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The Best Episodes of Third Watch Season 4

Every episode of Third Watch Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Third Watch Season 4!

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

Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Lights Up" is the best rated episode of "Third Watch" season 4. It scored 8.7/10 based on 77 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Edward Allen Bernero, it aired on 9/30/2002. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Chosen Few".

  • Lights Up
    8.7/1077 votes

    #1 - Lights Up

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/2002

    Bosco roams the city looking for Faith, and finally tracks her down just as Faith manages to carry Fred out of the building after rescuing him from the elevator. After they race him to to Mercy, an overwrought Faith lashes out viciously and unfairly, first at Proctor and then at Bosco. As painful as her words are to hear, Bosco realizes the truth be

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Edward Allen Bernero

  • The Chosen Few
    8.2/1066 votes

    #2 - The Chosen Few

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/2002

    Bosco gets a temporary assignment working with a tough female sergeant; Fred is strangely calm in the face of the prospect of a triple bypass; Doc hears shocking news from Philadelphia; Sully learns more about Tatiana's past; Davis is forced to deal with his newfound fame.

    Director: Nelson McCormick

    Writer: Scott Williams

  • To Protect...
    8.7/1069 votes

    #3 - To Protect...

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/2002

    Yokas and Bosco try to find a missing boy whose parents think has been taken by a registered sex offender; Sully prepares to be questioned about his wife's background

    Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño

    Writer: Janine Sherman Barrois

  • Crash and Burn
    8.8/1071 votes

    #4 - Crash and Burn

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/2002

    Doherty, riding on his motorcycle, is first to arrive at a multivehicle collision; Taylor is hit by a car; Tatiana goes to see Chevchenko, and tragedy ensues.

    Director: Peter Ellis

    Writer: Siobhan Byrne O'Connor

  • Judgement Day (1)
    8.5/1075 votes

    #5 - Judgement Day (1)

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/2002

    Chevchenko has Tatiana's son killed; Fred comes home from the hospital; and Davis gets a job offer.

    Director: Brooke Kennedy

    Writer: N/A

  • Judgement Day (2)
    9.1/1073 votes

    #6 - Judgement Day (2)

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/2002

    Chevchenko has Tatiana's son killed; Fred comes home from the hospital; and Davis gets a job offer.

    Director: Brooke Kennedy

    Writer: Edward Allen Bernero

  • Firestarter
    8.5/1064 votes

    #7 - Firestarter

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/2002

    When a fire breaks out in the supermarket where Bosco and his mother Rose are doing some late night shopping, Bosco rescues most of the shoppers but cannot save a young mother when she goes back inside to retrieve her purse. After Jimmy tells him that the fire was probably deliberately set, Bosco is convinced that he saw the arsonist in the crowd outside after the fire. Sgt. Cruz gets Bosco and Faith assigned to the Anti-Crime Unit for a few days so that they can track the guy down. At the scene of another supermarket fire the next night, Faith takes down license plate numbers, Cruz photographs the crowd and cars at the scene, and Bosco nabs the man he saw in the crowd the night before. The man turns out to be a fire buff, but Faith and Cruz's work bears fruit and they find their arsonist -- the son of Doug Maple, an NYFD arson investigator. A depressed Sully is still on leave, drinking too much, and sleeping on the couch at Ty's and Carlos' apartment; Doc connects with an attractive

    Director: Nelson McCormick

    Writer: Scott Williams

  • Ladies' Day
    8.3/1080 votes

    #8 - Ladies' Day

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2002

    Emily discovers just what Faith's job entails and how much her mother loves her when they are taken hostage during a bank robbery, and Faith risks her life to save her daughter.

    Director: Vincent Misiano

    Writer: Edward Allen Bernero

  • Crime and Punishment (1)
    8.4/1062 votes

    #9 - Crime and Punishment (1)

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/2002

    Monty and Joy hook up. Miguel witnesses one drug dealer murder another, and becomes the dealer's next target. On his first day back at work, Sully rides with Faith, who is put off by his short fuse and bad attitude. When he leaves a prisoner unguarded and uncuffed, Faith tells him to go home because he's not ready to be back on the job. Sully gets drunk and goes to his mother's nursing home. Sobbing about Tatiana, he tries to batter down the door when the receptionist won't let him in and calls the police. After Hancock arrives on the scene, Sully mouths off to him about Nancy in front of the other officers who are there to take him home.

