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The Best Episodes of Pacific Blue

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Filmed on location at Santa Monica and Venice Beach, this series focuses on an elite bike cop unit of the LAPD.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Pacific Blue Season 3 Episode 7 - Repeat Offender
    8.1/10(723 votes)

    S3:E7

    The truth about Chris' navy career is revealed. Five years ago, Chris trained under a chauvinistic flight instructor CAPTAIN FRANK HAWKINS, whose intentional misinformation caused her to crash her jet. Chris accepted an honorable discharge on the condition that Hawkins never be a flight instructor again. However, Hawkins still is, and a female pilot has just had the same experience as Chris -- except, this time, her co-pilot died. The woman asks Chris to testify on her behalf, bringing up painful memories and fresh anger for Chris as she returns to the Navy base to bring closure to that period of her life. T.C. and Victor investigate a boardwalk robbery ring in which an attractive woman offers assistance to foreign tourists who are then robbed by the woman's partners. When the robberies turn into murders, T.C. and Palermo go undercover as wealthy -- and outrageously dressed -- foreigners to catch the suspects.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Pacific Blue Season 1 Episode 4 - Over the Edge
    8.0/10(68 votes)

    S1:E4

    After discovering an old best friend, a guy T.C. felt he let down, has died in a suspicious skydiving accident, T.C. insinuates himself into a group of extreme-sport thrill seekers that he believes are behind the ""accident"". With T.C. seeking redemption in the world of adrenaline junkies caught up in underwater challenges and mountain bike racing, Lt. Palermo and Chris Kelly are worried just how far T.C. will risk himself to find the killer. Ultimately T.C. comes to grips with the reality of his own limitations, and brings down the extreme group who are using their mountain bikes to pull off the daredevil robbery of an armored car. A purse snatching dog is nailing patron after patron on the Venice Boardwalk. The pooch runs up behind women, grabs their purse in his teeth and then flees through alleys and under fences.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Pacific Blue Season 2 Episode 7 - Line in the Sand
    7.6/10(39 votes)

    S2:E7

    Palermo, T.C. and Chris arrest two surfers who assault a kayaker ""invading their turf"". Out on bail, the surfers begin an ever-accelerating intimidation campaign against the kayaker's girlfriend to keep her from testifying against them in court. Elvis is excited to be invited to a swingers party. The only catch is that he has to bring along a date to ""exchange"". Chris accepts Elvis' invitation to the supposed Charity Ball, with no idea of what's really in store.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Pacific Blue Season 2 Episode 2 - The Daystalker
    7.5/10(35 votes)

    S2:E2

    T.C.'s girlfriend Sandy is attacked at home by a serial rapist called ""The Daystalker"". During their investigation, the Bike Patrol must deal with a by-the-book detective who has her own ideas about how the case should be handled. Afraid that the Daystalker will move on to another town before they can catch him, Cory volunteers to act as bait in a trap, just as he crosses over from serial rapist to serial killer. Elvis is hexed by a Rastafarian vendor on the boardwalk. After discovering that Victor is actually responsible for the resulting weird events, Elvis has the hex transferred to Victor.

    Director:Don Michael Paul
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Pacific Blue Season 2 Episode 15 - Black Pearl
    7.5/10(37 votes)

    S2:E15

    A deadly new form of heroin hits the streets of Santa Monica, sending the Bike Patrol into overtime as all hell breaks loose. During the investigation, T.C. falls under the seductive spell of an undercover DEA agent who's investigating one of the drug distributors but has become an addict herself. Victor is ordered to attend requalifying training on the bike, and much to his horror, his instructor is HANS REY, a former instructor who made his life miserable the first time around. The two engage in a one-upmanship contest, judged by Chris.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Pacific Blue Season 5 Episode 17 - Fifty-Nine Minutes
    7.5/10(33 votes)

    S5:E17

    When a pretty 15 year old girl is kidnapped from a shopping mall parking lot, Cory and the rest of the unit must band together to find her within 59 minutes. The officers must deal with the hysterical mother and false leads before their 59 minutes is up.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Pacific Blue Season 1 Episode 8 - Burnout
    7.4/10(34 votes)

    S1:E8

    A waitress at Sheila's restaurant, who is also a body builder, seems to be hooked on steroids as she tries to bulk up for competition. The seller is a vicious body builder himself, out of control due to frequent use of his own product. An old Navy buddy of Chris' comes to visit after serving as a fighter pilot in the war in Bosnia. Their friendship turns to romance, but Chris is disappointed to discover that this officer is not a gentleman. There's a battle on the boardwalk between a Korean t-shirt shop owner and the weird homeless man who plays sax in front of his store all day long and only knows one song.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Pacific Blue Season 1 Episode 13 - All Jammed Up
    7.4/10(38 votes)

