Tracey Morrison
Shortland Street character - Tracey
Morrison
Tracey arrived at Shortland Street hospital mid 2007 - the
undercover cop sent in by Lara Wade to be at "ground zero" of the
Ferndale murder scenes.
Her rusty nursing skills soon raised suspicion and it wasn't long
before her police connections were outed.
Unfortunately Tracey got too close to the notorious Ferndale
Strangler, and she was abducted by Joey Henderson on her way home
from the gym.
Joey didn't kill Tracey, but her semi-conscious and bound body was
found in the rubbish skip by Wiremu.
Tracey was whisked away by her police colleagues, but she
re-surfaced at Shortland Street hospital, this time as a bona-fide
nurse.
After ending a relationship with ED doc Kip, Tracey found
herself attracted to someone very unlikely - ex-crim Tai,
Scotty'
s
brother.
She quickly learned that Tai was on home detention at Scotty and Shanti' s house, and the relationship never really progressed.
When she learned Tai was involved in a bungled robbery, she
shopped him to the police.
Scotty found it hard to forgive her for sending his brother
back to jail.
The arrival of new Head of ED,
Doctor Maxwell
Avia
saw her spark back into life.
She learned that Maxwell had been keeping several secrets from
her, including an ex wife and child, and a gambling addiction.
When her friend Shanti died, Tracey moved in with Scotty to keep
him company.
In early 2010 she had a brief fling with med student Hunter
McKay.
In April her police detective brother Doug arrived in Ferndale, to
oversee a drug trial.
Tracey suffered when she found out Doug was a 'bent cop' and
agonised over whether she should dob him in to the police.
In May 2010 she and Scotty visited Scotty's brother Tai in prison,
and were held hostage there.
The drama saw she and Scotty affirm their closeness and they began a relationship.
Mid year, new hospital orderly Penny tried to kill Scotty (a twisted vendetta to avenge her own father's death in East Timor).
Scotty managed to escape Penny's clutches but started suffering
from post-traumatic-stress from the incident, keeping this from
Tracey.
The two were planning their December wedding but Scotty's illness
accelerated and at Christmas 2010 he attempted to 'strangle'
Tracey.
He was eventually captured and operated on (he had a
tumour).
After a period of blaming himself, Scotty came around to the idea
of trusting himself to love Tracey and the two were married on
Valentine's Day.
They decided to start trying for a family - but recently learned
that Tracey has low fertility.
They decided to start IVF.
In July a friend of Scotty's arrived from East Timor for medical treatment. She brought her son Kitu too.
She died, leaving Scotty and Tracey to care for Kitu.
