American Justice: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of American Justice Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Mass Murder: An American Tragedy
Jan 5, 1994 · 43 min
Charles Whitman kills his mother and wife, then fires from a University of Texas tower.
The Hostage Takers
Jan 12, 1994 · 43 min
Prominent cases show how police deal with hostage situations.
The Wrong Man
Jan 19, 1994 · 43 min
Profiles of people who have been falsely accused and imprisoned.
Fugitives
Feb 2, 1994 · 43 min
How the American legal system deals with fugitives, focusing on John List, a killer who eluded the FBI for more than a decade.
Death Penalty
Feb 9, 1994 · 43 min
Capital punishment; Caryl Chessman; Gary Gilmore; Sister Helen Prejean ministers to death-row inmates.
Mob Rats
Mar 2, 1994 · 43 min
Joseph Valachi and Peter Maas are featured in this look at mobsters who turn against fellow criminals and help law enforcement agencies convict them.
Lorena Bobbitt: Women and Violence
Apr 13, 1994 · 43 min
Increasing violence in society; battered women.
Pleading Insane
May 4, 1994 · 43 min
John Hinckley Jr.; Daniel Sickles kills Francis Scott Key's son; the McNaughton rule; Kimberly Martin.
Cops on Trial
May 18, 1994 · 43 min
Frank Serpico and Robert Leuci uncover corruption in the New York Police Department.
Fighting Words: The First Amendment
Jun 1, 1994 · 43 min
The Supreme Court broadly defines free speech; Nazis march in Skokie, Ill.
Jim Bakker: Crime in the Name of God
Jun 15, 1994 · 43 min
Con artists who use religion for gain.
The Great Brink's Heist
Jul 6, 1994 · 43 min
In one of the most daring robberies in history, the 1950 Brink's robbery netted thieves more than $2.7 million.
Reginald Denny: Jury Under Siege
Jul 13, 1994 · 43 min
Media pressure, fear and prejudice may affect jury decisions.
Attack at Waco
Aug 3, 1994 · 43 min
How the authorities may have misjudged David Koresh and the situation at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.
Sex, Lies and Harassment
Aug 17, 1994 · 43 min
The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas case brings sexual-harassment issues under scrutiny.
Gangbusters
Sep 7, 1994 · 43 min
New York gang moves into Boston; Iowa street gang is implicated in a murder.
The Attica Riot: Chaos Behind Bars
Sep 14, 1994 · 43 min
Prison uprisings; 1971 Attica riot; New Mexico State Penitentiary.
Private Eyes
Sep 21, 1994 · 43 min
Private investigators are the cowboys of law enforcement.
Prostitution: Sex and the Law
Oct 19, 1994 · 43 min
Profiling the lives of street-corner hookers and high-class Hollywood call girls and examining how they are brought to justice.
Riot: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Nov 30, 1994 · 43 min
Events leading up to Chicago's 1968 anti-war riots; the "conspiracy to commit riot" trials.
Divorce Wars
Dec 14, 1994 · 43 min
An examination of the evolution of divorce in the United States.