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The Best Episodes of Rescue: Special Ops

Every episode of Rescue: Special Ops ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Rescue: Special Ops!

The Best Episodes of Rescue: Special Ops

Rescue: Special Ops is an Australian television drama series that first screened on the Nine Network in 2009. Filmed in and around Sydney, the program...

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  1. 8.3/10(42 votes)

    #1 - A Day in the Life of Dean Gallagher

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    S2:E2

    A jetskier causes an explosion at a marina fuel depot, with deadly results for Dean. Passions ignite during a turf war between Rescue and a glamorous firefighter, and Chase's love life takes an unexpected turn.

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    Director:Arnie Custo
  2. 8.2/10(46 votes)

    #2 - Episode Thirteen

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    S1:E13

    Rescue faces its most extreme emergency yet when an oil tanker is involved in a massive accident. Dean realises Lara's life is in danger from a violent stalker. Can he rescue her in time? It's Lara's wedding day, but does she have cold feet?

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    Director:Arnie Custo
  3. 8.2/10(33 votes)

    #3 - Break Out

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    S3:E12

    The Rescue team attend an overturned bus on a lonely stretch of bush highway, only to discover it is full of female prisoners.

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  4. 8.2/10(27 votes)

    #4 - Storm Chaser

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    S3:E16

    Wind buffets the Patrol as Heidi and Jordan race to rescue a storm chaser, Ed, trapped in his upturned car. However, the wind hampers their rescue and threatens to send the car over a cliff.

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  5. 8.2/10(28 votes)

    #5 - Class of Their Own

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    S3:E19

    The Rescue team are called to a teenage party, where a balcony has collapsed, trapping many. It's chaos on the ground as drunken kids interfere with the rescue and hysterical bleeding teens need to be wrangled.

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  6. 8.1/10(45 votes)

    #6 - Luna Park

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    S1:E7

    Heidi's life is thrown into chaos when she makes a chilling discovery at a fun park rescue. Jordan helps save the life of a serial rapist — but have the police got the wrong man? Dean rescues an old flame, sparking a hot new romance.

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    Director:Garth Maxwell
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  8. 8.1/10(46 votes)

    #7 - Eco-warriors

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    S1:E10

    An explosion in a shopping centre sees Rescue Special Ops reunite with the Firies to get panicked shoppers to safety. But there's a little boy missing, and locating him becomes a top priority for Vince. When an environmental activist group (ECO) takes responsibility for the explosion, one of the frightened shoppers overhears the word 'bomb', and causes major panic. Things are further complicated when a steroid abusing, gym junkie has a heart attack in the car park and Heidi and Chase have to save him. Meanwhile newly single Lara rescues a man stuck on a balcony and is given a small boost by his flirting. But their day isn't over yet. Another ECO activist glues himself to a pole in order to spread the message. And when Lara and Jordan go to rescue some passengers stuck in a lift, they discover an attractive young activist Caitlin, who succeeds in getting her message across to just one person - Jordan. And Lara realises that it might not be so great being single after all.

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  9. 8.1/10(42 votes)

    #8 - Episode Twelve

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    S1:E12

    Lara's first day as Team Leader goes horribly wrong when a hoax emergency puts the team in danger. Vince and Michelle are terrorised by an intruder at Rescue HQ and Heidi is jealous when Jordan flirts with a sexy bushwalker.

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    Director:Ian Barry
  10. 8.1/10(43 votes)

    #9 - Enemy Mine

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    Dean and the team are back, and they risk their lives to save a miner trapped in an underground disaster. Michelle fears for her team's safety when Vince uncovers a criminal conspiracy at the gold mine, and Vince is tempted by a lucrative job offer to leave Special Ops.

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  11. 8.1/10(29 votes)

    #10 - Man In The Machine

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    S3:E7

    Due to his shoulder injury, Chase takes over Vince's normal role at the station while Vince heads into the field responding to a routine man-in-a-machine run

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    Director:Jeremy Sims
  12. 8.1/10(29 votes)

    #11 - It's Not the Fall That Kills You

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    S3:E9

    Called to a high-rise office to rescue a general manager and his assistant when their late-night tryst goes horribly wrong, Rescue are shocked to discover the real reason for the GM's heart attack.

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    Director:David Caesar
    Writer:Sam Meikle
  13. 8.1/10(31 votes)

    #12 - In Deep

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    S3:E11

    The team rescue Tan, an injured rock fisherman who doesn't speak English. Jordan goes up with the man to the Lifeblood chopper, piloted by Heidi. They soon learn what the man was trying to say another man is stuck on the cliffs.

