7.3/1031 votes#1 - Ambushed
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 5/30/2011
The team is threatened with the introduction of Lifeblood, a privately owned rescue organisation trying to take over their business. It leaves the entire team on edge, in fear of losing their jobs and their future in rescue work.
Director: Ian Barry
Writer: Michaeley O'Brien
- 7.8/1031 votes
#2 - Fearless
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 5/30/2011
Rescue attends an MVA involving a truck and a BMW. Dean and Chase attempt to free trapped Tyler, a stressed-out share trader who's more worried about making a morning meeting than any injuries he may have acquired. But his crush injuries look serious, and Dean and Chase doubt his chances of survival.
Director: Ian Barry
Writer: John Ridley
- 7.9/1032 votes
#3 - True Romance
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 6/6/2011
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.
Director: Ian Watson
Writer: Sam Meikle
- 7.0/1031 votes
#4 - Secrets And Lies
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 6/6/2011
When a young girl, Lily, is found trapped on a crumbling cliff ledge by the ocean, Rescue call for the Lifeblood chopper - only to find that the ballsy pilot is none other than Heidi.
Director: Ian Watson
Writer: Giula Sandler
- 7.9/1028 votes
#5 - Him Or Me
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 6/13/2011
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.
Director: Arnie Custo
Writer: Dave Warner
- 7.8/1029 votes
#6 - Demon Days
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 6/13/2011
The team is called out to a Gay Pride rehearsal, where dancers have been trapped under an overturned float.
Director: Arnie Custo
Writer: Tim Dylan Lee
- 8.1/1029 votes
#7 - Man In The Machine
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 6/20/2011
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
Director: Jeremy Sims
Writer: Dave Warner
- 7.7/1032 votes
#8 - The Game
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 6/20/2011
Rescue is called out to free a trapped garbo from his garbage compactor, but during the rescue, they discover a woman on the ledge of a nearby office building who looks like she is about to jump.
Director: Jeremy Sims
Writer: John Ridley
- 8.1/1029 votes
#9 - It's Not the Fall That Kills You
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 6/27/2011
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.
Director: David Caesar
Writer: Sam Meikle
- 7.8/1030 votes
#10 - Stolen
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 7/4/2011
Swinging by her office early one morning, Michelle interrupts an intruder photocopying Rescue documents. In the ensuing foot chase, the intruder is sideswiped by a car.
Director: David Caesar
Writer: Fin Edquist
- 8.1/1031 votes
#11 - In Deep
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 7/4/2011
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.
Director: Ben Chessell
Writer: Catherine Ferla
- 8.2/1033 votes
#12 - Break Out
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 7/11/2011
The Rescue team attend an overturned bus on a lonely stretch of bush highway, only to discover it is full of female prisoners.
Director: Ben Chessell
Writer: Giula Sandler
- 8.0/1028 votes
#13 - The Dunes
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 7/18/2011
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.
Director: Ian Barry
Writer: John Ridley
- 7.9/1027 votes
#14 - Chemical Brothers
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 7/25/2011
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.
Director: Ian Barry
Writer: Sam Meikle
- 7.5/1026 votes
#15 - The Carter Redemption
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 7/25/2011
Wrapping up from a rescue, Heidi and Jordan are looking forward to some secret time alone, but the Gallagher boys intervene.
Director: Catriona McKenzie
Writer: Tim Dylan Lee
- 8.2/1027 votes
#16 - Storm Chaser
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 8/1/2011
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.
Director: Catriona McKenzie
Writer: Fiona Kelly
- 8.1/1026 votes
#17 - Art Attack
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 8/8/2011
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.
Director: Geoffrey Nottage
Writer: Dave Warner
- 7.3/1026 votes
#18 - Missing Pieces
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 8/15/2011
The Rescue unit attends an MVA involving one Helen Hillerstrom, who reveals her son, Oscar, is missing in the Blue Mountains.
Director: Geoffrey Nottage
Writer: Tim Dylan Lee, Andrew Kelly
- 8.3/1028 votes
#19 - Class of Their Own
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 8/22/2011
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.
Director: Arnie Custo
Writer: Chris Hawkshaw
- 7.9/1026 votes
#20 - The Intervention
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 8/29/2011
Rescue search the bush for a missing prospector, Simon Prestwich, but Lara and Dean are distracted when a car crashes on a fire trail.
Director: Arnie Custo
Writer: Dave Warner
- 8.0/1023 votes
#21 - Bad Company
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 8/29/2011
The Gallagher brothers' boot-camp session on Freshwater beach is interrupted when a kite-surfer is blown against a beachfront condo.
Director: David Caesar
Writer: Fin Edquist
- 8.1/1027 votes
#22 - Two Fires
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 9/5/2011
When a truck crashes into a service station, everyone is stretched to the limit dealing with multiple traumas.
Director: David Caesar
Writer: Sam Meikle
The Best Episodes of Rescue: Special Ops Season 3
Every episode of Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Rescue: Special Ops Season 3!
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Ambushed" is the best rated episode of "Rescue: Special Ops" season 3. It scored 7.3/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by Ian Barry and written by Michaeley O'Brien, it aired on 5/30/2011. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Fearless".