Storylines of Shortland Street (2008)

This article details the storylines of the TVNZ soap opera "Shortland Street" in 2008.

Highlights of the Year

* Nurse Joey Henderson commits suicide after successfully performing an appendicectomy on Alice Piper.
* Doctors fight to revive Toni Warner (but are unable) after her blood pressure drops during surgery. She dies of heart failure, resulting from a combination of norovirus and a missing kidney.
* Wiremu races at a boy racer burnoff and hits Tane Samuels at fall speed. This permanently paralyses Tane from the hips down.
*Dr. Hone Ruapata returns for the 4000th episode.
*Scotty and Shanti get married in a traditional 4 day Indian ceremony.
*Craig chased through a forest by thugs hired by pharmecutical company Scott Spear beaten unconscious and set alight in his car. Justine Jones fakes her death.

torylines by month

January

* A chapter of errors sees Joey Henderson fail to kill Tania Jeffries.
* Toni Warner, Guy Warner, Harry Warner, and Tuesday Warner are admitted to hospital following the car crash. Guy goes to Central in an induced coma; Toni loses one of her kidneys and Tuesday and Harry escaped with minor injuries.
* Dinesh Jivani arrives in Ferndale. [cite web |url=http://www.throng.co.nz/shortland-street/dinesh-arrives-to-surprise-shanti |title= Dinesh Arrives to surprise Shanti/Shortland Street/Press Releases/Throng |accessdate= |format= |work= ]
* Libby Jeffries and Gerald Tippett try to make the hospital fat-free, with disapproval from most of the staff.

February

* Morgan Braithwaite arrives in Ferndale.
* When Joey's planned attack on Nurse Shanti Kumari is unsuccessful, he turns his murderous eye on a woman named Heather who he had seen at the I.V. at a hen's night. This attack also fails when he was interrupted and forced to flee the scene.
* Dinesh begins to cause trouble in Shanti and James Scott's relationship.
* The arrival of Joey's mother Kath Bennett sees the unveiling of an angry and bitter side to Joey when he goes into a violent rage at Kath, witnessed by Gerald and Kieran Mitchell.
* During a night out clubbing with Tania, Morgan, Shanti and Alice Piper, Joey abducts Alice.
* Callum McKay is promoted to temporary CEO of Shortland Street Hopsital in Chris Warner's absence.

March

* Joey performs a successful appendicectomy on Alice and commits sucicide to avoid capture.
* Scotty proposes to Shanti; she accepts, but the wedding is later broken up by Dinesh and Shanti's brother Sunil.
* Kath is admitted to the hospital after attempting to committ suicide after Joey's funeral.
* Tane Samuels and Wiremu Potae return to Ferndale.

April

* Alice and Guy have a drunken one-night stand; Chris catches Alice leaving and confronts Alice the following day.
* Guy breaks the scandal about Chris' affair with Justine Jones.
* Wiremu loses control of his car while racing and collides with Tane, causing him to become paralysed.
* Guy and Tuesday move back to San Francisco.
* Alice discovers she's pregnant. The father's identity is yet to be revealed; what is known is that the father is either Guy or Craig Valentine.
* Wiremu, feeling guilty about paralysing Tane, drinks a full bottle of whisky and falls into a coma for several days.

May

* Maia Jeffries and Morgan return to Ferndale.
* Scotty is taken hostage by a psych patient and is stabbed, but survives the injuries.
* Toni has a one-night stand with Dinesh, who was about to return to India permanently.
* The Kumari family, with the exception of Sunil, accept Scotty.
* Gerald admits his soft spot for Morgan.

June

* Dr. Hone Ropata returns for the four-thousandth episode as a consultant to Martha Riley.
* Toni dies of heart failure, a result of being infected by the norovirus and renal failure due to her remaining kidney failing.
* Hone is granted C.E.O of Shortland Street Hospital, but rejects the offer. Callum becomes CEO.

