Throng

Weekdays, 7pm on TV2

Tania Jeffries (Faye Smythe) gets her own back on Shortland Street this week, when she sets her ex-boyfriend Ben Goodall (Shaun Edwards-Brown) up for a fall. Still feeling hurt by Ben and her mother Yvonne's (Alison Quigan) relationship, Tania relishes the chance to make Ben sweat. But will she take her revenge one step too far?

Hurt and angry about Yvonne and Ben's deception, Tania is irritated to realise she must work alongside Ben. In ED (Emergency Department), Tania fails to properly listen to Ben's handover and consequently administers the incorrect medicine to a patient.

Faye Smythe explains: "Tania initially blames Ben for the mix up, but when Maxwell calls her up on it she realises she's in the wrong. What she's going through at the moment is really hard, but she understands she'll have to pull her head in at work."

The next time Tania deals with Ben in ED, she makes more of an effort to be civil. But when Ben provokes her, her blood starts to boil.

"Ben's comment serves as a reminder of her hurt and pain," says Smythe. "So as a way of getting back at him, she manipulates the patient's daughter into making a formal complaint against Ben."

Suffering a major knock in confidence, Ben begins to worry that he's not cut out for the job. Despite Yvonne's attempts to convince him otherwise, Ben's doubts that he is incapable of doing the job begin to get the better of him and he makes some serious mistakes.

With Ben's career in jeopardy, has Tania finally got the payback she thinks he deserves?

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