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The Best Episodes of Third Watch Season 3

Every episode of Third Watch Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Third Watch Season 3!

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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
    Third Watch Season 3 Episode 14 - Superheroes (2)
    9.3/10(110 votes)

    S3:E14

    The police officers sort through the carnage and count their dead in the wake of a shootout between rival gangs. While Faith tries to interrogate Fyodor Chevchenko, a ruthless Russian mob boss, Sully worries about the severely wounded Ty and regrets causing the incident. Tatiana chastises Sully for hassling her injured son. Faith worries about Gusler, her ineffective, frightened rookie partner and a weary Doc gets some unexpected, good news about his medical malpractice suit.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 1 - September Tenth
    9.0/10(129 votes)

    S3:E1

    On September 10, 2001, Ty and Sully are in Atlantic City on the eve of Sully's wedding to Tatiana. Kim sinks deeper into depression. Bosco searches for anything to do after someone lets out the result of the Giants game he had taped to watch after shift. Jimmy keeps trying to catch up on some sleep after nursing a sick Joey.

    Director:Guy Norman Bee
    Writer:John Wells

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  3. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 2 - After Time
    8.9/10(150 votes)

    S3:E2

    It is September 21, 2001, and the squads continue to battle through their emotions and their misgivings about their hero status, while working double shifts and spending every free moment at "the pile" searching for the missing. Kim returns to work and teams up with Doc, which allows an emotionally frayed Alex to return to paramedic duty; an exhausted Sully attempts to co-exist with his prospective in-laws while he waits for an opportunity to marry Tatiana.

    Directors:Félix Alcalá, Edward Allen Bernero
    Writers:Edward Allen Bernero, John Wells

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  4. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 3 - The Relay
    8.9/10(116 votes)

    S3:E3

    After a despondent woman steps off an eight-story apartment building, the squad finds themselves in a race to transport both the woman's heart and a dying girl to a local hospital in time to save the youngster's life. The suicide hits home for Faith as she comes to grips with her own ongoing medical problems, while Doc expresses concern over the emotional effects this case will have on Kim, despite her constant reassurance that her accident was not an attempt to kill herself.

    Director:John Wells
    Writers:Edward Allen Bernero, John Wells, Scott Williams

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  5. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 13 - Superheroes (1)
    8.8/10(129 votes)

    S3:E13

    Feeling betrayed, Doc angrily confronts his former friend, Jerry Mankowitz, an attorney's investigator who tricked him into confiding vital information about a pending malpractice suit.

    Director:Julie Hébert
    Writer:Edward Allen Bernero

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  6. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 15 - Thicker Than Water
    8.8/10(101 votes)

    S3:E15

    During the investigation of the gang shootout, the police officers are questioned and presented with evidence that suggests that Ross was killed by friendly fire; Carlos learns that Vangie is dead and that he is the father of the baby her sister leaves at the firehouse; on the first anniversary of Bobby's death, Kim quarrels with Jimmy over her visitation with Joey and confronts a female gang during a call; and Doc is visited by the father of a former patient whose debilitating injury may have been caused by Doc's error during treatment.

    Directors:Félix Alcalá, Julie Hébert
    Writer:Janine Sherman Barrois

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  7. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 4 - Adam 55-3
    8.7/10(102 votes)

    S3:E4

    Even though his co-workers want to nominate him for the "Paramedic of the Year" award, a pensive Doc is disheartened as he considers his unfulfilled life. He later teams with Kim as they try to save a heart-attack victim while fending off a woman wielding a meat cleaver. In addition, Doc tries to minister to a chronic old drunk and a teenaged girl who attempts suicide in her bathtub. Meanwhile, Faith secretly undergoes a procedure to determine if the lump in her breast is cancerous, leaving an unsuspecting Bosco assigned to a nervous rookie cop; Kim reluctantly consults a lawyer about Jimmy's intention to claim custody of Joey.

