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The Best Episodes of Water Rats Season 5

Every episode of Water Rats Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Water Rats Season 5!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Water Rats Season 5 Episode 36 - True Believer
    8.1/10(15 votes)

    S5:E36

    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

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  2. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 26 - Final Chapter
    8.0/10(17 votes)

    S5:E26

    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

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  3. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 27 - Silent Running
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    S5:E27

    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

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  4. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 1 - A Day to Remember
    7.7/10(17 votes)

    S5:E1

    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

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  5. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 9 - Chinese Checkers
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    S5:E9

    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

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  6. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 10 - The Trouble With Gary
    7.6/10(19 votes)

    S5:E10

    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

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  7. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 23 - In the Blood
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    S5:E23

    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

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  8. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 28 - With A Vengeance
    7.6/10(15 votes)

    S5:E28

    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

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  9. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 34 - Bye Bye Charlie
    7.6/10(14 votes)

    S5:E34

    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

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  10. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 8 - Able to Leap Tall Buildings
    7.5/10(21 votes)

    S5:E8

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

    Director:Russell Burton
    Writer:Margaret Wilson

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  11. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 22 - Reunion
    7.5/10(16 votes)

    S5:E22

    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

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  12. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 25 - Loose Ends (2)
    7.5/10(16 votes)

    S5:E25

    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

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  13. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 29 - We Could be Heroes
    7.5/10(16 votes)

    S5:E29

    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

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  14. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 2 - Obsession (1)
    7.4/10(15 votes)

    S5:E2

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

    Director:Peter Andrikidis
    Writer:Bill Searle

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  15. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 3 - Pay the Piper (2)
    7.4/10(16 votes)

    S5:E3

    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

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  16. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 6 - Play it Again
    7.4/10(15 votes)

    S5:E6

    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

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  17. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 15 - Two of a Kind
    7.4/10(16 votes)

    S5:E15

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

    Director:Raymond Quint
    Writer:Denise Morgan

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  18. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 30 - Remember This
    7.4/10(14 votes)

    S5:E30

    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

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  19. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 4 - Charlie's Pride (3)
    7.3/10(15 votes)

    S5:E4

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

    Director:Chris Martin-Jones
    Writer:Margaret Morgan

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  20. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 14 - Mummy Dearest
    7.3/10(15 votes)

    S5:E14

    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

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  21. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 16 - Lazarus
    7.3/10(15 votes)

    S5:E16

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

    Director:Raymond Quint
    Writer:Ted Roberts

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  22. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 17 - Heavy Metal
    7.3/10(15 votes)

    S5:E17

    Quinn's attraction to a young woman lands him in hot water during a murder investigation.

    Director:Geoff Bennett
    Writer:Grant Fraser

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  23. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 18 - Low Blows
    7.3/10(15 votes)

    S5:E18

    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

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  24. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 24 - Family Ties (1)
    7.3/10(18 votes)

    S5:E24

    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

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  25. Water Rats Season 5 Episode 31 - Vigilante
    7.3/10(15 votes)

    S5:E31

    When a known drug-dealer is murdered, a member of an anti-drug group is suspected. However, when Reilly's ex-lover confess to the murder his faith is tested.

    Director:Robert Klenner
    Writer:Peter Neale

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"True Believer" is the best rated episode of Water Rats season 5. It scored 8.1/10 from 15 votes. Directed by Lynn Hegarty and written by Peter Gawler, it aired on November 14, 2000. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Final Chapter".