Episode 1: Lion Cub Rescue
The vet students meet for the first time and travel 7 hours to the remote clinic. We learn about their fears and insecurities - fear of failure and the weight of responsibilities ahead. The resident vet, Dr. Greg, helps them muddle through the first real cases of their young careers.
At the end of the long day, the vets are called out to an emergency – a lion cub has escaped out a local wildlife park, placing itself and the community in danger. The vets form a search party in the pitch black bushveld.
Can they find the nursing cub before certain death from dehydration? Can Agatha redeem herself after a disastrous start at the clinic?
Episode 2: Tough Day at the Office
The action picks up after the lion cub rescue. The tired vets finally get situated in their dormitory accommodations. Dr. Greg deliberately pairs them according to their differences. Vets need to learn to work with colleagues and clients different from themselves.
The students dive into more cases. Drew and scared Agatha must dart a wild warthog to help treat its painfully swollen leg. Later as a group they run a cattle call where over a 1000 local cows take a medicated plunge bath to prevent disease and parasites.
The day is reflected on as the group enjoys a bonfire, except Roxanne. Will the group fracture or be brought closer together by their differences?
Episode 3: Elephant Down
Roxanne let her puppy case, 'Ripple' stay overnight at the dorm. The group – especially her roommate Charlotte - is critical of this. Not only is she using the dog as a social crutch, it's highly unprofessional to become so attached to a patient.
The students get to accompany a research team to conduct a study on Africa's biggest mammal – an adult elephant. Agatha and Tina have their first spat. At any given time, Niven is either teasing Roxanne or dismissing her medical opinions.
Delarey takes on helping Drew with the language. Charlotte is shocked to find that her first case, an ailing calf turns up dead. And Tina is brought a puzzling case of a goat with neurological problems. Niven and Agatha face 'The Killer Cow' and petite Agatha must face her fear of cattle head on.
The day ends at a local festival where the group makes foreigners Tina and Delarey eat dried chicken feet – a local snack. One foot ends up in Niven's bed that night! Who's the prankster?
Episode 4: Will Ripple Lose a Leg?
Dr. Greg forces the students to attend a local Heritage Festival – something none of them were in the mood for on their 'day off'. Attitudes change when the experience impresses them into the South African dance and folk customs.
Roxanne performs orthopaedic surgery on the puppy she's all but adopted, Ripple. Later Delarey pours his frustration and energy into motivating the group to help raise up a weak cow that can't get up. If it can't get up and stand on its own, it will be slaughtered.
Tina's goat seems to be improving making Tina doubt her veterinary instinct. Meanwhile Agatha and Niven watch a poor calf die in their hands while they were idol.
Episode 5: Lizard Crazy
Tina's goat case is an emotional rollercoaster for the young vet as the little kid has taken a turn for the worse again. The group discovers Roxanne's childhood fear of lizards and Dr. Greg assigns her a case at the lizard sanctuary.
Charlotte is assigned her first operation – a dog castration. The problem is, she tends to faint at the sight of blood. Will she collapse at the operating table?
Later, castration becomes a chaotic mess because of Delarey's 'know it all' attitude. The group hits the bars and Charlotte dresses Roxy who enjoys the group for the first time, while brooding Delarey watches, sidelined. Watch as Niven makes a move on Charlotte on the dance floor!
Episode 6: Good Bye Agatha
Dr. Greg is unhappy that the group returns to work hung over and with a new awkwardness between Niven and Charlotte. As a punishment, he puts the group to task cleaning the clinic. Later Tina visits her dying goat again to find that it's miraculously trying to stand on its own.
In a dramatic goodbye moment, Dr. Greg decides to not abide by the rules and asks Agatha to stay on for the rest of the term, 'unofficially!' The goat Tina has been treating dies. Drew does a complicated blood transfusion for a puppy but the owner's lack of appreciation leaves Drew frustrated.
The students are called out to a local baboon sanctuary that has 600 orphaned and unwanted baboons. Dr. Greg bumps Charlotte into Niven's spot at the operating table for the castration of an overly aggressive baboon. Does this further strain their relationship?
