Packed To The Rafters

Bonnie Bright, a psychic/sandwich vendor gets Julie worried about her family especially when her predictions start to come through one by one. Meanwhile, Ben tries too hard to win Mel back.

Nathan receives a job offer from Tim Connelly and Dave feels betrayed when he thinks about taking it. Julie believes Dave is being ripped off by Warney but Dave refuses to see that it could be true until he discovers the evidence for himself.

Ben is determined to get a promotion to Bar Manager at the Bar but must compete against another more qualified manager to get the coveted job.

Rachel tries her hardest to resist Dave's new electrician Jake's flirting but finds herself falling for his charms just as Libby begins to have feelings for George. Ben is devastated by Mel's revelations that she is dating Luke and Nathan receives and unexpected job offer from Steve Wilson and his girlfriend Layla and quits his job with Tim. Is it the right decision?

An older married customer at the flower shop gets to know Carbo very well until he realises she is stalking him. Meanwhile, Dave and Julie anxiously await the results of the test on their unborn baby and Dave does not take it well that their baby could be born with Downs Syndrome. Elsewhere, Nathan starts he new but eventful job with Layla.

Ted and Marjorie's romance continues to blossom until he meets her opinionated lesbian daughter Susannah and her pregnant partner Abbey. Rachel gets trapped in a building that is being renovated with Jake where her animosity towards him eventually turns to heated passion.

Sammy's mother Trish returns to Australia and promptly has a breakdown and also has nowhere to live so she heads to the Rafters. Melissa moves back into Ben and Carbo's home - but is she back for good? Elsewhere, Rachel fights her attraction to Jake after their night of passion but will she succumb to Jake's charms again?

Dave begins to have nightmares about a dog after Ben's adopted dog keeps making a beeline for him. Is the nightmare telling him he has to address the issue of finding out who his parents are? Julie persuades her boss to give Trish a job but Trish manages to make Julie look bad as she looks good in the bosses eye

Rachel takes some artistic photographs of Julie as her body changes but not all the family wants to see the results. Dave gets close to Ben's dog Doorknob and is distraught when he is badly injured. He later receives his birth certificate and finds out his mother's name was Rachel Warne and his father was listed as unknown

Dave finally tells the rest of the family about this early childhood and his mother and buoyed by their enthusiasm he goes seeking further information but is devastated when the agency reveal his mother doesn't want to see him.

Dave's mother Rachel engineers an electrical fault ruse to get him to come and see her. She tells him that his father died very young and that she was hospitalised in a psych unit and that was the reason she gave him up.

Carbo's former childhood neighbour, Artemis from Lesbos in Greece, comes to stay with Carbo's mother Rita. But Artemis has a wild side and it takes all Carbo's wits to keep her away from men she has hooked up with on Facebook

Artemis prepares for her first day of work at the Boat Club but Carbo worries when she becomes friends with fellow bar worker Lexi. Meanwhile, Nathan's attraction to Layla begins to spin out of control until he can no longer deal with it and finally seduces her after promising Sammy he will stay out of Layla's way

Dave's mother Chel is overwhelmed by a surprise birthday party thrown in her honour by the Rafters. At the end of the party Rachel discovers marks on Chel's arm which Chel brushes off but which Rachel feels are drug marks

Dave throws the party of all parties for Ben and Melissa's engagement which distracts him from news that Chel is attending the renal unit several times a week.

Dave and Nathan are at loggerheads because of Nathan's actions towards Sammy and the disappearance of Chel is not helping. So Ted starts by offers Nathan advice on saving his marriage to Sammy and also going on a trip to find Chel.

Rachel sees Sammy having lunch with her old boyfriend Owen and hatches a plot with Jake to get Sammy and Nathan together. Meanwhile, Julie goes back to consult psychic Bonnie about her earlier prediction and Chrissie avoids Julie because of her attraction to Dave but then tells her that she is quitting and moving to Queensland to be with a man.

Rachel meets her ex-boyfriend Daniel at the advertising campaign launch of Rampart of which Jake is also involved. She soon discovers that flowers that she thought Jake sent were actually from Daniel. However, after Jake arrives late with his brother Alex, the Rampart bosses complain and Daniel takes it out on Alex, much to Jake's disgust who quits the entire project.

It's Ben and Mel's wedding weekend and it starts off well with Ben on his bucks night and Mel having an unofficial hen/pajama party. But the stripper hired for Ben turns out to be Kat who tells him he's not good enough for Mel.

Carbo is lonely with Ben and Melissa gone on honeymoon so he ends up on a bender with Warney and drunkenly allows Warney to move in fearing Ben and Mel would want their own place. Meanwhile, whilst on honeymoon Ben and Mel are propositioned by a swingers couple

After getting knocked back on the job front Nathan heads out into rural country to look for his grandfather Tom Jennings but gets a shock when he finds out he's in jail.

Julie faces her greatest challenge yet - the birth of her fourth and final child without husband Dave at her side. After Dave leaves for his vasectomy, Julie begins to have contractions, and though she thinks they're probably Braxton Hicks, Melissa and Ben insist on getting her to a hospital.