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Magic Moments > 2002 > Drew's Death Episode 4091

Written by Judith Colquhoun, Directed by Tony Osicka

Libby and Drew discuss the possibility of moving to Oakey. While out riding, Drew's horse bucks and he is escorted to hospital in an ambulance with Libby...

In Erinsborough, it is raining and Darcy, Stuart, Karl, Susan, and Harold are questioning Lou about the advertised "one dollar lunch". Harold thinks Lou should have told him if it was his intention to shut down The Coffee Shop, but Lou insists it was a ten dollar lunch and someone had rubbed off one of the zeros. Karl gets a call from Libby in Oakey. Libby tells Karl of Drew's accident and asks him to come up to Oakey and to ask Susan to come too. Karl assures her he'll be there, and Libby asks him to hurry.

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Karl and Susan have caught a plane up, and at the Oakey hospital they find a Ron and a teary and shaken Libby. Libby spots Drew's doctor so Karl asks how Drew is doing - he's still in surgery; he had a haemorrhage and severe liver damage. Karl adds that they're doing everything they can and are flying in a top surgeon from Toowoomba.

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At Lassiter's, Chloe tells Felicity to fix up an early tour group who are cluttering the foyer. Toadie arrives, late, and Flick asks for help in her task. Darcy turns up and tells the two that Drew has had a serious accident in Oakey. When Flick asks if Drew will die, Darcy pauses and says that he's being operated on. When he leaves, Toadie realizes they didn't even ask what happened.

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Steph is comforting Libby at the Oakey hospital, where Stuart has also arrived. Karl sees the doctor and asks for any news, but is told that they've lost Drew. Karl is devastated and tells Ron he's sorry. Making his way down the hall to Libby, as Susan, Steph, and Stuart look on, speechless, with tears in their eyes. When he reaches Libby, she gets up. He tells her he's sorry, and at she repeatedly cries 'no no no' before breaking down in to Karl's arms.

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The next morning at Number 24, Rosie and Harold are waiting as Lou finishes packing for their trip up to Oakey. Rosie is very agitated, and dreading conducting the funeral tomorrow even though she's done hundreds, even of young people. Harold suggests that it is possibly because she thinks that the family has been through enough already.

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Over at Lassiter's Hotel, Chloe complains to Flick and Toadie about bus tours lowering the feel of the hotel. She apologises, recognising that she knows it's a difficult time for them both as their minds are in Queensland, and if they need a break all they have to do is ask her. Flick tells Toadie that Drew's death is the only thing she can think about at the moment.

At Ron's house in Oakey, night has fallen and Libby is looking at the stars through the window. She talks to Steph about how she and Drew fell in love, while looking at the stars. Libby says she can't believe that this is happened and that they're burying Drew tomorrow. Susan is with Ben and nervously asks Libby if she should put Ben to bed, Libby tells her she can. When Susan takes Ben to his room, Libby says that it's not fair to lose both her mother and Drew. Steph tells Libby that Susan is getting better but Libby says she isn't the same as she used to be - when Drew died all she wanted was her mother to hold her and Susan couldn't do it. Ron comes in and has just been on the phone to Rose, who was on her way down from Scotland. The traffic controllers in Bangkok have gone on strike and she won't be able to make it for the funeral, although she wants them to go ahead. Rosie sits down and talks to Libby, asking her if she wants anything special included in Drew's service.

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Flick, Toadie, and Darcy are at the pub when Lyn comes in. She tells Darcy he should be In Oakey as he's family, but Darcy says that he couldn't find a replacement at the surgery for him and Karl and he couldn't leave his customers. Lyn congratulates him on being loyal to his customers.

The next, rainy, morning in Oakey, the funeral begins with a montage of Drew's coffin being taken inside as Rosie starts the service...

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At Lassiter's Hotel, Toadie tells Flick that the funeral service will be starting soon. The phone rings, answered by Flick. It's Marc looking for his mother but she isn't there. Flick hopes he stays in London, and Toadie tells Flick he doesn't want to be here.

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Meanwhile, Karl is reading Drew's eulogy, saying that Drew was a man of utmost integrity. At the end of his speech, Karl adds that Drew has left his combined families the task of rasing his baby, Ben, and they will not fail him. Libby is crying in Rosie's arms, while Steph, Ron, and Susan also are crying. Ben however remains asleep through the ceremony, unaware of what is going on around him. Libby walks up to the coffin and places a flower on it, before engaging in the song Wild Mountain Thyme, while remembering Drew singing it to her on their wedding. As she continues, she starts to sob, but finishes the song after help from Harold.

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Karl, Ron, Stuart, and Dougal carry the coffin outside. As bagpipes play the church empties, while Lyn, Toadie, Flick, and Darcy toast Drew at the pub in Erinsborough. Drew's coffin makes its way under the ground and Libby is distraught in Karl's arms.

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The wake is being held at Ron's house. Rosie tells Lou that Libby, Steph and Dougal are taking it very badly. Stuart tells a silent Libby that if she or Ben need anything, he hopes she asks him first.

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Flick arrives home at Number 26 opening a parcel and Lyn asks what it is. Flick opens it and finds a necklace from Godinski Jewellers, and a note: "To cheer you up!" to which Lyn voices her annoyance over having another mystery. Flick assures her mother that there isn't much of a mystery to it, guessing it's from Marc and so was Steph's bike. When asked why she angrily says it's because he loves making grand gestures.

Libby is crying with Ben outside the house when Ron approaches her. They sit down and Ron says the death was his fault as he forced Drew to move up to Oakey. Although Libby says it was no one's fault, Ron says it was as he was being stupid and selfish. Libby talks about how energetic and happy was the morning of the fall, so happy to start a life up in Oakey with his father. Ron says the business is over, and that it's all beyond him now. Libby tells him to not talk like that, "Otherwise what's the point of any of it?"

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Notes: Drew was originally to have been featured in the hospital scenes, but contractual problems with actor Dan Paris meant that the character's death ended up being dealt with offscreen. The character was represented with flashback footage from Drew and Libby's wedding.

Summary by Joe. Captures by Karl

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