Storylines of Shortland Street (2008)

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

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[edit] Highlights of the Year

  • Nurse Joey Henderson commits suicide after successfully preforming an appendicectomy on Alice Piper.
  • Doctors fight to revive Toni Warner (but are unable) after her blood pressure drops during surgery dies of heart failure, resulting from a combonation of norovirus and a missing kidney.

[edit] Storylines by month

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[edit] January

  • A chapter of errors sees Joey Henderson fail to kill Tania Jeffries.
  • Toni, Guy, Harry, and Tuesday Warner were admitted to hospital following the car crash. Guy went to Central in induced coma; Toni lost one of her kidneys, but Tuesday and Harry escaped with minor injuries.
  • Dinesh Jivani arrives in Ferndale. [1]
  • Libby Jeffries and Gerald Tippett try to make the hospital fat-free, with disapproval from most of the staff.

[edit] February

  • Morgan Braithwaite arrives in Ferndale.
  • When Joey's planned attack on Nurse Shanti Kumari was unsuccessful, he turned his murderous eye on a woman named Heather who he had seen at the I.V. at a hen's night. This attack also failed when he was interrupted and forced to flee the scene.
  • Dinesh began to cause trouble in Shanti and Scotty's relationship.
  • The arrival of Joey's mother Kath Bennett saw the unveiling of an angry and bitter side to Joey when he went into a violent rage at Kath, witnessed by Kieran Mitchell and Gerald Tippett.
  • During a night out clubbing with Alice Piper, Tania Jeffries, Morgan Braithwaite and Shanti Kumari, Joey abducted Alice.
  • Callum McCKay was promoted to temporary CEO of Shortland Street Hopsital in Chris Warner's absence.

[edit] March

  • Joey performed 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 was admitted to the hospital after attempting to committ suicide after Joey's funeral.
  • Tane Samuels and Wiremu Potae return to Ferndale.

[edit] April

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

[edit] May

  • Maia Jeffries and Morgan Braithwaite return to Ferndale.
  • Scotty was taken hostage by a psych patient and stabbed, but survived the injuries.
  • Toni Warner had a one-night stand with Dinesh Jivani, who was about to return to India permanently.
  • The Kumari family, with the exception of Sunil, accepted Scotty.
  • Gerald Tippett admitted his soft spot for Morgan.

[edit] June

  • Dr. Hone Ropata returned for the four-thousandth episode as a consultant to Martha Riley.
  • Toni Warner died of heart failure, as result of being infected by the norovirus and renal failure due to her remaining kidney failing.

[edit] July

[edit] August

[edit] September

[edit] October

[edit] November

[edit] December

[edit] Characters

[edit] New Characters

[edit] 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
  • Lindsay Reynolds - finds another job
  • Dinesh Jivani - leaves for India
  • Toni Warner - dies of heart failure

[edit] Returning Characters

  • Dr. Hone Ropata

[edit] References

  1. ^ Dinesh Arrives to suprise Shanti/Shortland Street/Press Releases/Throng.
  2. ^ Then Ferndale Serial Killer will be revealed this week!/Shortland Street/Press Releases/Throng.
  3. ^ Then Ferndale Serial Killer will be revealed this week!/Shortland Street/Press Releases/Throng.

[edit] See also

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