7.8/1018 votes#1 - Fair Cop
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 2/16/1999
The Water Police are plagued by a series of hoaxes and it is up to Frank and Goldie to determine who and what they can trust.
Director: David Caesar
Writer: Amanda Higgs
- 7.3/1015 votes
#2 - A Woman of Substance
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 2/23/1999
When a man is nailed to a tree by his neighbour, Holloway and Goldie discover his wife has vanished.
Director: David Caesar
Writer: Denise Morgan
- 7.1/1015 votes
#3 - Double Blind
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 3/2/1999
When a homeless kid is trapped in a pylon in the harbour, the Water Police are horrified to discover a dead body floating in the water beside him. While Blakemore makes it her responsibility to ensure the homeless boy is taken care of, she begins to develop a relationship with the boy's lawyer, Gillian Swain. Meanwhile the Detectives unravel the mystery of the body found the pylon.
Director: Ian Gilmour
Writer: Tim Pye
- 6.8/1015 votes
#4 - Cut off Point
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 3/9/1999
When a gender-specific piece of anatomy is washed up on the beach, Holloway and Goldie investigate.
Director: Ian Gilmour
Writer: Chris McCourt
- 7.2/1016 votes
#5 - In the Family Way
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 3/16/1999
Helen's romance hots up. Meanwhile, crime, punishment, betrayal, retribution, suicide and family tragedy when Goldie and Holloway infiltrate a crime family operating an insurance scam on Sydney Harbour. When it all goes terribly wrong, the family is eventually torn apart - not so much by the police intervening, but by in-fighting, backstabbing and betrayal.
Director: Raymond Quint
Writer: Tony Morphett
- 6.4/1016 votes
#6 - Santiago: Rain 27
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 3/23/1999
A crooked grandmother, a fraudulent stockbroker and a water taxi driver who gets taken for a ride, all baffle the detectives. Meanwhile Blakemore's romance comes to an abrupt end.
Director: Raymond Quint
Writer: Andrew Kelly
- 7.2/1017 votes
#7 - End Game
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 4/6/1999
Holloway and Goldie's partnership is shaken when a third detective, Michael Reilly, is assigned to the Water Police.
Director: Michael Offer
Writer: Tim Pye
- 8.1/1022 votes
#8 - 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
- 7.2/1016 votes
#9 - Goes with the Territory
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 4/20/1999
The working relationship between Jack Christey and Goldie gets off to a rocky start. Already compromised by their past affair, further strain is added when Jack insists on taking the lead in a murder case involving an old acquaintance.
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: Anne Brooksbank
- 7.6/1016 votes
#10 - Fish out of Water
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 4/27/1999
Police constable Tayler Johnson becomes romantically involved with a cop on a diving course, but while out on a dive, he goes missing and Tayler realises how little she knows about him.
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: Adam Todd
- 7.3/1017 votes
#11 - Good Times and Adventures
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 5/4/1999
Michael Reilly and Goldie have to go undercover at a well-known swingers' haunt to coax a confession out of some murderers.
Director: David Caesar
Writer: Margaret Wilson
- 7.5/1017 votes
#12 - Blood Relations
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 5/11/1999
Detective Michael Reilly's friendship with madam Susie Abromovich results in them both being taken hostage by an armed robber.
Director: David Caesar
Writer: Chris Hawkshaw
- 7.2/1021 votes
#13 - Dial C for Cop
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 5/18/1999
Gavin Sykes is taken hostage by a young man with a desire to be a cop for a day.
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Writer: Tim Pye
- 7.7/1016 votes
#14 - Quad Squad
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 5/18/1999
The investigation into the suicide of a young man reveals a greater tragedy, a secret that will ultimately destroy the lives of all those involved.
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Writer: Ray Harding
- 7.4/1015 votes
#15 - Unauthorised Entry
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 6/1/1999
Jack Christey and Rachel Goldstein race to save two young girls whose lives are at stake when they inadvertently become caught up in a drug smuggling ring.
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: Anne Brooksbank
- 8.0/1017 votes
#16 - 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
- 7.8/1016 votes
#17 - I'm Home
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 6/15/1999
Goldie faces every mother's worst nightmare when her son David becomes the victim of a brutal and vicious kidnapper.
Director: Raymond Quint
Writer: Tony Morphett
- 7.5/1015 votes
#18 - The Drill
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 6/22/1999
A burning body is found floating on a sail board in the harbour; Jack Christey recognises the work of a killer who is still in jail; did Christey convict the wrong man?
Director: Raymond Quint
Writer: Tony Morphett
- 7.2/1015 votes
#19 - Green Light
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 6/29/1999
A spate of armed hold-ups have Goldie and Jack chasing a robber dressed like a cowboy from the wild west.
Director: Karl Steinberg
Writer: Peter Gawler
- 7.6/1017 votes
#20 - Red Light
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 7/6/1999
Our two Aussie heroes, Rachel Goldstein and Jack Christey, investigate the theft of valuable art work from a harbourside property owned by a once famous madam, Sadie the Scissors.
Director: Karl Steinberg
Writer: Peter Gawler
- 7.3/1015 votes
#21 - Can't Buy Me Love
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 7/20/1999
While investigating the murder of a thief an his missing haul of black opals, Goldie and Christey stumble upon an unexpected love triangle.
Director: Raymond Quint
Writer: Alexa Wyatt
- 7.7/1017 votes
#22 - Free as a Bird
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 7/27/1999
When a young boy's dead body is found, Goldie and Jack have to prove who is responsible before an enraged local community exacts their own just on the main suspect.
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: Margaret Morgan
- 7.4/1015 votes
#23 - Dangerous Encounters
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 8/3/1999
Goldie and Jack are kidnapped and hunted like animals by a murderer who sees his victims as prey.
Director: Mark Piper
Writer: Denise Morgan
- 6.6/1017 votes
#24 - Force of Habit
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 8/10/1999
Investigating the murder of a wealthy businessman and the apparent kidnap of his second wife, Jeff Hawker is reacquainted with a woman he once loved but lost to another man.
Director: Raymond Quint
Writer: Andrew Kelly
- 7.5/1018 votes
#25 - Shark Bait
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 8/17/1999
When a man is taken by a shark in the harbour, the water police uncover a complex web of embezzlement, a faked death, underworld connections and a bizarre betrayal.
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Writer: Michael Miller
The Best Episodes of Water Rats Season 4
Every episode of Water Rats Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Water Rats Season 4!
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.
Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:Nine Network
Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Fair Cop" is the best rated episode of "Water Rats" season 4. It scored 7.8/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by David Caesar and written by Amanda Higgs, it aired on 2/16/1999. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "A Woman of Substance".