    Director: Charles Haid

    Writer: Janine Sherman Barrois

  • Crime and Punishment (2)
    8.8/1065 votes

    #10 - Crime and Punishment (2)

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/2002

    Bosco is dismayed as he watches Cruz go to the extreme lengths of planting drugs, frightening children, and faking a dying declaration in their attempt to arrest the drug dealer who killed another dealer and then tried to to kill the 12 year old boy who witnessed the crime; Nancy tells Ty that she's ending her relationship with Hancock, and gives Ty the ammunition he needs to get out from under Hancock's thumb and back to duty at the 55, as well as getting Sully's suspension from duty lifted.

    Director: Peter Ellis

    Writer: N/A

  • Second Chances
    8.6/1064 votes

    #11 - Second Chances

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/2003

    Doc supervises a new paramedic on her first day; Carlos is arrested after a teenaged patient accuses him of molesting her; Bosco and Faith search for an escaped prisoner; Sully and Davis team up with fire and EMS to save construction workers when their scaffold collapses; in the aftermath of the bank robbery, Faith is troubled when Emily asks her how many people she's killed in the line of duty.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Siobhan Byrne O'Connor

  • Castles of Sand
    8.4/1060 votes

    #12 - Castles of Sand

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/2003

    Ty bails Carlos out and unsuccessfully tries to help him smooth things over with Nicole; after Bosco and Faith break up a domestic disturbance between an old friend of Faith's and her lover, Faith convinces her friend to leave the abusive relationship; Alex gets irritated when the other firefighters make fun of her brother; Sully continues to drink and have a poor attitude on the job; Jimmy is appalled when his face appears on a poster for an erectile dysfunction product, and is stunned when he discovers that the company paid the charity for whom he posed for the picture $10,000 for the right to use the picture, and that their website got 3,000 hits the first day from women wanting to know his name; when he discovers that everyone thinks that he's guilty and he's likely to lose his case, Carlos resigns in the hope that Nicole will drop the matter, and he'll be able to avoid a conviction that will end his visits with Kylie and his hopes of becoming a doctor.

    Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá

    Writer: N/A

  • Snow Blind
    8.8/1065 votes

    #13 - Snow Blind

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/2003

    Sully's stopped drinking, but his poor attitude remains; Carlos gives his two week notice; a blizzard blankets the city and the squads are called in early; an understaffed Doc defies orders and puts Carlos back on the street as the squads are kept busy rescuing victims of the storm; Faith's initial wariness about Emily's new boyfriend Eric turns out to be well-founded when he is brought into Mercy after an overdose of Special K, but doesn't remember where he left Emily after she also got high; Faith, Bosco, Sully, Ty, Doc and Carlos go out to search for Emily, and rush her to Mercy after she's found in critical condition; Faith and Fred blame each other for letting Emily go out with Eric.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Scott Williams

  • Collateral Damage (1)
    8.3/1065 votes

    #14 - Collateral Damage (1)

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/2003

    As Faith waits for Emily to awaken from her coma, she blames everyone but her daughter for the overdose and reflects on the substance abuse problems in her family; after Cruz's sister is brought into the hospital with an overdose, Cruz gets Sully, Ty and Bosco to look the other way on any possession charges and sets off with Bosco to find the location of her supplier's meth lab, where they end up in an inferno when the dealer sets the house on fire; Kim is reluctant to give a statement in Carlos's case because she's feeling pressured to lie to save his career.

    Director: Brooke Kennedy

    Writer: Edward Allen Bernero

  • Collateral Damage (2)
    8.6/1072 votes

    #15 - Collateral Damage (2)

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/2003

    As she keeps vigil by Emily's bedside, Faith recalls her first days at the Police Academy and the beginning of her friendship with Bosco; the fire squad rescues Bosco, Maritza, and a very pregnant Linda Barnes from the inferno, but Lettie Cruz succumbs to her drug binge before they can reach her; Emily is released from the hospital and takes responsibility for her overdose; Bosco tracks down Gary Barnes with Linda's help; Maritza and Bosco's relationship goes to a new level when he attempts to comfort her on the lost of her sister; Kim finally testifies before the review board and stands up for Carlos.

