10.0/101 votesLoading...#1 - Patterns
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1999
Bosco is caught on a security camera having sex in his squad car with the daughter of his Precinct Captain. Meanwhile Doc drags Carlos around the city on a personal mission to find the owner of a watch, found in the ambulance.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: John Ridley
10.0/101 votesLoading...#2 - Hell Is What You Make of It
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1999
The two rookies, Carlos and Davis, experience disillusionment with their new jobs, and their training officers. Bosco struggles with Homophobia and gets himself involved in tit for tat games with Doherty.
Director: Christopher Misiano
Writer: N/A
10.0/101 votesLoading...#3 - Responsible Parties
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1999
Mercy's new E.R. attending gives the cops and paramedics a hard time while ignoring Carlos's attempts to hit on her; Doc is saddened to hear that Jerry has decided to take a disability retirement; Jimmy is upset when Joey goes to Bobby first after he becomes ill as a result of Jimmy's letting him overindulge in sweets; Jimmy and Bobby take out their conflict over Kim and Joey in a game of one-on-one; Sully and Ty arrest a purse snatcher who will do anything to stay in jail once he discovers that his victim's son is a mobster; Faith hands out street justice to a gangbanger responsible for the deaths of two little boys.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Edward Allen Bernero
10.0/101 votesLoading...#4 - Revelations
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 2/11/2005
Cruz and Santiago try to track down a gang member who murders witnesses to his murders. Grace finds her mother, who doesn't seem to welcoming.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Siobhan Byrne O'Connor
10.0/101 votesLoading...#5 - In the Family Way (I)
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/2005
After a suspect in a jewelry store robbery starts displaying symptoms of a disease similar to SARS, the NIH is called in to figure out what is causing this, and hopefully stop this epidemic. Meanwhile, Cruz faces off with a gangbanger, who may have hired a 13 year old boy to carry out a murder. The crossover continues on Medical Investigation S01E17 Half Life (II)
Director: Vincent Misiano
Writer: Edward Allen Bernero
10.0/101 votesLoading...#6 - Kingpin Rising
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/2005
Cruz connects the dots that link Marcel Hollis to the murder of Darren Maddox, while Marcel begins to organize a street war against the 55th Precinct. Elsewhere, Yokas, Sully, and Bosco track a missing teen to a vampire cult.
Director: Nelson McCormick
Writer: Charles Murray
10.0/101 votesLoading...#7 - Too Little, Too Late
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 4/8/2005
Monroe and Bosco deal with an angry mother on welfare who shoots up the welfare office, Davis and Finney stake out a man and take down a prostitution ring, Faith deals with Emily, Cruz and Monroe recieve bad news about their health.
Director: Rosemary Rodriguez
Writer: Janine Sherman Barrois
10.0/101 votesLoading...#8 - Welcome Home
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 4/15/2005
Faith investigates Bosco further, Sasha and Ty make up, Cruz goes for some spiritual healing, Carlos meets Holly's parents.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Writer: Victor De Jesus
10.0/101 votesLoading...#9 - How Do You Spell Belief?
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 4/22/2005
Finney and Davis are seriously injured in a car accident during a traffic jam, which was caused by a man trying to kill two people, and he succeeds. Emily's life is in danger when she falls in with the wrong crowd. Carlos buys an engagement ring for Holly.
Director: Skipp Sudduth
Writer: Karen Hall
10.0/101 votesLoading...#10 - End of Tour
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 4/29/2005
Faith negotiates the end of a live on TV hostage situation. The leader of a vampire cult holds Emily hostage until Bosco saves the day. Cruz attempts to negotiate a deal with a gangbanger to end the war on the 55th Precinct, but instead, he organizes his troops to attack.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Angela Amato Velez
10.0/101 votesLoading...#11 - Goodbye to Camelot
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/2005
The series concludes with the gangbangers taking out their assault on the 55th Precinct. After some grenade explosions, the precinct is destroyed. Cruz knows that Marcel Hollis is behind the attack, and she takes his life, as well as her own. Carlos proposes to Holly, and they are married. Everyone receives their reassignments, and Sully retires. In the last few moments, Sully narrates a look into the future.
