When Dash learns that a woman's reason for suiciding may have been her infertility caused by chemotherapy, she begins to doubt her own ability to have children.
Nick is woken in the middle of the night by a drunken tour operator who reports that one of his clients has gone missing in the National Park. The Heelers question the woman's husband and their pregnant friend, but they say the woman fell behind during an evening bushwalk and just... disappeared.
While the Heelers are conducting a thorough search of the park in daylight, PJ wants a word with Aussie Andy, the tour operator, believing that his drunken carelessness may have contributed to the woman's disappearance. But when PJ and Ben are climbing up the rocky bluff where Andy is supposedly searching, PJ falls and twists his ankle badly. Unfortunately their only radio was smashed in the fall, and PJ finds himself extremely grateful for Ben's help — especially as he has insisted that they carry on. Up on the bluff, Ben finds a lost gold earring.
Meanwhile, Adam discovers the woman's charred remains in a burnt-out cabin and Dash is assigned to break the bad news to the pregnant friend who is waiting back at the hotel, and ends up comforting her.
Maggie begins to worry about the missing PJ and Ben, and goes looking for them. At the same time, Adam is reporting his suspicions about the fire to Nick — he thinks accelerant was used. Could it have been suicide?
This seems the likely explanation when Dash learns from the pregnant friend that the woman was depressed about her infertility, but when Dash also learns the infertility was caused by chemotherapy, she begins to worry about her own ability to conceive a child.
But when Maggie finally finds PJ and Ben and brings them back, PJ is not so willing to accept the suicide theory. And it seems his instinct I right when that the woman was dead before she was burnt. She died of injuries consistent with falling from a considerable height. And she is wearing one gold earring. Someone pushed her off the bluff. And the missing Aussie Andy has a record for assault on a woman.
But when they find Andy he denies any involvement, and PJ finds himself inclined to believe him. So who did push the woman off Lover's Leap?
When the case is finally solved, the Heelers are able to get back to celebrating Tom's birthday and Adam produces his choice of present.
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