7.6/10392 votes#1 - The Black Widower
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/30/2016
The Frog and Cheetah’s publican, Ray Neilson, has branched into tourism with his ‘Lord of the Ringz Tours’ tailored to non-English speaking tourists. But when Ray’s wife Debbie is discovered dead under a giant foam spider in a supposed film location of Mirklewood things get ‘mirky’. Especially when Debbie’s cause of death is revealed to be from New Zealand’s only native venomous spider – the Katipo. But if it was, how did one spider administer ten times the lethal dose?
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8.0/10399 votes#2 - Over Her Dead Body
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 11/6/2016
Brokenwood is in mourning as beloved local poet Declan O’Grady is being farewelled at St Judas Church after being struck down by cancer. But things go from bad to worse when his coffin accidentally falls from the hearse revealing that the corpse inside is not Declan but a young woman identifiable only by a notable scarlet tattoo.
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7.6/10340 votes#3 - The Killing Machine
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/13/2016
The annual Riverstone Beach Hop is a colorful festival that brings classic car enthusiasts together from far and wide to celebrate everything petrol powered and chrome plated. But on the morning of the event Charlie Baxter, the Chairman of the Classic Car Restoration Society, is found dead next to his beloved El Dorado with a lungful of gasoline. Was this a petrol siphoning accident or something more deliberate? And does it have anything to do with the unidentified dead body found in Charlie’s garage the day before?
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7.8/10352 votes#4 - A Merry Bloody Christmas
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/20/2016
With December approaching Brokenwood is alive and well with Christmas spirit. That is until a gruesome sight confronts Mike and his team; Santa Claus with his throat slit. Or as Mike insists – ‘not Santa, but a man dressed in a Santa suit’. The man is in fact the much-loved local Mayor, Evan Whitestone, who dresses as Santa every year for the Christmas parade. But with local elections looming, attention turns to his four rivals for the mayoral chains. Each of them has an axe to grind with Evan or, in this case - a cut throat razor.
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The Best Episodes of The Brokenwood Mysteries Season 3
Every episode of The Brokenwood Mysteries Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Brokenwood Mysteries Season 3!
In a seemingly quiet country town the newest resident, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, finds that murder lurks in even the most homely location.
Genres:MysteryDramaCrime
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"The Black Widower" is the best rated episode of "The Brokenwood Mysteries" season 3. It scored 7.6/10 based on 392 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/30/2016. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Over Her Dead Body".