Director: Edward Allen Bernero
Writer: Edward Allen Bernero
9.0/102 votesLoading...#12 - Welcome to Camelot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1999
Two new recruits join the emergency services and work with older, wiser partners. Davis becomes a policeman, like his father, and Carlos a paramedic. Two other Paramedics, Bobby and Kim, find themselves rushing from emergency to emergency. Bosco and Yokas, the other police officers, and Jimmy and his fellow Fireman have their own crisis' to deal with.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Edward Allen Bernero, John Wells
9.0/101 votesLoading...#13 - Sunny, Like Sunshine
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1999
Sully and Maggie reconnect; Bobby visits his brother Matty and tries to prepare him for his release from prison; Sunny asks Kim for a place to stay and runs away when Kim refers her to a shelter; Carlos hits a pedestrian with the bus; Faith and Bosco investigate a grave robbery and ponder immortality; Jimmy rescues a new recruit who is trapped under a collapsed ceiling in an apartment fire; Bobby takes Doc's advice and tells Kim how he feels, only to learn that Kim feels she isn't good enough for him; Sunny ODs and Bobby helps a saddened Kim find out her real name and hometown so that her parents can be notified; Sully's approach to ""problem solving"" goes horribly awry in a domestic dispute; Carlos and Doc come to blows over Doc's training methods, forcing Morales to break them up; Sully learns that Ty has good instincts, enabling them to save a teenage girl from a sexual predator.
Director: R. W. Goodwin
Writer: John Wells
9.0/101 votesLoading...#14 - Impulse
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1999
Ty is worried about Sully's dating Maggie; Faith and Bosco lose a witness who turns out to be the perp in a homicide; Bobby prepares for Matty's release from prison; while driving the bus, Carlos collides with a pregnant driver and later attempts to revive the baby she delivered prematurely after Sarah pronounces it dead, unaware of the consequences for the parents; Jimmy rescues a boy from a tree; Bosco and Ty take issue with Sully over his handling of a belligerent collar.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Lance Gentile
9.0/101 votesLoading...#15 - History of the World
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1999
On Thanksgiving Day, Bosco tries to resolve a family conflict in a restaurant while Faith deals with the same thing in her own home. Bobby's mother refuses to allow Matty to attend the family's holiday celebrations, and leaves it up to Bobby to tell his brother. After a shooting, Ty and Sully disagree over how they should report the incident to their superiors and the investigating team.
Director: R. W. Goodwin
Writer: John Romano
9.0/101 votesLoading...#16 - Modern Designs for Better Living
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/1999
When he goes on his first raid, Davis inadvertently endangers a young boy he is trying to help; Doc begins to think that the overdose his father took may not have been accidental; to get a critically ill woman to the hospital, the firefighters knock down an apartment wall and lower her out a high story window.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: John Ridley
9.0/101 votesLoading...#17 - Demolition Derby
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/10/2000
An explosion in a building about to be demolished leaves men trapped inside, forcing the firefighters to make terrible choices; Fred's drinking problem escalates; Doc cancels his date with Brenda.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Theresa Rebeck
9.0/101 votesLoading...#18 - Alone in a Crowd
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/17/2000
Jimmy's failure to watch the firehouse door leads to tragedy; Morales, devastated by the loss of a young patient, reaches out to Doc for consolation; Sully's first partner commits suicide, prompting him to seek out Maggie and reflect on where his life has gone; Bosco tries to buy a '67 GTO from a homeless man; and Bobby continues to do whatever he can to get his mother to reconcile with his brother.
