Itinerant labourer Kevin Nicholls and his wife Colleen, an aspiring singer, learn their daughter is deaf and not retarded as they had always believed when the girl suffers a serious fall and lands in hospital. Lucy takes Hedley Johnson to Little League baseball tryouts. Terence asks Harry to stay on at the clinic after his initial contract expires. Kate reveals her past fight with leukemia to Terence and Rosemary when she thinks she may be having a relapse. Colleen Nichols gives up her singing career to focus on her daughter.