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The Worst Episodes of Pacific Blue

Every episode of Pacific Blue ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Pacific Blue!

Pacific Blue is an American crime drama series about a team of police officers with the Santa Monica Police Department who patrolled its beaches on bicycles. The show ran for five seasons on the USA Network, from March 2, 1996 to April 9, 2000, with a total of one hundred and one episodes. Often compared as "Baywatch on bikes," the series enjoyed a popular run among the Network's viewers, and was popular in France, Israel, Sweden, Bulgaria, Norway, Spain, Russia, Austria, Germany, Italy, South America, Canada, Denmark, Poland, and other foreign markets.

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Network:USA Network

Lowest Rated Episodes Summary

The worst episode of "Pacific Blue" is "Blind Eye", rated 4.1/10 from 28 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by Emily Skopov. "Blind Eye" aired on 4/2/2000 and is rated 0.5 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Scarlet Rose".

  • Blind Eye
    4.1/10 28 votes

    #1 - Blind Eye

    Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 4/2/2000

    T.C., now hooked on painkillers from being shot in the leg, leads Pacific Blue on the trail of a potential serial killer who preys on young runaways that he locates via the Internet. Cory and Monica convince a woman psychic, who used to help the police back East, into helping on the case.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Emily Skopov

  • Scarlet Rose
    4.6/10 22 votes

    #2 - Scarlet Rose

    Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/7/1999

    The opening of the Scarlet Rose ballroom, scene of Santa Monica's most notorious murder of the late 40's, piques Bobby's interest when he runs across a young woman at the club who bears a striking resemblance to the Scarlet Rose herself. Amid the background of swing dancing, Bobby discovers this woman is the granddaughter of the slain actress. She's returned to solve the mystery, which involves a precious diamond that's been missing for more than forty years.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Lucky 13
    4.9/10 25 votes

    #3 - Lucky 13

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/18/1999

    The worlds of black and white magic collide after a young girl disappears from the boardwalk. Russ and Jamie enter the world of the occult and have sex after falling under the spell of the dark side.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Best Laid Plans
    5.0/10 35 votes

    #4 - Best Laid Plans

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/19/1998

    The squad investigates the ""Letterhead Beatings"" in which several people have been assaulted, tied to their beds, and the first letter of their last names is carved into their foreheads. Palermo is certain there is a message here, but his inability to solve it in time to prevent further victims compounds his burn-out. When the letters add up to spell A-L-E-R-M-O, the solution appears. Palermo realizes the attacks are personal. Chris and T.C. discover she's pregnant. T.C. proposes marriage, but Chris refuses to ""get married at the end of a shotgun."" Each fantasizes about impending parenthood, but just as they're settling into the idea, they learn that Chris is not pregnant after all. Palermo hosts the daughter of his high school sweetheart, a young aspiring actress. A night of dinner and wine lead to lovemaking... and serious morning-after regrets from Palermo, who is already suffering from a mid-life crisis. This and the Letterhead Beatings make him question his current path in life. A

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Right Thing (1)
    5.0/10 19 votes

    #5 - The Right Thing (1)

    Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 4/25/1999

    After a high profile Hispanic leader, JOHN PATRONE, who is trying to bring an end to warring gang factions in Santa Monica is slain by a snipers bullet, our young recruits finds the main suspect is a likeable motorcycle mechanic whose daughter committed suicide a year before. When it is learned she was pregnant by PATRONE, and that he was involved in drug dealing and gun running, it appears that this good citizen took the law into his own hands to bring the man down. By episode's end, Bobby Cruz is arrested for concealing evidence and the three other new Pacific Blue cops are under arrest as well. Cannon Boy, a teenager obsessed with firing himself from a cannon, is pursued on the beach.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gaslight
    5.1/10 18 votes

    #6 - Gaslight

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 10/17/1999

    While working on a Haitian whom they suspect is smuggling in drugs Bobby sees a man whom he arrested a few years ago who is still in prison.

    Director: Scott Lautanen

    Writer: N/A

  • Ghost Town
    5.1/10 18 votes

    #7 - Ghost Town

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 10/31/1999

    Jamie who was about to go on vacation encounters a singer whose songs gave inspiration and hope when she was incarcerated. After finding her passed out Jamie brings her home. When she comes to she grabs Jamie's gun and tells her to stay away and she then leaves. Jamie needing to find her and her gun tracks her down to her mother's house. She finds her and upon convincing her that she only wants to help her, the singer tells her that she is down and outr because of her record producer. It seems that he is crooked; he takes very large cuts and when someone wants to leave he threatens them, which is what he did to her. Jamie tries to convince Cory that her claims have to be investigated, but Cory saying that this is not a criminal matter declines so Jamie decides to do it on her own. With Monica's help and one of the singers unpublished songs they try to goad the producer into doing something. He then sends his man to get the singer but Jamie saves her. Later Jamie gets the singer a gig o

