Buy Blue Heelers; S14 John Wood, Drama, DVD | Sanity

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Blue Heelers Series 14 - The Final Series - 14

In the first episode of the final series you find tom is in some pain and it’s starting to show, Uniformed officers are shot at all over Mt Thomas, it first starts at the primary school in Mt Thomas. In the second episode Tom is late for work and Amy Fox shows up on his door step, not to mention it flashes back to his child hood in a dream.

Tom is getting really grumpy in his old age. Amy tries to convince Tom to go to the doctor’s, Matthew Graham is being followed, why are they following the new kid on the block? The guys following Constable Graham want information from Graham and they made a phone call to him requesting the information.

The kid breaks Tom’s mug, the one that says the boss on it, that’s a sad moment in time for Heeler fans. Francis is a kid, that hassles Tom, and Tom ends up attempting to look out for Francis. Tom is setting a impression and leaving a footprint in Francis’s life.

The team starts to pick up that Tom is unwell, but yet Tom denies that he is unwell. Tom gives orders to O’Rouke and Raynor to pull in the kids who bully Francis even if they have to pull them from class, Tom is going to give them hell and high water, Tom orders them to be confined to the cells.

Graham is held hostage, Francis is shot while in the care of Tom, this is not good for Tom, and he keeps flashing back to childhood and Francis dies in Tom’s arms. Tom finally consults a doctor with his illness. Jonesy let’s Rory respond to a VKC call. Kirby finds a dead baby! Amy pries in to Tom’s illness a tad too much, but after all she is a detective.

Jonesy and Kirby stumble upon a cult, it was called the forgiveness farm. Rory is sick is he faking it?? The cult isn’t all that it seems. Tom calls Alex’s judgement as a father in to question. This cult appears to be more trouble than it’s worth.

Detective Fox and Jones investigate a extremely bad home invasion, it’s extreme even for Mt. Thomas, Falcon Price shows up as Croydon isn’t at the station nor is he answering his phone, with Amy being the only one at this point that knows Tom’s secret she is forced to cover for him saying that he has taken a few days leave, well deserved leave and has gone fishing any truth in that?

With Croydon MIA, Rusty is quick to jump in his chair and take over Mt Thomas so now the troops are forced to report to him, Kelly is now suspicious that something is wrong with Croydon. Rusty is on a fishing trip of his own attempting to drive a wedge in to Croydon’s command career at Mt Thomas.

Kelly has been doing some detective of her own, while tom is in hospital having a operation. Rusty doesn’t yell or scream when he finds out Rory came to work with Alex, now Rory is missing on a farm the whole gang is looking for him, expect the detectives. Amy doesn’t approve of Rusty’s interview technique, and offering a deal.

Amy loses her cool with Rusty. Suzy jokes about taking Rory to Wodgonga which is as far as she can take him, or can she sweet talk him in to going back to Mt Thomas. Kelly finds a number to a hospital on his desk and then pretends to be Tom’s estranged daughter, and then we find out his got cancer, poor tom.

Rusty knew the whole time tom was in Melbourne, but he didn’t know Tom had Cancer, well at least he acted shocked, so yeah once again O’rouke put her foot in it so to speak. Kelly and Joss bust a guy at the races with a set of knuckledusters hell yeah they rock my world!

Kelly catches Joss, placing a bet at the races. Graham catches a guy shoplifting on a rostered day off, that creates riffs with Alex. The guy that got pick pocketed well attempted, has now been beaten up. Graham thinks the guy he brought in for shoplifting is planning a armed rob, is he overseeing things because of his boredom?

Matt proves to be right the guy attempted to hold up a bookie with a toy hand gun. Joss is in some trouble of his own, can he save his own skin? Now Chris finds out about Tom, and turns up at Tom’s. Now Rusty pulls one over Tom and makes Tom return to working patrols. Tom’s not doing very much of any on patrols other than working the radio and pulling his revolver and doing a odd bit of running and driving now Kirby is down.

Tom will blame himself, for Alex’s stabbing. Suzy grabs Rory from school. Joss is dating Tilda, the girl that was involved with the professional punter. Kirby abuses the boss and tells the boss to give it up. Amy goes to bat for Tom up against the mean inspector Russell Falcon Price, She comes out winning.

There’s a fire at Armstrong Reserve, Kelly is first on scene and the only one on scene and she runs in to rescue a guy, Kelly gets the guy who lit the fire and the guy was getting off on the fire. Kelly has her first time in court, and the case gets thrown out as Kelly was unprepared. Amy and Matt has a lead leading to Sally Barnes. Kelly realizes that Joss has a gambling problem and Kelly just realizes that it is a problem, Joss doesn’t identify his gambling as a problem.