Director: N/A
Writer: Edward Allen Bernero
9.0/101 votesLoading...#19 - Journey to the Himalayas
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/24/2000
Ty spends the shift on foot patrol with Candyman and discovers some disturbing facts about both his late father and Candyman; romance blooms between Doc and Morales after Doc's father tells him to get on with his life; Matty's attempts to make amends for past misdeeds have upsetting outcomes; Jimmy has an unexpected and unpleasant visit with his bookie; Faith clashes with the mother of a missing girl; Sully puts in a good word for a hit-and-run driver to a completely unsympathetic D.A.; and Bobby is crushed to learn that Matty was an unwitting accessory to a felony homicide.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: John Romano
9.0/101 votesLoading...#20 - This Band of Brothers
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/7/2000
Faith, Bosco, Sully, Ty and Candyman race through the neighborhood on foot in pursuit of a trio of Uzi-armed thieves; Candyman risks his life to save Ty; Bosco's cold refusal to get medical assistance for one of the perps leads to the robber's death; Ty searches for the truth about his father; Bobby's mother tells the police where to find Matty, who desperately pleads with Bobby to give him some getaway money; Bobby agrees, but begs Matty to turn himself in; Matty gets high and takes off, leaving Bobby crushed and seeking consolation from Kim; and Carlos finds out about Doc and Morales.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Wells
9.0/101 votesLoading...#21 - 32 Bullets and a Broken Heart
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/14/2000
It's Valentine's Day and Bobby and Kim have spent the night together; Bobby's confession of love leads Kim to realize that they've made a big mistake; after agonizing all day, she finally confesses and breaks Bobby's heart; seeking solace in a bottle, Bobby finds himself at a local bar next to a woman who has also been jilted that day, and they go off to her place; Fred drunkenly totals the car on the way to pick up Emily and Charlie; Faith arrests him and refuses to bail him out; when he finally arrives home, Faith has his things already packed and throws him out; Carlos tends to a girl who runs into a bus and then falls for him; the gay community is targeted by a gunman and a vigilante group forms to find the killer; Ty arrests a girl for auto theft who turns out to be Malcolm's sister; and Faith lets Bosco know that she is fed up with his bigotry.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: John Ridley
9.0/101 votesLoading...#22 - Officer Involved
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/21/2000
As he comes around a corner in pursuit of a gunman, Davis shoots a man who is pointing a gun at Sully, unaware that the man is innocently returning the service revolver which Sully dropped when he fell. Davis's guilt leads him to doubt whether he should remain on the force, until Sully straightens him out. The tension between Bosco and Faith continues to escalate. Both Bobby and Jimmy introduce their new girlfriends to Kim, who isn't thrilled with the potential competition.
Director: Christopher Chulack
Writer: Edward Allen Bernero
9.0/101 votesLoading...#23 - Nature or Nurture?
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/2000
Dealing with the aftermath of gang warfare, Doc and Carlos disagree over reaching out to prevent an eleven year old boy from following his brother into a gang; Bosco's decision to turn the tables on two men who try to rob him when he's off-duty could cost him his badge when the two men turn up at the precinct to report the crime; as he continues his losing streak, Jimmy gets deeper and deeper into his bookie, which puts Joey in danger; Kim begins to worry about how much time she spends with Joey after he gets into trouble at school.
Director: Clark Johnson
Writer: N/A
9.0/101 votesLoading...#24 - Ohio
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/20/2000
The three squads are stationed at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to provide protection during a Clinton-Giuliani Senate race debate. The cops are assigned to the kitchen and discuss politics and the death penalty while Sully tries to get a reluctant head chef to feed them. The paramedics are parked in the hotel's garage where they talk about their worst cases, religion, relationships, and how life doesn't turn out as planned. Kim and Jimmy have it out again over his irresponsibility after her paycheck is garnished to cover one of his bad debts, and Jimmy resolves to clean up his act.
Director: Michael Fields
Writer: John Romano
9.0/102 votesLoading...#25 - After Hours
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/2000
The deaths of four teenagers in a fiery car crash profoundly affects the third watch, who were forced to stand by helplessly, unable to save the victims. They congregate at the end of the shift to dispell their sadness and anger at the horrific images of the crash. Faith, Sully and Doc spend time sitting quietly in a cafe; Ty, Bobby, Carlos and Alex go to a bar; and Kim, Bosco and Jimmy go bowling. As evening turns into day, Faith's group meets up with a young woman, Ty's group meets up with a young man, and Kim's group meets up with a young couple in love. At dawn, everyone ends up at the a beach and they build a bonfire. As the flames flicker, we see a flashback to the moments immediately preceding the car crash and discover that the young people whom they met during the course of the evening are the spirits of the teenagers who died in the crash, who were sent back down to earth to tell them that the crash could not have been prevented, and they are not to blame for being unable to
Director: N/A
Writer: Edward Allen Bernero
The Best Episodes of Third Watch
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The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the...
Genres:DramaCrime
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"Patterns" is the best rated episode of "Third Watch". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Christopher Chulack and written by John Ridley, it aired on 10/3/1999. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Hell Is What You Make of It".