The popularity of "E Street" peaked in 1992 with the eventual conclusion of the long-running Mr Bad storyline. It was this plot that had kept the show at the top of the Australian ratings from mid-1991, and even after the departure of Vince Martin, who originally played the sadistic serial-killer, and Kate Raison as his number one victim Sheridan Sturgess, the Mr Bad plot continued with a new actor playing the part. So following Sheridan blowing Stephen's face off, after a break of a few weeks, Mr Bad emerged "again", but this time with a new actor lay silently in a hospital bed, his face wrapped entirely in bandages and a leather mask, with just one eye-ball visible. Stephen starts telepathically communicating with his nurse, Amy Preston (Rebecca Rigg), in a new story arc for the serial-killer, reminiscent of the cult Australian 1978 film "Patrick". Not only was Amy introduced as Stephen's devoted nurse, but she was also the girlfriend of the latest new recruit at the police station, police constable Sam Farrell, the first television role for Simon Baker. After a few more weeks of twisted Mr Bad madness, Stephen and his evil alter ego were finally killed off, and it was revealed to viewers in one final technicolor dream-sequence that Stephen had not, in fact, killed Becky Campbell, but the trauma of finding Becky's dead body is how Stephen's murderous rampage as Mr Bad was triggered. This time, Stephen Richardson remained dead, Amy was sent off to a psychiatric ward, leaving Sam heartbroken, and it was at this point the writers struggled to keep up the momentum, and with pressure from Network Ten to go for an older audience, "E Street" started to flounder.