Rescue Special Operations

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 seems about to jump. Dean brings her down, but not before hearing her bizarre story about two men trying to kidnap her. It appears the woman (Kaz) is psychologically disturbed. Before Dean can hand her over to the cops to await the Mental Health Team, Kaz does a runner, and it is left to Dean and Chase to hunt her down. When Dean finds Kaz in the street, he’s shocked to see her bundled into the back of a black van by two men, and driven away at speed. It appears Kaz isn’t as deluded as Dean assumed she was. Dean and Chase follow the van and end up freeing Kaz from her kidnappers in an underground carpark. Convincing Dean that Kaz’s sister is also in danger, Dean agrees to take her by her flat on the way to the police, so that Kaz can warn her. But at the flat, Kaz climbs out a window and takes off on a motorbike. The black van pursues her. Dean and Chase follow in the Patrol, only to come upon an accident scene. The black van has crashed, and Kaz has disappeared. In rescuing the two thugs in the van, Dean’s shocked to learn that the entire kidnapping is just an elaborate reality game orchestrated by Kaz and a gaming company called Thrillseek. Dean feels humiliated at being hoodwinked, and is forced to suffer the jibes of his team. He’s also pissed off when news comes in that Kaz’s motorbike has been found abandoned in bushland. It seems that Kaz doesn’t realise the game is over and now is wasting Rescue’s time and resources. Before they set off on the search, however, a businesswoman (Leonie) turns up at the stationhouse to reveal that she was the one who hired Thrillseek for the game. It seems that Thrillseek snatched Kaz by mistake. Dean and Chase finally locate Kaz in precarious circumstances and rescue her. Dean presses Kaz for the truth, sensing that there’s more to her story than a simple case of mistaken identity. Kaz reveals that she’s a former employee of Leonie’s game software company. Leonie stole her game idea and Kaz was merely stealing it back when the “kidnappers” pounced on her. Dean is faced with a difficult decision – disbelieve Kaz and hand her over to Leonie to reclaim her game data…or believe Kaz and help her get away with the prize. His decision has consequences, not just for his career, but for his relationship with Chase. Meanwhile, when Jordan, Lara and Heidi spend their day in the back of a garbage truck recovering the severed hand of a garbo caught in his garbage compactor, the permanent stench of garbage threatens to derail Lara’s first “real” date with Cam.