Episode 0014

This is the 14th Episode of Shortland Street which aired on the 11th of June 1992.
== Synopsis ==
Meredith discovers that there is more to life than T.V. dinners. Alison loses a prized possession. Tom and Sam are heading for a horrific accident.
== 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
* Adrian Keeling as Tom Neilson
== Episode Summary ==
Steve bails from telling Alison that Chris cheated on her. He reverts back to trying to warn her off him, and is icy to Chris when he returns to go for dinner with Alison.
Marj complains to Meredith about Tom snoring and keeping her up at night. She asks Sam where Tom is and he says probably napping.
Meredith and Hone discuss working nights and ordering pizza together, while Tom naps in the staffroom. Marj busts in and wakes him up to go home.
Steve has some curt words with Chris while Alison finishes on the phone, her parents are sending her wardrobe to her. She leaves Sam & Steve with Chris while she changes. Steve and Chris exchange angry words, Steve says Alison would be hurt if she knew, Chris says their relationship isn’t serious. Chris agrees to set Alison straight. 
Meredith asks Hone about his fiance, Claire, while picking food off their pizza that turned out to be disgusting. She’s in Guatemala for 6 more months, he came back early to earn some money and set themselves up. Hone says his family doesn’t know he’s back, and they don’t know he’s dating a pakeha, which is why he avoided the patient from episode 0012, they were a family friend. A nurse tells them there’s an emergency, a stabbing.
Chris tries to go home after his date with Alison, tells her she’s too young and inexperienced, but she’s insistent and he stays over. Steve and Alison argue about Chris again in the morning once Chris has left. Steve says it’s none of his business, but Alison insists on telling him Chris is very protective and wants to take things slow.
Steve convinces Sam and Alison to use Sam and Tom’s ambulance to transport Alison’s wardrobe. Sam and Alison are apprehensive about getting in trouble.
Chris and Meredith briefly discuss the cranio-facial unit, Meredith bemoans how hard it is for women to grow in the medical field. Hone arrives and talks to Meredith about going out to dinner and drinking too much wine after their gross pizza. Chris congratulates Hone on “cracking doctor freeze”, Hone insists it was just platonic.
Steve laughs about the time Tom almost got fired for transporting frozen turkeys in the ambulance for Christmas, Sam is not amused. Alison gets dumped on the side of the road with her wardrobe when an emergency comes in and Sam has to take it.
Marj talks to Hone and tries to force Tom to make an appointment with him for his snoring. Tom stubbornly refuses.
Alison uses a petrol station’s phone to call for a taxi truck. When she goes back to her wardrobe, it’s gone. She complains to Steve when she gets home, distraught. Steve profusely apologises, but when Alison goes into her room, the wardrobe is there. Steve brought it back for her. She goes to look through some jams and preserves her mum left in the wardrobe, but one is missing. 
Sam finds Tom asleep in the back of the ambulance, on his way out Tom finds a smashed preserves jar.
Marj drops Jaki’s HIV scare into conversation with Meredith, who fumes at her for spreading gossip and private information. Hone comes in with food to make dinner with that night and Marj tries to bring it up with him, but is yelled down by Meredith.
Chris cancels dinner with Alison, and Steve cheers her up. Chris looks miserable at home alone, saying “way to go, Christopher” to himself.
Tom falls asleep at the wheel of the ambulance, and the episode ends looking like they will run into a group of school children crossing the road.
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