Episode 0010

This is the 10th Episode of Shortland Street which aired on the 5th of June 1992.
== Synopsis ==
Chris makes a difficult decision. Nick is forced to eat humble pie. Gina receives an exciting proposal.
== Cast List ==
* Lisa Crittenden as Carrie Kennedy née Burton
* Michael Galvin as Chris Warner
* Josephine Davidson as Gina Rossi
* Temuera Morrison as Hone Ropata
* Nancy Brunning as Jaki Manu
* Maggie Harper as Jenny Harrison
* Angela Dotchin as Kirsty Knight
* Paul Gittins as Michael McKenna
* Karl Burnett as Nick Harrison
* Buzz Moller as Klaus Schmidl
== Episode Summary ==
Nick tells Jenny he’s going to ask for his job back, and that the band “wasn’t [his] style” after bombing the audition. Jenny sees right through him.
Michael asks Carrie what she thinks of Chris. She says Chris is a capable doctor but irresponsible and has a messy personal life that interferes with his work. Michael tells her, with Jenny present, about Sir Bruce telling him to fire Chris. He’s still unsure what he’ll do.
Nick tells Gina he hasn’t got what it takes to be in a band, Gina encourages him. He needs to hang around to ask for his job back, so Gina asks him to mind the shop again.
Kirsty asks Jaki how she’s doing and tries to show her some research, but gets her head bitten off. Jaki has 12 weeks until she knows for sure if she’s HIV+
Gina brings food to Klaus, Kirsty pretends she saw nothing. 
Chris throws a letter of resignation on Michael’s desk, he didn’t like being used for his last name. Chris says he admired Michael for standing up to the medical establishment, that’s why he chose to work at Shortland Street. Michael admits Chris is right about why he was chosen, and Chris gives his notice and leaves. Jenny is upset when Michael considers accepting Chris’s resignation, and later gets a dig in when Michael says you have to watch your back in this industry. 
Carrie catches Gina rushing out of the clinic, and then finds Klaus and the other patients in his ward drinking beer. She snatches the beers out of their hands and tells Klaus Gina is banned. “Gina, nein!”
Nick tells Hone he’s going to sell his guitar, and Hone squeezes the real audition story from him. He says he didn’t tell Jenny the truth because he didn’t want another lecture from Michael.
Gina complains to Kirsty about being banned from the clinic, and tells her she’s very serious about Klaus. Then she helps Gina sneak into the clinic wearing a nurse’s outfit, distracting Chris with talk of Alison. 
Carrie catches up with Jaki, making sure she’s ok. Jaki huffs and assures her she’s fine.
Michael refuses Chris’s resignation. He says he wants Chris to stay even if he won’t be part of the cranio-facial unit. Chris rips up his resignation letter, and says he’ll join the unit anyway.
Carrie catches Gina on top of Klaus in his hospital bed.
Nick apologises to Michael, and is surprised when there’s no lecture, Michael was very understanding. He jokes that he must have been on something to Jenny.
Chris tells Kirsty Klaus wants to see him, and that he knows she helped Gina sneak in. Kirsty doesn’t want to go see Klaus, but Chris convinces her.
Michael tells Carrie Chris is staying, and that he’s certain he’s still got enough board member votes to win the grant for the proposal. 
Jaki sneezes in the staffroom and starts to worry it could be to do with HIV after Hone says no one else has been sick. 
Carrie is livid when she finds Klaus missing from the ward. Kirsty has helped him to the coffee shop to see Gina. They’re both worried they wont see eachother again when Klaus has to leave, so he proposes to Gina.
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