A high profile athlete is found badly injured from a vicious hammer attack. When he later accuses his team mate of being the attacker, Jack and Steve take sides over what should be done with the information. To Steve's immense and very vocal frustration Jack makes up his mind about the team mate's guilt and tells the Police who cart him off for questioning. With the team mate already tried and convicted in the eyes of the media, Jack realises he might've made a terrible mistake when a second patient arrives suffering similar injuries.

Von is called in by Dan to offer home care options to devoted husband, Gavin, whose wife, Connie, is suffering chronic fatigue. But when Von recognises that this man is a part of her past that she's spent most of her life trying to forget, she has an opportunity to deal with the trauma once and for all.

On Bart's first day back in the ED following the death of Ann Maree, a shoot-from-the-lip deserted wife who can't stop talking about her failed relationship is probably the last thing Bart needs, or is it in fact exactly what he needs?

Charlotte is torn between motherly concern and doctorly distance when part-time hospital creche carer Rhiannon brings a fevered Zac downstairs to be examined. As the two women wait for the results of Zac's bloodwork, Charlotte is left with some very tempting food for thought about a possible solution to the challenges she faces in caring for Zac as a single working mum.