    Director: Skipp Sudduth

    Writer: Siobhan Byrne O'Connor

  • 10-13
    8.4/1061 votes

    #16 - 10-13

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/2003

    Sully hits bottom when Ty washes his hands of the partnership after Sully's drinking goes completely out of control; a thief strikes fear in the hearts of the police when he phones in false ""officer-in-need-of-assistance"" calls to cover his fur store robberies; Faith and Maritza go at it after Maritza's lonesome cowboy tactics nearly get another cop killed, and Faith is forced to shoot a perp to save Maritza's life after she goes after the perp without backup; Doc has an unpleasant encounter with Joy's father; Faith is disgusted when she finds out about Bosco and Maritza, and Maritza confirms that she put Bosco in front of a lie about a dying declaration to obtain a conviction on a drug dealer; Ty overcompensates for Sully's inattention to the job by becoming a ""supercop"" with an eye to getting a gold shield.

    Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá

    Writer: Janine Sherman Barrois

  • Letting Go
    8.3/1063 votes

    #17 - Letting Go

    Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/17/2003

    Faith rebuffs Bosco's attempt to apologize for lying to her; the fire squad extricates a driver impaled after crashing into a store; after Doc makes an impassioned defense of Carlos before the review board, a re-energized Carlos goes back out on the street; Sully's job performance continues to decline as he neglects to keep an eye on a woman he was supposed to be guarding, and she snatches her critically ill baby from Mercy's E.R.; after they discover that the woman is mentally ill, Ty takes a multi-story tumble while trying to prevent her from jumping off a roof with the baby; Faith is stunned when an initially reluctant Emily is eager to continue visiting a drug counselor; Ty catches Sully drinking in the R.M.P. and seeks advice from a union rep; Carlos loses his job as part of the department's settlement with the West family.

    Director: Tim Matheson

    Writer: N/A

  • Last Call
    8.2/1073 votes

    #18 - Last Call

    Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/31/2003

    In a last-ditch effort to save Sully's life, job, and pension by getting him dried out, Ty and Bosco kidnap him and bring him to a cabin deep in the woods where he hallucinates about the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Tatiana, Chevchenko and Ty's father, and his subsequent descent into alcoholism.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Edward Allen Bernero, Scott Williams

  • Everybody Lies
    8.3/1064 votes

    #19 - Everybody Lies

    Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/7/2003

    Bosco and Faith chase after people who have stolen money from a crashed armored van. Kim meets a journalist. The girl who accused Carlos attempts suicide, and the truth comes out.

    Director: Peter Ellis

    Writer: N/A

  • In Confidence
    8.4/1069 votes

    #20 - In Confidence

    Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/14/2003

    Kim is invited to a party by Noble. Noble is arrested through an undercover operation. He becomes an informant and helps Cruz and Bosco bust a Meth ring. Faith officially requests a new partner. Emily and Faith face off about Eric.

    Director: Nelson McCormick

    Writer: Janine Sherman Barrois

  • Closing In
    8.1/1065 votes

    #21 - Closing In

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/21/2003

    Cruz's desire to find the ring leader of the Meth ring puts Bosco in a uncomfotable position. Faith tries to improve her relationship with Emily and also gets a new partner, Sasha, at work. Noble is released and sets up a new date with Kim.

    Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá

    Writer: Scott Williams

  • The Price of Nobility
    8.8/1079 votes

    #22 - The Price of Nobility

    Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 4/28/2003

    Maritza's reckless pursuit of Buford triggers a horrific car accident that leads to multiple injuries to motorists, and triggers an explosion that severely injures Lt. Johnson and kills Alex Taylor; Doc and Kim get to the top of the promotion list; Maritza hangs Bosco and Nunez out to dry over the murder Noble committed; Doc's overwhelming guilt and grief over Alex's death leads him to a career decision; Maritza discovers that Faith has agreed to help Bosco clear Nunez by getting Noble's gun, and goes to Noble's place to intercept her, followed by Bosco and Noble; when Bosco insists on arresting Noble and Faith refuses to turn over the gun, Maritza draws on Faith, Bosco and Faith draw on Maritza, and three shots ring out.

    Director: Christopher Chulack

    Writer: Edward Allen Bernero, Brooke Kennedy