4x1 - The Heat is On

February 13, 2001

While Ben and his new partner, Scott are trapped in the path of a deadly blaze, the hospital staff are crying out for a cool change. Terri makes a big decision about her future while nursing a man with severe burn injuries and Connor finds it difficult working with Bron after his attempt to woo her fails.

4x2 - What Katie Did Next

February 20, 2001

Connor, Bron and Jared don't know what has hit them when they come up against Terri's replacement, Kate Larsen. They soon realise that this nursing unit manager has very different ideas about how Ward 17 should be run.

4x3 - Happy Birthday

February 27, 2001

In the late stages of a terminal disease and 38 weeks pregnant, Sarah wants to go home to organise her daughter's fifth birthday party. When she goes into labour in the ambulance, a battle ensues to keep mother and baby alive. Jared is forced to make a decision about his career. Connor, Bron and Kylie prepare to celebrate Jared's birthday.

4x4 - Bend Till You Break

March 6, 2001

Mitch diagnoses a gifted ballerina with scoliosis, forcing her to make a choice between her health and a career. Bron is looking after Brett Addison, a former patient who is booked in for spinal surgery. Connor surprises Jodi with flowers and finds her reaction not at all what he expected.

4x5 - A Matter of Choice

March 13, 2001

Sarah's health is failing fast and the fight to keep her alive through the compensation case is taking an emotional toll on Mitch and Kate. Bron's gambling debts land her in trouble with a loan shark. Tempers fray between Scott and Ben when they are called to a biscuit factory where a worker has collapsed.

4x6 - Mixed Messages

March 20, 2001

Mitch admits a woman in her mid-thirties, whom he suspects has been brutally raped, possibly by multiple attackers. During her care, Mitch and Connor discover the case is more complex than initially thought. Luke comes into conflict with Claudia following the death of a recently-discharged patient. Meanwhile, Jodi finally breaks her moody silence.

4x7 - Defiance and Denial

March 27, 2001

Mitch is forced to realise he is not so different from a hypertensive potential stroke victim whose high-risk condition is largely caused by work, diet and lack of exercise. Connor defies a senior surgeon. Ben comes to the rescue of a timid, slow young man.

4x8 - Secrets and Lies

April 3, 2001

4x9 - Changing Places

April 10, 2001

4x10 - Too Little, Too Late

April 17, 2001

4x11 - Night Terrors

April 24, 2001

4x12 - Lest We Forget

May 1, 2001

When two teenagers are brought onto the ward following an explosion at a State Boy's Home, their different attitudes lead to a number of wrong conclusions. Rose returns to work, with the added stress of leaving her baby in the crèche for the first time.

4x13 - Lost Boys

May 8, 2001

Bron comes face-to-face with her estranged gather while she is nursing a teenage girl with heart disease. Everybody has suspicions about how this girl has contracted the disease, but only Bron knows the truth.

4x14 - You Do Me Wrong

May 15, 2001

Connor wrestles with the fear that his mother has contracted a very serious illness. Bron confronts her own issues with her childhood and her father when a man is admitted after slashing his wrists. Scott organises a birthday treat for Ben - a raunchy on-stage tango with a lingerie waitress.

4x15 - All the Sons and Daughters

May 22, 2001

4x16 - To Be or Not To Be

May 29, 2001

Ben and Bron have spent their first night together, but can Ben put the past behind him? A couple are distraught when the father accidentally knocks down and kills their two-year-old baby. Von and Kylie nurse a man who likes to be treated as a baby.

4x17 - Growing Pains

June 5, 2001

Mitch diagnoses gangrene in an independent homeless lady. When she rejects medical attention, Mitch finds it hard to respect her decision. Bron nurses a young backpacker who has lived with epilepsy for most of his life. After a failed lunch date, Ben finally catches up with Bron. Jared arrives at work to find the medical fund-raising calendar has gone on sale.

4x18 - Bed of Roses

June 12, 2001

Ben and Scott bring a homeless patient named Dawn and when her brother arrives on the Ward, the fighting begins. Luke and Claudia reignite their affair and he asks her out on a date. The nude calendar is released and Scott and Jared both get some unexpected and potentially unwanted attention. Terri nurses a patient with MS who has low self-esteem. Luke operates on a patient who ends up dying due to a complication. Ben and Bron make up after he admits that he is finally over Steph.

4x19 - Can You Hear Me

June 19, 2001

Ben and Scott arrive at a low security prison to find a siege in progress with a guard, a nurse and another inmate held hostage in the prison clinic. A post-op patient lands Connor in trouble with Luke. Terri reveals to Von that she is worried Dr Pussle will want to progress the relationship faster than she can handle.

4x20 - Close to Home

June 26, 2001

4x21 - Skeletons in the Closet

July 3, 2001

Von never makes it to the charity ball when her little friend Zac's condition worsens. Terri and Malcolm bond at the ball, but Terri is shocked to discover that Rose suffers from bi-polar disease. Kylie drinks too much, Scott puts more moves on Andrea and Luke's date is viciously raped outside the ball.

4x23 - Maiden's Revenge

July 10, 2001

On a day when the stars seem to be coming true, Connor tries his luck with love and Bron takes a gamble, which ends up being one of the worst mistakes of her life. However, for two of their patients the stars come through with their predictions of love and fortune.

4x24 - Chains of Love

July 10, 2001

Mitch faces a double crisis that threatens his professional future when the legal fallout arrives from giving a patient marijuana. Bron battles to save her relationship with Ben after her gambling relapse. Connor's life may be forever changed after receiving an amazing gift from a former patient but it is a current patient that helps put things in perspective. Bron nurses a young woman who struggles with disclosing the details of her illness to the staff. The ambo's bring in a man whose wife tries to coverup the cause of his injuries and find themselves in the middle of an unlikely love triangle.

