8.2/1064 votes#1 - Rock and a Hard Place
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2000
An old nemisis of Nash's breaks out of prison. Joe finds a new house through Ulla, makes an incredible deal on it, but it turns out to be a disaster. Harvey's new partner, Antwon Babcock, joins the SIU.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Reed Steiner
7.9/1061 votes#2 - Jump Start
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2000
Nash clashes with his new rival, Deputy Chief Max Pettit, who has assigned Cassidy to a dangerous undercover gig involving synthetic diamond smugglers and a deadly assassin working for the South African diamond cartel. Joe tries to back out of the house purchase; Cassidy and her new partner Rachel McCabe join the S.I.U.
Director: David Jackson
Writer: N/A
8.0/1058 votes#3 - Lap Dance
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2000
Nash pursues an old flame who is involved with an arms dealer; Joe takes a private detective case to discover if a symphony conductor is having an affair; Cassidy struggles to let go of Evan's memory when she is asked out on a date.
Director: Patrick Duffy
Writer: N/A
8.2/1069 votes#4 - Land Pirates
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/2000
Nash and Joe are on the trail of a high profile robbery ring that targets San Francisco socialites. Nash runs into Angel when Belinda Cruz hires B&D to prove her sister's pregnancy (she's a nun) is not a virgin birth. Joe enlists Nick to build a speed bump in front of is house.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: N/A
7.7/1052 votes#5 - ManHunt
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2000
A drug gang knocks over a DEA evidence warehouse and proves elusive for the members of the team; Antwon has a seizure while chasing down the leader of the gang.
Director: Don Kurt
Writer: Larry Barber, Paul Barber
7.8/1047 votes#6 - Double Trouble
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/2000
Nash and Joe discover that someone is using their detective agency's name to stir up business for themselves, and that one of the impostor's clients is out to kill Nash. Survivor stars from the original season guest star (Dirk Been, Joel Klug, Gervase Peterson, Sean Kennif & Jenny Lewis)
Director: Bradford May
Writer: N/A
8.2/1057 votes#7 - End Game
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/2000
Nash tries to stop a deadly game in which participants shoot and kill each other until only one is left alive; a wealthy family's gardener is murdered and Nash starts to fall for a beautiful new investigator working the case.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: Damon Lindelof
7.7/1049 votes#8 - Blowout
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/2000
Nash must track down Rick Bettina, who escapes custody during his parole hearing, and recover the $2.5 million dollars in pension money he stole. Joe plays a modern-day Cyrano when the love affair between Dov and Amy abruptly ends, jeopardizing his remodel.
Director: Scott Brazil
Writer: Carlton Cuse, John Wirth
7.7/1049 votes#9 - The Messenger
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/2000
A madman guns down five people in an elevator, but leaves a young news reporter alive. Unfortunately, she's as interested in reporting the story as she is in catching the killer. Also: a woman steals Joe's car and commits a robbery using it.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1047 votes#10 - Grave Robbers
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/2000
Nash must resurrect Tony B., who fakes his own death to escape a mob boss, only to discover that Tony's ripped the guy off and has good reason to want to be dead.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: N/A
7.3/1055 votes#11 - Bear Trap
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 1/12/2001
Nash and Joe help a Canadian Mountie track down a ring of poachers who are illegally selling bear gallbladders, which are supposedly valuable as medicine and as an aphrodisiac; Rachel fears she may be pregnant.
Director: Jan Eliasberg
Writer: Damon Lindelof
8.0/1052 votes#12 - Slam Dunk
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 1/26/2001
Nash is suspicious of a teen's involvement in a brutal ambush that targeted a pair of lawyers, leaving one riddled with bullets and the survivor barely wounded. Meanwhile, Joe is burdened by an unwanted roommate, and Cassidy begins seeing Rachel's blind date.
