Rush (Series 2 - Volume 1) - 3-DVD Set ( Rush - Series Two - Volume One )

Rush (Series 2 - Volume 1) - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Rush - Series Two - Volume One
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
504 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Daniel Nettheim
Adam Todd

Written By:
John Edwards
Christopher Lee

Actors:
Rodger Corser ..... Lawson Blake
Callan Mulvey ..... Brendan 'Josh' Joshua
Jolene Anderson ..... Shannon Henry
Josef Ber ..... Dominic Wales
Nicole da Silva ..... Stella Dagostino
Ashley Zukerman ..... Michael Sandrelli
Samuel Johnson ..... Leon Broznic
Catherine McClements ..... Kerry Vincent
Jade Amantea ..... Pedestrian
Melissa Andersen ..... Tina Lawson
Chelsea Bruland ..... Pedestrian
Marky Lee Campbell ..... Pedestrian
Nicholas Dutt ..... Storeman
Jacquie Geelan ..... Pedestrian
Fiona Harris ..... Corinne
Patrick Harvey ..... Stuart Tibbs
Ryan Jones ..... Daniel Kranz
Hunter Perske ..... Grant Maloney
Glenn Stocchelli ..... Guard
James Vegter ..... Ryan Murdoch
George Vidalis ..... Gershon Wilder
Joshua Dean Williams ..... Policeman (uncredited)

Synopsis:

RUSH is back!! After rating 1M+ weekly over 13 episodes in its first series, RUSH s popularity is set to reach a whole new level in 2009, with a whopping 23 episodes slated for this second series - 12 of which are contained within Volume 1 (Volume 2 due out next March!). Considered the Australian CSI, RUSH is big, bold and broad in its appeal. RUSH SERIES 2 follows the actions of a critical response police unit. It is a fast-paced punch in the face for Australian television, with world-class production values and mass commercial appeal. RUSH SERIES 2 is screening on Channel 10 from July to December 2009.

Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Episode #2.1
Original Air Date-16 July 2009
The team race to save the life of a security guard, with an explosive device taped to his chest, after a break-in at an illegal weapons container. Elsewhere, new team member Shannon Henry helps Lawson deal with an irate salesman with a stolen forklift who has his bosses car mounted on its forks.
Season 2, Episode 2: Don't Be a Drug Mule
Original Air Date-23 July 2009
Leon's on/off girlfriend Nina trips and falls from a high rise after doing a strip for him and it is up to Shannon to keep her calm as she dangles precariously from a cloth whilst Josh and Michael try to get to her before she falls to her death. Elsewhere, Lawson risks everything in his determination to stop a group of students being lured into a drug-smuggling ring. Meanwhile, Josh meets Camilla, a woman from his past, at the airport and Kerry is none too happy about going through a divorce from Jeffrey.
Season 2, Episode 3: Episode #2.3
Original Air Date-30 July 2009
The Tactical Response team are called to rescue a woman in a submerged car. Michael becomes a hero for rescuing her and also an Internet sensation as he was caught on a mobile phone. But he soon finds out that being the hero isn't all it is cracked up to be. Meanwhile, Lawson is called to a domestic dispute involving a drunken father and his young son whom Lawson connects with. Elsewhere, Shannon is tested when she encounters a young prostitute.
Season 2, Episode 4: Don't Take a Judge Hostage
Original Air Date-6 August 2009
Josh, Shannon and Dominic try to find a peaceful resolution when family court judge, Justice Kate Hawker, is taken hostage by Ollie Goddard, an exasperated father who's kids were taken off him by Judge Hawker in a previous ruling. Elsewhere, Lawson, Michael and Stella try to find a man who murdered his girlfriend and left their daughter at a rail station where she was nearly ran over by a train. Lawson is also non enamoured by persistent journalist Jacinta Burns who goes out of her way to get the first scoop on the unfolding story. Stella and Michael agree to go on a date but Stella doesn't want a relationship with him.
Season 2, Episode 5: Episode #2.5
Original Air Date-13 August 2009
Josh, Dom & Stella are called to Edgehurst Prison to negotiate with Martin Gero who has managed to lock himself into a cell with a German Shepherd dog. Whilst there a riot, lead by convict Jacob White, erupts and Dom and Stella get caught up in it with Josh able to make his way outside. Shannon negotiates with Jacob over the closure of the prison but not before a lot of damage has been done and guards beaten up. Meanwhile, Kerry knocks down a cyclist, whilst checking her mobile phone, and he dies at the scene. His grieving brother Boyd Kemper is enraged at Kerry as she blames the cyclist and refuses to see her own culpability.
Season 2, Episode 6: Don't Get a Tattoo
Original Air Date-20 August 2009
Gaz Walton, an ex-newspaper editor, causes a disturbance at Federation Square & Immigration Bridge and Tactical Response are called where Shannon tries to talk him down but he falls to his death. The team discover that the vodka bottles he was carrying were glued to his hands and then find his wife tied up at home. Meanwhile, a series of TAB robberies lead Tactical Response eventually to link the robberies and Gaz Walton to Ari Woolcott, a man attempting to get revenge. Elsewhere, struggling to deal with repercussions of the cyclist's death, Kerry goes on a night out with Leon and ends up with a tattoo.
Season 2, Episode 7: Don't Blow Up a Parking Station
Original Air Date-27 August 2009
Teenager brothers Jay and Vic Connor aim to blow up a series of parking pay stations and gain Internet notoriety. The team try to prevent them killing themselves and innocent bystanders. Meanwhile, Michael's temper gets the better of him and he lashes out at a protester where it is caught on a mobile phone and distributed. Lawson is far from pleased. Elsewhere, Josh and Dominic help Shannon avoid a repo man; Josh inherits a dog and Kerry makes contact with Boyd Kemper despite Leon urging her not to.
Season 2, Episode 8: Don't Shoot a Police Officer
Original Air Date-3 September 2009
Tactical Response are called to a domestic siege in rural Somerville where they apprehend a known guns offender named Troy. But Troy's nephew Robbie has disappeared into the bush after shooting his mum's new boyfriend and doesn't want to be rescued and in the process shoots Josh in the leg and at the rescue helicopter. So it is up to Lawson and Michael to get through to him before he shoots anyone else. Elsewhere, Leon's girlfriend Nina thinks she may be pregnant and makes things difficult for Leon at work.
Season 2, Episode 9: Don't Drag Race
Original Air Date-10 September 2009
Stella's involvement with new girlfriend Alana leads her to an illegal car race and puts her future in the Tactical Response Unit at risk after she is arrested whilst driving one of the cars. Meanwhile, Kerry has to face the inquest at the trial of Boyd Kemper's brother and Dominic's married life is not so rosy.
Season 2, Episode 10: Don't Tail an Armoured Van
Original Air Date-10 September 2009
Acting on a tip-off from an armoured vehicle of suspicious activity from a tailing car Lawson, Shannon and Michael pull the driver over. Whilst the driver denies any involvement of attempted hijacking of vehicle to Lawson and Shannon, Michael follows the van on foot and discovers a sophisticated hijack involving a freight train and roadworks and a high-frequency jammer. Michael manages to get on the vehicle but loses his gun in the process. With Leon and Kerry blind back at base because of the frequency jammer and the rest of the team frantically searching for Michael it is a race against time to find him before the robbers do.
Season 2, Episode 11: Don't Get in the Way
Original Air Date-17 September 2009
As a result of an incident at a petrol station the Tactical Response Team go on the hunt for ex-SAS soldier John Welsh who is known to have links to a terrorist group. Their hunt puts them into working with Detective O'Neil who has a personal grudge against Welsh. Meanwhile, the Drug Squad raid Lawson's girlfriend Jacinta's home for evidence of her involvement with a drug importer.
Season 2, Episode 12: Don't Abduct a Baby
Original Air Date-24 September 2009
The grandson of known violent criminal Anton Buczek is kidnapped at a shopping centre and the Tactical Response Team are called to find the baby before Anton and his henchmen do and exact their own revenge. Meanwhile, Josh, Stella and Michael are called to a high-rise where a man is threatening to jump unless his girlfriend returns. But is the girlfriend what she seems?

Big, bold and broad in its appeal, the show features a who's who of credible local television, including Rodger Corser and Calvan Mulvey from Underbelly, Catherine McClements (The Secret Life of Us) and Clare van der Boom (Love My Way, The Square). Rush follows the actions of a critical response police unit. It is a fast-paced punch in the face for Australian television, with world-class production values and mass commercial appeal.

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