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Season guide

Bordertown: Season 3

26 episodes Premiered Sep 14, 1990
Previously on Bordertown

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 Bordertown 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.
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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (6): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (20): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

Second Chance (1)

Sep 14, 1990

Clive's former flame, Anna, the wife of his deceased friend, stops in Bordertown to visit her husband's grave, and rekindles her relationship with the Mountie. Meanwhile, Jack and

S3·E2 Core

Vengeance Is Mine (2)

Sep 21, 1990

Clive and Anna plan their wedding. Delighted that his son is getting married, Clive's father arrives from Toronto to perform the ceremony. On the day of the wedding, the survivin

S3·E3 Core

Nebraska Lightning

Sep 28, 1990

When Bat Masterson kills a member of an outlaw gang and uses Jack Craddock's name to collect the reward, the rest of the gang comes to Bordertown seeking revenge, culminating in a

S3·E4 Core

Let There Be Light

Oct 5, 1990

Emile Chabrolet, a friend of Marie's from France, comes to town bringing with him bicycles that he wants her to sell in her store. Wendell has purchased a generator to supply the

S3·E5 Core

Sons of Thunder

Oct 12, 1990

Jack is assigned the task of escorting an affable prisoner into Canadian hands, but the prisoner is being pursued by a couple of thugs who want him to answer for American crimes.

S3·E6 Core

Wild Horses

Oct 19, 1990

When a horse trader comes to town, Jack and Clive purchase a horse for Willie, but they are forced to arrest the trader when two men ride in to town claiming that the herd belongs

S3·E7 Core

Blood

Oct 26, 1990

Jack and Clive hire Couteau to track an outlaw who robbed a bank in Helena, but they are unaware that the outlaw is Couteau's brother, John. Couteau enlists Marie's help to tend t

S3·E8 Mytharc

Sweet Revenge

Nov 2, 1990

Jack shoots a thief during a stagecoach robbery, but the thief turns out to be a local resident who was experiencing hard times, and was desperate to obtain money so he could hold

S3·E9 Core

Sight Unseen

Nov 9, 1990

When Clive goes after the outlaws who wounded Jack and killed two other lawmen, his pistol misfires, blinding him. To elude the outlaws, he must rely on the help of a young woman

S3·E10 Core

The Preacher

Nov 16, 1990

The Marshal and the Mountie come across an Indian village in which all the Indians had mysteriously perished. Also in the village is a priest, who claims to be ministering to the

S3·E11 Core

Honour Thy Father

Nov 25, 1990

A farmer accuses Couteau of murdering a man who had wronged the Metis tribe of Indians. The farmer's son backs up his father's story, claiming to be a witness, even though he was

S3·E12 Core

In Cold Blood

Dec 2, 1990

Don Carlos comes to Bordertown to oversee the bounty hunter he has hired to eliminate Jack Craddock, but Jack intervenes by confiscating the money that was intended to pay the boun

S3·E13 Mytharc

A Question of Negligence

Dec 9, 1990

Marie's competence as a doctor is questioned when a patient dies of minor injuries. Gilbert claims controlling partnership in Marie's store.

S3·E14 Core

Conduct Becoming

Dec 16, 1990

An educated Cree Indian produces documents claiming that Bordertown belongs to the Cree Nation.

S3·E15 Core

The Bostonian

Dec 23, 1990

When a friend passes away, Jack deems the death suspicious, and summons the man's nephew, Arthur Harrington, to Bordertown to prevent the sale of the property to a rancher, who see

S3·E16 Core

Field of Honour

Dec 30, 1990

Gilbert is challenged to a duel by a French peddler who recognizes him from an incident that occurred in France years earlier. Marie startles everyone by supplying the dueling pis

S3·E17 Mytharc

The New Recruit

Jan 6, 1991

On his way to Bordertown to assist Corporal Bennett in the delivery of a payroll wagon to Ft Walsh, a young Mountie is murdered by a gang who mistakenly believe he is carrying the

S3·E18 Core

Marshal Law

Jan 13, 1991

Willie and Lucy stumble upon a dead body, and Jack and Clive track down a U.S. Marshal who has illegally entered Canada while chasing an escaped criminal.

S3·E19 Core

Roaring Days

Jan 25, 1991

After serving time in jail, Clive's old friend, Archie Stanton, comes to Bordertown to ask the favor of a job, insisting that Clive owes him for running out on him. While the Moun

S3·E20 Core

The Road Chosen

Jan 27, 1991

On a stormy night in Bordertown, a gang of outlaws break into Marie's house demanding that she tend to their wounded member. Jack and Clive have been searching for them all night,

S3·E21 Core

Hired Hand

Feb 3, 1991

Joanna Radway offers a black farmer a fraction of what his property is worth, and when he refuses to sell, a couple of her hired thugs use violence in an effort to pursuade him. J

S3·E22 Core

Demon Rum

Feb 10, 1991

When a young cowboy becomes ill on Zack Denny's whiskey, the women of the town organize a revolt to close the saloon and destroy the whisky. Meanwhile, Marie discovers that the whi

S3·E23 Core

Tall in the Saddle

Feb 22, 1991

When Willie finds a wooden grave marker in the cemetery with Jack Craddock's name on it, Jack disregards it as a prank. Distressed that Willie is leaving for Paris with his father,

S3·E24 Core

A Small Kindness

Mar 3, 1991

After missing her last three mortgage payments, Sally is notified by Wendell that his superiors in Helena have ordered him to foreclose on her mortgage. While he is trying to find

S3·E25 Mytharc

Frontier Passage

Mar 10, 1991

Returning from Helena, where she has joined her late husband's parents, Marie is forced to stay overnight at a stage stop during a storm. During the night, one of the travelers is

S3·E26 Mytharc

Under Western Skies

Mar 17, 1991

Returning with Marie and Clive from a party in a neighboring town, Jack is critically wounded by a criminal he had arrested while a Texas Ranger. Taking refuge in an abandoned cab

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