McLeod's Daughters

Alex teases Tess about her new venture, a hemp crop. Becky gets a visit from Sean, escaping another of their father's benders. Becky is secretly thrilled, seeing her chance to stop Sean going down the same path as Mark, her jailbird older brother.

Drovers Run has a rabbit infestation and rabbit habits seem to be contagious. Claire can't get Peter Johnson out of her mind and is worried that, having made the first romantic move towards her, he's now gotten cold feet.

Claire's relationship with Peter is deepening. They are spending virtually twenty-four hours a day together as they seek out horses for training... and the time spent together only confirms how much they are starting to feel for each other.

It's a dry spell and the women are suffering the consequences of water shortages. Claire cleans out an old bore hole to water her stock, but the newly discovered water soon dries up when Nick irrigates his cash crop at Wilgul. Initial attempts to resolve the situation fail, so a water licensing representative is called in to adjudicate.

It's a dry spell and the women are suffering the consequences of water shortages. Claire cleans out an old bore hole to water her stock, but the newly discovered water soon dries up when Nick irrigates his cash crop at Wilgul. Initial attempts to resolve the situation fail, so a water licensing representative is called in to adjudicate.

As final preparations for the Miss Gungellan Ball continue, Meg is faced with a difficult decision; to stay at the place she loves or to leave with the man she loves. Jodi is desperate to go with her father and is over the moon when Meg decides to take a chance for once in her life.

Tess is finding herself increasingly isolated from Claire, because of Peter. Tess tries to patch things up between Alex and Nick, but mistakenly reveals the truth about the rodeo accident - that Harry could have stopped the boys going competing, but chose not to. Harry’s subsequent assignment of all blame to 16-year-old Alex has left years of scars on the family.

Claire and Peter move one step closer to marriage when Peter holds a romantic dinner, presenting Claire with a valuable ruby pendant and declaring he wants to spend the rest of his life with her. Meanwhile, Becky discovers what she hoped was not true in fact is - Peter is married. She struggles with the burden of telling Claire the truth, knowing it will destroy Claire's life.

Claire's relationships are fragmented ... she barely speaks to Becky, and now Tess is living in Melbourne. When Peter arrives, unsuspecting, she asks him straight out whether he is married and upon learning that he is, she sends him packing.

Claire is taking the loss of both Peter and Tess very badly. Unable to raise energy or enthusiasm for anything, including the imminent birth of Blaze's foal, she nonetheless refuses to accept she is suffering from emotional stress. Things reach crisis point when she decides to sell Drovers and give up all she has known.

Things appear to be going well for Becky's young brother Sean. However, when older brother Mark returns to the district, he determinedly sows the seeds of temptations for Sean. Sean soon finds himself unwillingly drawn into Mark's schemes against the Ryans.

There's a fox on the prowl. Tess can understand the need to shoot the animal, but if there's a better way to handle the pest, Tess will find it. When Terry buys some guard Alpacas it seems the perfect solution, until Tess learns that one of her Alpacas is a stolen $200,000 Peruvian stud.