The BEST episodes of Rush (2008)
Every episode of Rush (2008) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rush (2008)!
They are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide. Feel the rush, with an insider's view of police under pressure - watch the supremely trained Tactical Response team defusing crises, save lives and prevent crime.
#1 - Island
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 12/16/2010
The members of TR are called to a mysterious island in response to a distress call. When one of them is injured, they find themselves in a race against time to not only save their colleague, but to find out who else is there with them and make an arrest.
#3 - Dirty Bomb
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/17/2011
As the bomb squad work to defuse a bomb, the team are tasked to fly to Fiji to extradite a South Korean National back to Australia. Shannon also responds to Lawson's marriage proposal, sort of.
#4 - Army
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/25/2010
The team find themselves in unfamiliar territory when Christian is taken hostage during a siege at an army barracks. Christian's philosophies are challenged when his captor forces him to choose between killing a guilty life or saving an innocent one.
#5 - Sniper
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/29/2010
Tactical Response attempt to find a sniper on the run, with an city under fire, the teams swiftly respond however struggle to find a reason for the gunman's actions.
#6 - Oedipus
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/18/2010
After the death of their mate Dom, TR honor him in their own special way. Kerry is shocked when her son James is arrested for assault on a flight from Vietnam. When James flees, Kerry finds herself in a race against time to save him from two violent drug runners. Meanwhile, Lawson refuses medical treatment when he is knocked down saving a cilivian from the path of an oncoming car. He and TR1 come to a new understanding of parental love when they encounter an abusive teenager who hates his mother.
#7 - Heist
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/22/2010
The Tactical Response team investigate an attack on a police helicopter and multiple car bombings, however only after time passes, they realize it is all part of a cunning plan to rob a money-holding accommodation, learning this the teams pursue the case.
#8 - Snatch
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/12/2010
TR score a lead when an ordinary civilian unwittingly implicates himself with Andrew Kronin's gang. As Lawson pushes the man to get to Kronin, Dom takes umbrage. Dom snaps, turning his gun on TR and flees. As TR 2 track down Dom, Lawson exults when he recovers a substantial amount of the heist money.
#9 - Explosives
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/20/2011
Tragedy can have a profound effect on those involved. Everyone has different coping mechanisms, and Tactical Response continues to reel from a tragedy within their own ranks. Stella can barely build up strength to face the day and Christian appreciates a comforting presence from Amber. Josh, feeling responsible and immense guilt from what has happened, goes underground, deliberately avoiding contact from anyone at TR.
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#14 - Proof
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 12/9/2010
Josh's proposal to Tash is interrupted when ESD storm Tash's house and arrest him. Facing charges of corruption, Josh realises that his arrest is closely linked to the earlier attempt on his life, as he strives to clear his name once and for all.
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#15 - Blood
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/25/2010
TR embark on an unusual and confronting assignment when they must remove a newborn baby from its mother as part of an intervention order. When the mother's family murder a police officer in retaliation, TR find themselves resorting to extreme tactics to catch the men responsible.
#16 - Catch-22
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/11/2010
Tactical Respose race into town, on the hunt for Oliver Ginsberg. They learn that Ginsberg has placed a very large bomb under the city and that he has plenty more deadly tricks in store for them. Lawson finds himself in an awkward position when he must work with Dom, now a member of the bomb squad, to defuse the bomb.
#17 - Hostage
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/30/2010
The Tactical Response team becomes involved in stopping a weird hostage situation, meanwhile, Audrey discovers Michael slept with Stella in the aftermath of her miscarriage.
#18 - Train
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/9/2010
A runaway train ploughs through country stations on a collision course with another train. Lawson sets foot on the relentless express, unaware that he is on his own collision course with Andrew Kronin. As the final showdown beckons, Lawson will have to overcome more than just the train if he is to win back his teammates' faith.
#19 - L'Homme
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/2/2010
As Tactical Response gather to move on armed robber Andrew Kronin and his men, Michael's foray into the world of underground fighting creates a dangerous complication when he is identified as a police officer by one of Kronin's crew and he quickly finds himself a marked man. Shannon later discovers Tactical Response are not the only group who want Kronin when she is caught in the middle of an attack on him by violent criminal associates.
#20 - Brawl
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/26/2010
Back on the job with Tactical Response, Stella helps to settle a violent ethnic dispute. But when one of the offenders takes a special liking to her, she's forced into a dangerous situation that truly puts her courage to the test. Meanwhile, Lawson is on the trail of a volatile young couple who are desperate to get married and Josh receives a drunken phone call from teenage Minka, the daughter of his new love interest Tash.
#21 - Punta
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/2/2010
TR are forced to work with a slick private security firm to save a kidnapped businessman. Working closely with its charming leader Shmitt, Shannon is enticed by the prospect of joining the firm. Lawson, however, has other plans as he and Shannon play the waiting game they take a moment to drop by Shannon's investment property, and they succumb to mutual attraction, as Shannon's sexual hiatus finally comes to an end. Unbeknownst to them, they have just been caught by a hidden camera, which Michael has set up to catch thieves.
#23 - Episode 2
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/23/2009
When a group of students are lured into being drug mules, TR races to stop them, as Kerry warns Lawson he risks compromising a federal investigation.
#24 - Episode 6
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/20/2009
When an ex-newspaper editor causes a disturbance at Federation Square, Tactical Response tries to talk him down before he tragically falls to his death. A series of TAB robberies lead Tactical Response to link the incidents to a man attempting to settle a score. Meanwhile, struggling to deal with repercussions of the cyclist's death, Kerry leads Leon on a wild night out.
#25 - Cooked
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/16/2010
As TR, along with the drug squad, work to catch a well known drug gang, Kerry's efforts to save Blake, a meth cook and reformed drug addict becomes personal when, devastatingly, she finds out that her son James is battling his own addiction. Meanwhile, Josh finds himself fighting for his life when an unknown man breaks into his apartment and tries to kill him.