The feud with Baxter came to a head in the middle of the following season when Tom's daughter Anna Allcott (now played by Kate Mulvany) returned to Mount Thomas and her children, Sam and Daisy, were kidnapped and buried alive by Barry. Baxter then took Joss Peroni (Danny Raco), one of Mount Thomas' junior constables, hostage in the Imperial Hotel in order to provoke a confrontation. After a tense stand-off, P. J. and Amy Fox (Rachel Gordon) rescued the children, and Baxter committed suicide with Peroni's service weapon. Once the children were returned safely to their mother, Anna angrily rebuffed her father and forbade him from contacting them.