July

* Gossip of Callum and Riley's affair spreads through Shortland Street Hospital.
* Justine forgives Callum his affair.
* Riley leaves Shortland Street for good.
* Kieran asks Libby to marry him, but Libby is still undecided.
* Gerald discovers/thinks he's asexual.
* Hone Ropata leaves Ferndale, breaking Tania's heart.
* Hunter McKay habours feelings for Morgan.
* Brooke Freeman arrives at Shortland Street.
* Scotty & Shanti marry in a four day wedding
* Tracey Morrison, ex-cop and survivour of serial killer Joey, returns to Shortland Street Hospital as an ED nurse.

August

* Sophie McKay has a one-night stand with Tane.
* Craig is headhunted by Scott Spear Pharmaceuticals to join their research and development team.

eptember

* Craig is chased by thugs hired by Scott Spear Pharmecuticals through a forest, then beaten unconscious and set alight in his car.
*Alice returns from staying with her mother.
*Alice went into premature labour and gave birth to a baby girl. Who she names with the help of TK and Kip, Kelly.
*Justine Jones decides to fake her death after discovering a bomb attached to a mobile phone in her car boot. She disarms the bomb to swap the SIM card with her own and drove past the bomber to a safe and then dial her number to blow up the car. The family are informed by Detective Gardiner that Justine was dead but a call from someone asks them to a secret address where they discover her alive. Justine asks that she be declared dead and given a new identity and sails to Australia.
*Kieran over hears Donald (Scott Spear thug) talking to one of the whitetails about his attempt to Murder Justine Jones
*Kieran tells Chris what he over heard.
*Alice discoveres her mother Fran hasn't taken her pills for 3 months.
*Fran forces Gerald Tippet to ring TK Sammuels and give her a urgent appointment.
*Chris goes to visit Donald one of Scott Spears thugs asking for a car repair.
*Kingi breaks up with Tania for good.
*Whitetail gang member shoots thearter room hitting Morgan Braithwait and Ethan Peirce.

October

* Luke Durville returned
* Tracey and Kip became sex buddies
* Ethan Pierce wa granted H.O.D of Surgery
* Kelly Piper died due to Renal Failure. Alice didn't attend the funeral and instead had drinks with Ethan Pierce

November

December

Characters

New Characters

* Nurse Morgan Braithwaite - theatre nurse and friend of Joey Henderson [cite web |url=http://www.throng.co.nz/shortland-street/the-ferndale-serial-killer-will-be-revealed-this-week |title= Then Ferndale Serial Killer will be revealed this week!/Shortland Street/Press Releases/Throng |accessdate= |format= |work= ]
* Dr Dinesh Jivani - Shanti's betrothed fianće [cite web |url=http://www.throng.co.nz/shortland-street/the-ferndale-serial-killer-will-be-revealed-this-week |title= Then Ferndale Serial Killer will be revealed this week!/Shortland Street/Press Releases/Throng |accessdate= |format= |work= ]
* Dr Brooke Freeman - New PCC Nurse replacing either Callum or Toni
* Kingi Te Wake - Whitetails gang member
* Dr Ethan Pierce - New Surgeon
* Mona McKay - Callum's mother

Departures

* Nurse Joey Henderson - commits suicide by jumping off a building
* Detective Lara Wade - decides to study psychology after being criticised for not identifying the Ferndale Strangler sooner
*Guy Warner - returned to America
*Tuesday Warner - returned to America
* Dr Dinesh Jivani - leaves for India
* Nurse Toni Warner - dies of heart failure
* Craig Valentine - Murdered by Scott Spear
* Dr Justine Jones - Will Return Once Scott Spear are brought to Court. Hiding in Ozzy

Returned Characters

* Maia Jeffries (after six-month hiatus)
* Dr. Hone Ropata
* Tracey Morrison
* Scarlett Valentine
* Anthony Richards
* Luke Durville (after brief hiatus)

References

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