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- Episode 23
Dangerous Encounters
Water Rats - S4 - E23
Goldie and Jack are kidnapped and hunted like animals by a murderer who sees his victims as prey.
Water Rats: Season 4 - 32 Episode s
4x1 - Fair Cop
February 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.
4x2 - A Woman of Substance
February 23, 1999
When a man is nailed to a tree by his neighbour, Holloway and Goldie discover his wife has vanished.
4x3 - Double Blind
March 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.
4x4 - Cut off Point
March 9, 1999
When a gender-specific piece of anatomy is washed up on the beach, Holloway and Goldie investigate.
4x5 - In the Family Way
March 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.
4x6 - Santiago: Rain 27
March 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.
4x7 - End Game
April 6, 1999
Holloway and Goldie's partnership is shaken when a third detective, Michael Reilly, is assigned to the Water Police.
4x8 - Tomorrow Never Comes
April 13, 1999
The death of a friend and a forgotten dream prompt Frank Holloway to farewell the Rats.
4x9 - Goes with the Territory
April 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.
4x10 - Fish out of Water
April 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.
4x11 - Good Times and Adventures
May 4, 1999
Michael Reilly and Goldie have to go undercover at a well-known swingers' haunt to coax a confession out of some murderers.
4x12 - Blood Relations
May 11, 1999
Detective Michael Reilly's friendship with madam Susie Abromovich results in them both being taken hostage by an armed robber.
4x13 - Dial C for Cop
May 18, 1999
Gavin Sykes is taken hostage by a young man with a desire to be a cop for a day.
4x14 - Quad Squad
May 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.
4x15 - Unauthorised Entry
June 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.
4x16 - Mother Love
June 8, 1999
A grisly case hits home when Jeff Hawker's wife, Gail, becomes the target of a vicious serial rapist and killer.
4x17 - I'm Home
June 15, 1999
Goldie faces every mother's worst nightmare when her son David becomes the victim of a brutal and vicious kidnapper.
4x18 - The Drill
June 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?
4x19 - Green Light
June 29, 1999
A spate of armed hold-ups have Goldie and Jack chasing a robber dressed like a cowboy from the wild west.
4x20 - Red Light
July 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.
4x21 - Can't Buy Me Love
July 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.
4x22 - Free as a Bird
July 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.
4x23 - Dangerous Encounters
August 3, 1999
Goldie and Jack are kidnapped and hunted like animals by a murderer who sees his victims as prey.
4x24 - Force of Habit
August 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.
4x25 - Shark Bait
August 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.
4x26 - A Day at the Office
August 31, 1999
What starts as another ordinary day at the office ends in the death of a Goldie a much loved rat.
4x27 - Kaddish
September 7, 1999
The surviving Rats swear revenge for their fallen comrade!
4x28 - For Love or Money
September 14, 1999
Jack believes he has discovered the identity of Goldie's killer, but his only clue may just slip through his fingers.
4x29 - Helter Skelter
September 21, 1999
Jack hands in his badge and turns vigilante in order to find Goldie's killer.
4x30 - Friend or Foe
September 28, 1999
Friendships are tested when Mick Reilly's best mate becomes embroiled in a murder investigation.
4x31 - Mr. Medium
October 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.
4x32 - New Kid on the Block
October 12, 1999
Jack fights to save the life of an undercover cop, Alex St Clare whom he suspects is emotionally involved with her target.