A Tess-Jonesy episode Full Synopsis coming soon

With references to 9x17 Broken Dreams

Ben and Susie face the inquest into Brad's death. What is hoped to be a mere formality quickly becomes complicated when a witness makes damning claims against them both - including accusations that Ben and Susie were having a passionate affair.

Barry Baxter is on assault charges against Tom, and Chris is angry because she was forced to lie for Tom. She confronts him and then tells Susie that Tom needs help.

Before Susie can process this, however, she discovers a suspicious package in the foyer, and the cops evacuate. It is revealed as a false alarm, and a simple extortion tactic from a man in need of money, but the threat only heightens the panic in Mt. Thomas.

Chris is attacked at the pub by a girl on speed, and Jonesy is interested to know who sold it to her. But the investigation quickly becomes overshadowed by the other events in town.

Mark, Joss and Kelly begin to get used to the life of Mt. Thomas when they investigate an alleged break-in, only to discover that the culprit was an injured joey.

PJ and Nick desperately attempt to prove Cal Millic is the bomber, and the media agrees with them. Millic begins to crack under the pressure of public opinion, but the situation only ends in tragedy when Millic takes his young dau

The cops attempt to come to terms with what appears to be Tom's death.

Amy suspects suicide but PJ thinks otherwise and, upon learning that Tarni Baxter had no idea of the accident, the two are set back a bit as to who committed the murder. What they don't expect is to find Tom alive in a seedy hotel, and although they attempt to help him, they soon realise that he may have been responsible for the death of whoever it was in his car.

PJ and Kelly attempt to prove Tom's innocence but Amy and Roy think he may have gone over the edge. When they discover that Roy Holland is missing, it becomes likely that his body was in the car, and the knowledge that Tom suspended him, and that Roy may have suspected Tom of planting drugs on Ryan Dekker, leads Mark to accuse Tom of murder.

Tom, meanwhile, is crazy with rage. He threatens Tarni by promising to plant her hair on the car and implicate her. However Shayleen Burke soon confesses that her father killed Roy after he discovered everything about