Phil's a tall handsome man with tickets on himself, and a few secrets he'd rather his partner Kath didn't know. Like the fact that he has an ongoing relationship with another, younger woman in Melbourne. Plus, as a highly skilled worker, he can get work on oil rigs all over the world, which he does, flitting from oil rig to oil rig, local girl to local girl, as the mood takes him. But he's got Kath pregnant with little Kylie, and he feels some sense of responsibility to stay with her.
He has a very fractious relationship with his step-son Beau. He's just counting the days until Beau leaves home and makes his life even easier there. But after Phil dies in an oil rig disaster, the 'new' Phil returns with a menace he never had before.
