Episode 0008

This is the 8th Episode of Shortland Street which aired on the 3rd of June 1992.
== Synopsis ==
Hone and Chris clash over the treatment of a patient. Stuart receives devastating news. Alison makes a startling decision.
== Cast List ==
* Danielle Cormack as Alison Raynor
* Michael Galvin as Chris Warner
* Temuera Morrison as Hone Ropata
* Elizabeth McRae as Marjorie Neilson
* Stephanie WIlkin as Meredith Fleming
* Rene Naufahu as Sam Aleni
* Andrew Binns as Steve Mills
* Martin Henderson as Stuart Neilson
* Adrian Keeling as Tom Neilson
* Anna Cathie as Lisa Stanton
* Mark Ferguson as Darryl Neilson
* Susannah Devereux as Dianne Neilson
* Derek Ward as Mr. Miller
* Stephen O'Rourke as Maurie Slade
== Episode Summary ==
Darryl makes a surprise appearance for dinner at the Neilson’s. Lisa tries to make an excuse to leave, and Darryl backs her, but Marj insists she stays. 
Chris flirts with Alison in reception, much to Steve’s displeasure. When he leaves Meredith asks about their date, assuming they slept together. She’s shocked when Alison admits no, Chris was a gentleman, and says Chris must be having an “off day”. Alison wonders if there’s something wrong with her.
At dinner, Stuart makes snarky remarks towards Darryl, and things get increasingly awkward as everyone not aware of the situation keeps unknowingly putting their foot in it. Lisa uses checking on Rebecca as an excuse to leave the table.
A kid with asthma comes into the clinic by ambulance, along with his panicked father, Mr. Miller. Hone asks Steve to administer valium, but Steve seems unsure and informs Chris on his way to get the drug. Chris rushes into the exam room and tells Hone adrenaline is common practice these days, not valium. 
Once the Neilson’s are finished with dinner Darryl tries to leave and Dianne and Marj try to stop him. Stuart calls it his “usual disappearing act” and they argue, escalating in anger until Lisa runs out crying. Stuart yells, blaming them all for going on about happy families in front of Lisa. Marj bursts into tears.
Chris gives Mr. Miller advice on managing his son’s asthma. Mr. Miller asks about what happened with Hone, Chris calls it a “difference of opinion.”
Stuart runs after Lisa, who’s mad that he couldn’t keep his mouth shut, she doesn’t want to break up a family. Stuart thinks Darryl should face up to his mistake, but Lisa drives off.
Chris dumps reading material in front of Hone in the staffroom, in front of Steve, calling him “a little rusty”. 
Steve tries to invite Alison out to a nightclub “so hot you have to wear asbestos Reeboks”. Alison says he should tell her the name so she can take Chris. Alison leaves and Steve asks Meredith why he bothers.
Chris comes into reception and makes a joke about Hone using leeches on his patients. Hone explains what happened to Meredith who says this is why Chris “studied medicine and not diplomacy”.
Stuart is going for a run and is tracked down by Darryl in his car. Darryl man-handles Stuart while demanding an explanation for bringing Lisa to dinner. He demands Stuart stop hanging out with her, and Stuart refuses. Darryl almost hits Stuart but holds back, and Stuart tells him “I used to think you were the best”.
Meredith is attending to a patient, Maurie Slade, and asks Hone for a second opinion. Hone discovers an aortic aneurysm that will need surgery. 
Sam and Steve discuss Alison, deciding that she needs them to “look after her”.
In theater with Meredith, Hone jokingly exaggerates the bad conditions he worked in in Guatemala, “don’t tell Chris Warner, he’d be disappointed”. They discuss Hone’s living arrangements but Meredith digs too far and apologises for prying. 
At home, Stuart apologizes to Marj for dinner. She wishes he and Darryl would get on better. Marj tells him that Lisa left a letter, he reads it as Marj says she’s proud he stood by her. The letter says that Lisa has left to stay with her family. Stuart rushes out of the house.
After surgery, Meredith tells Hone he did a great job catching the aneurysm. He invites her out for a drink, but Meredith clams up and turns him down, even when he tries to explain he meant it just as friends.
Alison and Chris go out for dinner. He tries to get to know her better but she says she’s boring, a “country hick”, and asks Chris questions about his family instead. He talks about not getting along with his family, and wanting to make his own way outside of the Warner name and family. Chris says it’s getting late and they should get Alison home to bed, she looks concerned.
Alison and Chris briefly kiss on the lips outside her front door, before Alison invites him in for coffee. Sam and Steve have been waiting up for her and pretend to be enthralled by the television.
Tom, Marj and Darryl discuss Stuart’s behaviour in the Neilson home. They tell Darryl Lisa “shot through”, and he smiles to himself in the kitchen
Lisa’s letter is narrated over top of Stuart working out in the gym, he looks extremely upset.
Chris leaves, kissing Alison on the cheek as he goes. Alison starts getting angry at Sam and Steve for getting in the way of her and Chris, and ends up grabbing her bag and storming out, telling them she’s going to spend the night with Chris.
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