Water Rats - Season 4

First aired: 2/16/1999 32 episodes

Episodes

1. Fair Cop

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.

2. A Woman of Substance

Aired: 2/23/1999

When a man is nailed to a tree by his neighbour, Holloway and Goldie discover his wife has vanished.

3. Double Blind

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.

4. Cut off Point

Aired: 3/9/1999

When a gender-specific piece of anatomy is washed up on the beach, Holloway and Goldie investigate.

5. In the Family Way

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.

6. Santiago: Rain 27

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.

7. End Game

Aired: 4/6/1999

Holloway and Goldie's partnership is shaken when a third detective, Michael Reilly, is assigned to the Water Police.

8. Tomorrow Never Comes

Aired: 4/13/1999

The death of a friend and a forgotten dream prompt Frank Holloway to farewell the Rats.

9. Goes with the Territory

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.

10. Fish out of Water

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.

11. Good Times and Adventures

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.

12. Blood Relations

Aired: 5/11/1999

Detective Michael Reilly's friendship with madam Susie Abromovich results in them both being taken hostage by an armed robber.

13. Dial C for Cop

Aired: 5/18/1999

Gavin Sykes is taken hostage by a young man with a desire to be a cop for a day.

14. Quad Squad

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.

15. Unauthorised Entry

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.

16. Mother Love

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.

17. I'm Home

Aired: 6/15/1999

Goldie faces every mother's worst nightmare when her son David becomes the victim of a brutal and vicious kidnapper.

18. The Drill

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?

19. Green Light

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.

20. Red Light

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.

21. Can't Buy Me Love

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.

22. Free as a Bird

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.

23. Dangerous Encounters

Aired: 8/3/1999

Goldie and Jack are kidnapped and hunted like animals by a murderer who sees his victims as prey.

24. Force of Habit

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.

25. Shark Bait

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.

26. A Day at the Office

Aired: 8/31/1999

What starts as another ordinary day at the office ends in the death of a Goldie a much loved rat.

27. Kaddish

Aired: 9/7/1999

The surviving Rats swear revenge for their fallen comrade!

28. For Love or Money

Aired: 9/14/1999

Jack believes he has discovered the identity of Goldie's killer, but his only clue may just slip through his fingers.

29. Helter Skelter

Aired: 9/21/1999

Jack hands in his badge and turns vigilante in order to find Goldie's killer.

30. Friend or Foe

Aired: 9/28/1999

Friendships are tested when Mick Reilly's best mate becomes embroiled in a murder investigation.

31. Mr. Medium

Aired: 10/5/1999

Jack is forced into a deal with undercover cops when Detective Alex St Clare joins the rats and there is a conflict of interest in a murder investigation.

32. New Kid on the Block

Aired: 10/12/1999

Jack fights to save the life of an undercover cop, Alex St Clare whom he suspects is emotionally involved with her target.