Loveday Writing

We then cut to Wayne in one of the planes on his way to treat Sue. When Wayne and Matty get to the site to treat Sue for burns, they notice weird bruising on her leg. Sue refuses to go to the hospital for further treatment as her tours are fully booked, however Wayne does manage to convince her to have blood taken for testing.

Meanwhile, Henry asks Eliza when she’s going to talk to Ed, but she doesn’t give him an answer. Eliza then calls Pete to ask him how he is coping, and he reveals that Nate has made him executor of his will. Taylor informs Pete that she wants to go back to her home, ‘Wyama’, but Pete doesn’t want her to until she goes to counselling.

While Eliza tends to a patient whose hand is crushed and jammed in an excavator belt, Rhiannon and Nate’s double funeral is underway. Pete gives a formal eulogy at the funeral and Leonie asks him how Taylor is and if he has been to his own counselling session. Later at the wake, he is clearly struggling to cope as Leonie shares a story of Rhiannon helping her cope during her divorce, and the crew toasts to her. Shortly after Pete steps outside for fresh air, Wayne follows, calling Sue to check in on her. After Wayne wraps up his phone call, Pete asks Wayne what the sitrep was when he got the phone call about the crash, as he’s going over it repeatedly in his head. Wayne informs him (and the audience) that Rhiannon died as she developed a haemothorax and he attempted to resuscitate her five times. Pete points out that there were no brake marks at the crash and how unlucky Nate was to crash into the only tree in the area, implying that Nate was committing suicide and it wasn’t an accident.

Later, when Wayne is swimming in the local pool, a staff member hands him a phone. Sue is calling him as she thinks she had a seizure. Wayne and Matty go to Sue’s home to treat her, where she has another seizure. Matty notices that there are uneaten vegetables on a plate in her dining room, and that her gums are inflamed, which leads him to conclude that Sue is suffering from scurvy.

Later, Eliza and Pete are in the plane, heading off to treat a man, Derek, who has fallen off a ladder, when they argue about Eliza’s decision in last week’s episode to transfer their patient instead of going to the crash site. They manage to stabilise Derek, however when his wife, Jennifer, drives them to the plane so Derek can be taken to hospital, Jennifer tells Eliza she’s 32 weeks pregnant and experiencing contractions. Her contractions become so severe that Eliza ends up having to drive. Jennifer ends up having her baby boy in the plane. While the baby needs to be revived, it does go on to survive thanks to Pete’s efforts.

Meanwhile, Taylor tries to hitchhike her way to Wyama after she is unable to find Pete’s spare car keys. Wayne’s son, Darren, sees her whilst riding on his motorbike and takes her out there instead. When she sees Rhiannon’s garden that she managed to keep alive despite the drought, Taylor breaks down. Later, Darren tells her that people have been talking about the crash and making assumptions, Taylor says she knows this.

The episode ends with Pete and Eliza returning to base, with Pete telling her more about the Southern Cross, referencing Eliza’s flirtation in the previous episode.

Overall I felt this was a solid episode with the dramatic medical scenes (especially the birth scenes, those had me on the edge of my seat) and emotional personal scenes perfectly balanced out.

Stray Observations:

-If there are no available LEDs, makeshift landing lights are made using kerosene and large toilet paper rolls.

-Wayne and Mira don’t live together.