Episode 0007

This is the 7th Episode of Shortland Street which aired on the 2nd of June 1992.
== Synopsis ==
Gina's dream boat finally sails in. Carrie and Michael clash over Jaki's future. Stuart hassles the father of Lisa's baby for financial support.
== Cast List ==
* Lisa Crittenden as Carrie Burton
* Josephine Davidson as Gina Rossi
* Nancy Brunning as Jaki Manu
* Angela Marie Dotchin as Kirsty Knight
* Elizabeth McRae as Marjorie Neilson
* Paul Gittin as Michael McKenna
* Martin Henderson as Stuart Neilson
* Adrian Keeling as Tom Neilson
* Buzz Moller as Klaus Schmidl
* Anna Cathie as Lisa Stanton
* Mark Ferguson as Darryl Neilson
== Episode Summary ==
After Kirsty gets busted by Carrie trying to make Jaki turn in an accident form for pricking her finger with Deborah Walters’s HIV+ needle, they both make up fake stories to explain the form and race away before Carrie can ask too many questions.
Marj tracks Stuart down at the gym and confronts him about paying for Lisa’s bill himself. He says he did it because she’s broke and he sold his walkman to get the money. Marj doesn’t believe he’d do it if he wasn’t the father, and Stuart asks her to leave.
Gina is talking Marj’s ear off about men when a handsome backpacker, Klaus Schmidl, walks into the cafe. Gina is excited until she realises he doesn’t speak much english.
Stuart and Lisa argue about telling “the truth”. Lisa doesn’t want anything more to do with the father of her child. She’s decided to name the baby Rebecca. Stuart begs her to let him talk to the father about supporting her and the baby. She refuses, Stuart says he has to pay, “one way or another”.
Gina and Klaus struggle to communicate. He cries out in pain when she thinks he needs to use the toilet and tries to help him up. She eventually figures out he wants some water, but he collapses on the ground when she turns to get it. Gina rushes into the clinic, but runs back to the cafe with a wheelchair when they’re too busy with an emergency to help
Jaki and Carrie are attending to the emergency, a head wound, and Jaki stresses out when she can’t find gloves, causing Carrie concern.
Gina returns with Klaus in the wheelchair as Michael is leaving for the day, he asks Gina some questions about what happened then goes to help Klaus. Gina tells Marj “Typical! The minute I get interested in someone they collapse in a screaming heap!”
Carrie helps Michael assess Klaus, he thinks it must be acute peritonitis (inflamed bowel tissue) and they send him to theater. Carrie asks how they’re gonna get him to sign the consent form, Michael responds “Have you ever played charades?”
Marj makes some discriminatory comments about Deborah Walters, the HIV positive patient, saying you would “never really feel safe” around them. Jaki tries to set her straight.
Gina talks to Kirsty in reception, who reveals she knows a little bit of German.
Klaus’s surgery went well, and in the morning he tries to tell Carrie that Gina has his backpack, but she doesn’t understand. Shortly after, Carrie finds Kirsty practicing her German and asks her to tell him the surgery was a success, and he will have to stay a few days. 
Carrie asks Jaki about her accident form, comments on Jaki’s unusual behaviour, and gently asks if she thinks she might have come in contact with the virus. Jaki admits to the needle prick. Carrie assures Jaki that her job is safe, but she must fill out the accident form.
Marj tells Gina the clinic is having problems with Klaus, then notices Tom walking in listening to a walkman. It turns out to be Stuart’s that he said he sold. 
Stuart meets with the father of Lisa’s child, asking him “to do the right thing”. The man blames the pregnancy on Lisa, saying it’s not his problem. He reveals he gave Stuart money for the hospital bill, and Stuart reveals, by threatening to tell her about Rebecca, that the man has a wife. The man threatens to play dirty if Stuart did that but gives in and gives Stuart a check, saying it’s the last one because Lisa could have had an abortion but didn’t. 
Kirsty is speaking to Klaus when Gina comes in with his backpack. Klaus asks if Kirsty is married and, jealous, Gina tells Kirsty to tell him she’s single. Klaus says that’s “very good”.
Stuart brings Lisa the check which she reluctantly accepts. Stuart is upset but Lisa assures him she’s happy. They argue again over telling the truth, and eventually decide Lisa should go round for dinner at the Neilson’s.
Through Kirsty as translator, Klaus tells Gina he wants to take her to castles. They start telling each other they’re beautiful, so Kirsty gets fed up and leaves. Marj says Gina’s boss is mad she’s gone, so Gina leaves kissing Klaus on the cheek and hurting him slightly in the process.
Michael discovers Jaki’s accident form and confronts Carrie about it. He’s worried about the clinic’s reputation, suggesting Jaki be taken off patient duties, or take time off until her results are back. Carrie threatens a staff boycott if Michael discriminates against Jaki, before storming out.
At the Neilson’s, Lisa lies and says Rebecca’s father got sent to jail just after she discovered she was pregnant, and convinces them to keep it quiet from him. There’s a knock at the door and Marj says it’s Stuart’s brother, Darryl, and his family. Darryl walks in and it’s revealed he’s the man Stuart talked to, Rebecca’s father.
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