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  14. 8.1/10(26 votes)

    #13 - Art Attack

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    S3:E17

    Rescue are stretched thin having responded to an incident at a large art gallery where a cleaner has launched himself from the mezzanine and impaled himself on a valuable steel sculpture below. Around the same time a woman has wedged her car into an adjoining alley.

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  15. 8.1/10(27 votes)

    #14 - Two Fires

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    S3:E22

    When a truck crashes into a service station, everyone is stretched to the limit dealing with multiple traumas.

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    Director:David Caesar
    Writer:Sam Meikle
  16. 8.0/10(32 votes)

    #15 - Out of the Ashes

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    S2:E9

    Michelle risks the future of Rescue when she covers up a sex scandal involving a government minister. The team uncovers a trail of arson and murder while rescuing guests from a luxury hotel, and Dean learns the heartbreaking truth about his girlfriend Anika.

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    Director:Garth Maxwell
  17. 8.0/10(28 votes)

    #16 - The Dunes

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    S3:E13

    The team are testing out their new quad bikes on the Kurnell dunes when they come across a critically injured boy, Shaun, in a smashed-up dune buggy.

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    Director:Ian Barry
  18. 8.0/10(23 votes)

    #17 - Bad Company

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    S3:E21

    The Gallagher brothers' boot-camp session on Freshwater beach is interrupted when a kite-surfer is blown against a beachfront condo.

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    Director:David Caesar
  19. 7.9/10(39 votes)

    #18 - Bride In The Balloon

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    S1:E11

    A wedding turns to tragedy when the bride is trapped in a hot air balloon. Dean suspects sabotage when a series of life-threatening accidents hits the Rescue team and Michelle is blackmailed by a hi-tech stalker.

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  20. 7.9/10(31 votes)

    #19 - Find My Baby

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    S2:E7

    Dean is obsessed with finding a missing child after a freak car accident. Chase wins more than gratitude when he saves his counsellor, Emma, from a violent patient. A dispute over a winning lottery ticket threatens to wreck Jordan and Heidi's friendship.

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    Director:Ian Barry
  21. 7.9/10(30 votes)

    #20 - Crazy Love

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    S2:E13

    Michelle and her baby are kidnapped, sparking a desperate manhunt and rescue for Dean, Vince and the team. Michelle receives the DNA tests on her son. So who is the father? Chase suffers a painful injury during a high rise rescue.

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    Director:Arnie Custo
  22. 7.9/10(32 votes)

    #21 - True Romance

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    S3:E3

    After receiving a panicked call from a man lost in a foggy ravine, Rescue are flying blind as they try to reach him. Meanwhile, Chase, Jordan and Heidi struggle to find Katie, and the LifeBlood chopper tasked with helping them is useless.

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    Director:Ian Watson
    Writer:Sam Meikle
  23. 7.9/10(28 votes)

    #22 - Him Or Me

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    S3:E5

    The private lives of Rescue are in turmoil. Lara struggles to cope with her marriage break-up, while Chase hides a debilitating shoulder injury, worried that coming clean could cost him his job.

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    Director:Arnie Custo
  24. 7.9/10(27 votes)

    #23 - Chemical Brothers

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    S3:E14

    When a light plane strays into city airspace and can't be contacted, Rescue is dispatched to trail it in the event of an emergency.

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    Director:Ian Barry
    Writer:Sam Meikle
  25. 7.9/10(26 votes)

    #24 - The Intervention

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    S3:E20

    Rescue search the bush for a missing prospector, Simon Prestwich, but Lara and Dean are distracted when a car crashes on a fire trail.

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    Director:Arnie Custo
  26. 7.8/10(71 votes)

    #25 - Blue Mountains

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    In this brand new Aussie drama, the members of Australia's most elite rescue unit rely on courage, mateship and extreme skills as they risk their lives to save others. Two teenagers have gone missing overnight from a school camp in the Blue Mountains. Did they run away? Or is there something more sinister afoot? Rescue Special Ops are called in to do a sweep of the rugged terrain and they discover one of the teenagers, shaken and cold. But he can’t, or won’t, say what happened to his girlfriend. And that’s not the only secret the Mountains are hiding. As they search for the missing girl, Dean and Lara stumble upon a missing plane, and even more astonishing, a passenger who survived the crash. As Dean bonds with the dying woman, some clever sleuthing by Heidi reveals a bizarre student love triangle.

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Best Episodes Summary

"A Day in the Life of Dean Gallagher" is the best rated episode of "Rescue: Special Ops". It scored 8.3/10 based on 42 votes. Directed by Arnie Custo and written by John Ridley, it aired on 7/5/2010. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Episode Thirteen".