The Best Episodes of Cracker Season 3

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.3/10(325 votes)

   #1 - Brotherly Love (1)

   S3:E110/22/1995

   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

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   Director:Roy Battersby

   Writer:Jimmy McGovern
2. 

   8.2/10(235 votes)

   #2 - Brotherly Love (2)

   S3:E210/23/1995

   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

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   Director:Roy Battersby

   Writer:Jimmy McGovern
3. 

   8.6/10(250 votes)

   #3 - Brotherly Love (3)

   S3:E310/29/1995

   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

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   Director:Roy Battersby

   Writer:Jimmy McGovern
4. 

   8.2/10(338 votes)

   #4 - Best Boys (1)

   S3:E411/6/1995

   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

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   Director:Charles McDougall

   Writer:Paul Abbott
5. 

   8.0/10(237 votes)

   #5 - Best Boys (2)

   S3:E511/13/1995

   Fitz is pitched against Grady and Nash, whose relationship is now spinning dangerously out of control.

   Director:Charles McDougall

   Writer:Paul Abbott

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   Director:Charles McDougall

   Writer:Paul Abbott
6. 

   8.2/10(313 votes)

   #6 - True Romance (1)

   S3:E611/20/1995

   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

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   Director:Tim Fywell

   Writer:Paul Abbott
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7. 

   8.2/10(209 votes)

   #7 - True Romance (2)

   S3:E711/27/1995

   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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   Director:Tim Fywell

   Writer:Paul Abbott