Are they ever going to catch the fire bug, the fire ruins Kelly’s date and kills a girl in the process and now theirs some solid evidence, so Leon has been charged, but on the same note, Kelly loses it at Leon. The Lawyer David Murray and Kelly blame themselves for the death of the girl.

A small plane crashes in Mt Thomas, Joss stand down and runs scared in the heat of the moment. The pilot of the crashed plane, has been getting threats. Rory brings Lockie, a friend to Susie for help. Lockie is a friend of Rory’s and it’s his dad’s comics that Susie and Matt are investigating.

Alex sends Joss to a dr regarding his injuries, Joss now has 2 broken ribs, its affecting his job. Is his injury related to his betting? Now Joss’s stuff is being thrown out on to a lawn as he can’t pay the rent. Alex does the math and figures out that Joss’s problems is about money. David Murray asks Kelly to get him a sample, she’s not going for it. I don’t blame her.

Alex then confronts Joss about his problems. Suzy thinks Rory’s crush isn’t so harmless after all, after his feeds information to her from the simpsons. Joss is staying with Kelly. Graham witnesses Joss giving money to Alex. Joss has been working a cab as a second job....

Graham and O’Rourke pull in Reese again, and Reese claims that he will have their badge, Kelly makes a statement your not in New York, then Reese claims I’ll have your job. Now Joss is aiding & abetting a guy that robbed Tony’s Pizza for one Four Seasons, (Not the condoms) it’s a name of the pizza.

Has Peroni connected the dots that the guy he is carrying may have committed the armed robbery. Joss fakes car trouble. Joss tries to call Kelly but she ignores his call. Joss takes a kick to the side to save a civilian, Now the team scramble to save Joss. Now the subject holds a gun to Joss’s head can the team from Mt.Thomas save Joss before he ends up dead, Joss tell him that he is a cop.

A save for the team, job well done Croydon’s team. The guy calls Kelly a Psycho b*tch and requests her to be called off, Tom asks the guy to drop the gun or you will be shot, good one Croydon. Matt disobeys a request to fall back and is now held a gun point. Matt has now been shot, but not really just a bad powder burns and his hearing temp damaged. Tom’s cancer is appearing elsewhere in his body. Is Adam tied up with the guys who was involved in the drug deal gone wrong?

Tom needs to start cancer treatment where he bumps in to Gina, at his treatment. Gina use to live in Mt Thomas when she was younger. Kelly moves in with David Murray. Susie and Amy find Tom vomiting in his rubbish bin. Tom is linked to the gun. Tom walks in on Jonesy beating up Cooper, well pushing the limits. Tom shows Gina some compassion.

Falcon Price makes the call to shut down Mt. Thomas and tells the team he will re deploy them, sounds just like the navy. Mt. Thomas is closing down and that’s no fun at all, As Mt Thomas forces to close one final day one final one final time, Can the team clear Tom’s name? Matt is now a suspect in the murder of Brain Keen. Tom stays at Gina’s side through her end stages of cancer, breast cancer, this shows the side compassionate side of tom.

Monica Draper shows up for one last show. Daisy Tom’s granddaughter shows up in Mt Thomas. Alex abuses Tom for sinking him self and the station along with him. Amy is looking for a new job but won’t transfer to the unit with Jones, is there something more happening there? Tom attends his family reunion, it appears that Mt. Thomas won’t be shutting after all but only on a probationary period. It’s all fun and games they end in a blaze of glory but it’s a sad day for heeler fans.

Overall: 6/10

Conclusion:

Any die hard blue heelers fan could see Tom was having some troubles coping, think back to Series 1 -3 Part 2 where he had heart problems many of the fans would be thinking there they back? I was a tad disappointed that it was only 11 episodes but it’s better than none I guess ;). I love how Tom’s Dr has a old school mac on her desk even though they where long deleted before they shot the episode. Adam Cooper returns back to the station to fix a printer, Adam drive a wedge through the township of Mt Thomas. The Heelers get to chuck Cooper in the cells more than once that was a nice touch. I personally though it could’ve ended better, I don’t believe this is worth the $70.00 odd bucks they want for it, it’s only 3 DVDs, so therefore I need to side with a low 6/10, based on stories and price and everything. It was a major disappointment, they could’ve ended a show that lasted over a decade a bit better.