Director: Scott Brazil
Writer: Damon Lindelof
8.1/1058 votes#13 - Recover Me
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 2/2/2001
Rachel is accused of murdering a man who was helping the police investigate corruption in an accounting firm, but Nash is convinced she was framed; Joe tries to find a ringer to represent the department in an arm-wrestling contest.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: N/A
8.3/1071 votes#14 - Something Borrowed
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/2001
Nash's former lover Tamara Van Zant forges his name on a marriage license and claims to be married to him in order to protect herself from a thug out to kill her; Nick pretends to be romantically involved with a lesbian friend to deflect suspicion from the woman's son, a high-profile gangster from Philadelphia.
Director: Bradford May
Writer: N/A
8.3/1047 votes#15 - Out of Miami
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/2001
Nash and a Federal marshal (Philip Michael Thomas) are taken hostage by a Miami drug lord who wants to exchange them for a witness who's scheduled to testify against him in court; Joe tries to get out of being audited by the IRS.
Director: David Jackson
Writer: N/A
7.7/1053 votes#16 - The Partner
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 3/9/2001
Nash hunts for a vigilante who claims he's helping solve crimes by murdering deadly criminals, including a serial rapist; Nash's distant and eccentric cousin, who is also a cop, visits from Scotland.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: N/A
8.3/1051 votes#17 - Blood Bots
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 3/30/2001
Nash goes up against a gang of ruthless techno-geeks who are designing robots to perform robberies. Joe mistakenly sells a painting containing the Declaration of Independence at this yard sale and realizes he must do anything to get it back.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: Jed Seidel
8.5/1064 votes#18 - Quack Fever
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 4/6/2001
Nash begins to believe that a 17-year-old boy involved in the Southeast Asian drug trade may be his missing brother's son; Cassidy starts dating a plastic surgeon and considers getting breast implants.
Director: Scott Brazil
Writer: N/A
8.2/1055 votes#19 - Kill Joy
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 4/13/2001
Harvey becomes attracted to a fellow ""Deadhead,"" a mysterious woman who is the target of a murderous stalker; Joe is promoted to Lieutenant, but discovers that his new duties mostly involve paperwork; Nick injures his leg and makes life difficult for Nash and Cassidy, who are just trying to take care of him.
Director: John Rubinstein
Writer: Tony Blake, Paul Jackson
7.8/1050 votes#20 - Change up
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 4/20/2001
Cassidy is suspended following her involvement in the fatal shooting of a bystander during a bank robbery and becomes the target of department cronies who want to use her to get rid of Nash.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: N/A
8.2/1052 votes#21 - Cat Fight
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 4/27/2001
A famous mystery writer offers Joe $350,000 for ""Mr. Woody"", while he waits it out (hoping to get more money) meanwhile Harvey stumbles onto a robbery durring a Phil Lesh concert at the Fillmore pulled off by 2 women (Jill Ritchie & Vanessa Dorman)and all Nash and The SIU Team have to go on is that the getaway Harley has a unique design on the side. Finally getting the papers to send Betty Ann on her way, Joe presents them to Nash for his signiture, but before he can sign it and get her outta there, she uncovers that she's found some.....curious irregularites in the SIU files, and it seems that the SIU has a mole. and also Boz (Christian J. Meoli) and Antwon do some P.I. leg work for Nash and Joe to find who stole a demo tape from Dickie Lerner (Rickey Medlocke), a record producer, and it is Rachel's birthday. The last episode i remember seeing out in the west coast.
Director: N/A
Writer: Damon Lindelof
8.3/1070 votes#22 - Fair Game
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/2001
A serial killer who picks up passengers in a cab and then murders them stalks the city; Cassidy struggles with whether she wants to continue to be a cop.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Nash Bridges Season 6
Every episode of Nash Bridges Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Nash Bridges Season 6!
Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using his keen sense of humor...
Genres:Action & AdventureDrama
Network:CBS
Season 6 Ratings Summary
"Rock and a Hard Place" is the best rated episode of "Nash Bridges" season 6. It scored 8.2/10 based on 64 votes. Directed by Jim Charleston and written by Damon Lindelof, Reed Steiner, it aired on 10/6/2000. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Jump Start".