Rescue Special Ops

8:30pm Wednesday, November 14 on Prime

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In tonight’s feature-length finale, the Gallagher brothers’ boot-camp session on Freshwater beach is interrupted when a kite surfer, Kim, is blown against a beachfront condo. The brothers are forced to improvise to save her. Lachie tries to flirt with her, but is thwarted by Jordan, who appears resplendent in his Rescue uniform. Kim takes an immediate shine to Jordan and asks him out, to the consternation of his recent ex-girlfriend Heidi.

But Kim’s rescue is rudely interrupted by military investigator Claire Newell and her crew, who try to arrest Lachie. When Lachie goes on the run, Claire demands Dean and Chase reveal his whereabouts. But Lachie has gone to ground; they have no idea where he is. Michelle’s nerve-wracking annual presentation to the Rescue commissioner is interrupted by news of Lachie’s near-arrest. Challenged to defend her wayward employee, Michelle sticks her neck out for Lachie, winning the commissioner’s respect in the process. Meanwhile, a dire accident between a truck and a petrol station forces Lara into deciding that it is time for her to leave Rescue, but when an old team member returns, his current situation leads her to revaluate hers.

8:30pm Wednesday, November 7 on Prime

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Rescue search the bush for a missing prospector, Simon Prestwich, but Lara and Dean are distracted when a car crashes on a fire-trail. They discover that the driver, Britney, is a teenage girl, who is uninjured but in shock. As they drive Britney to her nearby farm they learn her father, Henry, has been involved in a tractor accident. Meanwhile, Prestwich’s parents-in-law inform Michelle their grandchildren are missing – they fear Prestwich has taken them into the bush to commit murder/suicide.

8:30pm Wednesday, October 31 on Prime

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The Rescue team are called to a teenage party, where a balcony has collapsed, trapping many. It’s chaos on the ground as drunken kids interfere with the rescue and hysterical bleeding teens need to be wrangled. The team is helped by Benji and Charlotte, two kids who were at the party helping with the music. The host, Alex, gets in a panic as his brother Nate is found pinned under the wreckage, and fading fast with internal injuries. Dean has to make a terrible call to save his life and soon finds himself under investigation with Lara because Nate’s parents are kicking up a fuss. Michelle takes them off active duty while things are sorted out. But next day Dean won’t take it lying down – he drags Lara back to the party scene to talk sense to the family. Alex’s anger with Dean is white hot, and he is pushing his parents in their complaints. But Dean notices something that makes him think that this was a case of sabotage.

8:30pm Wednesday, October 24 on Prime

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The Rescue unit attend an accident involving one Helen Hillerstrom, who reveals her son, Oscar, is missing in the Blue Mountains. The name Hillerstrom haunts Vince – he was in charge of a failed search for Oscar’s father Patrick Hillerstrom, who disappeared without a trace ten years ago. Vince takes two teams to the mountains to locate the son. Meanwhile, it’s Zoe’s birthday, and Dean’s planned romance. But thanks to Vince’s crusade to the mountains, it’s all called off. Things get worse when Zoe’s ex Brad suddenly arrives at the front door. Dean can see there are still a lot of unresolved feelings between them, but he tries not to be worried.

8:30pm Wednesday, October 17 on Prime

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Dean is using his day off to bond with Zoe’s boy Noah but things aren’t sizzling when Dean gets a request from Lachie to pick him up from the lockup and take him to work. Rescue are stretched thin having responded to an incident at a large art gallery where a cleaner has launched himself from the mezzanine and impaled himself on a valuable steel sculpture below. Around the same time a woman has wedged her car into an adjoining alley.

8:30pm Wednesday, October 10 on Prime

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Wind buffets the Patrol as Heidi and Jordan race to rescue a Storm Chaser, Ed, trapped in his upturned car. The wind hampers their rescue and threatens to send the car over a cliff. Meanwhile Michelle monitors an approaching storm cell on her computer while the rest of the crew, including Vince and Lachie, hurry to assist Heidi and Jordan. Michelle hears the roaring wind through her radio as the storm hits. Then the radio goes dead. The second Patrol and Rescue Truck avoid the worst of the storm but soon discover its devastation. They come across a small caravan park that’s been totally obliterated. Dean, Chase and Lara stay to help while Vince and Lachie go in search of Heidi and Jordan. Inside one of the crushed vans Lara discovers a woman, Annie, trapped. To complicate matters she’s eight months pregnant.

8:30pm Wednesday, October 3 on Prime

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Wrapping up from a rescue, Heidi and Jordan are looking forward to some secret time alone, but the Gallagher boys intervene. As Lara and Heidi travel together, a bikie gang surrounds them and demand they follow them to where two of their group have smashed through a rural cafe. Lara deals with the cafe owner’s wife, who is impaled and unable to be moved. The cafe owner, Greg, is beside himself, as the roof is about to cave in. The bikie gang’s 2IC, Bones, drags Lara away to deal with the leader, Dekker. It’s a tense situation, until Chase, Dean and Jordan turn up to defuse it. Meanwhile Heidi discovers the famous bank robber Siddy Carter is trapped beneath a collapsed wall. He reveals the bikies are going to kill him. Rescue must put themselves on the line and face the bikies to save his life.

8:30pm Wednesday, September 26 on Prime

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When a light plane strays into city airspace and can’t be contacted, the Rescue team are dispatched to trail it in the event of an emergency. This quickly eventuates when the plane goes down and ploughs into a customs yard then promptly explodes, triggering a full-blown rescue effort.

8:35pm Wednesday, September 19 on Prime

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The Rescue team are testing out their new quad bikes on the Kurnell dunes when they come across a critically injured boy, Shaun, in a smashed up dune buggy. Meanwhile Chase has a near miss with a frightened and confused local boy Todd, who flees Chase, only to collapse in an epileptic seizure.

8:30pm Wednesday, September 12 on Prime

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The Rescue team attend an overturned bus on a lonely stretch of bush highway, only to discover it is full of female prisoners. Under pressure from State Protection Group, Vince warns them to wait for the cops. So when a passing Senior Constable, Zoe Hulme, arrives, Dean decides she’ll do. As they try to treat the many injured, Sheree, a tough druggie prisoner, steals a gun from a prison guard. She demands all of their morphine. After a struggle in which another prisoner is shot, Sheree makes her escape, just before the SPG descends. They soon discover that another prisoner is missing, and as they search for her a hostage situation unfolds…