The WORST episodes of Rush (2008)
Every episode of Rush (2008) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Rush (2008)!
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#1 - Mortality
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/10/2011
Tactical Response find themselves up against a carefully planned manoeuvre when Lawson and others are taken hostage by the Cuckoo as part of an escape attempt from a military courtroom. As part of the team negotiates for Lawson’s freedom, Josh and Stella follow their own investigation: searching for a bomb.
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#2 - Survival
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/6/2011
Tactical Response goes into overdrive as they desperately try and to locate Michael after his undercover buy-bust goes horribly wrong. Josh starts to crumble under the guilt of letting Michael get away while Stella is furious, realising her best friend, and once lover, may not come back alive. It's a race against time as Kerry fights political red tape and the remaining members of Tactical Response do anything they can to get one of their team back safely.
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#3 - Escort (1)
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/1/2011
The assassination of the Police Minister and a war brewing on the docks throws TR into the centre of a major new task force investigation. Secondly, Shannon keeps a shocking secret from Lawson and the team during an assignment to protect a woman...
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#4 - Bush
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/4/2010
TR go bush for a routine training exercise. Unbeknownst to Lawson and Josh, the younger members of the squad soon find themselves at the mercy of Oliver Ginsberg, who has rigged the forest with deadly traps. When they discover Ginsberg is on his way to the city with a van full of explosives, they realize the worst is yet to come...
#5 - Out
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/21/2010
When Andrew Kronin stages a brazen escape, Michael struggles with past demons as TR hunt down the armed robber and murderer. Burning for revenge, Michael is helped by Lawson to come to terms with his feelings.
#6 - Truck
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/5/2010
As Lawson's growing obsession with the robbery crew threatens to pull Tactical Response apart, Josh shows his leadership as TR2 assist Drug Squad with the arrest of a drug importer. But things aren't as simple as they first seem when TR discover the offender's niece has been kidnapped and held to ransom. Josh must race to save the girl, in the process meeting her mother, Tash, who will change everything.
#7 - Episode 10
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/4/2008
TR is called to a media centre, where a man has locked himself in a room and has planted a number of paint bombs throughout the building. Michael is hit, but not injured. Dom discovers where the bombs really are, and him and grace are both hospitalised after the explosions.
#8 - Episode 1
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/2/2008
After rescuing two children, Josh's rage spills onto their father, who may have attempted to kill them. The new inspector challenges Josh's position on the team
#9 - Episode 2
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/9/2008
Lawson and Grace try to talk-down a troubled teenager when she threatens suicide, trapped on a rooftop with her young boyfriend. She was later found to have killed her boyfriend's father. Grace's inexperience is quickly revealed when she tries to fix the situation, which ends in the young woman's tragic death.
#10 - Episode 4
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/2008
A criminal in custody escapes from the prison van he is being tranported in, and makes an audacious break for freedom. In doing so, he assaults Grace and takes a woman hostage. He then forces Josh to drive him around town before playing a little Russian Roulette. However, Josh is saved and the criminal is arrested
#11 - Episode 7
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/2008
Michael is found cleared of the herpes. The team arrives at a big surburban party and find a group of teenagers have stolen a gun from a security guard. Stella and Michael then go undercover to try and retrieve the stolen weapon. Michael then saves a high school boy from being severely beaten by kids from a rival high school
#12 - Episode 10
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/10/2009
Michael puts his life in danger when he goes against protocol taking on a group of robbers single-handedly. Tactical Response responds to a suspicious car tailing an armoured van. Michael goes against standard operating procedure taking on the robbers single-handedly. When the robbers discover their operation compromised, Michael finds his life in danger. Unable to hold back, Michael confesses his true feelings to Stella.
#13 - Episode 19
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/12/2009
Lawson tries to save Caleb from a life of crime, only to discover it's already too late. Meanwhile, Dom's home life explodes when Sandrine's depression threatens to harm their baby.
#14 - Episode 15
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/15/2009
Lawson, Shannon and Stella race to save the lives of college students when two teenagers go on a rampage at a college campus. Dom and Michael attend an armed robbery to find the gunman has been attacked by a security dog and is missing an ear. Josh, on suspension, visits Gabe, a psychologist to deal with his anger issues.
#15 - Episode 7
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/27/2009
When teenagers blow up a series of parking pay stations, TR races to prevent them killing themselves and innocent bystanders.
#16 - Episode 8
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/21/2008
When a politician’s daughter and her school friend are kidnapped, the team is asked to run a covert operation to get the girls back safely. After it goes wrong, the team discovers the daughter and her friend set the ransom up, before they need to be saved from a lying con-artist.
#17 - Episode 3
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/2008
The TRG is called out to a sports oval where a heavily-armed gunman shoots Stella, who is saved by her kevlar vest. When the gunman requests to meet with a senior officer, Lawson approaches him and finds he was actually a former weapons-master who intends on suicide-by-cop. The situation ends when, after trying to avoid shooting the man, Lawson is forced to shoot and kill the man when he pulls a handgun on him.
#18 - Episode 6
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/7/2008
Josh, Grace and Michael investigate when an alarm is going off at a high-security laboratory. They find that an animal rights activists group calling themselves 'Freedom From Torture' has freed almost all of the research animals from their cages. Michael is bitten by a monkey who is later found to have herpes
#19 - Episode 22
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/26/2009
Meanwhile Melbourne’s water supply is contaminated by a woman who believes fluoride in the water has killed her husband, and Michael’s faith is tested when he loses a large sum of money while swimming with two underage girls.
#20 - Episode 11
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/10/2008
Lawson and Stella deal with a suicidal ex-footballer, Michael and Josh chase burglars through a series of complex tunnels, and Kerry is kept busy at the hospital where Dom and Grace are recovering. Grace unfortunately dies abruptly, while Connor confronts Josh after Grace revealed to him she was cheating on him with Josh.
#21 - Episode 9
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/2008
Lawson is a part of a high speed chase involving a group of carjackers, Kerry is pulled over for drunk driving, and Josh, Grace and Michael are involved in a fatal car accident.
#22 - Episode 5
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/30/2008
When the TR team intercepts a known drug dealer, they discover that a robbery is about to take place, which then turns into a siege when the robbers take hostages. One of the criminals falls into a basement beneath the bar and later dies. Dom goes in to try to convince the robbers to stop, but the owner of the bar is shot by a spear gun. Eventually, one of the criminals gives up while the other is arrested
#23 - Episode 9
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/10/2009
Stella's future in Tactical Response is threatened when she becomes involved in an illegal car race. Kerry faces the coronial inquest into the cyclist's death. Later, Boyd visits Kerry at home with a peace offering and Dom finds a creative solution to an unusual situation at a strip club where an out of control father demands to see his daughter.
#24 - Episode 5
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/13/2009
During a routine cell extraction Dom and Stella are caught in a prison siege. As Shannon negotiates with the ringleader, she slips up admitting Dom and Stella are inside. When the situation escalates Lawson sends in Josh and the riot police. Meanwhile an accident throws Kerry a massive curve ball.
#25 - Episode 11
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/17/2009
When John Welsh, an ex-SAS soldier robs a petrol station, TR join with a major crime squad to help bring him down. A drug-related story Jacinta is investigating ends up putting her life at risk. Lawson tries to protect her, but finds she is quite unwilling to accept his help.