8.4/10303 votes#1 - Brotherly Love (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/22/1995
A Catholic father-of-four is arrested after a prostitute is found murdered, but he denies the crime. Beck returns from sick leave to work alongside Penhaligon, who is privately convinced that Beck raped her but has no forensic evidence. While Fitz faces a family tragedy, a second prostitute is attacked while the chief suspect is still in custody.
Director: Roy Battersby
Writer: Jimmy McGovern
8.3/10215 votes#2 - Brotherly Love (2)
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/23/1995
An identical murder takes place while David Harvey is in custody. Fitz visits his priest brother Michael and accuses him of murder, while Maggie Harvey demands that her husband is released.
Director: Roy Battersby
Writer: Jimmy McGovern
8.6/10227 votes#3 - Brotherly Love (3)
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/29/1995
After another prostitute is slain, Fitz comes to believe that David Harvey's wife Maggie is the killer, in spite of vehement protesting by the police and his brother, Father Michael.
Director: Roy Battersby
Writer: Jimmy McGovern
8.3/10320 votes#4 - Best Boys (1)
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/1995
Bill Nash smiles at Stuart Grady, and, in those few seconds, changes the course of their lives and inadvertently turns them both to murder. Meanwhile, on the domestic front, Judith finally rebels.
Director: Charles McDougall
Writer: Paul Abbott
8.1/10223 votes#5 - Best Boys (2)
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/1995
Fitz is pitched against Grady and Nash, whose relationship is now spinning dangerously out of control.
Director: Charles McDougall
Writer: Paul Abbott
8.3/10296 votes#6 - True Romance (1)
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/20/1995
Fitz privately advises a patient who seems to be having problems with her husband. Fitz's advice, for which he charges her £50, leads her to conclude that she should leave him.
Director: Tim Fywell
Writer: Paul Abbott
8.2/10195 votes#7 - True Romance (2)
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/27/1995
Fitz is asking DCI Wise to replace him with Irene as the killer may stop killing if she realises she is not getting the shrink's undivided attention. Irene agrees to change, but finds the nature of the job, and the pictures of her dead students too much to stomach and goes missing.
Director: Tim Fywell
Writer: Paul Abbott
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Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:ITV1
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Brotherly Love (1)" is the best rated episode of "Cracker" season 3. It scored 8.4/10 based on 303 votes. Directed by Roy Battersby and written by Jimmy McGovern, it aired on 10/22/1995. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Brotherly Love (2)".