to give chase to Robert in a car when he snatches Seb. Lachlan reluctantly joins them. While going down a country lane, Lachlan suffers a mental breakdown and tries grabbing the steering wheel, sending the car into the path of an oncoming lorry. The car overturns and crashes into a field, killing Lawrence instantly, as was not wearing a seatbelt trying to pull Lachlan away from the steering wheel. Chrissie is trapped in the front seat, and dies minutes later as a result of shock from blood loss. Rebecca also has a serious head injury but slips into a coma and is rushed to hospital. She is treated in the ICU. One month later, Rebecca wakes up from the coma and cannot remember anything about the crash. She suddenly remembers days later, but Lachlan manipulates her into believing that Chrissie lost control of the car. The nurses say to Robert that Rebecca's memory has been affected due to her head injury. Home Farm is signed over to Joe Tate (Ned Porteous) and Graham Foster (Andrew Scarborough) following the crash. After Rebecca is discharged from hospital, she moves in with Victoria Barton (Isabel Hodgins) and Lachlan moves in with the Dingle family at Wishing Well Cottage. Belle and Lachlan begin a company they named Whingles Ale, operating it out of a barn of Wishing Well Cottage using a starter kit. They recruit Priya to help sell the product, and Gerry to help with the making and advertising of the product. In May 2018, Belle goes missing so he and Gerry go looking for her, as Lachlan becomes increasingly worried he says he doesn't want anyone else to die because of him, Gerry takes notice of this and becomes suspicious, so he makes it his priority to find the incriminating voicemail Lachlan sent him the day of the crash. He eventually recovers it and is horrified to hear the crash unfold. He later confronts Lachlan to which Lachlan tells him not to tell anyone. As Lachlan becomes increasingly worried that Gerry will let his secret slip as Gerry makes jokes relating to the crash, he lures Gerry to the B&B which was under renovation and tells him to go over to get one of the beer kegs which Lachlan had moved. Gerry does and Lachlan kicks a barrel into the support column, knocking it down and bringing the roof with it. Gerry