    Directors:Nelson McCormick, Jesús Salvador Treviño
    Writer:Julie Hébert

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  8. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 7 - Act Brave
    8.6/10(104 votes)

    S3:E7

    No one can find Bosco after a sexual assault suspect is found dead. While Bosco spends time with family, Yokas, Ty and Sully try to clear him as a murder suspect. Still locked in a custody battle over Joey, Jimmy and Kim meet with a court-appointed evaluator and plead their cases. Alex tries to stay busy to avoid dealing with her feelings about her father's death.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Janine Sherman Barrois

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  9. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 17 - The Unforgiven
    8.6/10(93 votes)

    S3:E17

    Tatiana is still missing, and Sully continues to search for her while grieving her loss. When he comes upon the body of a six-year-old girl in a box on a curb, he becomes strangely unnerved. Haunted by this sight and by thoughts of the mistakes he has made recently, Sully takes the rest of the day off sick and winds up in a local restaurant where he finds his parish priest. They ruminate on the nature of guilt, absolution, forgiveness, faith, and the intercession of God as they recall the fate of another man who also made mistakes and tried to fix them, and whose life ended tragically at Sully's hand. Sully finally comes to a place where he can forgive himself and go on with life. He seeks out Davis to once again beg his forgiveness and reaffirm their connection to each other.

    Directors:Vincent Misiano, Félix Alcalá
    Writer:Lance Gentile

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  10. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 8 - Sex, Lies & Videotape
    8.5/10(91 votes)

    S3:E8

    Kim and Jimmy are having a custody battle over Joey. Boscoe and Faith are on a call of a possible terrorist threat, that ends up being an explosive event. Alex risks herself to save a little girl and is punished by Doc for it.

    Director:Félix Alcalá
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 12 - Cold Front
    8.5/10(102 votes)

    S3:E12

    Bosco tries to protect an old ESU sharp shooter from spiraling out of control. Faith contemplates taking the sergeant's exam. Davis and Taylor have a steamy affair. Doc feels the guilt over a mistake that made a boy a paraplegic.

    Directors:Nelson McCormick, Edward Allen Bernero
    Writer:Edward Allen Bernero

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  12. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 21 - Blackout
    8.5/10(104 votes)

    S3:E21

    When a blackout strikes the city during a heat wave, Sully prophetically warns the more optimistic Ty that trouble in the streets will swiftly ensue. After Carlos leaves the ambulance running to keep the bus cool while he and Doc are on calls, the engine catches fire and the ambulance is destroyed. A wealthy old man confined to his bed by illness offers them a large amount of money to stay with him until his daughter arrives. Doc insists that they leave to treat others more in need over the protests of Carlos. Bosco arrests a young man, Latrell Griffith, and faces a difficult decision when an immigrant shop owner shoots and wounds a teenage shoplifter. After Latrell uses his training as a medic to save the boy, a riot breaks out and Bosco, Latrell and the shoplifter barely escape. Nightfall brings more unrest as the nervous cops try to keep the peace. Faith and Fred are stuck in a elevator when the power goes out. Faith tries to calm Fred's mounting anxiety about being trapped, and is

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 6 - Childhood Memories
    8.4/10(106 votes)

    S3:E6

    Bosco runs from the present and his past when he is wrongly suspected of murdering a sexual assault suspect. As Faith tries to gather evidence to clear him, Bosco turns to his dysfunctional family, including his alcoholic mother, drug-addicted brother and estranged, abusive father. An emotionally rattled Kim virtually kidnaps Joey from Jimmy while Carlos actively solicits Ty to be his new roommate.

