Stokes and Hendy receive an emergency call. It's just a drill. Wealthy couple Bernie and Elizabeth Doolan have been reported missing from their mansion. Newly single Stokes asks Hendy to help him with a non-hipster profile pic for Tinder.
Stokes and Hendy have been separated for Code 4 Misconduct. Stokes has a new partner, Rainer. He calls Hendy, who also has a new partner - April. Stokes tries to break the ice with Rainer to ice cold reception.
Stokes has manicured his pubes. Reveal Lachy has been in the car with them all along. April gets a haircut that's very similar to Carol's. Steve and Neddy take a bunch of Adderall to get some clarity.
Stokes wakes up from a big catnap. Carol meets her new dispatch partner, Anousha, who's Muslim. Carol tells her she's glad Waleed Aly's Logie win ended racism in Australia. Jimmy and Bruce discuss losing their art café during honesty hour.
Hendy and Stokes are outside the house where Stokes thinks the Doolan's are being held captive. Hendy is jealous when Stokes reveals what he wants to say at Rainer's funeral.
Stokes gets surprised by Hendy and dispatch for his 50th birthday until they realise he's only 48. The celebrations are cut short. Stokes and Hendy watch a video of Burrows' lewd sex act with an eel.
It's Christmas Eve, and Hendy and Stokes are dispatched to keep watch on a shopping mall, where there's no activity. Inside, meanwhile, Bruce and Jimmy, working as Santa and an elf, have spotted Miranda Tapsell and decide to take her hostage.
Hendy and April have an awkward radio exchange. The crims (including guest star Sam Simmons) lament the lack of imagination in the Aussie crime industry. Carol's son Lachy is suspended from school in unusual circumstances.