Daniel and Lyle are puzzled why both are sent to Lyle's hometown, Euralla Creek in outback Queensland. It's to work with local Sergeant Colin, Lyle's brother, on a car crash that killed local baker Diane and Adelaide man Ethan. Assisting their autopsies is local surgery nurse Edwina. Diane's husband Bob was injured but recovered. Maxine tells Grace to seek help for work-related stress as former neurosurgeon. After overhearing Daniel had sex with Grace, uncle Lyle call Daniel a good man but ruins people's lives. Daniel learns that Lyle is a local hero, having rescued three children from a house fire but downplays his actions, since a fourth child died. Fern determines that Ross and Tim met gambling. Daniel finds a fingertip of a fourth person in the accident, goes to Bob's farm. There he finds Bob and Diane kept young Kyra in a container as a sex slave for years, till she got pregnant and escaped. Bob had recaptured Kyra before the collision, now tries to kill Daniel but Lyle overpowers him. Colin finds Kyra, Lyle and Daniel deliver her baby. Fern confronts Tim at home, he admits planting fentanyl, Francis immobilizes Tim and burns him alive.
—KGF Vissers