    Director: Paul Brown

    Writer: Paul Brown

  • Silver Dollar
    5.2/10 22 votes

    #8 - Silver Dollar

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 8/30/1998

    After a series of college kids are hurt for not paying a bookmaker, Russ goes undercover at Pacific University. His own gambling problems are brought to the front as he gets involved with bookmakers, college-age gamblers and a star basketball player who's tempted to shave points.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Juvies
    5.2/10 18 votes

    #9 - Juvies

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/1999

    The return of corrupt SMPD detective PERRY MARCUS, who is again using a band of teenagers to set up high level drug dealers. Among the group of runaways is Jamie Strickland's estranged sister, JENNIE. Jamie confesses that it was she who killed their abusive father before he had a chance to continue his ways with Jennie. All this happens under the watchful eye of Internal Affairs investigator, SUSAN JESSUP, who's long had it in for Jamie Strickland and the Pacific Blue unit.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Swimming in the Dead Pool
    5.2/10 17 votes

    #10 - Swimming in the Dead Pool

    Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1999

    A controversial and outspoken attorney, whose specialty is suing the police department; presently he has a wrongful death suit against them over the death of a young (black) man, whose death he believes was cause by the actions of the two policemen who were pursuing him. He then announces that he has found a witness, who will prove that he is right but he won't name the witness right now. Later at his apartment, someone knocks on the door and shoots him. When the department hears of this, the Chief, who is afraid that the press will assume that a cop is the killer, decides to let the Pacific Blue unit handle the investigation. Cory decides to first look into the possibility that this was the act of a scorned lover or wife, because the way the place was set up, it appears that he was expecting someone. Cory then learns that, that person is his assistant, so Cory goes to her place and finds the murder weapon. She says that she didn't do it and Cory thinks that she is innocent. Cory then

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Kangaroo Court
    5.3/10 18 votes

    #11 - Kangaroo Court

    Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/2000

    Jamie's sister Jennie returns to Santa Monica, but is kidnapped by young juveniles. The guy Jamie is dating is somehow involved, also the dirty narc Detective Perry Marcus.

    Director: Michael Levine

    Writer: N/A

  • Heat in the Hole
    5.4/10 24 votes

    #12 - Heat in the Hole

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/11/1998

    After a series of murders in a female prison, Chris goes in undercover in chains while Bobby is placed inside as a prison guard. Monica uses the opportunity to tempt T.C., her next door neighbor, into a sexual situation.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Infierno
    5.4/10 21 votes

    #13 - Infierno

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1999

    While Bobby Cruz is undercover working the door of a trendy nightclub, a rock musician dies on the front steps. Monica Harper joins him undercover, but grows concerned when Bobby discovers that the nefarious club owner's girlfriend is his old flame, singer Rita Bunwell. Things become more complicated as they rekindle their romance under the nose of the dangerous drug-dealing nightclub owner.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Big Girls Don't Cry
    5.4/10 27 votes

    #14 - Big Girls Don't Cry

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 10/10/1999

    A female boxer dies after an exhibition match. Cory decides to investigate but the new D.A. whom she is attrracted to, is concerned that she might not handle it properly. So he calls T.C. who has depressed ever since Chris left, to come back and he does, which doesn't make Cory happy. She Strickland and Cruz undercover as a boxer and her handler. They discover that the bottle the girl drank from was poisoned and has the fingerprints of Mia St. John on it. They bring her in for questioning and learn that the water bottle is hers and suspect that maybe she was the target. Strickland then meets Joey another boxer who feels that she is being passed over because she is not as attractive as the others. They then learn that Rick who manages Joey was once involved with Mia both personally and professionally. When they try to bring him in he runs away, they manage to catch him, and they grill him about trying to kill Mia but realize that he gave the bottle to the other girl. Cory decides to han

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Emily Skopov

  • God's Gift
    5.4/10 18 votes

    #15 - God's Gift

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1999

    Jamie Strickland and Cory McNamara go undercover in a sex cult operation. The master is very seductive and has convinced women to prostitute themselves in the name of God. Meanwhile Russ Granger and Monica Harper are on rollerblades trying to catch criminals.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Paul Brown

  • A Thousand Words
    5.4/10 24 votes

    #16 - A Thousand Words

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/2000

    Russ and Cory go undercover in the ugly, violent world of the Nazis, trying to catch the killers of several African-American and Mexican young men. Jamie goes undercover and tries to protect a young boy, a very talented photographer, who has captured a meeting between two powerful adversaries.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Damaged Goods
    5.5/10 23 votes

    #17 - Damaged Goods

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/4/1998

    Pacific Blue backs into a college call girl ring after the roommate of the girl Bobby is dating is found dead below a 6th story window. Chris is convinced the death is a homicide. The trail leads to a radical female college professor who preaches hooking as a release for women with abusive backgrounds. Cory McNamara miscarries as a result of stress.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Betrayal
    5.5/10 21 votes

    #18 - Betrayal

    Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 3/12/2000

    Bobby Cruz' sister, Teresa, witnesses the suicide of a high school classmate and begins to fall under the spell of the girl's manipulative boyfriend. An ambitious rookie cop, recently assigned to Pacific Blue, turns out to be a spy for Internal Affairs. Things get complicated when he's let into the young Pac Blue officers' scheme to frame a ruthless drug dealer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Users
    5.6/10 27 votes

