8.1/10624 votes#1 - Episode 1
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 8/17/2012
Damian Scott is sent to Mogadishu, Somalia to rescue British diplomats after they are kidnapped by warlord Huseyin Waabri. Meanwhile Michael Stonebridge adapts to his new career outside Section 20.
Director: Bill Eagles
Writer: Tony Saint
8.1/10476 votes#2 - Episode 2
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 8/17/2012
Scott learns that one of the hostages is a high-ranking military intelligence operative and that Waabri is planning to sell nuclear devices in South Africa.
Director: Bill Eagles
Writer: Tony Saint
8.0/10494 votes#3 - Episode 3
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 8/24/2012
Scott and Stonebridge track down a radical Islamic cleric in order to recover the nuclear devices, but are sidetracked by a CIA air strike and hostile locals.
Director: Paul Wilmshurst
Writer: James Dormer
8.0/10468 votes#4 - Episode 4
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 8/31/2012
Scott and Stonebridge prepare for an attack by Al Qaeda while holed up in an Algerian farmhouse with the nomad leader and the wounded courier. Meanwhile, back at headquarters, Dalton is called on the carpet for her relationship with the courier.
Director: Paul Wilmshurst
Writer: James Dormer
8.2/10475 votes#5 - Episode 5
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 9/7/2012
The trail of the missing nuclear triggers leads to Cape Town, South Africa, where kidnappers abduct the children of an expatriate munitions expert to force him to cooperate.
Director: Julian Holmes
Writer: Richard Zajdlic
8.0/10457 votes#6 - Episode 6
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 9/14/2012
Stonebridge seeks revenge on Craig Hanson after he turns up in Cape Town, South Africa. Meanwhile, Scott reconnects with a Mossad agent who's been following their case, but with a different set of orders; Knox hustles Evans to a secret installation and explains how he intends to turn his country into a world power.
Director: Julian Holmes
Writer: Richard Zajdlic
8.4/10458 votes#7 - Episode 7
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 9/21/2012
Knox extricates a political leader from a Zimbabwe prison, and the unit tries to catch up with the escapee by tracking his activist daughter.
Director: M.J. Bassett
Writer: N/A
8.2/10440 votes#8 - Episode 8
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 9/28/2012
Unrest spreads after the assassination attempt on political leader Lutulu, while Stonebridge questions the shooter in an isolated police station and looks for a safe way out.
Director: M.J. Bassett
Writer: N/A
8.1/10424 votes#9 - Episode 9
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 10/5/2012
Knox plans on unloading nuclear bombs into politically unstable African nations, while Matlock reveals why he joined Knox.
Director: Bill Eagles
Writer: Tony Saint
8.3/10463 votes#10 - Episode 10
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 10/12/2012
In order to stop Knox, Scott comes to Bryant for assistance. Meanwhile Stonebridge has trouble focusing on the mission as he is bent on revenge. Section 20 get assistance from South African police to stop Knox's plot.
Director: Bill Eagles
Writer: Tony Saint
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Episode 1" is the best rated episode of "Strike Back" season 3. It scored 8.1/10 based on 624 votes. Directed by Bill Eagles and written by Tony Saint, it aired on 8/17/2012. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Episode 2".