David has decided to leave Cooper's Crossing and do something else with his life. A man sacks a jackeroo, the jackeroo has been seeing his daughter - the man tells him to keep away from her. The jackeroo and daughter are having a row - she falls and bangs her head. David is on the way there but sees the jackeroo setting fire to a cabin and tries to stop him, but jackeroo hits him. An older man is coming along in a car and sees David, the older man is a doctor aswell, David tells him about the daughter being injured and the older man sees to her. David has to spend a night in hospital and misses his leaving party at the pub. The next day after David leaves hospital, he hears some shouting and finds the jackeroo stuck half way down a cliff on a ledge he has injured his leg. David goes down to him, then goes back up to call base. Johnno, Geoff and Kate turn up, they throw a stretcher down to David but it gets caught on something, David tries to free it and slips and falls upside down, he