Wild Boys

Jack and Dan return to Hopetoun after a month away. With a new Superintendent of Police, Fuller, arriving, their existence as bushrangers is suddenly under threat. Jack rekindles his romance with pub owner, Mary, but any hope for a future with her is snuffed out when Fuller captures the Wild Boys. Fuller attempts to eliminate them in a staged escape attempt, but they manage to get away.

Jack awakes after being shot, to find a shocking discovery at the Ryan farm. Cared for by Mary, he's almost caught when Fuller raids her pub. But when Jack learns that Joey Butler was behind the shooting at the farm, he sets off for revenge, ruining Mary's plan for a new life.

After Mary's bar burns, Jack decides to rob the bank to help her out. But after the boys take the manager and his wife hostage they discover the bank's vault is empty. Their plan goes from bad to worse as Conrad questions his role in the gang, the wife seduces Dan, the armed transport loses a wheel on the bush highway, and Jack discovers the murderous Joey Butler has been let free.

With the Hopetoun Cup being run in town, Jack is determined to ride and win the event. With Frank Butler in town to look for the killer of his brother, Fuller determined to fill his jail with criminals, and a dangerous detective hired by the bank to find the culprits, the boys are in the midst of a very deadly enterprise.

Dan's past comes back to haunt him when an old girlfriend convinces him to marry her - the gun pointed at his head is very convincing. The Wild Boys are also being threatened by a new bushranger in town, who's dangerous, eccentric and rather elusive. Emilia's new suitor, Rupert Wentworth, chosen by her father, turns out to be more charming than Emilia imagined, if not a little flamboyant.

With body parts turning up in the bush around Hopetoun, there are rumours that a cannibal's on the loose. But when Scanlon pulls a dead woman from the river, he comes to realize that a villain from the days he was a cattle duffer with Jack has returned. Jack initially disbelieves Scanlon, but soon changes his tune, and the two former friends are forced to work together to catch Brady.