Ben is a sleepless wrack for weeks, still 'seeing' his beloved Mel after the fatal car crash. Dave handles her arrogant father, who wrongly assumed a drunken driver and i ...

Carbo-Retta drive their house-mates mildly crazy when she moves in. Ben plans a surprise suite for Mel, but she has to work late and then tragedy strikes. Jake reluctantl ...

Coby now feels completely at home and makes progress in his reading lessons while manipulating gullible Nathan. Carbo and Retta prove terribly noisy bed-partners. This on ...

Ben fails to talk Carbo out of proposing to Retta by faking marital misery, which Mel gets mixed feelings about. Nathan takes Coby out to the city's nightclubs area, wher ...

Coby is seen squatting by grandpa Ted, who forces him to owe up to Dave, but he's allowed to stay and makes progress learning to read from Nathan. Coby successfully denie ...

Ben, Nathan and Mel fear to have to move back with Dave as Carbo's parents hired an agent to sell the house and scaring off potential buyers fails, but Coby comes show th ...

Ben is desperate for fatherhood, so he pushed reluctant Mel to test, is disappointed by the result, but it makes Mel realize she's ready for motherhood too. Nathan can't ...

Ben wouldn't even consider Carbo's next 'the one' may be that, as he found Loretta on Internet, but Mel witnesses their first meeting looking exactly like love at first s ...

Ben is naughtily amused when Mel discovers that Carbo's 'future bride' only invited him as date for her gay room-mate and confidant Jamie, who happens to share many inter ...

Just before his kidney donation, Nathan wants to make preparation, including letters 'just in case' for his loved ones, and visits Tom in jail lacking inspiration. Tom's ...

Ben and Mel feel pressure mount now that people know they want offspring, even Julie's gift, a simple cookbook, adds to stress. After resuming rugby training, Jake has a ...

Ben desperately tries to avoid sacking waitress Lexi, but owner Derek insists that's his duty as manager. Jake volunteers to babysit Ruby with Rachel, but she bails out, ...

Coby spies on the Rafter house and reports in jail to his equally puzzled grandfather, Tom Jennings, who thinks that Nathan, resembling him, must be his illegitimate son. ...

The Rafter clan gathers to welcome Ruby. Even devout orthodox Carbo can't convince them to hold a proper christening, so Rachel recommends an alternative 'celebrant' for ...

Nathan is about to sign his divorce papers, so Ben finally musters the courage to tell him Sammy is still in Sydney. They meet but she crushes his hope for a reconciliati ...

Jake and Rachel plan to move out, although their ideas of a suitable home hardly square. Jake had sort of accepted Grace's lover Doug, but discovering about him and big b ...

Carbo is surprised when Mel suddenly objects to unhygienic bathroom borrowing and sharing. Ben works out the real problem is Sammy, still calling her in secret, and gets ...

Ben wants to make up with Mel by treating her to romance for their anniversary, so he books a balloon surprise trip. Nathan can't talk Carbo out of treating the happy cou ...

Dave's dilemma over whether to reveal that his birth-father is alive leads to a roadtrip to meet his mysterious other family. Melissa is finding Sammy's secret increasing ...

The Rafter clan welcomes its latest addition, named Ruby Louise. Nathan is encouraged in his desperate refusal to accept Sammy has left him for good this time. Her mother ...

After getting knocked back on the job front Nathan heads out into rural country to look for his grandfather Tom Jennings but gets a shock when he finds out he's in jail. ...

Carbo is lonely with Ben and Melissa gone on honeymoon so he ends up on a bender with Warney and drunkenly allows Warney to move in fearing Ben and Mel would want their o ...

It's Ben and Mel's wedding weekend and it starts off well with Ben on his bucks night and Mel having an unofficial hen/pajama party. But the stripper hired for Ben turns ...

Rachel meets her ex-boyfriend Daniel at the advertising campaign launch of Rampart of which Jake is also involved. She soon discovers that flowers that she thought Jake s ...

Rachel sees Sammy having lunch with her old boyfriend Owen and hatches a plot with Jake to get Sammy and Nathan together. Meanwhile, Julie goes back to consult psychic Bo ...

Dave and Nathan are at loggerheads because of Nathan's actions towards Sammy and the disappearance of Chel is not helping. So Ted starts by offers Nathan advice on saving ...

Dave throws the party of all parties for Ben and Melissa's engagement which distracts him from news that Chel is attending the renal unit several times a week. Nathan pan ...

Dave's mother Chel is overwhelmed by a surprise birthday party thrown in her honour by the Rafters. At the end of the party Rachel discovers marks on Chel's arm which Che ...

Artemis prepares for her first day of work at the Boat Club but Carbo worries when she becomes friends with fellow bar worker Lexi. Meanwhile, Nathan's attraction to Layl ...

Carbo's former childhood neighbour, Artemis from Lesbos in Greece, comes to stay with Carbo's mother Rita. But Artemis has a wild side and it takes all Carbo's wits to ke ...

Dave's mother Rachel engineers an electrical fault ruse to get him to come and see her. She tells him that his father died very young and that she was hospitalised in a p ...

Dave finally tells the rest of the family about this early childhood and his mother and buoyed by their enthusiasm he goes seeking further information but is devastated w ...