8.6/1014 votesLoading...#1 - And the Winner is...
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 7/31/2001
Trying to prevent a full-scale turf war comes at a heavy price for the Rats.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1024 votesLoading...
#2 - Kaddish
Season 4 Episode 27 - Aired 9/7/1999
The surviving Rats swear revenge for their fallen comrade!
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: John Banas
- 8.4/1025 votesLoading...
#3 - Knocker
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 8/19/1996
Knocker is finally caught in his own deadly web. Frank informs Goldie of Knocker's involvement in Kevin's death but she refuses to believe him until Brady shows her the evidence.
Director: Chris Martin-Jones
Writer: Michaeley O'Brien
- 8.4/1016 votesLoading...
#4 - Cats and Pigeons
Season 6 Episode 26 - Aired 8/7/2001
In retaliation for two Rats, Jack Christey sets the cat amongst the pigeons with even more devastating results.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1013 votesLoading...
#5 - Broken English
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 4/24/2001
Hawker remains the professional police officer, even when he is targeted by a criminal. But when the vendetta involves his son, Hawker shows his true colours.
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: Andrew Kelly
- 8.2/1021 votesLoading...
#6 - The Cleaner (4)
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 8/4/1997
After Holloway discovered who killed Sam Jones, decides to set himself up as bait in an attempt to catch the killer. Rachel has an important decision to make regarding her future when Michael proposes-her lover or her partner. Police boats Nemesis and Harpy respond when a fishing boat capsizes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1018 votesLoading...
#7 - For Love or Money
Season 4 Episode 28 - Aired 9/14/1999
Jack believes he has discovered the identity of Goldie's killer, but his only clue may just slip through his fingers.
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: Tim Pye
- 8.2/109 votesLoading...
#8 - The Removalist
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 7/24/2001
The new boy at the Water Police, Gorgeous George Newhouse is making waves with the women, but Christey is not impressed.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter Neale
- 8.1/1022 votesLoading...
#9 - Bloody Kids
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 3/10/1998
When Goldie and Tavita arrest Dave McCall's son and charge him with the supplying and trafficking of illegal drugs, the pressure of home and work life gets to Dave. A quantity of explosives are used in an attempted bombing of the harbor tunnel.
Director: David Caesar
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1022 votesLoading...
#10 - Tomorrow Never Comes
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 4/13/1999
The death of a friend and a forgotten dream prompt Frank Holloway to farewell the Rats.
Director: Michael Offer
Writer: Ted Roberts
- 8.1/1017 votesLoading...
#11 - Helter Skelter
Season 4 Episode 29 - Aired 9/21/1999
Jack hands in his badge and turns vigilante in order to find Goldie's killer.
Director: Russell Burton
Writer: Tim Pye
- 8.1/1018 votesLoading...
#12 - Bitter Legacy
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 6/5/2001
Alex and Mick race against time when someone is distributing guns that are rigged to explode when fired.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1012 votesLoading...
#13 - Bureaucracy Rules, OK?
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 7/17/2001
Alex and Mick investigate the case of a four year old boy found at the bottom of the harbor.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1017 votesLoading...
#14 - Mother Love
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 6/8/1999
A grisly case hits home when Jeff Hawker's wife, Gail, becomes the target of a vicious serial rapist and killer.
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: Denise Morgan
- 8.0/1013 votesLoading...
#15 - New Kid on the Block
Season 4 Episode 32 - Aired 10/12/1999
Jack fights to save the life of an undercover cop, Alex St Clare whom he suspects is emotionally involved with her target.
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Writer: Tony Morphett
- 8.0/1017 votesLoading...
#16 - Final Chapter
Season 5 Episode 26 - Aired 8/15/2000
The Rats are caught off guard when they're ambushed on the harbor while transporting a wise-cracking prison inmate. When the getaway plans of the escapee and his girlfriend unravel, they take Christey and his daughter hostage.
Director: Lynn Hegarty
Writer: Peter Neale
- 8.0/1010 votesLoading...
#17 - The Long Run
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 7/10/2001
Alex and Mick chase a triple killer through the streets of Sydney.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1023 votesLoading...#18 - Kilo Hotel
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/28/1996
Kevin Holloway's car is found still with the keys in the ignition at The Gap - a notorious suicide spot. Meanwhile Goldie is served with court papers seeking to cut off all access to her son David.
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: Anne Brooksbank
7.9/1022 votesLoading...#19 - The Jigsaw Man
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/5/1996
As Chief Inspector Webb and Knocker Harrison continue investigating Kevin Holloway's disappearance, Frank is angry he ever allowed himself to believe his brother may have suicided. There's a grim discovery in the harbour of a number of body parts. Jeff Hawker doesn't like the relationship between Cassidy and Watson, and offers Cassidy a job as supporting officer, on the condition that she ends her relationship with Watson.
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: Anne Brooksbank
- 7.9/1021 votesLoading...
#20 - Payback
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 6/3/1996
A hostage is taken and there is a high speed car chase : Marty Miller makes a final stand against Holloway. Internal Affairs suspects Helen of selling information that led to an elderly woman's death. The accusations against Helen makes things bad between her and her lover Anne Harvey
Director: Scott Hartford-Davis
Writer: Sue Hore
- 7.9/1021 votesLoading...
#21 - Floater
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 7/1/1996
Inspector Webb is slow in coming forward with information on the death of Moira Randall as he doesn't want his affair with her uncovered. The Nemesis crew is kept busy by a group of drunken university students on Shark Island. Hawker tells Helen that he will apply for the post as Chief Inspector if Webb has to leave. He's surprised when Helen says she also will apply for it.
Director: Chris Martin-Jones
Writer: Denise Morgan
- 7.9/1019 votesLoading...
#22 - Missing
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 7/8/1996
Harrison and the divers are called in when the body of a boy is found in similar circumstances to the other murdered teens. The detectives wonder if they arrested the wrong man.
Director: Chris Martin-Jones
Writer: Peter Gawler
- 7.9/1020 votesLoading...
#23 - Wrecked
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 8/5/1996
Attending a bushfire at a coastal national park, the Nemesis crew notice bloodied tracks in the sand and find a man digging a body in a shallow grave. Harrison is called in to negotiate with a potential suicide. Frank and Brady investigates Harrison. Brady believes Harrison has something to do with the death of Kevin Holloway.
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: Tony Morphett
- 7.9/1017 votesLoading...
#24 - All At Sea
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 6/30/1997
Rachel has difficulty adjusting to her new partner when Frank goes on an overseas attachment. Rachel and her new partner are thrown together to investigate a mysterious drowning. Constable Sam Bailey competes in a free dive competition.
Director: Chris Martin-Jones
Writer: Michael Miller
- 7.9/1023 votesLoading...
#25 - A Day at the Office
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 8/31/1999
What starts as another ordinary day at the office ends in the death of a Goldie a much loved rat.
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Writer: John Banas
The Best Episodes of Water Rats
Every episode of Water Rats ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Water Rats!
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.
Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:Nine Network
Best Episodes Summary
"And the Winner is..." is the best rated episode of "Water Rats". It scored 8.6/10 based on 14 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/31/2001. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Kaddish".