    S1:E13

    A wily bandit on a mountain bike is robbing people stuck in traffic jams at gunpoint and escaping through narrow passage ways on the streets near the beach. Chris and Cory are assigned undercover duty as high priced call girls in order to find an elusive South American gun dealer with a distinctive tattoo on his rear end. To complicate matters, Cory's new boyfriend's upper class parents are staying in the same hotel and the boyfriend has not revealed to them what Cory does for a living. Elvis has a crush on a young woman that works at Helen's Bike Shop and keeps ordering unneeded replacement parts in order to keep seeing her. His hangup is his inability to communicate well in English, so he enlists the aid of T.C. Callaway at the other end of a computer terminal. His dream turns to horror as he finds he can't keep up with the young lover he so desperately pursued.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Pacific Blue Season 1 Episode 7 - Heatwave
    7.3/10(40 votes)

    S1:E7

    A scorching heatwave has descended on the beach and is making everyone crazy. Palermo has three problems at once: K.C.B.H. radio is transmitting their summer afternoon show from a storefront on the crowded boardwalk we patrol. After striking up a friendship with the sexy sex-talk lady D.J., T.C. learns she's being stalked by a crazed listener bent on eliminating men he believes are part of the D.J.'s life. At odds with the city detective assigned to the case, T.C. ultimately uses himself as a lure (posing as a romantic interest in the D.J.'s life) to capture the bad guy. Cory and Victor are on the trail of the ""topless bandit"". Two young women enter banks and jewelry stores at the beach, begin dancing and stripping, while an accomplice commits armed robbery. No witnesses to the crime can give any description of the robber. Elvis is convinced that a strange series of holes that have appeared at the shore line are the result of aliens trying to make contact with Southern Californian

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Pacific Blue Season 1 Episode 10 - Captive Audience
    7.2/10(47 votes)

    S1:E10

    T.C. and Cory find themselves pinned into a bank when a robbery goes wrong and turns into a hostage situation. Palermo, Victor and Chris arrive on the scene, then must search the beach for an eccentric computer genius who dropped out of this high-tech world and is living in a highly decorated rickshaw on the beach. Inside the bank, Cory, who is in no hurry to have children herself, must deliver a baby when the hostage takers refuse to release a woman nine months pregnant.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Pacific Blue Season 2 Episode 19 - Lost and Found
    7.2/10(32 votes)

    S2:E19

    Chris discovers that Rosey Evans, the friendly girl who serves her coffee every morning, is a runaway living with her boyfriend, who was also her high school teacher. When they bring Rosey into custody and call her father to pick her up, Chris is shocked to discover that Mr. Evans severely beat his daughter, part of the reason that she ran away. In exchange for a lighter sentence, a criminal gives Cory some important information: a powerful drug dealer has hired a hitman to kill her brother, Peter McNamara in retribution for strong-arming him when he was a dirty cop. Cory and Peter have to draw the hitman out of hiding and defeat him without alerting anyone on the police force

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Pacific Blue Season 1 Episode 6 - Takedown
    7.1/10(43 votes)

    S1:E6

    While the unit is on the trail of a trio of heavily armed takedown robbers, T.C. finds himself face to face with one of the perps on the roof of a liquor store. After being ordered to shoot T.C., the young gunman has cold feet and flees. T.C., realizing his own mortality, becomes obsessed with the case as he spirals into self destructive behavior. In the final act, our officers get into a high tension situation as two of the heavies try to take a young girl hostage in yet another market. When T.C. finds himself again confronted by the same young gunman, he has to talk him out of killing a wounded Tony Palermo. Victor is shocked to discover that the skinny, awkward girl he took to the high school prom and later dumped, has just appeared as the centerfold in a Playboy-like magazine. He embarks on a personal (and funny) quest to relocate and connect with his old high school sweetheart. After a series of failed relationships, Chris finally meets a man who can deal with the fact that s

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Pacific Blue Season 2 Episode 1 - Lights Out
    7.1/10(34 votes)

    S2:E1

    An anti-technology terrorist is setting bombs around the beach, and will only let T.C. and Victor dismantle them. He wants all power in Santa Monica shut down for twelve hours on the first of the month. An FBI agent comes in to assist the unit, butting heads with Palermo by making Chris his liaison. In the end, it's the Bike Patrol -- and not the FBI -- that discovers the bomber's true plan is to use the blackout to pull a multi-million dollar bank heist. While this is happening, T.C.'s girlfriend Sandy returns to live with him, with the condition that he not tell her anything about his job so she won't worry. But the agreement ends up making things harder on both of them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Pacific Blue Season 2 Episode 8 - Undercover
    7.1/10(34 votes)

