RFDS on Channel 7 – On the day of Timmy’s (Lee Willis-Ardler) funeral, Wayne (Rob Collins) attempts to face his grief alone until he is confronted with the person he deems responsible for the death.
Wayne reels with fury, resulting in dire consequences for his own health and a race against the clock for the team to get to him, especially for a terrified Mira (Ash Ricardo).
Following Timmy’s (Lee Willis-Ardler) death, the Yates men cope similarly by throwing themselves into work, much to the concern of their loved ones and colleagues. Darren (Thomas Weatherall) avoids his grief and, in turn, Uncle Timmy’s smoking ceremony, but ends up making an error that turns a routine repair job into a plane being out of action entirely.
Wayne heads to the smoking supported by Matty (Jack Scott). However, when Raelene, the RAN who ignored Timmy in his time of need turns up – Wayne’s overwhelming grief and anger flare up, leading to a medical emergency of his own.
Elsewhere, Pete (Stephen Peacocke) is put in the awkward position of having to work a tense retrieval with new flame Chaya (Emma Harvie) and old flame Eliza (Emma Hamilton) as they try and figure out whether a mental health patient is speaking truth or delusion, leading to them all taking drastic action to get the man in the air to safety.
And while flying the plane, Mira (Ash Ricardo) gets the callout to the father of her unborn child, forcing her to make an unthinkable decision over whether to land in dangerous fog to get to him.
RFDS – Tuesday 19 September at 9:15pm at Channel 7 and 7plus
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About the Show
The series opens with the arrival of the new Senior Medical Officer Dr Eliza Harrod (Emma Hamilton). After a successful career as an Emergency Physician at a London Hospital, Eliza arrives with her teenage son Henry (Ash Hodgkinson), determined to escape her past and start a new life. Only days into the job, Eliza finds herself at the forefront of a catastrophic emergency retrieval that will change everything.
As she navigates the fallout, while continuing her highly skilled work, Eliza finds herself questioning the very core of who she is and who she wants to be. Meanwhile, Flight Nurse Pete Emerson (Stephen Peacocke) finds himself in tumultuous new territory when his family is involved in an unthinkable tragedy. Thrust into new responsibility as the guardian to his orphaned niece Taylor (Sofia Nolan), Pete finds himself questioning his ability as he comes to terms with unthinkable grief and loss…
Ambitious and driven, Dr Wayne Yates (Rob Collins) is a gifted doctor who has always strived for excellence. Determined to repair his relationship with his teenage son, Darren (Thomas Weatherall), Wayne will struggle to overcome the devastating loss of a patient who is a friend, while navigating his relationship with Pilot Mira Ortez (Ash Ricardo).
Bright, vivacious and compassionate, Base Manager Leonie Smith (Justine Clarke) is the master conductor of the of the team, keeping the planes flying and her doctors in the sky.
Filmed on location in and around Broken Hill, this series captures the beauty and brutality of Australia’s vast centre where the doctors, nurses, pilots and support staff of the RFDS negotiate the unique challenges of emergency retrievals across some of the most inhospitable places in the country.
It’s a series about community and people coming together to laugh, to cry and to triumph, in spite of the huge obstacles they face. They are the ones you meet in your worst possible moment. And that moment is one they face every single day.
