Water Rats (1996)
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.
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Episode 1 - Fair Cop
Release Date: 1999-02-16The Water Police are plagued by a series of hoaxes and it is up to Frank and Goldie to determine who and what they can trust.
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Episode 2 - A Woman of Substance
Release Date: 1999-02-23When a man is nailed to a tree by his neighbour, Holloway and Goldie discover his wife has vanished.
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Episode 3 - Double Blind
Release Date: 1999-03-02When a homeless kid is trapped in a pylon in the harbour, the Water Police are horrified to discover a dead body floating in the water beside him. While Blakemore makes it her responsibility to ensure the homeless boy is taken care of, she begins to develop a relationship with the boy's lawyer, Gillian Swain. Meanwhile the Detectives unravel the mystery of the body found the pylon.
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Episode 4 - Cut off Point
Release Date: 1999-03-09When a gender-specific piece of anatomy is washed up on the beach, Holloway and Goldie investigate.
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Episode 5 - In the Family Way
Release Date: 1999-03-16Helen's romance hots up. Meanwhile, crime, punishment, betrayal, retribution, suicide and family tragedy when Goldie and Holloway infiltrate a crime family operating an insurance scam on Sydney Harbour. When it all goes terribly wrong, the family is eventually torn apart - not so much by the police intervening, but by in-fighting, backstabbing and betrayal.
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Episode 6 - Santiago: Rain 27
Release Date: 1999-03-23A crooked grandmother, a fraudulent stockbroker and a water taxi driver who gets taken for a ride, all baffle the detectives. Meanwhile Blakemore's romance comes to an abrupt end.
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Episode 7 - End Game
Release Date: 1999-04-06Holloway and Goldie's partnership is shaken when a third detective, Michael Reilly, is assigned to the Water Police.
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Episode 8 - Tomorrow Never Comes
Release Date: 1999-04-13The death of a friend and a forgotten dream prompt Frank Holloway to farewell the Rats.
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Episode 9 - Goes with the Territory
Release Date: 1999-04-20The working relationship between Jack Christey and Goldie gets off to a rocky start. Already compromised by their past affair, further strain is added when Jack insists on taking the lead in a murder case involving an old acquaintance.
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Episode 10 - Fish out of Water
Release Date: 1999-04-27Police constable Tayler Johnson becomes romantically involved with a cop on a diving course, but while out on a dive, he goes missing and Tayler realises how little she knows about him.
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Episode 11 - Good Times and Adventures
Release Date: 1999-05-04Michael Reilly and Goldie have to go undercover at a well-known swingers' haunt to coax a confession out of some murderers.
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Episode 12 - Blood Relations
Release Date: 1999-05-11Detective Michael Reilly's friendship with madam Susie Abromovich results in them both being taken hostage by an armed robber.
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Episode 13 - Dial C for Cop
Release Date: 1999-05-18Gavin Sykes is taken hostage by a young man with a desire to be a cop for a day.
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Episode 14 - Quad Squad
Release Date: 1999-05-18The investigation into the suicide of a young man reveals a greater tragedy, a secret that will ultimately destroy the lives of all those involved.
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Episode 15 - Unauthorised Entry
Release Date: 1999-06-01Jack Christey and Rachel Goldstein race to save two young girls whose lives are at stake when they inadvertently become caught up in a drug smuggling ring.
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Episode 16 - Mother Love
Release Date: 1999-06-08A grisly case hits home when Jeff Hawker's wife, Gail, becomes the target of a vicious serial rapist and killer.
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Episode 17 - I'm Home
Release Date: 1999-06-15Goldie faces every mother's worst nightmare when her son David becomes the victim of a brutal and vicious kidnapper.
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Episode 18 - The Drill
Release Date: 1999-06-22A burning body is found floating on a sail board in the harbour; Jack Christey recognises the work of a killer who is still in jail; did Christey convict the wrong man?
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Episode 19 - Green Light
Release Date: 1999-06-29A spate of armed hold-ups have Goldie and Jack chasing a robber dressed like a cowboy from the wild west.
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Episode 20 - Red Light
Release Date: 1999-07-06Our two Aussie heroes, Rachel Goldstein and Jack Christey, investigate the theft of valuable art work from a harbourside property owned by a once famous madam, Sadie the Scissors.
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Episode 21 - Can't Buy Me Love
Release Date: 1999-07-20While investigating the murder of a thief an his missing haul of black opals, Goldie and Christey stumble upon an unexpected love triangle.
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Episode 22 - Free as a Bird
Release Date: 1999-07-27When a young boy's dead body is found, Goldie and Jack have to prove who is responsible before an enraged local community exacts their own just on the main suspect.
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Episode 23 - Dangerous Encounters
Release Date: 1999-08-03Goldie and Jack are kidnapped and hunted like animals by a murderer who sees his victims as prey.
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Episode 24 - Force of Habit
Release Date: 1999-08-10Investigating the murder of a wealthy businessman and the apparent kidnap of his second wife, Jeff Hawker is reacquainted with a woman he once loved but lost to another man.
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Episode 25 - Shark Bait
Release Date: 1999-08-17When a man is taken by a shark in the harbour, the water police uncover a complex web of embezzlement, a faked death, underworld connections and a bizarre betrayal.
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Episode 26 - A Day at the Office
Release Date: 1999-08-31What starts as another ordinary day at the office ends in the death of a Goldie a much loved rat.
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Episode 27 - Kaddish
Release Date: 1999-09-07The surviving Rats swear revenge for their fallen comrade!
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Episode 28 - For Love or Money
Release Date: 1999-09-14Jack believes he has discovered the identity of Goldie's killer, but his only clue may just slip through his fingers.
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Episode 29 - Helter Skelter
Release Date: 1999-09-21Jack hands in his badge and turns vigilante in order to find Goldie's killer.
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Episode 30 - Friend or Foe
Release Date: 1999-09-28Friendships are tested when Mick Reilly's best mate becomes embroiled in a murder investigation.
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Episode 31 - Mr. Medium
Release Date: 1999-10-05Jack is forced into a deal with undercover cops when Detective Alex St Clare joins the rats and there is a conflict of interest in a murder investigation.
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Episode 32 - New Kid on the Block
Release Date: 1999-10-12Jack fights to save the life of an undercover cop, Alex St Clare whom he suspects is emotionally involved with her target.