    S2:E8

    Against Palermo's wishes, a Lieutenant from Santa Monica Metro sends Chris undercover to catch a man who's laundering money for Latino drug cartels. Chris' job is to hack into his computer and download files for evidence, but after spending time with the enigmatic computer whiz she begins to wonder if her feelings are entirely objective. When he confides to her that he's retiring and invites her to join him on a remote island, Chris finds herself considering the offer. Cory breaks up with yuppie boyfriend Steven, but he begs her to take him back, promising to reform. When she rebuffs him for the last time, he mounts a psychological attack against her and her family, covering his tracks well enough so that Cory can't definitively prove he's the culprit. T.C. and Victor chase down a group of rollerbladers who are terrorizing boardwalk patrons with paintball guns.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Pacific Blue Season 2 Episode 10 - Cranked Up
    7.1/10(38 votes)

    S2:E10

    The Bike Patrol participates in the ""Eco-Relay"", an exhausting bike race through the Santa Monica Mountains. Palermo is left behind with the truck as support. While taking a treacherous short cut, Victor's bike is damaged and Chris goes for help alone. In the middle of the forest, she stumbles on a crystal met amphetamine lab and is taken hostage by the ""chemists"" running the place--including a woman insanely jealous of Chris' affect on ""her"" men. When Victor and the others attempt a rescue, Cory is shot and all are recaptured. This leaves only Palermo to save his crew and stop the meth shipment from making it to the streets...all without weapons or a working radio.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Pacific Blue Season 5 Episode 6 - Hostile Witness
    7.1/10(27 votes)

    S5:E6

    Granger and Cruz are sent to Ventura County on a seemingly simple case to return a witness to a murder trial in Santa Monica. The wild young woman makes their life miserable, escaping numerous times, and causing them to miss their date with two gorgeous women headed for Catalina.

    Director:Michael Levine
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Pacific Blue Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    7.0/10(76 votes)

    S1:E1

    Ambitious police officer Chris Kelly is introduced to the Bike Patrol after she's transferred from the P.R. Department of the Santa Monica Police Department. T.C. Callaway, at a crossroads with his long term girlfriend, faces additional family pressure to quit the force and join the family business in Newport Beach. The entire unit is on the trail of a vicious car-jacker working the beach area.

    Director:Ralph Hemecker
    Writer:Bill Nuss

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  18. Pacific Blue Season 2 Episode 14 - One Kiss Goodbye
    7.0/10(31 votes)

    S2:E14

    While fleeing two thugs, a man falls from his hotel room window and comes to with amnesia, ­ a condition which stifles Chris and Cory's investigation of the incident. As Cory tries to help the victim regain his memory ­ before the gunmen return ­ she finds herself attracted to this mysterious stranger. An attraction which is fully reciprocated. When T.C.'s girlfriend, SANDY, is accepted to a graduate school program in Georgia, she has to decide whether to pursue her dream of becoming a therapist or stay with the man she loves.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Pacific Blue Season 3 Episode 9 - Cop in a Box
    7.0/10(30 votes)

    S3:E9

    A drug dealer T.C. arrested years ago breaks out of jail and kidnaps T.C., dumping him in a trailer buried in the sand underneath a beach. The convict demands ransom from T.C.'s father (ETHAN) and brother (TEDDY), or else T.C. will die in twelve hours. As the Pacific Blue squad searches frantically for T.C.'s location, T.C. tries to find his own way out of his underground prison before time runs out.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Pacific Blue Season 1 Episode 2 - First Shoot
    6.9/10(48 votes)

    S1:E2

    While the Bike Patrol is being used as a CRASH Unit to fight gang activity in the beach area, Cory McNamara is forced to shoot a gangbanger fleeing a crime scene. When no weapon is found, the incident becomes potential ""bad shoot"". The situation is made worse by the fact that Cory is third generation in blue and the ""first shoot"" has to be a clean one (a police tradition and superstition). Cory must deal with a disapproving cop father, the gangbanger on the loose, the threat of a sleazy lawsuit against the department, and her potential for lack of nerve on the street. A brash trouble-making young star comes to the beach to shoot a portion of his feature film, and members of the bike patrol are assigned as liaisons. Once a sexy idol in the eyes of Chris Kelly, he soon proves his arrogant, wild-man reputation is well earned. Victor, no fan of the actor, is charmed into playing a small part in the film. A band of rollerskating pickpockets are working the boardwalk, their spot, dip, h

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Pacific Blue Season 1 Episode 3 - No Man's Land
    6.9/10(53 votes)

