Storylines of Shortland Street (2010)

This article details the storylines of the TVNZ soap opera Shortland Street in 2010.

Highlights of the year

• Gerald, Hunter and Nicole discover the lifeless body of Morgan the night after the Christmas party.
• Kieran and Sophie's big wedding gets interrupted by Kieran's ex-fiancee Libby Jeffries who has evidence that Kieran killed Morgan.
• Hunter gives a drug addict some clean needles and her friend stabs him with a used needle, possibly infecting him with HIV.
• Kieran starts to get blackmailed by an unknown source, it is eventually revealed as his new waitress Jane.
• After a fight at the supermarket, Hunter is stabbed and Ben is knocked out. It turns out Ben developed a brain hemorrhage and eventually is declared brain dead after surgery.
• Kieran, Sean, Nicole and Gerald are pursued by Thai thugs from Kierans past. Eventually they end up on a cliffside, with Kieran sacrificing his own life to save Gerald's and his brother's.
• After weeks of poisoning Scotty, Penny Rourke kidnaps him and holds him hostage. She shoots him and escapes.
• After the apartment they are in catches alight, Callum jumps onto the passed-out lovers, Chris and Rachel, protecting them from another huge explosion as the year ends.

Storylines by month

January

• Sean arrives at the bar and rigs it to go up in flames. Sophie comes downstairs and manages to put out the fire in time for Kieran arriving.
• Morgan is found dead by friends Gerald & Hunter & her sister Nicole.
• Rachel falsely admitted to killing Morgan since she was framed for the accident.
• Sarah tells TK that she slept with Maxwell the night after the Christmas Party.
• TK discovers that Sarah and Maxwell have slept together again. He offers Sarah the chance to leave with him so they can start over but Sarah refuses and chooses to remain with Maxwell. Devastated, TK leaves. Brooke offers him comfort but TK angrily accuses her of damaging his marriage. Their argument turns to passion.
• Daniel has begun a relationship with a girl name Loren Fitzpatrick who currently works at the cafe, Sugar and is horrified to discover his mother's infidelity.
• Rachel makes a surprise entrance at Morgan's wake, Nicole loses her self-control and lunges at her.
• Rachel is offered to stay at the McKay's house.
• Hunter and Callum are shocked when they arrive home to find an unconscious Rachel on their sofa. Which they then discover its from a diazapam overdose but she survives.
• Kieran tells Sean (Sid) that he was actually the one who killed Morgan.
• Gabrielle decides to resign as HOD.

February

• Maia and Nicole start a relationship together.
• Callum's mother Mona arrives back to Ferndale for the wedding of her grand daughter Sophie.
• Yvonne proposes that she and Ben go on a trip to Peru and suggests she break an investment to pay for it.
• A middle aged women named Heather arrives at the hospital who turns out to be Ben's ex lover. She later dies on the operating table.
• Harry goes missing after a fall out with Gabrielle. He is later found inside the home of TK, Daniel and Brooke.
• Tracey starts dating Hunter.
• The speed camera photo arrives, showing Rachel's car the night Morgan died, but Libby is shocked that someone else is driving. Libby knows who that person must be, which was Kieran and arrives at the Church with police in tow, interrupting the vows and insisting that Sophie must not marry Kieran by revealing that it was actually him (Kieran) who killed Morgan in a hit and run accident.
• Sean covers for Kieran, which results in Kieran getting off the hook.
• At the Police Station, Kieran tries to tell them the truth but Sid intervenes. When Sophie tries to hear Kieran out, Sean slaps her.
• Kieran is outraged but Sean justifies that confessing to Sophie would ruin everything. He assures Kieran he has a plan. When a furious Callum and Hunter arrive with the police, Kieran feels wretched as he allows Sean to be arrested. Later, Sean leaves the country to avoid arrest.

