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Sea Patrol Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2009 - 2009
Episode 1
Catch and Release
44 mins
E.T. proposes to Nikki whilst on shore leave and then leaves to go diving with the Robsen Dive Boat at Red Reef. E.T. doesn't make it back on time when the Hammersley has been called back into service early. The crew receive an alert for a missing dive boat with eight personnel on board. A search of a near island reveals that all divers in the water are dead, amongst them E.T. who is found by Nikki. At the same time the crew must carry on looking for a ghost ship which seems hell bent on killing anyone in their path whilst still mourning for their lost crew mate.
Episode 2
Monkey Business
43 mins
Leo '2 Dads' Kosov-Meyer, the late ET's replacement, first meets Spider on shore leave in a port where the Hammersley docked on a charm offensive. Shamelessly out-cheating knock off-sellers, Leo gets away with a watch and a monkey. Despite Spider's warning pets aren't allowed aboard, the cocky rookie expects to outsmart everyone. So Flynn soon finds the knave's criminal record, based on which the judge ordered signing up for the military to avoid prison, isn't unjust, yet offers him a fair chance. On the very next mission, Leo can prove he also has matching guts, which redeems some mischief.
Episode 3
China Dolls
44 mins
Kate becomes concerned about a boat which pleads asylum but which contains only one man and several women and feels they are destined for the illegal sex trade. On board they find a pregnant female in labour who Swain tries to save but she dies leaving him no option but to cut the baby from her - a boy. Mike orders that the boat be turned around despite Kate's objections. Later Kate chases up a lead left by the dead female's belongings and soon unearths an off-shore floating brothel which has the dead woman's sister amongst them held against their will.
Episode 4
Guns
43 mins
On the way to answering a mayday call the Hammersley rescue ex-Navy Lieutenant Geoff Kershaw who's boat had capsized. When they reach the location of the mayday call they only find Matt & Simone Robsen's boat deserted but loaded with weapons. They search the nearby island and find Matt & Simone tied up who tell them that some men tied them up and left them there. Hammersley let NavCom know the serial numbers of the weapons who advise them that a dangerous ex-Navy man Shane Davis had stolen them from an Army base in Darwin months previously. Mike leads two teams to capture Davis and eventually capture them and transfer them to the Hammersley. But is the trouble really over?
Episode 5
Ghost Net
44 mins
Whilst pursuing an illegal diving boat the crew retreat and leave behind a young diver in the water. The Hammersley crew rescue the young boy and the crew from the dive boat. Spider develops an attachment to the boy who turns out was sold to the illegal fishermen as he's a deaf mute. Shortly afterwards the Hammersley intercepts a mayday call from the Robsen's dive boat to the Robsens but when Mike contacts the Robsens directly they refuse help. Mike suspects they are up to no good and so orders the Hammersley to the location of the Robsen dive boat at Red Reef which only drags up bad memories for Nikki as it is where E.T. was found. On locating the dive boat they find the divers some distance from the boat caught in ghost nets, both are alive and one of them turns out to be Campbell Fulton - the man who sexually harassed Nikki previously. Campbell redeems himself slightly when he helps the crew with the deaf mute who develops 'the bends'. Matt Robsen thanks Mike for his help but Mike tells him he is reporting the Robsens to the Civilian Maritime and he aims to have their license revoked. Nikki challenges Fulton above the accident and he tells her that E.T. was the junior man on the dive and so was in charge of safety. But Nikki knows that safety was paramount to E.T. and now she suspects that E.T.'s death was not accidental.
Episode 6
Oh Danny Boy
43 mins
TwoDads sets a drunk RO up with a cross-dresser named Danielle whilst on foreign shore leave. When RO finds out that Danielle is really Danny, he leaves and stumbles across a plot to hi-jack a nuclear waste vessel which the Hammersley is escorting to the Pacific. In trying to get away he alerts the terrorists and ends up wrecking the inside of a hotel with a golf cart and is jailed. He is released on $3000 bail mostly paid by winnings TwoDads. The following morning TwoDads and Charge serenade RO with the song 'Danny Boy' over the tannoy. Later Spider discovers a bomb in the laundry room which was brought on board as supplies and planted by the terrorists. TwoDads and RO face a race against time to save the crew and the Hammersley from destruction. Meanwhile, a drunk Buffer unknowingly gets a new tattoo declaring his love for Kate which was set up by Spider and which embarrasses Kate.
