A police officer-cum-football star transfers into Rescue. The retired Inspector who helped create the Rescue squad is helping write a history of the service, which creates political difficulties for Adams.

The squad responds to a train crash. Mickey works in the compartment where a critically injured man hides his injuries to encourage the other passengers.

Mickey is assigned to protect a whistleblower prior to her testimony in a court case.

Frog must appear before a coronial inquest after he disregards proper procedure to lead the team into an unstable partially collapsed building in an attempt to rescue a trapped child. The effort nearly costs Georgia her life and the child ultimately dies in hospital, initiating a fierce debate amongst the squad. Frog and Kathy respond to a home where a man has murdered his wife and three children. Finding the husband with a gun in his hands, Frog passively stands by waiting for him to finish the job by taking his own life. Frog descends into a ravine to rescue an injured boy.

The squad welcomes a new member, Constable Brian Morley. With the of Sydney excited over the Grand Final football match, Mickey, Georgia, and Brian attend an MVA which is complicated by unknown hazardous chemicals, a Drug Squad surveillance operation, and a man trapped in a truck who cheerfully refuses to be rescued. Angel and Kathy respond to the scene of a party where a drunken reveller has fallen into an abandoned underground shelter.

Kathy refuses to deal with her emotions when tragedy strikes her family. After Mickey scales an apartment building to rescue a woman locked out on her balcony, he, Georgia and Kathy attend the scene of a fatal car accident caused by a drunk driver. Angel has to deal with his brother Con, who is getting into increasing trouble. Kathy descends in to a silo to rescue a worker buried up to his chest in sugar.

After two youths crash a stolen plane in the National Park requiring rescue, Mickey finds himself being sued for negligence by the owner of the plane — the father of one of the kids. With a legal battle looming, Mickey receives help from the one man he would least expect it from.

The squad is called on to save an artist who is obsessed with his wife's "affairs" and who has decided to kill both himself and his family. Mickey agrees to be Angel's best man but their close relationship becomes an obstacle for Angel in his relationship with Helena. A groom learns the benefits of a ball and chain while suspended from a bridge.

Nipper voices his doubts that Brian will ever become an intergrated member of the squad. He also has to deal with harrassment from a recently released criminal he arrested years ago who bears a grudge. Angel and Helena tie the knot.

Angel becomes convinced that Helena is having an affair and begins losing control, both at home and at work. Inspector Adams finds a pamphlet on unplanned pregnancy as well as a pregnancy test in Sharyn's desk. Teenage lovers threaten to jump off the Harbour Bridge. Georgia and David discuss having children.

Mickey and ambulance officer Tricia Mellick receive public accolades and media attention after being involved in a high profile rescue. Georgia questions her future with the police after she has a close call on a rescue. Mickey finally admits to himself his feelings about Georgia just as she decides to make a commitment to David.

Tensions between Mickey and Georgia build as her marriage to David draws near. Mickey and Angel rescue a superhero from a tight situation. The squad is called out to help rescuea group of archeologists who have been trapped in a flooding cave system. During the search, Mickey is swept away in the rising flood waters.