Mc Leod's Daughters (season 8) - Episodes

While finishing her chores, Kate crosses paths with a young man whose car has broken down. Tayler and Patrick are interrupted by Noisy the dog every time they try to get romantic, so Tayler suggests they move in together, to which Patrick responds negatively. Kate decides to leave Drover's life to join a church camp for troubled and runaway teenagers.

Alex returns home and shares the news that he won't be going to Argentina again. Their joy is soon turned to despair when a tree falls on Alex. He dies in Stevie's arms. Later, she gives birth to a boy, but she can't bear to look at him because he reminds her too much of Alex. Tayler fights with Patrick about their relationship and asks Moira for help.

Regan McLeod has returned to Drover's and soon discovers the little kiss Marcus and Grace shared. Stevie doesn't feel at home any more, and moves with her son who goes by the name of Wombat for now to Killarney.

Jaz McLeod steps off a bus in Gungellan looking every inch a fashion plate. As she struggles to gather up her luggage she meets Ben, a handsome larrikin on the same bus. Back at Drovers, Jaz’s return seems to reawaken old tensions amongst the McLeod sisters. Grace and Jaz are so different — the rebel and the princess — and they have always clashed, leaving Regan stuck in the role of peacemaker.

In the final telemovie-length episode of McLeod's Daughters, Drovers' future is in doubt and the girls pull out all the stops to shear through the night to try and save the farm and their futures. Six months have passed since the previous episode. High summer is looming and the ongoing drought has forced drastic action. All the sheep are being mustered and shorn to sell off so the remaining stored feed can help keep the cattle going through the next months. Halfway through the shear, Stevie confesses all: the financial situation is even more dire than she's told the others. She hasn't been drawing a wage for the last six months, opting not to pay herself in order to avoid having to sack one of the girls. With the help of Killarney, the shearing is completed. But just as a relieved Stevie thinks they're out of the woods, the silo holding all of their grain stocks catches fire. Suddenly the grain that was supposed to help get the cattle through the next few months is gone.

They decide to sell off the cattle. Due to her owing the truckers money, Stevie is unable to get the required trucks to take the cattle to the sales yard. Grace finds a driver from a Queensland company that will take the cattle, but he won't leave the main highway due to time pressure. So, with no time to spare, the team locks up Drover's for the first time and perform a massive droving to meet the truck. After some incidents including an attempt to steal the cattle, Drovers makes the rendezvous to win the day.

Before Xander's first birthday party, Moira receives a premonition of an accident and comes across a returned Phil. He is on the side of the road with a flat tyre. She tells him to get off the road and knocks him clear just as a jack knifing truck tears past. Both are unhurt. She tells him that he almost died without her getting to say how she feels about him.

Everyone at the party toasts Xander. Stevie takes Xander and Charlotte for a walk and imagines them grown up and working the properties themselves. They are the spitting image of Alex and Claire in mannerism, looks, banter, and even participation in the local pool competition.

In the concluding scene, the Drover's women ride across the land - Stevie, Grace, Jaz, Meg, Jodi, Regan, Ingrid, Moira and Tayler. The property is safe, in the end they have won the day.