Episode 7: Puppy Emergency
Drew and Agatha have to deal with a dog with a broken leg brought in by a group of youngsters with no money. The group runs another cattle dip where the owners take to whipping the cows more than ever. A dying puppy is brought to the clinic.
Everyone in the group is at an all-time low. Dr. Greg takes the group to a beautiful waterfall in the mountains in attempt to re-energise them.
Episode 8: Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover
Charlotte has growing cynicism towards the owner of the emaciated black dog, when he repeatedly dodges his responsibility. Drew and Agatha are also perplexed because the kids who brought in a puppy with a broken leg were scheduled to return with money and they don't show up.
She gets her chance in her next case and takes a stand for the first time with a dying puppy. The owner has no money, but Agi refuses to leave the dog to die.
Jonathan must face his fear of snakes at a reptile park. Thrilled, Roxanne has convinced her parents to adopt Ripple, but then Greg drops a bombshell: he isn't comfortable having Ripple taken out of the community.
Episode 9: Competition
Dr. Greg sets up a darting competition – the winner gets to dart a zebra on an upcoming case. Later, the local Chief invites the students to a community feast. The visit brings up issues of animal welfare, hygiene and cultural myth being taken as fact.
Agatha's attachment to the little puppy Milo grows and fears returning the puppy to a bad situation. Jonathan and Niven react to an emergency case – a Jack Russell dog has been bitten by a Black Mamba, a highly poisonous snake.
Episode 10: Euthenization & Tina
During a rabies vaccination campaign Niven's impatient nature lets him down as a dog escapes unvaccinated. The students are called out to a cheetah rehabilitation farm, but Tina and Niven must stay behind and manage the clinic solo.
Back at the clinic Niven has to attend to an aggressive dog. Tina is again called out to a case where an old dog, Bobby, has a bad head wound from a gunshot. Agatha teaches puppy owners how to take care of Milo.
Niven's client has come to collect her aggressive dog. Will there be signs of improvement? Once again Niven is called into Greg's office – but this time to congratulate him on a job well done.
Episode 11: The Hunter
Some of the other students question whether Tina's goat case might have influenced her decision to act so quickly when euthanizing the dog. Controversy between the vets heat up on the subject of hunting and animal welfare to the point where Tina threatens to call the police on a group going hunting.
The students are invited to a witchdoctor inauguration. Jonathan and Niven are called out to help re-locate two Reedbuck. After being called out to examine a dead cow that has been cut up in the veld, Delarey suspects the cow has died because of a plant insecticide that the owner administered to the cow.
The students' lives are at risk as are the lives of all the people who have already cut up the carcass and eaten the meat.
Episode 12: Anthrax Outbreak
Delarey drives through first thing in the morning to the Kruger Park. Agatha returns to see how Milo and the family are doing.
Meanwhile Charlotte is also having frustrations by vaccinating dogs she believes are being used for hunting, and resigns herself to the fact that working in an environment such as this one is extremely stressful, and that she doesn't want to become a community vet after all.
Can Jonathan overcome his fear of snakes and successfully perform an operation on a Cape Cobra? Drew returns to the dip tank to see if his intervention regarding cattle handling has been a successful one. Tina stops a donkey cart on the road because she's appalled by the conditions of the donkeys.
A call comes out to the students: a rhino has broken across a wildlife park fence. The students go in search of the rhino, but with no luck.
Episode 13: Rhinos & Good Byes
Dr. Greg spots the rhino from the microlight. There is much confusion as to where the rhino has fallen. The vehicle carrying the experienced vet breaks down. Dr. Greg is delayed and unable to reach the rhino. How will the students manage without him and the more experienced team?
Dr Greg arrives at the rhino to find his students in charge of the situation. Another snag, the truck that needs to transport the rhino across the fence breaks down.
The episode and season ends with their final morning of the students' residency. Emotions run high as Dr. Greg wishes his students the best of luck with their careers.
It's time for them to bid farewell to a mentor and a community that has taught them so much. Their journey to the frontier has ended, but their journey as a vet has only just begun.