    S1:E3

    While teaching del Torro to surf, T.C. encounters a band of highly territorial Surf Nazis bullying a Hispanic surfer on the beach. Operating out of a beach bar decorated with Nazi symbols, the leader of this gang went to law school and is well vested in his rights. T.C. and Victor, who is Hispanic but doesn't look it, are both goaded into a confrontation that results in T.C.'s suspension. Cory and Victor chase and arrest an irrepressible sixteen-year-old black ""tagger"" who hits everything from tunnels to buildings to Victor's bicycle seat and the side of the firehouse. After seeing his home and works of art, Cory realizes the tagger is truly talented and acting out using his painting skills. Unfortunately, after an encounter in the firehouse cell with the leader of the Surf Nazis, the tagger becomes a target for their terror and must ultimately be saved by our officers. ""The Cove"" has long been an illegal nude beach, but election day is fast approaching and a ballot measure may mak

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Pacific Blue Season 1 Episode 5 - Out of the Past
    6.9/10(41 votes)

    S1:E5

    When a dead woman's body turns up on the beach with an origami angel on her chest, Palermo realizes that the serial killer who left him with a permanent leg injury has returned to the area. Obsessed with finding the killer, he stays his vacation and bends all the rules to bring down the Angel of Death before he kills again. There's been a string of cat burglaries at an upscale hotel that caters to couples having affairs. Unable to catch the thief by conventional means, T.C. and Chris have to pose as lovers the to catch the elusive bandit. Mariah, the bicyclist who rides faster than the wind, becomes a challenge to T.C. and Victor's egos as neither one of them can catch him after several high speed attempts.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Pacific Blue Season 1 Episode 9 - Moving Target
    6.9/10(35 votes)

    S1:E9

    T.C. hooks up with an old flame after the boardwalk cafe where she's working is robbed by a till tapper on rollerblades.Shortly after rekindling their romance, she becomes a witness to a late-night shooting by a mysterious figure in the same cafe. After insisting that only T.C. could be assigned to protect her, the couple have to flee another attempt on her life. When too many loose ends don't add up, Chris becomes suspicious about the young woman's intentions and starts to follow her much to T.C.'s anger. She finally reveals to T.C. that the man trying to kill her is a boyfriend from back east, a criminal who recently committed a large diamond robbery with information he forced her to reveal from her old place of employment. In the end T.C. is shocked to discover that she is not the victim, but rather the co-conspirator in the crime and was using T.C. all along to kill her ex-partner and lover. After Tony Palermo is challenged by obnoxious lifeguard captain Mackie Smith he asks Victor

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Pacific Blue Season 1 Episode 11 - The Phoenix
    6.9/10(33 votes)

    S1:E11

    An arsonist believed to have perished years ago has reappeared in the Venice area. While working with T.C. on the case, Chris must confront her own childhood memories of terror at having been caught in a fiery situation. The two must also enlist the aid of an eccentric arsonist doing a long stretch in prison for details on how to catch the Phoenix. Cory has to continually chase the ""Snakeman"", the last unlicensed vendor on the Venice Boardwalk. At one point, she nearly traps him running through a wet t-shirt contest where she's thrown on stage, dumped on, and pronounced the winner. The precinct is menaced by a rat that's eaten its way into the evidence lock-up and made off with a large portion of speed, making the rodent nearly impossible to catch. Rat Man and Rat Boy, a father-son exterminating team, are brought in to catch the creature.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Pacific Blue Season 2 Episode 3 - Rapscallions
    6.9/10(35 votes)

    S2:E3

    With help from some skinhead cronies, the new manager for an apartment building on the Venice Boardwalk makes life hell for the tenants. The owner wants to raze the existing building and build high-priced condos. Cory and T.C. are sent to ""maintain a presence"" to keep the situation from getting out of hand. One of the tenants, a former Navy SEAL/ war hero, refuses to budge. Despite constant run-ins with the manager and his gang, he refuses to press charges, making it impossible for T.C. and Cory to make any arrests. Palermo has woman trouble on two fronts. He's dating a woman several (noticeable) years his junior, which reinforces his fear that he's gotten old. Matters are complicated when his sixteen year-old daughter Jessie unexpectedly shows up to live with him and doesn't take kindly to the new female in his life. Lifeguard captain Mackie Smith is back, challenging the Bike Patrol to a roller-hockey game versus the lifeguards. The lifeguards show up with NHL hockey star Rob Blake p

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Best Episodes Summary

"Repeat Offender" is the best rated episode of "Pacific Blue". It scored 8.1/10 based on 723 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/28/1997. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Over the Edge".