Water Rats

What was supposed to be a simple surveillance of suspected drug importers, turned into a high-stakes, high-energy shoot out with gun runners. Everyone feels they could have done something to save their friend.

Jack goes to the country to interview a potential suspect in a series of yacht bombings and gets a dose of backwater manners.

When the body of a young woman is found in Sydney Harbour, Inspector Julia Goodwin finally has the evidence to support her theory that a serial killer is operating in the country.

With the suspected serial killer and Blakemore's abductor, Luke, now in custody, Julia begins her interrogation. Christey is convinced by Blakemore's recount of her abduction that she was taken by two men, not just one.

A routine drug bust turns into a mystery-at-sea for the Rats when they discover a blood-splattered yacht under sail but with no sign of its crew. Christey and Alex quickly track down one of the co-owners of the yacht and discover she is a high profile-criminal lawyer.

When the Rats go to the greyhounds to celebrate Reilly's birthday, Christey runs into his father, Tom, who's a bookmaker. Christey hasn't spoken to Tom for years, having never forgiven him for mistreating his mother, Judy.

Donna's honeymoon period of living with Quinn is wearing thin. Quinn is constantly borrowing money from the household kitty and then pushes his luck even further when he asks Donna if his ex-partner from Perth, Steve Ferguson, can stay for a few days.

A day in the life of Helen Blakemore. Blakemore has applied for a job as security manager for an American bank in Chicago. With this exciting prospect virtually in the bag, Blakemore arrives at work to a Water Police station in chaos as a bomb threat evacuation is currently underway.

Michael Reilly crosses the line when his sister Jess asks him to help her husband Danny beat a criminal charge that could send him to prison and leave her to fend for herself and her young child. Reilly enlists the help of his old academy buddy Agi, asking him to "see what he can do" for Danny.

Reilly is left reeling in the wake of his brother-in-law Danny's murder and the devastation it causes his sister Jess and her son Max. Reilly becomes obsessed with bringing the killer to justice but to do so, he must rely on his old police buddy Agi, whose unethical methods may compromise the case.

Yachts at a marina are sprayed with homophobic graffiti and the Nemesis investigates. When it is realised that one of the yachts targeted belongs to Chief Inspector Hawker, Christey and Reilly are called in. A suspect is arrested; Kevin O'Shea - a sleazy, small-time drug dealer.

Sophie begins the Second Trimester of her police training on Attachment to the Water Police. Her arrival indirectly triggers two sequences of events.

The Rats are shaken when they hear the news of the sudden death of a former colleague. A wake is hastily organised in the Cutter Bar. As the alcohol flows, so do the stories.

Sophie is given a brutal introduction to the realities of police work when she's first on the scene of a hit-and-run jetski accident that results in a young waterskier dying in her arms.

Alex's day starts badly when she answers a knock at her front door; to discover someone has left a breakfast tray for two, anonymously.

The divers find a wetsuit weighted and dumped in the harbour. The custom-made suit is identified as belonging to a woman who went missing while windsurfing off an ocean beach several years ago.

When the Nemesis responds to a report of gunshots being fired, Sykes and Quinn come across two teenage boys who have been injured, one fatally, after the gun they were playing with exploded in their hands.

Harry, an old fishing buddy of Alex's, appeals to her to find out what happened to his missing son-in-law, Robbo. Harry claims he has seen Robbo's ghost and is convinced that he's been murdered by his business partner.

The Rats are confronted with a Cold War in sunny Drummoyne. It involves a love triangle of Russian immigrants. Plucky Fred Pearson is gushing blood from a leg wound after a shooting on a harbour wharf but, when the Nemesis arrives on the scene, strangely, Fred denies he's even been shot.

Jack Christey and Alex investigate the death of a youth whose body is found hanging by abseiling ropes from a cliff. He's been shot. When the Detectives talk to the victim's best friend, Danny McKew, they get nowhere fast.

The recovery of a poker machine from the harbour leads Detectives St Clare and Reilly into a murder investigation when an old pair of police handcuffs are found attached to the poker machine, which was presumably used to weigh down a body.

In the aftermath of an armed robbery and the brutal execution of three security guards, Detectives Reilly and St Clare pursue a suspect nicknamed "Leadlegs" through the streets of Sydney, coming close to catching him several times but always remaining one step behind.

Jeff reevaluates his life's accomplishments after he is recovered from his wrecked car and brought to hospital. Faced with six months off while he recovers, Jeff considers giving up his job.

A series of safe thefts have the detectives searching for a suspect who likes to leave behind poetic IOUs at the scene of his crimes, an MO reminiscent of another thief who has since died. When a suspect is caught, he confesses to two robberies but has an alibi for a violent third robbery that has left a security guard in hospital.

Investigating the murder of a woman by a sniper, the Water Police discover her death to be the result of mistaken identity and quickly find themseves in the midst of an ongoing war between two crime bosses. As the paybacks escalate, the protection of the Rat's lone witness becomes all the more urgent but mistakes are made and when the dust clears after a hail of gunfire, two officers are down.

Acting Commander Jack Christey has to accept the responsibility for an operation going wrong, resulting in the death of an informant and leaving two of his officers in hospital, one critically injured. Jack is determined to find out who the shooter was and sets the cat among the pigeons, hoping someone will crack and give him the answers that he needs.