alison Coote)
Belinda decides that she's had
enough of working and living
with Skeez, and moves into
a new apartment. The problem is
she needs to find two
flatmates to share with, and
opens the invitation out to Debbie,
Con and Vicki. Because she can
only take two of them, a fight
ensues.
Pete Murray is moved into a
prison hospital and despite
Olivia and Sunny's
protests, he is refused to move
back into a normal hospital where
he can be properly treated. Meanwhile,
Belinda takes Matt out to one of
her celebrity functions, and
Matt meets a publicist, Carla,
who arranges for an event to be held
at his restaurant, giving him
some much-needed publicity. However,
everything comes with a catch in
the industry...
b: 25-Jul-00 w: Tony Morphett d:
Alan Coleman
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