    Director:Brooke Kennedy
    Writer:Scott Williams

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  14. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 9 - Transformed
    8.4/10(87 votes)

    S3:E9

    Doc is up for paramedic of the year and is being followed by a film crew. Doc may have made a medical mistake when treating a patient. Faith recovering from cancer treatment and on the job fails to back up Boscoe while chasing a suspect.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Edward Allen Bernero

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  15. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 11 - The Long Guns
    8.4/10(90 votes)

    S3:E11

    Carlos has a life-changing experience in the hospital after he falls down the fire pole. Tatiana leaves her mother-in-law alone in the house for a moment, with disastrous results.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 19 - Unleashed (II)
    8.4/10(91 votes)

    S3:E19

    When a doctor comes to New York to search for the missing daughter of her drug-addicted sister, Faith and Bosco focus their attention on the child's stepfather, a New Jersey cop, after they discover that the girl was taken by a man in uniform; Tatiana returns home; Jimmy spends some quality time with Joey. The crossover starts on ER S08E19 Brothers and Sisters

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 10 - Old Dogs, New Tricks
    8.3/10(84 votes)

    S3:E10

    After seeing his young son Joey fall and break his arm in a playground accident, Jimmy fights through a burning apartment building to save a frightened boy of Joey's age. Meanwhile, a guilt-ridden Doc can't stay away from a recuperating teenager, Ryan Buckley, who was accidentally paralyzed while under Doc's care. Taylor is annoyed by a new probationary firefighter, Ken Prescott. Bosco and Yokas search for a drug addict who murdered his girlfriend.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 16 - Falling
    8.3/10(87 votes)

    S3:E16

    Bosco starts having panic attacks and goes to see a therapist, but it doesn’t work and later he turns to the only person who’ll listen. Carlos is discovering the trials of single parenthood and starts thinking about adoption. Faith is studying for the Sergeant's exam. However, her concerns about Bosco’s mental and emotional health cause her to fail, and this angers Fred, and he storms out of the house. But later, he sees Faith comforting a sobbing and weeping Bosco after Bosco admits that he couldn’t go back to the World Trade Center towers after they fell down.

    Director:Jesús Salvador Treviño
    Writers:Scott Williams, Jorge Zamacona

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  19. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 5 - He Said, She Said
    8.1/10(89 votes)

    S3:E5

    During a sweep for prostitutes, Faith and Bosco tragically misjudge a sexual encounter between a young woman and a man in a car to be consensual; the situation spirals out of control when the girl later claims she was sexually assaulted while the cops laughed it off; Carlos considers a willing Ty as a potential roommate candidate.

    Director:Nelson McCormick
    Writer:Edward Allen Bernero

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  20. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 18 - The Greater Good
    7.9/10(91 votes)

    S3:E18

    Hopelessly in love with Kylie and concerned that she will lose her Filipina heritage if she is adopted by a white couple, Carlos considers raising her until he realizes that the couple can give her the sister, the grandparents, and the extended family that he cannot. Kim's preoccupation with her new PDA drives Alex crazy until they are able to use it to save a very sick man, thus redeeming themselves in the eyes of a hypercritical Dr. Peterson. Faith and Fred are still on uneven ground about the Sergeant's exam. In an effort to shake Chevchenko's tree, Faith and Sully execute a clever plan to disrupt the Russian's bookmaking operation which also opens the door to the possibility of the still-missing Tatiana's return. Bosco is cleared for duty, and he and Faith agree to be partners again as soon as he returns.

    Director:Vincent Misiano
    Writers:Edward Allen Bernero, Lance Gentile

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  21. Third Watch Season 3 Episode 20 - Two Hundred and Thirty-Three Days
    7.8/10(108 votes)

    S3:E20

    Rescuers find the body of Alex's father, and he is given a hero's burial; Faith and Bosco tail a convicted rapist released on appeal, certain that he will rape again; dissatisfied by Tatiana's explanation of her whereabouts the eight weeks she was missing, Sully investigates further and uncovers some astonishing and heartbreaking facts about his wife; after Chevchenko threatens to kill him if he doesn't roll over on Faith and Sully, Frankie tells Swersky that the raid on Chevchenko's numbers business was a hummer bust, leading Chevchenko to threaten a lawsuit and have another angry confrontation with Sully.

    Directors:Christopher Chulack, Brooke Kennedy
    Writers:Edward Allen Bernero, John Wells

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Superheroes (2)" is the best rated episode of "Third Watch" season 3. It scored 9.3/10 based on 110 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/4/2002. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "September Tenth".