Storylines of Shortland Street (2007)

This article details the storylines that took place on the TVNZ soap opera Shortland Street in 2007.

Highlights of the year

• Teenager Scarlett Valentine attempts to run down ex-boyfriend Hunter McKay in the schoolyard after months of bullying.
• Maia Jefferies falls pregnant using her brother-in-law Mark Weston as the sperm donor, behind the backs of their family, including his wife Tania Jeffries.
• Sarah Potts and TK Samuels married.
• Toni Warner runs away with her brother-in-law Guy, and her son Harry after she finds out her husband Chris has cheated on her with Rachel McKenna and Justine Jones.
• Cocky Hunter McKay lied about his age, found himself in an umcomfortable situation for a photo shoot for a safe sex campaign. This ambition finally got the better of him and having to explain to his parents what he had done.
• A serial killer dubbed the Ferndale Strangler has the woman of Shortland Street living in fear, when several woman are found strangled with medical procedures carried out on their bodies. The victims: receptionist Claire Solomon, nurse Meg Harris, bar owner Jay Copeland, nurse Beth Wilson and nurse Brenda Holloway. Uncover cop Tracey Morrison also has a close encounter with the killer, but survives.
• Hunter McKay falls in love with a nurse Tess Adamson, a woman double his age, and the pair embark on an affair.
• In the season finale for 2007, Guy, Toni, Tuesday and Harry Warner are involved in a high-speed crash with the police, and nurse Joey Henderson is revealed as the Ferndale Strangler as he sneaks up behind unsuspecting nurse Tania Jeffries.

Storylines by month

January

• This year started with The Good The Bad And The Ugly of 2006.
• Chris Warner and Justine Jones continue their affair when an old rival of Justine's catches them but decide to keep it secret. This gives Justine second thoughts.

February

• Brenda Holloway's car slips off the road, causing her minor injures.

March

• James Scott takes over from Toni Warner as nursing manager.
• The mysterious Kieran Mitchell crashes his motorbike and starts up a life in Ferndale.

April

• Scarlett Valentine leaves Ferndale to live with her mother in Perth.

May

• TK Samuels and Sarah Potts get married.
• Craig Valentine suffers a heart attack.
• The hospital refurbishment is completed.
• Guy Warner and Tuesday Warner return to Ferndale.

June

• Rachel McKenna returns for an audit of the hospital.
• Chris Warner is discovered in bed with Rachel by his wife Toni Warner.
• Toni runs off to Australia with Harry, Guy and Tuesday.
• Brenda is demoted after being found drunk while on duty. Her drunkenness was due to her needing comfort after her estranged husband Gary died in the hospital and being snubbed by their son Lachlan.
• Joey Henderson arrived in Ferndale.
• Libby Jeffries and Kieran Mitchell get engaged.

July

• Kieran assaults Claire Solomon when she tries to prevent Libby and Kieran's wedding going ahead. Claire receives a cut to her forehead.
• Libby calls off the engagement when she finds Kieran in bed with Claire.
• Claire is found dead in a skip by Mark Weston and TK. Claire was the first victim of the Ferndale Strangler.
• Chris goes bush for the weekend with Craig. After a lunatic with a crossbow chases them, he ends up rolling down a cliff, causing a rockslide. Chris survived but his hand got crushed. Justine Jones is hopeful that he will make a full recovery.

August

• Toni applies for full custody of Harry, prompting outrage from Chris.
• At the 20-week scan, Maia Jeffries discovered the baby's sex as male, after Jay Copeland phones the hospital pretending to be Maia. Jay's deception meant their marriage was over.
• Tania Weston announces that she is pregnant at her husband Mark's 30th birthday.
• Mark and Meg Harris have sex at the party, in the IV Toilets.
• Meg is found dead in a skip by Jay. Meg was the second victim of the Ferndale Strangler.
• Kip Denton a skate-board enthusiast arrived as a locum when Craig went to Australia to visit his children.
• Jay is found dead in the bush close to the hospital by Kip and nurse Alice Piper. Jay was the third victim of the Ferndale Strangler.
• Joey Henderson moved into El Rancho.
• Mark tells Tania he slept with Meg and Tania felt betrayed then aborts their baby.
• Having heard of Jay's murder a grieving Maia was being comforted by sister Tania and their mother Yvonne when Mark walked in and said that he was sick of lying and he was the father of Maia's baby.
• Mark leaves to go to work in Melbourne, Australia.
• Kieran Mitchell's estranged father came to see him and the two argued. Kieran received a cheque from his father and used the proceeds to purchase the IV Bar.

