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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!

The Best Episodes of Rescue: Special Ops Season 3

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. #1 Fan Favorite
    Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 1 - Ambushed
    7.4/10(33 votes)

    #1 - Ambushed

    S3:E1

    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.

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  2. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 2 - Fearless
    7.9/10(33 votes)

    #2 - Fearless

    S3:E2

    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

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  3. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 3 - True Romance
    8.0/10(34 votes)

    #3 - True Romance

    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.

    Director:Ian Watson
    Writer:Sam Meikle

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  4. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 4 - Secrets And Lies
    7.3/10(33 votes)

    #4 - Secrets And Lies

    S3:E4

    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

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  5. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 5 - Him Or Me
    8.1/10(30 votes)

    #5 - Him Or Me

    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.

    Director:Arnie Custo

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  6. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 6 - Demon Days
    8.0/10(30 votes)

    #6 - Demon Days

    S3:E6

    The team is called out to a Gay Pride rehearsal, where dancers have been trapped under an overturned float.

    Director:Arnie Custo

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  8. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 7 - Man In The Machine
    8.3/10(30 votes)

    #7 - Man In The Machine

    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

    Director:Jeremy Sims

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  9. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 8 - The Game
    7.9/10(34 votes)

    #8 - The Game

    S3:E8

    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

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  10. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 9 - It's Not the Fall That Kills You
    8.3/10(31 votes)

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

    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.

    Director:David Caesar
    Writer:Sam Meikle

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  11. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 10 - Stolen
    7.9/10(32 votes)

    #10 - Stolen

    S3:E10

    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

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  12. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 11 - In Deep
    8.3/10(33 votes)

    #11 - In Deep

    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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  13. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 12 - Break Out
    8.4/10(35 votes)

    #12 - Break Out

    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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  14. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 13 - The Dunes
    8.2/10(30 votes)

    #13 - The Dunes

    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.

    Director:Ian Barry

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  15. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 14 - Chemical Brothers
    8.2/10(29 votes)

    #14 - Chemical Brothers

    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.

    Director:Ian Barry
    Writer:Sam Meikle

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  16. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 15 - The Carter Redemption
    7.8/10(28 votes)

    #15 - The Carter Redemption

    S3:E15

    Wrapping up from a rescue, Heidi and Jordan are looking forward to some secret time alone, but the Gallagher boys intervene.

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  17. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 16 - Storm Chaser
    8.3/10(29 votes)

    #16 - Storm Chaser

    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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  18. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 17 - Art Attack
    8.3/10(28 votes)

    #17 - Art Attack

    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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  19. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 18 - Missing Pieces
    7.6/10(28 votes)

    #18 - Missing Pieces

    S3:E18

    The Rescue unit attends an MVA involving one Helen Hillerstrom, who reveals her son, Oscar, is missing in the Blue Mountains.

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  20. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 19 - Class of Their Own
    8.5/10(29 votes)

    #19 - Class of Their Own

    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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  21. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 20 - The Intervention
    8.2/10(27 votes)

    #20 - The Intervention

    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.

    Director:Arnie Custo

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  22. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 21 - Bad Company
    8.3/10(24 votes)

    #21 - Bad Company

    S3:E21

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

    Director:David Caesar

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  23. Rescue: Special Ops Season 3 Episode 22 - Two Fires
    8.3/10(28 votes)

    #22 - Two Fires

    S3:E22

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

    Director:David Caesar
    Writer:Sam Meikle

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Ambushed" is the best rated episode of "Rescue: Special Ops" season 3. It scored 7.4/10 based on 33 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".