6.7/1026 votes#1 - Survi-Val
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/2000
Val is selected to be a contestant on ""Danger Island"", a new reality show where six people have to survive on a deserted island in order to win two million dollars, but when a contestant is killed on the pilot episode V.I.P. are called in to investigate. Jeff Groom, a network executive, says that since the island is already pre-rigged with camera's they only send along two crew guys with digi-cams and the show's producer so Quick volunteers himself and Nikki. Once on the island however two contestant and the show's producer are killed and another contestant has his brains fried from the inside but he manages to survive. After Quick mentions one of the weapons used by the killer Kay hacks into some military files and discovers that the killer is a Major Ving Talbot, an army weapons designer who is believed dead, who claims that the army prematurely tested his prototypes and on their own men as well. Tasha and Johnny drop in to help and a battle with Talbot ensues. He decides to reveal h
Director: Patrick R. Norris
Writer: Leslie Ray
5.8/1028 votes#2 - Loh-Down Dirty Shame
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/2000
V.I.P. are hired to protect the ancient Chinese mask of Jin-Doo but Johnny is under the influence of his mentor from China.
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Writer: Steven Kriozere
5.7/1028 votes#3 - For Val's Eyes Only
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/2000
When Nikki, Val and Tasha stumble upon an attempted bank robbery Nikki discovers that the group leader is the same man that killed her father 10 years ago.
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Writer: Rick Suvalle, Tom Abraham
6.1/1023 votes#4 - V.I.P., R.I.P.
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/2000
Val tags along with Tasha on a kamikazi mission to find out who's killing off CIA double agents while the rest of V.I.P. discover that a man faked his own death to escape huge gambling debts.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: N/A
6.2/1031 votes#5 - Throw Val From the Train
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/2000
Val is aboard a train with a reporter because she's going to give her the story on what she talked about with serial killer Thomas Binford Shaklee moments before his execution but she stumbles into the wrong room and discovers that he's still alive.
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Writer: Morgan Gendel
6.4/1022 votes#6 - Run, Val, Run
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/2000
V.I.P. are hired to protect a dot com nerd and Tasha thinks that Val might screw things up so she sends her to protect another dot com nerd. It was just a ploy however so Michael Ellins, V.I.P's dot com nerd, could get to Val's dot com nerd and eliminate his competition.
Director: Nelson McCormick
Writer: Rick Suvalle
6.3/1030 votes#7 - Magnificent Val
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/2000
Val is forced to take on the Yakuza, the Japanese mafia, and defend the merchants of little Tokyo.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.3/1030 votes#8 - ExValibur
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/2000
Johnny and Val go undercover to try and get a billionaire's daughter to leave the motorcycle gang she's in and go home to her father.
Director: Nelson McCormick
Writer: Rick Suvalle
6.9/1030 votes#9 - Get Vallery
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/13/2001
Bobbi Canary, a washed-up actress, is studying V.I.P. for a movie she says she's to appear in titled ""The Night of the Bodyguard"" but she's really having someone secretly videotape her outings with V.I.P. so she can make her own cheap movie. She happens to catch something on tape she shouldn't have and now V.I.P. must protect her.
Director: Tawnia McKiernan
Writer: Robert Bielak
6.7/1024 votes#10 - Bodyguards
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/20/2001
V.I.P. enter a bodyguard challenge and they need someone to play the role of an intended kidnap victim. They can't get any of the celebrities they wanted so Val volunteers Maxine but Maxine gets mistaken for an undercover cop and gets kidnapped for real.
Director: Scott Brazil
Writer: Norma Safford Vela, Steven Kriozere
6.2/1023 votes#11 - Val in Space
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/27/2001
V.I.P. are hired to protect a former astronaut hero when his life is threatened because of some missing footage he has that will prove that a mission he was on was sabotaged and he and six cosmonauts where never supposed to make it back alive.
