treatment of his crush on Tania Jeffries (Faye Smythe). He returned once again and his feud with Isaac was finally put to rest. Luke attempted to admit his love to Tania, but lost her to brother Rafe (Simon London). Luke and Isaac's feud returned when Luke discovered Isaac had performed illegal surgery, only for Luke to get kidnapped by a dangerous Russian gang. Having survived, Luke was framed for drug addiction by Isaac to hide the evidence. Ashamed and loathed, Luke eventually cleared his name and returned to the hospital, before he ventured overseas. When Luke returned and rejected the advances of Vasa Levi (Teuila Blakely) when he announced his engagement to Romanian, Zlata (Kate Elliott). However it was soon apparent Zlata wanted to drastically change Luke and his best friend Bella Cooper (Amelia Reid) realised she was in love with him. The crush soon became mutual and Luke left Zlata for a romance with Bella. The following year the two became engaged but on the night before the wedding, Luke was diagnosed with Glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive brain tumour. Nonetheless, Luke and Bella married. The couple struggled with Luke's condition but his life was celebrated with two early wakes attended by friends and colleagues. A short while later, Luke collapsed in the cafeteria and died from a brain bleed, with Bella by his side. Soon after his death Zlata returned to Ferndale with the news she had become a mother to Luke's illegitimate son, Luca Dobra (Charlie Truman). Bella began to question her engagement to Dallas Adams (Cameron Jones) after Luke's cat Kronos (Fred) miraculously showed up at the Cooper house, making her think his spirit was opposed to the marriage. Character development Characterisation Gerald Urquhart enjoyed Luke's characterisation, saying, "Luke is misunderstood. His strange demeanour and interests are his defining features. However, underneath his mumbling exterior lurks a kind, considerate individual. He is traditional, loyal and professional, longing for companionship and thirsty for knowledge." Luke is "calm" and "even tempered" and found being a suspect in the Ferndale stranglings and the murder of Ethan Pierce as insulting. Urquhart believed that earlier incarnations of Luke, had him portrayed as a much darker and "stranger" character, whilst the Luke seen in 2012 was a lot more personable and extracted a larger audience reaction. He said the transformation happened over night; one day he was being called "weird" and "strange", and