Rescue: Special Ops: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Rescue: Special Ops Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Ambushed
May 30, 2011
The team is threatened with the introduction of Lifeblood, a privately owned rescue organisation trying to take over their business. It leaves the entire team on edge, in fear of l
Fearless
May 30, 2011
Rescue attends an MVA involving a truck and a BMW. Dean and Chase attempt to free trapped Tyler, a stressed-out share trader who's more worried about making a morning meeting than
True Romance
Jun 6, 2011
After receiving a panicked call from a man lost in a foggy ravine, Rescue are flying blind as they try to reach him. Meanwhile, Chase, Jordan and Heidi struggle to find Katie, and
Secrets And Lies
Jun 6, 2011
When a young girl, Lily, is found trapped on a crumbling cliff ledge by the ocean, Rescue call for the Lifeblood chopper - only to find that the ballsy pilot is none other than Hei
Him Or Me
Jun 13, 2011
The private lives of Rescue are in turmoil. Lara struggles to cope with her marriage break-up, while Chase hides a debilitating shoulder injury, worried that coming clean could cos
Demon Days
Jun 13, 2011
The team is called out to a Gay Pride rehearsal, where dancers have been trapped under an overturned float.
Man In The Machine
Jun 20, 2011
Due to his shoulder injury, Chase takes over Vince's normal role at the station while Vince heads into the field responding to a routine man-in-a-machine run
The Game
Jun 20, 2011
Rescue is called out to free a trapped garbo from his garbage compactor, but during the rescue, they discover a woman on the ledge of a nearby office building who looks like she is
It's Not the Fall That Kills You
Jun 27, 2011
Called to a high-rise office to rescue a general manager and his assistant when their late-night tryst goes horribly wrong, Rescue are shocked to discover the real reason for the G
Stolen
Jul 4, 2011
Swinging by her office early one morning, Michelle interrupts an intruder photocopying Rescue documents. In the ensuing foot chase, the intruder is sideswiped by a car.
In Deep
Jul 4, 2011
The team rescue Tan, an injured rock fisherman who doesn't speak English. Jordan goes up with the man to the Lifeblood chopper, piloted by Heidi. They soon learn what the man was t
Break Out
Jul 11, 2011
The Rescue team attend an overturned bus on a lonely stretch of bush highway, only to discover it is full of female prisoners.
The Dunes
Jul 18, 2011
The 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.
Chemical Brothers
Jul 25, 2011
When a light plane strays into city airspace and can't be contacted, Rescue is dispatched to trail it in the event of an emergency.
The Carter Redemption
Jul 25, 2011
Wrapping up from a rescue, Heidi and Jordan are looking forward to some secret time alone, but the Gallagher boys intervene.
Storm Chaser
Aug 1, 2011
Wind buffets the Patrol as Heidi and Jordan race to rescue a storm chaser, Ed, trapped in his upturned car. However, the wind hampers their rescue and threatens to send the car ove
Art Attack
Aug 8, 2011
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 scu
Missing Pieces
Aug 15, 2011
The Rescue unit attends an MVA involving one Helen Hillerstrom, who reveals her son, Oscar, is missing in the Blue Mountains.
Class of Their Own
Aug 22, 2011
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 bleed
The Intervention
Aug 29, 2011
Rescue search the bush for a missing prospector, Simon Prestwich, but Lara and Dean are distracted when a car crashes on a fire trail.
Bad Company
Aug 29, 2011
The Gallagher brothers' boot-camp session on Freshwater beach is interrupted when a kite-surfer is blown against a beachfront condo.
Two Fires
Sep 5, 2011
When a truck crashes into a service station, everyone is stretched to the limit dealing with multiple traumas.