March

• Gabrielle leaves Ferndale for Zurich.
• Kieran and Sophie trick Hunter and Callum into coming to the McKay house and get married in front of them.
• Isaac Worthington arrives in Ferndale with an initial love interest in Libby. Libby initially dislikes him but he grows on him and the two go on a date. After Libby learns that Isaac is related to Chris, she doesn't stop seeing him but she breaks up with him when she saw him flirting with Tracey.
• Nicole Miller leaves Ferndale after she has to compete with Maia's dead wife, Jay Copeland.
• Sarah and Daniel were stuck with neighbors from hell.
• Hunter gets stabbed in the shoulder with a used needle which is probably contaminated with HIV from a patient he gave needles to and possibly catches Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Hunter finds out he is HIV negative in May.
• Sarah and Daniel move in with Maxwell temporarily until they find a new home.
• Yvonne, Ben, Gerald, Daniel and Loren all sign up to Loren's fathers play. Gerald gets the lead role.
• Tania arrives back from her break in Samoa and starts seeing Isaac.
• Doug Morrison, Tracey's brother and cop, arrives in Ferndale.
• Libby, Gerald and Yvonne are shocked when Rachel announces that administration is overstaffed and one of their jobs will have to go.
• Sophie and Kieran return from their honeymoon.
• Rachel tells Libby, Gerald and Yvonne that one of them will get fired. Libby overhears Rachel and Callum discussing that Yvonne will be the one that will get fired. Libby and Gerald tell Rachel if she is to fire Yvonne, the two of them will resign. Rachel accepts their resignations. Libby and Gerald then both take a pay cut so Yvonne can stay as well. None of them end up getting fired.

April

• Rachel goes behind Callums back and discusses the possible closure of the Primary Care Clinic with William Nungent from the DHB.
• The play has its opening night and Paul Holmes guest stars as Leslie Grant who gets knocked out. Yvonne has to play his character.
• It is revealed that John Grainger, former CEO of the dodgy pharmaceutical company Scott Spear, is imprisoned and the drug company is facing billions of dollars worth of fines.
• Libby leaves Shortland Street.^[1]
• Yvonne collapses in the lift after Brooke refuses to see her. Yvonne goes to ED and nearly suffers brain damage as a result of not being treated, but she survives since Brooke saved her life.
• Doug, Tracey's brother, is brought into ED after a gunshot to the leg. It was later discovered that Doug actually shot himself in the leg to get out of trouble and that he was a corrupt cop.
• Maia and Gerald visit Tauranga to visit Nicole. They persuade her to come out of the closet; she decides to stay in Tauranga though later has a change of mind and arrives back to Maia's open arms in Ferndale.
• It is announced the PCC is to be closed so Sarah decides to buy it out. She gets ex-husband TK to help with the money.
• The month ends with Brooke, scared that TK and Sarah are growing closer together, poking holes in TK's condoms.

May

• Daniel, while staying at TK's house, unwittingly takes a condom that Brooke has poked holes in and has sex with Loren.
• Scotty and Tracey visit Tai Scott in prison and on the way out the prison goes into lockdown as it is revealed the prisoners are revolting, which results in a prisoner getting knifed and Tai getting shot by SWAT but surviving.
• After Tai gets taken back to prison, Scotty and Tracey admit their love and hug passionately. Later on, they began dating.
• The PCC closes and TK and Sarah set about starting up their own GP clinic.
• Kieran discovers a note at the bar saying "I Know What You Did", making Kieran believe someone else knows about him killing Morgan.
• Maxwell tells Loren she's pregnant after she ended up in ED with a sprained ankle.
• TK breaks up with Brooke, leaving her heartbroken and devastated.
• After three blackmail notes, the audience learns Jane Perry is blackmailing Kieran Mitchell.
• Shortland Street celebrates its 18th birthday.
• Sophie tells Kieran she wants a divorce.
• Ben proposes to Yvonne; she rejects the proposal but suggests they have a party to celebrate their relationship.
• Kieran sets up a plot to find out his blackmailer and finally discovers that it was Jane.
• Ben takes Hunter to the supermarket where they get in a fight with some goons and Hunter gets stabbed and Ben gets knocked to the ground. Hunter comes out OK but Ben develops a brain hemorrhage and is pronounced brain dead.
• Hunter's HIV results come out negative.