    #19 - Users

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 8/16/1998

    Jamie goes undercover and befriends a fifteen-year-old snitch after he witnesses a murder. But a rogue Narc is controlling the kid, and is ultimately to blame for his death as well as two dealers. Monica Harper's sexual involvement with Commander McKinnon escalates. As their on-again, off-again relationship progresses, Bobby Cruz discovers his abusive nature and helps Monica trap McKinnon into backing off.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Thicker Than Water
    5.6/10 19 votes

    #20 - Thicker Than Water

    Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/21/1999

    After a young Mafia lawyer and his wife are murdered in their home, Cory catches up with the unharmed six year old boy who's on the run with his real mother, a stripper with whom the Mafia lawyer had a previous affair. Cory is reluctant to bring the pair to the authorities after she learns that the FBI agent working the case is actually the man that the boy identified as the killer who came to their home.

    Director: Scott Lautanen

    Writer: Emily Skopov

  • Blood for Blood
    5.7/10 32 votes

    #21 - Blood for Blood

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 8/24/1997

    Victor's girlfriend, LINDA, is witness to a murder by a notorious local drug lord who has been arrested several times, but manages to get rid of any witnesses before each trial. Realizing that he'll lose Linda if she goes into witness protection, Victor proposes marriage, even though it would mean saying good-bye to his career, friends and family forever. Ultimately, Victor goes after the drug lord, forcing a final confrontation. A star rapper is gunned down after a concert where T.C. and Chris are providing security. With the help of Detective BEN ""WISHBONE"" COLLINS, T.C. and Chris search for the shooter, who turns out to be a psychopath determined to kill one person for each violation of the Ten Commandments. During the investigation, Chris forms a tentative friendship with the rapper's cynical teenage daughter.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Soul Mate
    5.7/10 27 votes

    #22 - Soul Mate

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1997

    All the victims of a recent series of murders had earlier placed personal ads in a local paper. Chris and Cory enter the dating pool undercover, and in the course of the investigation, each meets the ""perfect"" man. When Cory's dream man attacks her (and escapes), Chris assumes her date is safe to pursue a relationship with -- unaware that it is the same man Cory dated, but with a different disguise. T.C. goes undercover in a wheelchair with ED TARLOW (from ""Wheels of Fire""), hoping to catch a thief who is stealing expensive wheelchairs for resale. During his assignment, he discovers the difficulties of the disabled, and meets a ""wheelchair groupie"" -- a woman who likes T.C. because she thinks he's disabled. Victor prepares for an upcoming ""bachelor auction"", secretly concerned that T.C. might receive a higher bid. At the auction, his fears prove unfounded when a third man unexpectedly proves more popular than both of them... Tony Palermo!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • With This Ring
    5.7/10 28 votes

    #23 - With This Ring

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/21/1997

    A man is shot point-blank through the heart on the beach. In questioning the man's wife, Pacific Blue learns she hired two women to investigate her husband's suspected infidelities. Believing that the wife ordered her husband killed, Cory and Victor go undercover as a married couple to investigate the private investigators, and find that the women in charge lure men into compromising situations which they then videotape for the wives. T.C. and his brother TEDDY are shocked when their parents, ETHAN and CATHERINE CALLAWAY, decide to separate after thirty-five years of marriage.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Caretakers
    5.7/10 25 votes

    #24 - Caretakers

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/8/1998

    Victor and Cory investigate the murder of a drug company vice president who worked with local free clinics to get discounted medicine. They discover that a major pharmaceutical company is distributing inferior imported drugs to local clinics and drugstores that minister to the poor. As part of the murder investigation, Chris is forced to question BO NYBY, a conspiracy nutcase who claims to have witnessed the murder. Chris writes off his rantings as delusional, but when Bo is subsequently shot, she feels guilty and undergoes hypnosis to re-examine Bo's statement for telling clues. Victor's concerned when he learns his mother, ROSA, is consulting DR. JAIME SERRANO for a health problem that she won't tell him about. Jaime is a childhood nemesis of Victor's, and Victor still holds a grudge. He's able to overcome it and is with Rosa when Jaime tells her she has cancer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Till Death Do Us Part
    5.7/10 28 votes

    #25 - Till Death Do Us Part

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 4/12/1998

    Pacific Blue tries to figure out why two robbers are holding up a chain of upscale clothing stores since the shops don't carry much cash. In actuality, the store robberies are a cover for FRANK KOVAC, the bodyguard of a prominent businessman (RUDY RIGAS) who has ordered Frank to get back his soon-to-be-ex wife's diamond jewelry. Frank steals the necklace while the wife is shopping at the shop. But Rudy does not know that Frank and his wife plan to double-cross him so that they can run away together. When LINDA DOMINGUEZ, Victor's fiancee, is killed during one of the store robberies, Victor defies department orders and pursues the killers himself. Though the killers are arrested as a result, Victor is suspended and Internal Affairs considers taking away his badge.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A