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The Best Episodes of Water Rats

Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.

Seasons6

  1. Background image for And the Winner is...
    8.6/10(14 votes)

    #1 - And the Winner is...

    S6:E25

    Trying to prevent a full-scale turf war comes at a heavy price for the Rats.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Cats and Pigeons
    8.4/10(17 votes)

    #2 - Cats and Pigeons

    S6:E26

    In retaliation for two Rats, Jack Christey sets the cat amongst the pigeons with even more devastating results.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Cleaner (4)
    8.3/10(20 votes)

    #3 - The Cleaner (4)

    S2:E26

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Broken English
    8.3/10(13 votes)

    #4 - Broken English

    S6:E11

    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.

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    Director:Mark Piper
  5. Background image for Bitter Legacy
    8.3/10(17 votes)

    #5 - Bitter Legacy

    S6:E17

    Alex and Mick race against time when someone is distributing guns that are rigged to explode when fired.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Removalist
    8.3/10(9 votes)

    #6 - The Removalist

    S6:E24

    The new boy at the Water Police, Gorgeous George Newhouse is making waves with the women, but Christey is not impressed.

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    Director:Unknown
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  8. Background image for True Believer
    8.1/10(15 votes)

    #7 - True Believer

    S5:E36

    Haunted by the brutal murder of a teenage girl, Alex puts her life on the line to identify the murderer; and Reilly wants to know where he stands with Alex.

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    Director:Lynn Hegarty
  9. Background image for Bureaucracy Rules, OK?
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #8 - Bureaucracy Rules, OK?

    S6:E23

    Alex and Mick investigate the case of a four year old boy found at the bottom of the harbor.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Final Chapter
    8.0/10(17 votes)

    #9 - Final Chapter

    S5:E26

    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.

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    Director:Lynn Hegarty
  11. Background image for The Long Run
    8.0/10(10 votes)

    #10 - The Long Run

    S6:E22

    Alex and Mick chase a triple killer through the streets of Sydney.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for All At Sea
    7.9/10(17 votes)

    #11 - All At Sea

    S2:E21

    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.

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    7.9/10(23 votes)

    #12 - Bloody Kids

    S3:E6

    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.

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    Director:David Caesar
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Strike Out
    7.9/10(10 votes)

    #13 - Strike Out

    S6:E14

    Christey's daughter is given a brutal introduction to the realities of police work, while the death of a girl in a hit-and-run jet-ski accident causes disturbing memories to resurface for Alex.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Smile (1)
    7.8/10(17 votes)

    #14 - Smile (1)

    S2:E23

    Tony Brady from Internal Affairs investigates Frank after a petty criminal accuses Frank of assaulting him while in custody. A series of safe robberies in which evidence at the crime scenes points to inside jobs gets investigated by Frank and Rachel. Tayler and Tavita looks after two precocious children when their parents are arrested.

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    Director:Unknown
  16. Background image for Deadfall (2)
    7.8/10(18 votes)

    #15 - Deadfall (2)

    S2:E24

    Frank becomes the prime suspect when Sam Jones is murdered. Goldie and Holloway investigates the disappearance of a young barmaid, last seen alive by Tayler.

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    Director:Unknown
  17. Background image for As Fast As You Can
    7.8/10(21 votes)

    #16 - As Fast As You Can

    S3:E1

    Franks second ex-wife, Liz Robinson, seeks his help and protection from a blackmailer who has photos of her having cocaine snorted from her naked belly. Tayler Johnson and Gavin Sykes have to deal with some prisoner escapee.

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    Director:Unknown
  18. Background image for For Old Time's Sake
    7.8/10(18 votes)

    #17 - For Old Time's Sake

    S3:E3

    Liz is almost run down in front of Frank, and fearing for her safety following her husbands murder in prison, he suggests that she stay with him. Tommy's relationship with Rhonda comes to a tragic end.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for One For the Social Workers
    7.8/10(16 votes)

    #18 - One For the Social Workers

    S3:E4

    After Frank takes time off Rachel is stuck with Jack Christey trying to catch a rapist. Dave McCall and Tommy Tavita go on a rescue operation on the white water rapids.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Double Play (2)
    7.8/10(16 votes)

    #19 - Double Play (2)

    S3:E13

    As the armed robbery gets closer, Holloway's undercover operation becomes more and more dangerous. Despite police's ongoing investigation, Les is granted bail and threatens to blow Frank and Louise's cover. Frank is forced to act as the getaway driver during the robbery but a sudden change of plans throws off the police surveillance unit and places Frank's life in jeopardy.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Let the Dead
    7.8/10(16 votes)

    #20 - Let the Dead

    S3:E19

    Chief inspector Jeff Hawker finds himself in the firing line when ballistic tests prove his gun was used to kill Vince Blake eight years ago. Goldie and Hawker work together to clear his name. Tavita finds himself in the middle of a dispute at the site of an archeological dig.

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    Director:Unknown
  22. Background image for Honour Amongst Thieves (1)
    7.8/10(19 votes)

    #21 - Honour Amongst Thieves (1)

    S3:E27

    Investigations into an armed holdup incriminate police when witnesses recount how bandits were disguised in police uniforms and escaped in a police car. Helen Blakemore comes under suspicion when it's revealed she is one of only two people who can access spare uniforms and she could do with extra cash after buying a new home.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Silent Running
    7.8/10(19 votes)

    #22 - Silent Running

    S5:E27

    Distraught father and hard-nosed detective battle for supremacy when Jack Christey tracks his daughter after she's taken hostage by a prisoner on the run.

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  24. Background image for Another Man's Poison
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #23 - Another Man's Poison

    S6:E5

    A runaway yacht, a missing child and suspected multiple murders set Alex and Christey down the wrong path, where they uncover a plot to poison Sydney Harbour.

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    Director:Unknown
  25. Background image for Red Ice
    7.8/10(10 votes)

    #24 - Red Ice

    S6:E19

    After a shooting on a Harbour wharf, the Rats discover a love triangle of Russian immigrants and a Cold War in sunny Sydney.

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    Director:Unknown
  26. Background image for Jackpot
    7.8/10(9 votes)

    #25 - Jackpot

    S6:E21

    Alex and Mick try to solve an old burglary and murder whilst battling a retired cop seeking redemption for years of humiliation.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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 Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/31/2001. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Cats and Pigeons".