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Lucas and Vanessa discover baby Patrick is missing from his crib. Their fear that the boy may be stolen is practically confirmed when mat, who takes charge although off-duty, gets the newly moved (back) in Willis's family's testimony that someone resembling Steph sneaked in and out. Karl discovered she stopped taking her medicine, prescribed by the prison psychiatrist, her absconding constitutes a parole breaker. Everyone wants to help, Brad's son Joshua even if he must more then make up double for the missed swimming practice. The precinct can't provide Kate any more evidence about Mark's death now she saw his 'ghost' during the eclipse.

Vanessa lashes out at Lucas as Patrick remains missing, Kyle is given news about his eye injury and Lauren's attempt to keep her history with Brad secret from Matt doesn't succeed for long.

Thanks to Lucas's history with Steph, baby Patrick is found and retrieved, yet freaked-out Vanessa somehow jealousy blames him too for the kidnapping. Kyle dislikes needing help, even from Chris or Georgia, so much he rather keeps cutting himself, so Sheila decides to let him find out the hard way- slashing a bottle and stepping into the pieces. The play rehearsals remain agony for Bailey and Rani, so she starts changing the script.

Joshua Willis's grueling champion swimmer training schedule impresses the neighborhood veterans, so Mason can't resist competitively 'joining in' his park exercises, showing off his no less muscular tors for their supposedly uninterested sisters' benefit. Kate is blown over when her 'ghostly' ex Mark Brennan actually shows up, just when she believed Toadie that waiting for him would be pointless. Ajay makes Rani reconsider canceling the play, the ultimate disloyalty to the fed-up actors, instead she rewrites the ending completely, so she won't have to kiss embarrassed Bailey.

Lou strains his back, trying to help out at Kyle's yard, so he must allow Sheila, on Karl's orders, to take care of him. Mason is worrying if reemerged Mark may win Kate back. Despite her telling both suitors she has chosen Mason, their bickering almost turns violent after Paul tells Brennan Mason his a criminal record. Vanessa makes up with Lucas and warns Stephanie to keep well away from their family forever.

Paul tells Kate to pick Mark, promising to continue paying Mason's defense either way. Dutiful son Joshua delights father Brad by focusing completely on their Olympic swimming team dream, and keeps on top of his school work, leaving no team to even notice girls, such as as Amber, while his jealous neglected' sister bitches that nobody thought of getting her a school uniform. Mason overhears a hotel call, thus learns that Brennan has a Sydney lover and tells Kate, who, after preventing a brawl between her rivals, dumps Mark, as she seemed to be working up to anyway. Paul deals with new hotel manager Therese's petty continuous pestering on top of demanding payment for his owner perks, reducing him to a staff discount. Mason dumps Kate, refusing to be her second pick.

Kyle refuses to bide his time while his eyes heal, slower then hoped even, so Chris reluctantly lets him try helping out on the firm yard, but Kyle keeps overdoing it, worse even wonders onto the street, nearly overrun by a car. Karl hosts a neighbor families dinner with the Turners and Willises, but while the mothers enjoy and the kids get along politely, the fathers cockily compete over everything, as if Therese still had to be won. Josh clarifies to obviously interested Amber that his Olympic swimming and school schedules simply leave no time for anything resembling romance. Mason starts to regret having dumped Kate, but Paul makes sure he learns they kissed, rekindling his rift fury.

Brad and Matt make up the morning after the tense dinner, even agree to join the men's shed to bond over sports and beer. Bailey graciously accepts Rani's latest final act rewrite, which transfers the kissing scene for his character to delighted Callum's. Since it includes a dance scene, Ajay assumes that under Bollywood conventions, sex is implied and informs Toadie, who 'coaches' Callum, while neither kid had such intent. Lauren's old home sketchbook nearly refuels the men's rivalry.

Ajay and Toadie mistrust Paul paying to have Mason defended by Tim and gather evidence that the crucial witness statements from hotel staff, who become the meat in the sandwich as Paul and Therese bicker, still haven't been collected. They convince Matt to tell his son it's better to switch lawyer, just before the trial. Bailey is miserable but protests not, even when Callum asks tips for the final kissing scene.

Kyle is fed-up with his disabling blindness, refuses to 'be a burden' and thus piles up needless practical problems. Matt opposes Lauren's plan to by the coffee-shop, which Lynn can't afford after Steph's shenanigans, as it would require a massive loan with his demoted salary. Ajay's plan works, after Paul fails to wriggle out of delivering positive witness declarations. Mason gets off with community service, embarrasses Paul and thinks of taking Kate back, bit she thinks the contrary after seeing him take a helpful girl-pupil-witness to the movies.

Focused on his dream to make the Aussie Olympic team, Josh dutifully follows all coach's orders, like another ghastly diet, and tells Amber there's just no time for a social life. However another successful coach gets Josh wondering is father Brad's stubborn ideas aren't outdated. Still blind Kyle's hurt pride and fear to be a bother climax when he discovers Georgia sneakily took time off to look after him. Chris tries to calm her down when Kyle doesn't show up all night or next morning.