Director: Bruce Campbell
Writer: Leslie Ray
7.1/1026 votes#12 - Val Squared
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/3/2001
V.I.P. are hired to protect Dr. Greg ""Bonzai"" Kobak, a scientist whose oil-eating bacteria if mixed with a DNA accelerant will create Diablo 99. Diablo 99 is a toxin that will turn water into sludge and Dr. Tina Stokes plans to get her hands on both with the help of a Val double. She sends Val on a health spa getaway and has the fake Val infiltrate V.I.P. and steal Dr. Kovacs' bacteria but her plans are foiled when the real Val returns early believing something is up when Angel, Dr. Tina Stokes' partner, appears at the health and tries to kill her twice.
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Writer: Steven Kriozere
6.2/1022 votes#13 - Val on Fire
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/2001
An old army buddy of Quick's needs his and V.I.P.'s help when their old army sergeant returns and tries to get money that he says should be his.
Director: Bruce Campbell
Writer: Steven Kriozere, Mark Yoshimoto
5.8/1028 votes#14 - A.I. Highrise
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/17/2001
V.I.P. are hired by Wilton Knight, the head of Trans Global Internet Finance, to test out the new security system on one of his buildings. While there Val, Quick, Kay and Dave, Wilton Knight's software developer, get trapped in the building with a group of thieves when the artificial intelligence program Dave created locks them in and tries to kill them because he thinks they're trying to destroy him. Meanwhile Tasha, Nikki and Johnny try get back a car that was stolen from the parking lot at Foam and discover that it was used to smuggle Viagra from Mexico into the states.
Director: Scott Brazil
Writer: Steven Kriozere
5.2/1028 votes#15 - Val In Carnation
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/24/2001
After seeing a past life regression therapist Maxine starts to have flashbacks from a previous life in which she was murdered. With Maxine's help V.I.P. are able to solve the previously unknown murder.
Director: Jack Clements
Writer: Leslie Ray
6.5/1027 votes#16 - Goodfidellas
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 4/7/2001
V.I.P. protect a man from Buenos Aires from a hitman but then they start to put the pieces together and discover that the man they're protecting is really Fidel Castro in disguise.
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Writer: N/A
6.7/1030 votes#17 - Amazon Val
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 4/14/2001
V.I.P. must protect a man whose blood can cure anything due to the fact that he's lived the last 23 years of his life in the rain forests.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: Tom Abraham
7.0/1029 votes#18 - Val Under Covers
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 4/21/2001
Val falls for a hitman while V.I.P. is protecting a corporate wistleblower.
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Writer: Norma Safford Vela, Rick Suvalle
6.6/1026 votes#19 - Aqua Valva
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/28/2001
While helping Don Franco with his boat racing team V.I.P. stumble upon plans to sell a downed Chinese spy satellite.
Director: Nelson McCormick
Writer: Morgan Gendel
6.6/1030 votes#20 - Molar Ice Cap
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/2001
A drug lord hires The Owl to kill one of Tasha's former husbands to avoid going to a Bolivian prison. When The Owl finds out that he would have to kill Tasha as well he turns against his employer and helps V.I.P.
Director: Tawnia McKiernan
Writer: N/A
7.1/1025 votes#21 - It's Val's Wonderful Life
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/2001
A fiery explosion aboard a boat leaves everyone to believe that Val is dead. V.I.P. start losing all their clients and their faith, Johnny quits, Nikki leaves to go to work for her grandfather and Kay almost goes to Vegas to get hitched. Quick and Tasha are the only ones left and they form ""Dexter Williams Protection"", to avenge Val's death, which is a joke to everyone. Finally Val emerges having been saved by Mexican fishermen and gets the former members back together again to save the day.
Director: Patrick R. Norris
Writer: Norma Safford Vela
6.8/1025 votes#22 - Val's Big Bang
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/2001
Val, Nikki and Johnny help an archeologist recover an ancient relic but they discover that she may be working with an evil Ukrainian general. Kay accidently locks herself, Tasha, Quick and ""Weird Al"" Yankovic in V.I.P. headquarters.
Director: Savage Steve Holland
Writer: Steven Kriozere, Morgan Gendel
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Survi-Val" is the best rated episode of "V.I.P." season 3. It scored 6.7/10 based on 26 votes. Directed by Patrick R. Norris and written by Leslie Ray, it aired on 10/7/2000. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "Loh-Down Dirty Shame".