Water Rats

Seasons

1996

6.9

Beneath its surface exists a playground for the murky underworld, pollution hazards, the remnants of huge drug hauls, and a graveyard of bodies from years of suicides, accidents and murders. That's the world of the WATER RATS.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Dead in the Water: Part 1

The Sydney Water Police investigate a fatal bombing on a charter ferry while at the same time trying to locate other explosive devices that may still be located in the harbour.

S1 • E2

Dead in the Water: Part 2

A man claiming to have the missing bomb takes hostages on a passenger ferry. Frank and Rachel stake out a yacht to catch a scantily clad burglar.

S1 • E3

Ghost Ship

An abandoned ship arrives in Sydney waters from Thailand. It's a Marie Celeste-style mystery - except for a dog on board, some scorched bones and a heap of ashy remains.

S1 • E4

Iron Man

Homicide is called in to assist the detectives in their investigation of the death of an Iron Man competitor whose shark-ravaged body was found washed up on a beach.

S1 • E5

Catch & Kill

The Water Police become embroiled in a feud between Tommy's father and a rival fishing family when the Nemesis is forced to cut the nets of a fishing boat stuck in a shipping lane.

S1 • E6

Lie Down with Dogs

Billy Pope's girlfriend is found murdered on the eve of giving evidence in a enquiry into police corruption. It's payback time for the Rispoli family whose lives were cut by the police.

S1 • E7

V.I.P.

A Vietnamese family are the victims of a robbery and their son has been kidnapped. The search for the kidnappers is complicated by the fact that the US President is visiting Sydney and the Water Police are on full security alert

S1 • E8

The Shaft

Holloway is caught on film collecting an envelope containing a large amount of money that has been left in a waterfront warehouse.

S1 • E9

Death in the Family

A seemingly routine drug raid on a cruiser turns up a bracelet that brings Detectives Goldstein and Holloway into the investigation of the disappearance of a young Turkish schoolgirl.

S1 • E10

Goldstein & Son

The woman whose boyfriend Goldstein shot dead is released from jail on parole and keeps turning up wherever Goldie happens to be. The boat crew takes too long to bring diving equipment to a sunken cruiser and two men are found dead.

S1 • E11

Kilo Hotel

Frank Holloway's brother Kevin is listed as a missing person when his car is found abandoned.

S1 • E12

The Jigsaw Man

As Chief Inspector Webb and Knocker Harrison continue investigating Kevin Holloway's disappearance, Frank is angry he ever allowed himself to believe his brother may have suicided.

S1 • E13

Bang Bang You're Dead

A drug raid on the boat of Jim Pappas, the chief suspect in Kevin's death, ends with Pappas being shot and killed by Knocker.

S1 • E14

Black Water

The body of a teenage boy is found in the boot of a car. There are similarities between this murder and that of another boy 13 months earlier. Holloway makes it his personal quest to find the killer.

S1 • E15

Eyewitness

A man is killed when a speed boat is deliberately driven into the back of his vessel. A friend who was with him at the time identifies the person responsible as a well-known crime figure and an old enemy of Frank's:

S1 • E16

Pay Back

A hostage is taken and there is a high speed car chase, Marty Miller makes a final stand against Holloway. Internal Affairs suspects Helen of selling information that led to an elderly woman's death.

S1 • E17

Old Flame

Frank is rushed to hospital after he is shot in an armed hold up. Chief Inspector Clarke Webb meets an old flame, Moira, who gives interesting information about the robbers.

S1 • E18

Bad Blood

Dave McCall is sympathetic towards the wife of a suspected serial murderer...until Knocker gets proof that she was involved.

S1 • E19

Floater

Inspector Webb is slow in coming forward with information on the death of Moira Randall as he doesn't want his affair with her uncovered.

S1 • E20

Black Water II: Missing

Police question an earlier arrest when authorities recover the body of a boy who appears to have been killed by a man already imprisoned for similar murders.

S1 • E21

Police Issue 13519

Holloway finds a new lead on Kevin's murder after a young robber is caught with Kevin's missing gun.

S1 • E22

Unfinished Business

Chris Kollias, the man Frank suspects of knowing more about his brother's death than he's saying, goes missing. It seems Frank will be forced to give up trying to find out what really happened the night his brother was forced over The Gap.

S1 • E23

Respect

Detectives discover two people who died of carbon monoxide poisoning, they suspect a connection to the activities of Asian gangs.

S1 • E24

Wrecked

Attending a bush fire at a coastal national park, the Nemesis crew notice bloodied tracks in the sand and find a man digging a body in a shallow grave.

S1 • E25

Message from the Dead

When Megan, an anonymous witness to Kevin's death is killed, Brady and Holloway search for other people who may have seen what happened.

S1 • E26

And Then There Was One

Knocker is finally caught in his own deadly web. Frank informs Goldie of Knocker's involvement in Kevin's death but she refuses to believe him until Brady shows her the evidence.