Storylines by month
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January
- A chapter of errors sees Joey Henderson fail to kill Tania Jeffries.
- Toni Warner, Guy Warner, Harry Warner, and Tuesday Warner are admitted to hospital following the car crash. Guy goes to Central in an induced coma; Toni loses one of her kidneys and Tuesday and Harry escaped with minor injuries.
- Dinesh Jivani arrives in Ferndale. [1]
- Libby Jeffries and Gerald Tippett try to make the hospital fat-free, with disapproval from most of the staff.
February
- Morgan Braithwaite arrives in Ferndale.
- When Joey's planned attack on Nurse Shanti Kumari is unsuccessful, he turns his murderous eye on a woman named Heather who he had seen at the I.V. at a hen's night. This attack also fails when he was interrupted and forced to flee the scene.
- Dinesh begins to cause trouble in Shanti and James Scott's relationship.
- The arrival of Joey's mother Kath Bennett sees the unveiling of an angry and bitter side to Joey when he goes into a violent rage at Kath, witnessed by Gerald and Kieran Mitchell.
- During a night out clubbing with Tania, Morgan, Shanti and Alice Piper, Joey abducts Alice.
- Callum McKay is promoted to temporary CEO of Shortland Street Hospital in Chris Warner's absence.
March
- Joey performs a successful appendicectomy on Alice and commits suicide to avoid capture.
- Scotty proposes to Shanti; she accepts, but the wedding is later broken up by Dinesh and Shanti's brother Sunil.
- Kath is admitted to the hospital after attempting to commit suicide after Joey's funeral.
- Tane Samuels and Wiremu Potae return to Ferndale.
April
- Alice and Guy have a drunken one-night stand; Chris catches Alice leaving and confronts Alice the following day.
- Guy breaks the scandal about Chris' affair with Justine Jones.
- Wiremu loses control of his car while racing and collides with Tane, causing him to become paralysed.
- Guy and Tuesday move back to San Francisco.
- Alice discovers she's pregnant. The father's identity is yet to be revealed; what is known is that the father is either Guy or Craig Valentine.
- Wiremu, feeling guilty about paralysing Tane, drinks a full bottle of whisky and falls into a coma for several days.
May
- Maia Jeffries and Morgan return to Ferndale.
- Scotty is taken hostage by a psych patient and is stabbed, but survives the injuries.
- Toni has a one-night stand with Dinesh, who was about to return to India permanently.
- The Kumari family, with the exception of Sunil, accept Scotty.
- Gerald admits his soft spot for Morgan.
June
- Dr. Hone Ropata returns for the four-thousandth episode as a consultant to Martha Riley.
- Toni dies of heart failure, a result of being infected by the norovirus and kidney failure due to her remaining kidney failing.
- Hone is granted C.E.O of Shortland Street Hospital, but rejects the offer. Callum becomes CEO.
July
- Gossip of Callum and Riley's affair spreads through Shortland Street Hospital.
- Justine forgives Callum for his affair.
- Riley leaves Shortland Street for good.
- Kieran asks Libby to marry him, but Libby is still undecided.
- Gerald discovers/thinks he's asexual.
- Hone Ropata leaves Ferndale, breaking Tania's heart.
- Hunter McKay has feelings for Morgan.
- Brooke Freeman arrives at Shortland Street.
- Scotty & Shanti marry in a four-day wedding
- Tracey Morrison, ex-cop and survivor of serial killer Joey, returns to Shortland Street Hospital as an ED nurse.
August
- Sophie McKay has a one-night stand with Tane.
- It is revealed that Toni's kidney failure was actually caused by a faulty drug distributed by the dodgy pharmaceutical company Scott Spear.
- Craig is headhunted by the dodgy pharmaceutical company to join their corrupt research and development team.
September
- Craig is chased by thugs who are members of a ruthless gang known as the whitetails and were hired by Scott Spear (whom they work closely with) through a forest, then beaten to death and set alight in his car.
- It is revealed that the dodgy Scott-Spear drug company were responsible for the murder of Huia Samuels but the bomb was meant for Anthony "Ant" Ritchards.
- Alice returns from staying with her mother.
- Alice went into premature labour and gave birth to a baby girl who she names, with the help of TK and Kip, Kelly.
- Justine Jones decides to fake her death after discovering a bomb attached to a mobile phone in her car boot. She disarms the bomb and swaps the SIM card with her own then blows up the car herself from a safe distance. The family are informed by Detective Gardiner that Justine is dead but a call from someone asks them to go to a secret address where they discover her alive. Justine asks that she be declared dead and given a new identity then sails to Australia.
- Kieran overhears Don Lennox talking to one of the whitetails about his attempt to murder Justine Jones
- Kieran tells Chris what he overheard.
- Alice discovers her mother Fran hasn't taken her pills for 3 months and Fran has a mental breakdown.
- Chris goes to visit Donald asking for a car repair and finds out about notorious hitman Don Lennox, who is also a whitetail gang member and Craig Valentine's killer.
- Kingi breaks up with Tania for good.
- A whitetail gang member shoots Morgan and Ethan in a theater room but they survive.
October
- Luke Durville returns.
- Tracey and Kip form a "casual" relationship.
- Ethan Pierce is granted H.O.D of Surgery
- Kelly Piper died due to kidney failure. Alice didn't attend the funeral and instead had drinks with Ethan Pierce.
November
- Yvonne and Frazer start an affair.
- Maia gets a sexual harassment warning from Callum for supposedly favoring young attractive women.
- Libby says Yes to Kierans proposal.
- Scotty and Shanti move into a run down house that was the scene of a murder/suicide.
- Kingi hits Tania.
December
- The Shortland Street pharmacy is robbed.
- Kingi reveals to Tania he is a police informant.
- Sarah Potts gets pregnant and her multiple sclerosis starts to play up again.
- Yvonne is diagnosed with Bone Cancer after ending her affair with Frasier after she got a H.I.V shock.
- Maia strangles Ethan and is suspended.
- Ethan murders Betty Crawford, an elderly patient dumped at Christmas at the hospital for her bones.
- Yvonne takes Fraser back after a period where she didn't want to see him.
- Tania and Kingi are kidnapped by Kane and the whitetails in the final.
- Ethan is shot repeatedly by an unseen assassin.
- Shortland Street ends for 2008.
