Episode Summary
Heartbreak High Episode 133
Season Five

The newest addition to the teaching staff at Hartley Heights High School, Gerard Albers, is an eccentric and flamboyant bohemian from Spain, who is as at home on the touch football field as he is in the classroom. Albers makes himself unpopular in his very first class when it looks like he will be favouring students from a non-English speaking background. When he becomes aware of the resentment in the yard, Albers decides to teach the kids a lesson about prejudice.

Hilary has finally graduated from her postgraduate Psychology degree. However, the moment is bittersweet when she is faced with a life-altering decision: should she go interstate to pursue further study seizing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity or, should she stay with her children?

Ryan encourages Nikki to enter a talent quest at a local pub. Everything goes well and Nikki wins her heat, but the evening is marred when Ryan is arrested by the police for being under-aged in a licensed premises. Ryan is unable to attend the finals the next evening so Kurt steps in to support Nikki. Has Ryan lost his chance?

Heartbreak High stars Tina Bursill as Hilary Scheppers, Rel Hunt as Ryan Scheppers, Lara Cox as Anita Scheppers, Callan Mulvey as Drazic, Rebecca Smart as Melanie Black, Nina Liu as Mai Hem, Jeremy Taylor as Kurt Petersen, Fleur Beaupert as Nikki Ruark, Andrea Moor as Di Barnett and Frederick Miragliotta as Gerard Albers.

Heartbreak High is produced by Ben Gannon for Gannon Television. This episode is written by Sally Webb and directed by Lyn Hegarty.