The Best Episodes of Water Rats Season 5

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

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.

Director: Lynn Hegarty

Writer: David Phillips

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.

Director: Lynn Hegarty

Writer: Peter Gawler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When constable Matthew Quinn takes the law into his own hands, he ends up in trouble with his girlfriend, local cops and Hawker; and, Christey, Alex and Reilly face quandry when they track a young woman on the run.

Director: Russell Burton

Writer: Tony Morphett

When a retiring cop is bashed and tied naked to a wharf, Christey sets out on a mission to recover his dignity. Further investigations reveals the police officer's attacker is picking his victims from the local newspaper; and Reilly asks Alex out on a date.

Director: Russell Burton

Writer: Andrew Kelly

Wheelchair bound Charlie Driscoll makes her last great dash for freedom and Jack Christey is determined to stop her.

Director: Geoff Bennett

Writer: Deborah Parsons

A torched yacht, two bodies, two men missing. Who is dead, who is alive and who did it?

Director: Peter Andrikidis

Writer: Bill Searle

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

A power struggle within Charlie Driscoll's crime empire makes Christey a marked man.

Director: Chris Martin-Jones

Writer: Margaret Morgan

The detectives are devastated when their scepticism about a woman's paranoid claims lead to a tragic killing.

Director: Russell Burton

Writer: Margaret Wilson

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

Reilly's life is on the line when he backs a street kid suspected of murder.

Director: Raymond Quint

Writer: Denise Morgan

While recovering from a gunshot wound, Reilly finds his missing wheelchair occupied by a mummified body.

Director: Raymond Quint

Writer: Ted Roberts

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

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

When a young man is shot dead in a boatshed, Christey's overzealous actions causes the boatshed floor to collapse sending the body and any evidence into the harbor. When an ex-lover re-enters Reilly's life asking for his help. Christey accuses Alex of being jealous.

Director: Robert Klenner

Writer: David Phillips