7.6/1015 votes#1 - A Day to Remember
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 2/22/2000
The series resumes on a spectacular note with a helicopter crashing into an overcrowded pleasure boat. The fatality list is long but two survivors are trapped on the sinking craft unable to be moved. Meanwhile, on shore, Mary Coustas (without the Effie frightwig) is a troubled survivor and knows more than she is saying. There is a scramble for clues as the detectives Jack Christey and Alex St Clare track down the cause of the chopper's crash and ponder why the pilot has a bullet wound in his neck. It's a good yarn and the drama, as Tommy Tavita and his mates work to save the trapped souls, is tense.
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Writer: Denise Morgan
- 7.4/1014 votes
#2 - Obsession (1)
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 2/29/2000
A torched yacht, two bodies, two men missing. Who is dead, who is alive and who did it?
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Writer: Bill Searle
- 7.4/1014 votes
#3 - Pay the Piper (2)
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 3/7/2000
Christey's gun is stolen from his house. An ex-con is found, shot dead by a police revolver and Christey is set up as the prime suspect for murder.
Director: Chris Martin-Jones
Writer: Deborah Parsons
- 7.4/1013 votes
#4 - Charlie's Pride (3)
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 3/14/2000
A power struggle within Charlie Driscoll's crime empire makes Christey a marked man.
Director: Chris Martin-Jones
Writer: Margaret Morgan
- 6.9/1013 votes
#5 - Got a Light?
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 3/21/2000
Alex's belief in the innocence of a serial arsonist leads her close to a fiery death.
Director: Russell Burton
Writer: Michael Miller
- 7.5/1014 votes
#6 - Play it Again
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 3/28/2000
A former lover of Alex's becomes a suspect in a murder investigation and, after Helen Blakemore is forced to fire during an armed robbery, she finds her career on the line as Internal Affairs investigate.
Director: Geoff Bennett
Writer: John Banas
- 6.9/1013 votes
#7 - A Split Second
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 3/28/2000
Alex deals with the consequences of sleeping with Matthew Grierson, as the protest against the Marina development continues. Blakemore's career is in jeopardy when she is investigated by Internal Affairs.
Director: Geoff Bennett
Writer: John Banas
- 7.5/1019 votes
#8 - Able to Leap Tall Buildings
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 4/4/2000
The detectives are devastated when their scepticism about a woman's paranoid claims lead to a tragic killing.
Director: Russell Burton
Writer: Margaret Wilson
- 7.7/1015 votes
#9 - Chinese Checkers
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 4/11/2000
ASIO enlists a couple of the Water Rats in a covert operation which causes Reilly to become the victim of an amorous spy and Sykes' love life gets him into very hot.
Director: Lynn Hegarty
Writer: Peter Gawler
- 7.7/1016 votes
#10 - The Trouble With Gary
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 4/18/2000
Jack and Alex are lead round the mulberry bush by a smart alec killer while the ASIO operation comes back to haunt Sykes and Reilly.
Director: Lynn Hegarty
Writer: Peter Gawler
- 7.5/1017 votes
#11 - Saltimbocca (1)
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 5/2/2000
Detectives St Clare and Reilly investigate the murder of a restaurateur where their only witness is a ferocious dog.
Director: Geoff Bennett
Writer: Graeme Koetsveld
- 6.9/1014 votes
#12 - Jump in the Mouth (2)
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 5/9/2000
Alex and Mick must stift through a maze of suspects and motives to solve the murder of Cosimo Luvece.
Director: Geoff Bennett
Writer: Graeme Koetsveld
- 6.4/1013 votes
#13 - Pinchgut
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 5/16/2000
Christey feels responsible when a grieving woman, who's brother was killed in an armed robbery, takes the law into her own hands and holds him and a suspect hostage.
Director: Russell Burton
Writer: Grant Fraser
- 7.4/1014 votes
#14 - Mummy Dearest
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 5/23/2000
Quinn and the Water Police are devastated when a young woman dies at the station; and, the detectives search for a kidnapped six year old girl.
Director: Russell Burton
Writer: Kristen Dunphy
- 7.4/1014 votes
#15 - Two of a Kind
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 5/30/2000
Reilly's life is on the line when he backs a street kid suspected of murder.
Director: Raymond Quint
Writer: Denise Morgan
- 7.4/1013 votes
#16 - Lazarus
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 6/6/2000
While recovering from a gunshot wound, Reilly finds his missing wheelchair occupied by a mummified body.
Director: Raymond Quint
Writer: Ted Roberts
- 7.2/1014 votes
#17 - Heavy Metal
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 6/13/2000
Quinn's attraction to a young woman lands him in hot water during a murder investigation.
Director: Geoff Bennett
Writer: Grant Fraser
- 7.4/1014 votes
#18 - Low Blows
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 6/20/2000
Alex personal life throws her off balance leaving Christey and Reilly to solve the brutal slaying of a security guard.
Director: Russell Burton
Writer: Andrew Kelly
- 6.8/1013 votes
#19 - One Good Turn
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 6/27/2000
What appears to be a simple mugging of a homeless woman, leads the Water Police into a confusing murder case and a threat on Alex's life.
Director: Geoff Bennett
Writer: Denise Morgan
- 7.6/1013 votes
#20 - Mozzie
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 7/4/2000
Alex undercover partner, and ex-lover comes back into her life after a series of death threats and she must take a hard look at the people she trusts.
Director: Geoff Bennett
Writer: Margaret Wilson
- 7.1/1014 votes
#21 - Tangled Web
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 7/11/2000
A murder investigation leads Alex, Christey and Reilly to explore on-line relationships; and, Sykes dreams of becoming a detective.
Director: Russell Burton
Writer: Margaret Morgan
- 7.6/1015 votes
#22 - Reunion
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 7/25/2000
A drug importing deal goes horribly wrong when a small time crim tries to implicate a notorious crime identity; and, a young woman appears claiming to be Christey's daughter.
Director: Chris Martin-Jones
Writer: Tony Morphett
- 7.7/1015 votes
#23 - In the Blood
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 7/25/2000
A drug importing deal goes horribly wrong when a small time crim tries to implicate a notorious crime identity; and, a young woman appears claiming to be Christey's daughter.
Director: Chris Martin-Jones
Writer: John Banas
- 7.4/1017 votes
#24 - Family Ties (1)
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 8/1/2000
Hawker becomes an unwitting accomplice to murder when he tries to help a friend; and, a young street kid becomes the prime suspect when his pregnant girlfriend is found murdered.
Director: Raymond Quint
Writer: Deborah Parsons
- 7.6/1015 votes
#25 - Loose Ends (2)
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 8/8/2000
Two halves of a body don't add up for Reilly and Alex. Hawker discovers the reasons behind the murder of Annie's father.
Director: Raymond Quint
Writer: Deborah Parsons
The Best Episodes of Water Rats Season 5
Every episode of Water Rats Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Water Rats Season 5!
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.
Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:Nine Network
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"A Day to Remember" is the best rated episode of "Water Rats" season 5. It scored 7.6/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by Peter Andrikidis and written by Denise Morgan, it aired on 2/22/2000. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Obsession (1)".