Five Bedrooms
After meeting on the singles table at a wedding, five humans down on their luck in both love and life jokingly arrive at a solution to their real estate angst as solo flyers: they could pitch in and buy a house together.
Cast:Kat Stewart , Stephen Peacocke , Doris Younane , Katie Robertson , Roy Joseph , Johnny Carr , Kumud Merani , Alan Dukes , Hugh Sheridan , Kate Jenkinson , Rodger Corser , Ingrid Torelli , Bert LaBonté , Ben Schumann , Dennis Coard , Maia Thomas , Adam Fiorentino , Robyn Arthur
S4.E1 ∙ Two Bluffs
Hosted by Harry, Manju is already somewhat sullen at her seventieth birthday gathering, when an errant comment subsequently leads to that sullenness turning to belligerence specifically toward Harry. Manju, being her manipulative self, makes a pronouncement intended to make Harry feel guilty enough to apologize, that pronouncement which Harry doesn't believe she will carry out to its end, Harry in turn calling her bluff. Feeling like he has perhaps gone too far, he is convinced by Heather to double down on that bluff or else have her know that she will always be able to manipulate him. With those plays going into night leading to both Harry and Manju having little to no sleep, something happens in the morning to change the face of their standoff. Meanwhile, Stuart is on his way back to Melbourne on a business trip, Liz who, on their last telephone call, stating that they need to talk in Stuart's belief that she had an affair. Liz has to decide exactly how she is going to broach the topic of the "issue" with him. And Ben is finally going on a date about which Ainsley discovers. It isn't so much that he has this date, which he doesn't see as such, but who the date is with. Regardless, Ainsley in particular has to decide if or what to tell Heather.
S4.E2 ∙ Two Battlers
With the exception of if she doesn't survive the surgery, there is much pressure for Harry to move back in with Manju following her radical hysterectomy to provide her with her necessary care. However, Liz, without even telling Harry, takes it upon herself to convince the somewhat reluctant housemates for Manju to move in temporarily with them, Liz's motives solely to ease her conscience about throwing Harry under the bus with regard to Stuart and deflect attention away from having not being totally forthright with Stuart about her marital indiscretion. In addition to discovering a secret Manju has been hiding, Liz will discover whether her self-directed penance is something to which she can adhere, while Harry has to deal with what ends up being Manju's martyrdom to inflict more guilt on him. Meanwhile, Mel does whatever she can to move her and Ben's "mates only" relationship into the sexual realm. Mel's presence in the house as that predator not only has an effect on Heather, but on Ainsley as well.
S4.E3 ∙ Two Wills
Ainsley receives news from a more distraught than usual Cheryl that Des has passed away. In Ainsley's priority of being the nurturer and despite her feelings about Cheryl, Ainsley decides to invite her to stay in the house for however long she needs while she is in town to deal with Des' affairs, and in support for "family". Ainsley also issues the directive that no one is to tell Manju about Des in Ainsley not wanting to burden her with more bad news considering her health, hiding it from her which may be difficult especially due to Cheryl's boisterousness. Of everyone in the house, Ainsley seems the least emotionally affected by Des' death, outwardly due to that nurturing taking priority, but inwardly due to her confusing relationship with her father, that confusion especially since Cheryl came into the picture intimately which was even before Ainsley's mother's passing. The situation gets even more confusing for Ainsley shortly after Cheryl's arrival, the specific stressor which Ainsley will have to deal with both emotionally and legally. Meanwhile, Ainsley's decisions have an unexpected negative effect on Liz and Stuart's already crumbling marriage. And Cheryl's arrival leads to a game of musical bedrooms, Heather the most obvious person to relinquish hers in having Ed's as a place to stay where she is most nights anyway. However due to a family situation with Ed, Heather decides to stay in Colin's granny flat. As the one now geographically closest to Heather, Colin discovers that Heather's outward reason for not staying with Ed was a lie which he figures indicates problems between Heather and Ed, such news which he has to share with his fellow "Heather spurnee" Ben.
S4.E4 ∙ Four Gummies
Heather had no intention of celebrating the fact of her graduating let alone tell anyone of graduating itself, except for those in her life that would know out of circumstance, namely fellow graduate Timmy, and of course Ed as the department head and her current bedmate. But both of those issues go out the window when Ed tells her, immediately after she telling him these two items, that he has already invited among others Timmy, Colin, her housemates and their natural plus ones to a celebratory party at his house immediately before the actual graduation ceremony, he unable to rescind the invitations now that the cat is out of the bag. In addition to affecting Heather and Ed's relationship, it also has unexpected repercussions on Ainsley with regard to work, and on Ben who wants to invite Mia in having Heather as inspiration in Mia having issues with school herself, and as he has yet to tell Mia of a new woman in his life regardless of what Mel actually means to him emotionally. One person unable to attend is Liz, who has a counseling session with Stuart at the time, that session which is illuminating in many different ways. Elsewhere, Harry, in filling in for another dermatologist, has an unexpected patient, which leads to him questioning their relationship as he did the first time they met.
S4.E8 ∙ Five Sellers
While everyone in the house is frantically preparing the house to be sold, Heather pulls after finding out two housemates are moving in with her ex-Husband. Harry scatters his mum's ashes with Liz, Simmo finds out about Ainz's pregnancy.
