Balls and Friggen Good Luck

Pearl Bay is devastated when one of its teenagers dies in a car accident. Recent winner of the football team's best and fairest, Jerome Hall was a hero to the younger kids of Pearl Bay and the apple of his father's eye.

Laura presides over her first coronial inquest as Jerome's family and friends recount their last hours with the boy. After Jerome's accident, Rupert withdraws and refuses to open up to Laura who mentions her frustration to Diver Dan. Bearing in mind what he learnt from his own father, Dan takes Rupert under his wing and endeavors to teach him what it means to be a man - with disastrous results. Laura is furious and rebukes Dan for his insensitivity.

As Angus and Dan remember their fathers, Yido, a young Japanese businessman whose father's business is being wooed by Bob, reveals something of his own relationship with his father. Yido's stay in Pearl Bay does allows him to unburden himself of the pressures he feels. At Heather's insistence, Bob has a heart-to-heart with Craig.

The locals recoil as Dan goes on a bender, and, rescued by Meredith, he wakes the next morning with a certain remorse. Without telling Laura, he takes Rupert on a secret night time adventure and gently draws out what has been troubling him.