June

• Yvonne refuses to accept Ben is gone and thinks he is simply unconscious rather than brain dead.
• Chris' feelings for Rachel that he has not felt since 2003 reignite.
• Ben's life support is turned off and he dies.
• Jane and Kieran successfully scam Henry out of 160,000 dollars before Jane leaves to Thailand.
• Loren aborts her and Daniel's child and leaves to London.
• Sarah's PCC is held up by a man with a knife demanding money.
• Reuben starts to poach Sarah's patients to get back at her over the Loren situation
• Jane returns to The IV and blackmails Kieran again to sell The IV and move to Thailand with her.
• The Shortland Street netball team plays and loses against Central.
• Brooke's alcoholic mother Annette arrives in Ferndale and quickly makes The IV her favorite drinking spot.
• Jane pushes Kieran making him hit his head on a pot; he is taken to hospital with a brain bleed. After surgery, Kieran suffers memory loss and believes it was October 2009 but his memory quickly re-triggered.

July

• Scotty's old army friend Warren arrives at Shortland Street demanding Scotty. That night Scotty and Tracey find his dead body in Scotty's living room.
• Sophie starts dating her lecturer Ashton Fuller.
• Maxwell gets arrested in a case of mistaken identity.
• Maxwell gets involved in an armed robbery and saves a shot man. Maxwell's ex step daughter Ula later arrives at his apartment.
• Daniel leaves Ferndale for Indonesia
• Sophie dumps her lecturer Ashton Fuller causing him to stalk her everywhere she goes. Kieran finds out about the stalking and enters Ash's home and gets him on the ground and attempts to kill him, revealing Kieran's true self but he says he was only trying to protect Sophie and that he has not killed anyone before, despite being dangerous.
• Kieran is informed that his brother Sean was killed in a warehouse fire in Thailand.

August

• Shortland Street aired its first ever 90 minute episode on August 2, 2010.
• Kieran's Thai past comes back to haunt him, with gang leader White Dragon chasing Kieran, Sean, Gerald and Nicole through a forest. White Dragon and Kieran fall from a cliff to their deaths.
• Chris catches Zoe cheating on him with his cousin Isaac. Chris ends his relationship with Zoe.
• Chris learns he fathered a child named Phoenix Raynor in 1996 with series original Alison Raynor. He takes him under his care.
• Rachel's contract is ending; Callum offers her a job as project manager during the hospital restructure. Rachel accepts the part.
• Zoe and Isaac sleep together again. Maia and Nicole see them flirting and Nicole guesses she cheated on her, and tells Maia. Maia tells Isaac he has 2 hours to tell her. Isaac calls Tania and she is upset; Callum tells them that she has quit and will not be returning for a long while.
• Sarah is offered a new position in the hospital's private sector by Rachel, Sarah takes up the offer.
• Penny poisons Scotty's curry, but Hunter eats it instead and Penny tricks him into drinking medication which makes him vomit but he recovers.
• It was revealed that Ula has been bullying Wendy's daughter, Jasmine.
• Penny kidnaps Scotty. She takes him to a secret location where she shoots him in anger after Scotty reveals that Penny's father raped his girlfriend. Tracey and Sarah find them. Scotty is rushed to the hospital while Penny escapes.
• A nationwide search is issued to find Penny. Hunter returns home to find Penny hiding behind the front door. She says she loves him and that she needs money.

September

• Hunter sets Penny up and she is arrested.
• Scotty proposes to Tracey after getting approval from Shanti's family.
• Libby Jeffries returns from America. It is revealed her visa expired and so she was fired.
• Gerald and Libby get engaged as Gerald has an American visa and that means they can both travel to America.
• Tania returns from America.
• Although nothing goes to plan on Libby and Gerald's big day, the two get married. They depart the next day to the United States.

October

• Daniel returns from Indonesia after being bitten by a deadly snake.
• New employee Leo Hoffstetter makes off with $200,000 resulting in Callum getting suspended and Sarah becoming acting CEO.
• Maxwell sleeps with ex-wife Vasa. After admitting the affair to Sarah, the two agree to break up.

November

• Rachel returns to Ferndale after a few weeks of being near her brother's side in Paris, and in hopes of ending her relationship with Callum so that she could be with Chris. However, somewhere along her return, after finding out what had been going on in the Hospital while she was away, she decided to stay with Callum.
• Sarah has been offered a chance to join an MS research team in Boston.
• TK breaks up with Jennifer after he realizes he is still in love with Sarah. He thinks she is dating Quentin and he can't bring himself to tell her how he feels.
• Yvonne returns to Ferndale from her holiday in Peru. Straight away she is called into work by Callum. By the time she arrives home at the end of the day with Maia and her son, she finds their apartment ransacked, much to her dismay.
• As Sarah is about to leave, TK readmits his love and they passionately kiss. The next day she initially cancelled her flight to Boston to stay with him, but after some advice from Daniel, TK encourages her to go and so she sets off.
• Chris returns from Australia. He is shocked to hear that Rachel has decided to stay with Callum, but is determined to win her back.
• A mysterious man named Russel offers Yvonne Spanish lessons but is it revealed she accidentally smuggled drugs back from Peru in the form of a tricycle and he is after it.

