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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 same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Third Watch Season 1 Episode 3 - Patterns
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Patterns

    S1:E3

    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

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  2. Third Watch Season 1 Episode 4 - Hell Is What You Make of It
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Hell Is What You Make of It

    S1:E4

    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:Unknown

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  3. Third Watch Season 1 Episode 5 - Responsible Parties
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Responsible Parties

    S1:E5

    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 Alcalá
    Writer:Edward Allen Bernero

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  4. Third Watch Season 6 Episode 15 - Revelations
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Revelations

    S6:E15

    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 Alcalá
    Writer:Siobhan Byrne O'Connor

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  5. Third Watch Season 6 Episode 17 - Kingpin Rising
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Kingpin Rising

    S6:E17

    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

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  6. Third Watch Season 6 Episode 18 - Too Little, Too Late
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Too Little, Too Late

    S6:E18

    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

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  7. Third Watch Season 6 Episode 19 - Welcome Home
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Welcome Home

    S6:E19

    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

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  8. Third Watch Season 6 Episode 20 - How Do You Spell Belief?
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - How Do You Spell Belief?

    S6:E20

    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

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  9. Third Watch Season 6 Episode 21 - End of Tour
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - End of Tour

    S6:E21

    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

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  10. Third Watch Season 6 Episode 22 - Goodbye to Camelot
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Goodbye to Camelot

    S6:E22

    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

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  11. Third Watch Season 6 Episode 16 - In the Family Way (I)
    9.5/10(2 votes)

    #11 - In the Family Way (I)

    S6:E16

    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

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  12. Third Watch Season 1 Episode 1 - Welcome to Camelot
    9.2/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Welcome to Camelot

    S1:E1

    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
    Writers:John Wells, Edward Allen Bernero

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  13. Third Watch Season 1 Episode 6 - Sunny, Like Sunshine
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Sunny, Like Sunshine

    S1:E6

    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

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  14. Third Watch Season 1 Episode 7 - Impulse
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Impulse

    S1:E7

    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 Alcalá
    Writer:Lance Gentile

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  15. Third Watch Season 1 Episode 8 - History of the World
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - History of the World

    S1:E8

    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

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  16. Third Watch Season 1 Episode 9 - Modern Designs for Better Living
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Modern Designs for Better Living

    S1:E9

    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

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  17. Third Watch Season 1 Episode 10 - Demolition Derby
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Demolition Derby

    S1:E10

    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

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  18. Third Watch Season 1 Episode 11 - Alone in a Crowd
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Alone in a Crowd

    S1:E11

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Edward Allen Bernero

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  19. Third Watch Season 1 Episode 13 - This Band of Brothers
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - This Band of Brothers

    S1:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:John Wells

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  20. Third Watch Season 1 Episode 14 - 32 Bullets and a Broken Heart
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - 32 Bullets and a Broken Heart

    S1:E14

    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

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  21. Third Watch Season 1 Episode 15 - Officer Involved
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Officer Involved

    S1:E15

    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

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  22. Third Watch Season 1 Episode 16 - Nature or Nurture?
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Nature or Nurture?

    S1:E16

    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:Unknown

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  23. Third Watch Season 1 Episode 17 - Ohio
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Ohio

    S1:E17

    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

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  24. Third Watch Season 2 Episode 7 - After Hours
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - After Hours

    S2:E7

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Edward Allen Bernero

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  25. Third Watch Season 2 Episode 13 - Duty
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Duty

    S2:E13

    Sully is upset when he is wrongly accused of falsifying evidence; Bobby helps one of his former teachers dying from cancer; Carlos deludes himself into thinking that Kim is falling in love with him; Sully gets closer to his pretty neighbor.

    Director:Guy Norman Bee
    Writer:Edward Allen Bernero

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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".