4x25 - Reality Bites

July 17, 2001

Mitch is struggling with his marriage, and faces up to a woman who is wrongly told that her husband has died. A visit from the Minister of Health throws Luke into a nasty situation when an organ donor's secret is discovered.

4x26 - Law of the Jungle

July 24, 2001

Pussle and Terri's future together is uncertain after Mitch and Pussle's arguments over a patient force their mutual jealousy over Terri out into the open.

4x27 - Private Lives

July 31, 2001

Scott is put to the test when Ben blacks out on the job. An emotionally distraught Bron then puts Ben's life at risk by undermining Luke's confidence before surgery. A man's life is thrown into turmoil when told he is terminally ill, only to later discover that there was a mix-up and he isn't going to die.

4x28 - Empty Nest

August 7, 2001

Mitch and Roses' relationship reaches a crisis when Mitch no longer responds to his wife's manipulations.

4x29 - Poles Apart

August 14, 2001

Connor is speechless when he bumps into Jodi pole-dancing in a club. Terri finds another nurse rape victim and to Von's surprise, the battle-axe she is nursing turns out to have the key to soothing the rape victim's pain. Mitch is driven mad by Rose's mother. While Terri would love to help, Mitch makes it clear that she's the last person who can do so. Luke pulls off a tricky operation.

4x30 - Delicate Matters

August 21, 2001

An ex-priest undergoes a near-death experience and returns to life claiming there is no God, stirring up Terri's emotions. Mitch is frustrated when Rose turns up at work and refuses to talk to him, and Lucy is not in the crèche. Jodi arrives back at work, but wonders if she has made the right decision. Ben gets the all clear to return to work.

4x31 - Look into My Eyes

August 28, 2001

An exhausted Jared is making mistakes on the job and tragically risks Terri's life. Terri's accident is potentially fatal and for Mitch, this is almost the end of a bad day. Mitch receives some devastating news. A man suffering with tumours from second generation Agent Orange Syndrome looks to euthanasia for a way out.

4x32 - Wild Justice

September 4, 2001

Scott puts his life and his job on the line to save the victims of a gunman's violent rampage through a quiet suburban street.

4x33 - Life As We Know It

September 11, 2001

Terri is in tears over Connor's departure and as Mitch comforts her their true feelings for each other surface.

4x34 - Sympatico

September 18, 2001

Von has spotted what is going on between Mitch and Terri. Mitch is conveniently preoccupied with a mysterious bond between twin patients.

4x35 - Crictical Pressure

September 25, 2001

Mitch's desperate search for his wife and daughter turns into a serious incident for the police. Terri is so worried about Mitch, it's affecting her work and she makes a mistake on the job that could cost the lives of Von and a patient. Scott realises just how badly the tragic events of the last few weeks have affected him.

4x36 - Bitter Medicine

October 2, 2001

Jodi is on the verge of making a life-changing decision when Connor's mother, Julie returns to the Ward and informs her that Connor never stopped caring about her. Rose cheerily returns to Ward having reconciled with Mitch and Terri is happy to support the two of them. Jodi asks Bron to go to the casino with her as part of a potential girls night out and Bron makes the challenging decision to inform Jodi of her gambling addiction. Rose invites Dawn Fraser onto the Ward to help an amputee regain his determination to swim.

4x37 - Heartache

October 9, 2001

Mitch and Luke fight to save the life of a bride caught in a car crash, and there are echoes of wedding bells in Ward 17. Meanwhile, it's Mitch and Rose's first anniversary party, and everyone's invited - except for Terri.

4x38 - Where There's Smoke

October 16, 2001

4x39 - Child's Play

October 23, 2001

4x40 - Behind Closed Doors

October 30, 2001

Von is nursing a terminal patient, a cross-dresser who wants to go out in style, but his wife doesn't know about her husband's secret. Ben vows to find and destroy the rapist who nearly got Bron. Kylie Preece finally stands up to Dr Murphy. Lyle accidentally throws out a patient's thyroid gland.

4x41 - A Little Death

November 6, 2001

The rapist strikes again, kidnapping Bron and leaving a young nurse dead. In mortal danger, Bron is shocked when she discovers the identity of the serial rapist. Ward 17 is threatened with quarantine after a breakout of golden staph. Luke is forbidden to operate on patients after being suspected as a carrier.

4x42 - The Other Side of Perfection

November 13, 2001

Rebecca and Scott are called out to a bombing site where an accident leads to Rebecca being seriously injured and Scott realising he has feelings for her. Ben plans to propose to Bron on a picnic he organised, but things do not turn out as expected. Mitch informs a patient's husband that he must choose between his wife and his unborn child. Luke is moved by a new and innovative way to treat a Parkinson's patient. Terri learns the truth about Malcolm's secret, leading them to make a life-changing decision.

4x43 - Falling Down

November 27, 2001

Nelson Curtis, a nurse practitioner and Paula Morgan, a registered nurse are employed in two new permanent positions on the ward. Malcolm questions Von's competence as a nurse and whether or not she should be taking care of a patient with complications from a caesarean. On his way home, Mitch is witness to a terrible car crash. A delusional Rose contacts the Ward when Mitch fails to arrive home and alarms Terri, who must choose whether she wants to take the job at Stanford University. Terri finds Rose, unconscious with her life hanging in the balance.