September

• Steve Roberts becomes the main suspect after he scares Alice.
• Joey Henderson becomes the main suspect after a misunderstanding with Beth Wilson.
• Sophie McKay and Nate Adamson start stalking Dr. Luke Durville because they believe he is the serial killer.
• Sarah finds out that Tess Adamson and Hunter McKay are in a relationship. Hunter and Tess break up, then get back together again.
• TK and Sophie find out about Tess and Hunter's relationship.
• Beth is kidnapped by the killer.

October

• Scotty becomes a suspect.
• Steve is arrested for theft of hospital supplies and is sacked from his job.
• Beth's Wilsons body is found.
• Maia gives birth to her baby in the back seat of Tania's car after being caught in traffic congestion.
• Nate finds out about his mother's affair with Hunter and tells Callum Mckay
• Brenda Holloway may have discovered the person behind the patients' cardiac arrests but she took that knowledge to her grave when she was confronted by a man/woman wearing a George W. Bush mask who injected her in the neck resulting in her becoming the fifth victim of Ferndale's serial killer.

November

• James "Scotty" Scott was arrested for resisting arrest but then was let out because there was not enough evidence against him for being the Ferndale Strangler.
• Harmony O'Neill makes her first appearance on 20 November.
• Nate Adamson returns after running away.
• Tracey Morrison was found semi-conscious in a skip but is still alive.
• Tess and Hunter split up, after Hunter proposed to Tess.

December

• Justin Salt returned and attacked Harmony while she was walking home from the I.V.
• Harmony made a move on T.K and was caught by Tane, Wiremu and Sarah, who had returned from holiday.
• Gerald gave Tania a package from Mark to Maia and asked her to deliver it. She instead opened it and read a letter in which Mark revealed he was in a new relationship with a woman named Amy and they are expecting a baby, which means that Jay Jeffries will have a half-baby brother or sister.
• Gavin Capper was arrested for the Ferndale murders and for an unrelated incident involving Justin Salt where a woman was drugged and raped by Gavin.
• Wiremu was sacked from the I.V. after Kieran found a bottle of vodka in his bag put there by Harmony who herself stole $5000 from the I.V. safe before fleeing.
• Hunter McKay leaves home after getting dumped by Tess Adamson.
• Tuesday Warner came to Chris for help with drug-addicted father Guy. Chris offered to help, but Guy refused. He subsequently drove off with Toni, Harry and Tuesday, and ends up rolling the car down a bank after failing to take a corner while driving 100 km/h on a gravel road.
• Joey was revealed as the Ferndale Strangler after he took an IV tube out of his pocket, curled it around his hands and started walking towards Tania Jeffries while her back was turned.

Ferndale Killer Leak

South Pacific Pictures made three endings to the 2007 season - in order to protect the secret of "who is the killer" from the public - as even the actors did not know for sure. In early December 2007 early production footage - still showing the original timecodes - were leaked onto YouTube These three alternative endings to the 2007 season were eventually removed - presumably due to threat of legal action from TVNZ - were detailed by the NZ Herald newspaper, and were also once again loaded to YouTube, though in lesser quality to the originals. In line with the action taken by South Pacific Pictures the three endings mentioned are removed. However, as the actual ending was different from all three of these, it appears it was just a publicity stunt.^[1]

Characters

Core characters featured all year

• Chris Warner
• Callum McKay
• Hunter McKay
• Justine Jones
• Sophie McKay
• Tania Jeffries
• TK Samuels
• Yvonne Jeffries
• Alice Piper
• Craig Valentine
• Sarah Potts
• Libby Jeffries

Core characters featuring part of the year

• Toni Warner Took six-month break in second half of the year
• Maia Jeffries Took six-month break starting in October

Core character departures

• Baxter Cormack
• Scarlett Valentine
• Mark Weston
• Claire Solomon

• Jay Copeland

• Brenda Holloway

Core character arrivals

• Joey Henderson
• Kieran Mitchell
• Kip Denton
• Shanti Kumari
• Gerald Tippett

Recurring characters

• Angus Phelps
• Detective Lara Wade
• Luke Durville
• Tane Samuels
• Wiremu Potae
• Carol Beckham

References

See also

Preceded by: 2006

Storylines of Shortland Street 2007

Followed by: 2008

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