Packed to the Rafters

- Season 2

(2009)

Bonnie Bright, a psychic/sandwich vendor gets Julie worried about her family especially when her predictions start to come through one by one. Meanwhile, Ben tries too hard to win Mel back.

Julie is convinced that Warney is ripping off Dave's business. But Dave is positive his mate is doing no such thing and his loyalty to Warney is strengthened when he discovers they shared similar childhoods.

Encouraged by her best friend Libby, Rachel reluctantly agrees to be set up on2.03 a blind date but gives Libby an impossible checklist of necessary qualities her date must possess.

Rachel continues to rise to the bait of Jake's brazen teasing flirtation and Ben gives Melissa an ultimatum - it's all or nothing.

Pregnant late in life, the chances of Julie and Dave's child having Downs Syndrome are already high - but the results of preliminary ultrasound indicates those chances are even higher.

Ted's burgeoning relationship with Marjorie appears to be going romantic gangbusters until he meets her daughter Susannah and her pregnant partner Abby, who've left the Gold Coast to live with her.

Sammy is forced to assess her place in the Rafter family when her mother has a breakdown and is left with nowhere to live. To Ben's surprise, Melissa turns up unexpectedly at the Karandonis house with her bags - but is she back for good?

A week into Trish's stay in the Rafter house, Julie pleads with her boss Don to give Trish a job. He agrees but the plan backfires when Trish spends more time flirting with Don than she does working.

Ben faces three things he never wanted to see - his mother naked, his father crying - and hesitation after he pops the question to girlfriend Melissa.

Dave has finally opened his original birth certificate. Inside is the name of his birth mother, but his birth father is 'unknown'. Encouraged by Julie, Dave tells the rest of the family.

After turning up at the Rafter house and disappearing without so much as a word, Rachel 'Chel' Warne uses an electrical ruse to lure Dave to the shop where she is working.

Carbo's mother Rita arrives from Lesbos to stay for six weeks with Artemis, the 18-year-old daughter of her best friend. Despite Ben and Melissa's insinuations that this may be a romantic set-up, Carbo sees Artie like a little sister.

Artie is preparing for her first day of work at the boat club with Ben. Carbo, who's aware of his romantic feelings for her, is happy with her choice of job - after all, how much trouble can she get into under the watchful eye of Ben?

The Rafters throw a surprise party for Dave's mum, Chel, who is swept up in the family history and moved by the love shown to her. But clouds are gathering. Meanwhile, Carbo works hard to fan the flames of his relationship with Artie.

Dave is determined to give Ben and Melissa the engagement party that he and Julie never had. But his focus is sidetracked by the accidental discovery that Chel's increasingly regular hospital visits are in fact to the Renal Ward.

Dave has been searching for Chel since she ran from the engagement party, with no luck. Ted gallops to the rescue, persuading Melissa to find out which hospital Chel is now going to for her dialysis.

On her last day at work Julie quizzes psychic tea lady Bonnie about the troubling prediction she'd made months earlier. Rachel spies Sammy having lunch with her ex Owen, and becomes concerned.

When a bunch of flowers arrive for her at work with no card, Rachel assumes Jake must've sent them. However, she soon discovers that they are from her ex-boyfriend, meth addict Daniel.

At the bucks night, Ben is having a fantastic time until the stripper Carbo has organised arrives. It turns out to be Kat, the woman he slept with and who came between him and Melissa.

At the five-star resort Be and Melissa are staying at, they meet Adrian and Nicole, and hit it off. They become new besties. There might even be a new job in it for Ben. But there's more than meets the eye with this friendly duo.

Nathan makes a shocking discovery about Dave's father. Meanwhile, Rachel is feeling the pressure of organising a baby shower for Julie, while Ben and Melissa try to get rid of their new housemate.

Julie faces her greatest challenge yet - the birth of her fourth and final child without husband Dave at her side.