Rescue Special Operations

S03:E12 - Break Out

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 SPG 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, Gus. She demands all of their morphine. After a struggle in which another prisoner is shot, Sheree makes her escape, just before the State Protection Group descends. They discover another prisoner is missing - Miranda, a young woman suffering from concussion. As they search for her, Heidi and Jordan – still awkward after they declared their feelings to each other - separate and Jordan is taken hostage by Sheree. This only confirms for the SPG inspector Dave Perrett that Rescue have no business being here. Michelle’s efforts to cooperate are hampered by the fact Perrett is an old mate of Johnson’s. When Dean, Lara, Zoe and Gus come across Jordan and Sheree, a shoot out ensues and Zoe is shot. Sheree escapes and Jordan takes off in pursuit as Dean and Lara treat Zoe. Jordan catches up to Sheree just in time to see her scuffling with Miranda over car keys. Jordan intervenes, Miranda pushes Sheree, and Sheree is knocked unconscious. Miranda makes her escape as Heidi arrives on the scene, filled with relief to find Jordan okay. Vince’s suspicions about the location of the bus crash fuels Michelle’s disquiet over the news that Miranda had car keys. She questions Phil, the second prison guard and discovers that the crash was no accident. Gus swerved on purpose. Dean, Lara, Zoe and Gus find Miranda about to escape in a waiting 4WD – arranged for her by her lover, Gus. Zoe steps in front of the fleeing car and at the last moment Lara saves her as Miranda swerves and flips the car. Dean and Lara rescue Miranda as the SPG descend. In the aftermath, Heidi and Jordan secretly decide to act on their feelings while Dean asks Zoe out but she tells him her life is too complicated.