Episode 7
Half Life
58 mins
Answering a crashing helicopter's distress call, the Hammersley has to send two quickly alternating teams on a former British nuclear test island. The rugged terrain proves no less dangerous the the permanent radiation while searching for two wandered-off survivors from the ecologist documentary film team.
Episode 8
Red Sky Morning
58 mins
Lieutenant Cliff Bailey, a magnificent martial arts expert, wakes even Bomber's lust. The boys enjoy swimming and diving, until Spider is dangerously but not too seriously wounded at the leg by an unresponsive passing cargo ship. It's found later, but completely abandoned by all crew. Nathan Talbot is rescued, drifting at sea. Soon after, dangerous lures aboard the Hammersley, with two poisoning cases, and the towed cargo, plain bloodily.
Episode 9
Pearls Before Swine
59 mins
2Dads neglected his duty in refueling the inflatable which causes them to lose two jet-ski thieves who had just robbed a pearl boat. To get back at what he believes is very harsh treatment given to him by Kate and Buffer he starts a rumor that both are a couple secretly. But Buffer and Kate find an unique way to punish him.
Episode 10
Safeguard
58 mins
The Hammersley comes under attack from a heavily-armed boat of smugglers who discharge mines near the boat in order to get away. At the same time CMDR Steve Marshall orders a training exercise under the watchful eye of Buffer's former girlfriend Cynthia Luxton. Elsewhere, Charge is forced to face up to his past when his estranged sailor son Jamie helps in the mission to track down the smugglers.
Episode 11
Secret Cargo
57 mins
Bomber and the crew of the Hammersley rescue what appear to be two stranded tourists after their boat capsizes but when the male tourist dies suddenly on board an investigation ensues and it turns out that they are in fact drug smugglers. In trying to get back drugs left on the Hammersley the female, Jila, and others take Bomber and RO hostage and it's a race by the rest of the crew to rescue them before the violent Jila kills them. Meanwhile, Nav goes in search of answers into ET's death and becomes certain that ET's business partner Campbell Fulton was responsible for his death and the other 7 people who died.
Episode 12
Black Gold
58 mins
The Hammersley rescue an unconscious female, named Belinda Lloyd, adrift on a raft near the Red Reef Oil Fields. When Belinda recovers she tells Swain and Mike that she and her husband were attacked and she escaped on a raft. She later identifies ET as one of her attackers but Nav refuses to believe ET was involved and becomes distraught over it. Later that night Belinda escapes and the Hammersley set course for a nearby island to look for her. Kate finds Belinda's belongings and proof that she did meet ET. Whilst searching the island Buffer falls into an underground oil tanker and only just manages to be rescued before the tank fills with oil. On further investigation the crew find that there is illegal oil smuggling operation in place on the island. On returning to the Hammersley they see a body adrift and find Belinda but she is dead. Elsewhere, Charge is put on a diet much to his intense dislike.
Episode 13
Red Reef
64 mins
The Hammersley and its crew monitor Penfold Island near the Red Reef Oil Fields where the oil smugglers have based their operation. When they cannot contact their Army lookout on the island Kate leads a crew onto the island where they find the dead lookout. Spider and Kate are attacked by the assailant but Kate recognises him - Campbell Fulton. Fulton escapes by jetski. Mike pursues the Robsens but they say Fulton was sacked by them weeks previously. The Hammersley intercept a call from Robsens ordering that Fulton be silenced. Mike orders that the Hammersley shadow the Robsens boat. NavCom then informs Mike although Penfold Island is now under federal monitoring the oil tank is emptying. The Hammersley find Fulton's dive boat with Fulton in the water and he is taken into custody on the Hammersley. They trace the oil connection to an abandoned fish farm where the Robsens are winding up their operation and taking the remaining oil out by road. Nikki questions Fulton and finds out that Fulton was ordered by the Robsens to kill E.T. as they recognised him as Navy. A battle, led by Mike and Kate, then ensues to stop the Robsens before it is too late.