Storylines of Shortland Street (2009) - Highlights of The Year

Highlights of The Year

• Maia confesses to Alice that she murdered Ethan. Maia has remained out of prison. However, her mental health has become unstable. So far Yvonne, Alice, Tania and Libby know about the murder.
• Tania Jeffries and Kingi Te Wake survive being kidnapped. Tania hits Kane with a hammer and Kingi narrowly survives getting buried alive. Soon after Kingi leaves New Zealand.
• Gerald and Morgan marry, with Libby as bridesmaid and Chris as bestman.
• Kip and Alice go to Raratonga for a holiday but decide to stay there to live.
• Maia is sent to a mental institution where she hallucinates Ethan for a solid 2 weeks.
• Justine returns to New Zealand to testify against John Grainger and the dodgy pharmaceutical company Scott Spear, Don Lennox shoots Brooke, accidentally mistaking her for Justine. Brooke is then brought into ED but she survives. After Justine gave evidence, she broke up with Callum as he is now in love with Brooke.
• New doctor, Oliver Ritchie accidentally infects nurse Shanti Kumari with dengue fever in an off screen event and he briefly manages to cure her. The dengue fever masked the symptoms Shanti's ectopic pregnancy.
• Shanti dies from an ectopic pregnancy masked by dengue fever.
• Oliver has a romantic week with Libby, although he then infects her with dengue fever in order to find out if she can survive the dengue virus that killed Shanti. Later on, Libby finds Oliver's dengue fever research up in the attic before Oliver catches her and confessed that he infected her with dengue fever by revealing to her that she is the experiment. Scotty and Chris rescue her and the hospital learn that it was Oliver who infected Shanti with dengue fever.
• Sean rushes to the IV on the final episode to burn it down, he does not realise Sophie is in her and Kierans room hungover.
• Kieran follows Sean in Rachel's car and accidentally kills Morgan. He escapes the scene and makes it out that Rachel hit her, though he is starting to feel guilty about what happened.