December

• Tania leaves Ferndale for Laos with her new love Rafe Durville.
• Sophie is informed that Kieran's body has been found.
• Murray and Brodie purchase The IV.
• Evan runs away from his family.
• After questioning an illegal surgery Isaac took part in, Luke is kidnapped by a foreign gang.
• Maxwell reveals to Jennifer that Maia has a crush on her.
• Rachel breaks up with Callum.
• Scotty freaks out when he hears Penny may be on the loose and he believes Tracey is an imposter. Scotty starts to strangle Tracey and threatens to kill her.
• Evan's cigarette causes the apartment Rachel and Callum are in to catch alight. Evan is knocked out and Chris comes in to save Rachel. Chris and Rachel lie passed out on the ground as Callum realizes there is going to be a big explosion. He jumps on top of them risking his own life to save theirs as a huge explosion rips through the room.
• The 2010 season finishes with Chris', Rachel's, Callum's, Evan's, Tracey's and Luke's lives all at risk.

Characters

All year Cast Members

New Characters

• Loren Fitzpatrick - A new worker hired after Sugar got bought. She was dating Daniel and revealed to be a Vegetarian. Left in June to live with her mother in London.
• Brodie Kemp - Hunter's friend and flatmate. Manager of the IV after Kieran's death.
• Isaac Worthington - Surgeon at Shortland Street. Chris Warner's cousin on his mother's side.
• Jane Perry - Bar staff at The IV bar who was blackmailing Kieran.
• Wendy Cooper - Nurse at Sarah's Primary Care Clinic.
• Penny Rourke - Orderly at Shortland Street.^[2] Attempted to murder Scotty while her father's death turned her into a psychopath.
• Ula Levi - A 14-year-old girl that Maxwell had believed was his biological daughter. Moved up to Ferndale with mother and ex-wife of Maxwell, Vasa.
• Phoenix Raynor - Chris Warner's son that he had with Alison Raynor in 1996. Chris did not know about him as the couple divorced that year.
• Bella, Evan and Jasmine Cooper - Wendy's children aged 21, 15 and 13.
• Jennifer Mason - High ranking surgeon at the hospital.
• Murray Cooper - Husband of Wendy, father of their children. Owner of IV alongside Brodie.
• Hine Ryan - Scotty's ex-heroin addict mother who abandoned him and his family when Scotty was 13.

Departures

• Gabrielle Jacobs - Dumped Chris Warner and left Ferndale for a new surgical position in Zurich.
• Libby Jeffries - Departed for a job in America in April. Returned for 3 weeks in September.
• Ben Goodall - After being hit in a head, Ben developed a brain hemorrhage. He was taken to hospital and pronounced brain dead and his life support was turned off a week later.
• Kieran Mitchell - After being pursued by a Thai gang, Kieran found himself hanging for his life off a cliff. He admitted to the death of Morgan, then let himself fall to his death.
• Gerald Tippett - Married Libby so that she could gain access to The United States under an American passport and the married couple moved to America.
• Tania Jeffries - Finally found happiness with Luke's brother Rafe and after announcing her love, moved with him to Laos to start a hospital.

Returned Characters

• Mona McKay - Mother of Callum McKay, returned for two weeks for Sophie's wedding.
• Luke Durville - Returned for a few weeks after a 10-month absence. Returned again in August as a core cast member.
• Tai Scott - Scotty's brother, Tracey and Scotty visit him in prison.
• Sean Mitchell - After taking the blame for Morgans death, Sean left in February. But was kidnapped and taken back to Shortland Street by Thai thugs out to get Kieran in August.
• Libby Jeffries - Returns from America after her visa expired. Married Gerald then departed again.

Guest Stars

• Paul Holmes - Appeared as Leslie Grant, a cocky professional actor who is part of the Ferndale Players. He got knocked out and Yvonne had to play his role in the play she was directing.

See also