Kyle is found in the men's shed but so fed up with needing help that he insists even Chris must abandon his handyman jobs. When Georgia comes bug him again in the hot-tub, he replies their relationship never seems to work, which she takes as being dumped. Josh is less amused the she embarrassed when he sees trough Amber's flimsy excuse to watch him training swim-trunks-only. Father Brad objects, as coach, to his knave trying out another training method and a longer distance. Mason reluctantly accepts a second 'date' with Imogen, which Kate takes as proof her pupil and 'rival' has won him.

Bitter over the loss of Georgia and Mason, Kyle and Kate made love, but tell nobody, which he soon reconsiders to her horror. Chris finds out, disapproves but promises Kyle buddy-discretion. It gets even more delicate when Georgia asks Kate's help to make up with Kyle. Lou lets slip to Sheila that he hesitates to accept an invitation to visit his half-Asian daughter, an aid worker, because he feels the Turners need his support, but Sheila gets Lauren to tell him to go and really bond.

Kyle visits his country family to escape his frustration. Chris discretely scolds Kate for their second secret one-night stand, unamused he must now lie for them again. Finding out he lost the kissing part, Callum picks a fight with Bailey, who even apologized without any fault, and vandalizes the set, yet gets off with repair chores. To win the rascal pack, Rani rewrites the finale again, hours before the performance.

Now Steph's antics have ruined Lyn, she wants to sell Harold's fast. Paul wants it, now his hotel gives him no more satisfaction due to hostile manager Willis, who even fires his spoiled reception protégé Caroline Perkins. Lucas and Vanessa want it, so she can run it. Matt allows Lauren to bid now the trial hasn't ruined them. Callum agrees to star in Rani's revised play, and to afterward to take her back, but only if she agrees to break off all contact with shocked Bailey. Caroline asks Toadie to handle a complaint against Paul for alleged sexual harassment.

Mason is semi-amused that Imogen flirts with him publicly in vain attempt to attract attention from her family, where Josh's Olympic future is the prime focus, but only Josh feels the need to 'come to her rescue'. The Willis siblings are relieved after explaining to the principal a suspicious similarity in their A-graded essays. Brad tries to take Josh's own opinions more into account as coach, but can't resist reimposing his old sprint-only logic.

Kyle is back after some home spoiling and gets a lecture from Chris whom he and Kate put in an impossible position. Brad politely declines Matt's suggestion to reconcile their sons by inviting them to the gym. Josh is mentally exhausted, pulled in all directions while training his tail off non-stop, depending on Imogen's help to keep his grades up to mother's absurd expectations. Amber undoes all her efforts to interest Josh by scolding his misguided defense of Imogen against ex-con Mason.

Chris still worries about Kyle's secret affair even after he successfully makes up with Georgia and invites Mason, who is miserable after Imogen broke up considering him unable to forget Kate, to a barbecue party. Paul skillfully finds the blackmail angel to scare Caroline Perkins out of a harassment case, but Terese, obsessed by her own youth stupidity, insists on 'compensation' and convinces Lucy to give her a veto against Paul's business decisions.

Kyle may finally remove his bandages and gets his eyesight back, but remains obsessed with Kate. Josh is left to train alone when father Brad decides to spend time with allegedly 'neglected' Imogen. Joshn meets reputed coach Don Cutter, who recommends testing on longer distances, and accept to join his team to that end, most satisfactory for both of them, leaving Brad as daunting last obstacle. Barney Wellington diagnoses Harold's kitchen electrics an expensive mess. Lauren can't afford it and plans to cut down on Vanessa's hours. Matt, who must find out by accident, and Lauren are delighted with an alternative: a private loan from Lucas in exchange for use of the kitchen after hours, so Vanessa can try out her long-planned cupcakes bakery project.

Josh is completely convinced that experienced coach Don Cutter can train him in time to make the Aussie Olumpic team, unlike his father, and practically agrees to join his team. Brad is shocked, having given up his job to coach his boy full-time. After seeking legal advice, the doting father agrees, provided the contract gets an escape clause for Josh, not just for Don. Despite pressure from everyone to be reasonable, Callum jealously refuses to talk to Bailey again or even allow Rani to do so.

Chris prods Kyle, who can see again, to concentrate on mending his love-life with Georgia, but he still can't forget about Kate, even now Mason wants her back, being dumped by Imogen. The locals wonder about an unknown old man who started hanging around Sonya. He finally reveals being her uncle Walter Mitchell, and came to meet her son Callum and set her straight about their dysfunctional family history, but Toadie refuses to simply trust him.

Callum's mean hostility towards Bailey leads to a physical fight during which the lightweightt tipples, falls and could have drowned unless Callum dragged him out. The rascal's initial repentance at Bailey's sickbed immediately returns to aggression when asked nicely to behave mately again, for Rani's sake. Back home, bored during revalidation, Bailey's bounced ball knocks over one of mother's pictures. Changing the glass, he and Amber notice a portrait of neighbor Brad hidden at the back. Sonya's uncle Water, now the Rebecchi's guest, apparently takes to Callum, who can't be bothered to meet his great-uncle properly, and volunteers to mind him.

Paul is made to attend Terese's sexual harrassment workshop. Brad thinks that Paul is making a play for his wife. Amber attempts to covers for her Mum and also grows closer to Joshua.

Brad and Terese are forced to face the past. Georgia confronts Kate about her secret. Amber is happy after Josh kisses her.