Bluestone 42

- Season 3

(2015)

The team recovers as they realize that their truck has hit a landmine. Much time is spent teasing Nick over his relationship with Mary before they decide to leave the vehicle. They are immediately ambushed and Nick is concussed, a fact which makes him so reckless that it saves the day before help arrives. However, on returning to the base he gets a very big shock. Mary has been transferred and replaced by a male padre.

Nick has a run in with a little problem.

Enthusiastic captain Ellen Best's arrival splits the team. Simon is besotted by her but the others miss Nick's lazy, laid-back approach, particularly Bird. The group is not happy to learn that Smith has stolen their fridge so Ellen hopes to become popular by stealing it back but fails and has to buy a new one. She does, however, prove herself when the unit is called out to encounter a suicide bomber.

The team suffer a Taliban attack on base, which distracts Ellen and Brid from their bickering.

Faruq's strike forces Ellen to learn to bend the rules, Mac and Rocket do gladiatorial combat. While Bird sets Simon up for a fall.

As the team prepare to leave Afghanistan for good, Simon is devastated to find out that he will not be receiving a medal after all. This news sends him over the edge and during the team's last op to destroy a downed U.S. drone, he performs an act of valour which saves everyone's life - exclaiming that if he was killed, at least he'd get a medal! Simon then go's AWOL and as the rest of the team departs in a Chinook, he is hiding out in a cave in a delusional state.