Tom Palmer

Tom Palmer/Woods* (2006)
Scott Timmins
Episodes: 4316, 4322

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A member of Johnny Cooper’s gang, Tom was spotted by Brad Armstrong driving the 4×4 ute that had forced him off the road a short time previous. He followed him to the farmhouse where Johnny was staying and overheard the pair talking about a robbery at the credit union where Tom was supposed to be acting as getaway driver. Although Johnny managed to get rid of the evidence before the police got there, Tom was spooked by the incident and the fact that the police now knew what his car looked like and told Johnny he wanted to pull out. Johnny warned him that no-one left the gang. Rocco overheard them talking and approached Tom as an ally, suggesting they work together to bring Johnny down. He persuaded Tom to break into Johnny’s place and get the robbery plans but Johnny came back unexpectedly. Tom made a clumsy attempt to escape through the window and Johnny caught him. Johnny then met up with Rocco and told him that Tom had been working against them and had “gone away for a while”.

Viewers next heard of Tom when Ash Nader and Lara Fitzgerald started asking questions around town, saying his girlfriend had reported him missing after he failed to come home. The questions helped prompt Rocco to tell Ash what he knew. When Johnny was eventually arrested, one of the investigations that Ash reopened, and that he later signed a confession to, was his involvement in Tom’s “disappearance”.

*Though listed in the end credits as Tom Palmer, Ash refers to him as Tom Woods.