A badly wounded Aboriginal girl, Werowey, is brought to Dr. Woods. Sarah offers to care for her, and Williams is sympathetic and worried for Werowey, but Lansdowne and Fitzalan consider all Aboriginals are savages. Their opinion is reinforced when miner Withers is brought in dead. McKellar is sent by Fitzalan to hunt the killers, and he and his men come upon the remains of an Aboriginal camp where white men killed the other Aboriginals and took their women. Determined to release the Aboriginals, McKellar refuses to handcuff them and they escape. He returns to Crockers Gully to face Fitzalan's wrath.