Climax!: 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 Climax! 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
Bury Me Later
Sep 6, 1956 · 60 min
An English vicar believes in the innocence of an artist, thought by everyone to be the murderer of a missing farmer. With the help of the murdered man's wife, he solves the mystery
Burst of Violence
Sep 13, 1956 · 60 min
A Texas rancher whose opposition to slavery led him to fight for the Union in the Civil War returns home to find himself despised for betraying the South even by his family.
The Garsten Case
Sep 20, 1956 · 60 min
Two nuclear scientists, married to each other, are working on a top-secret experiment when the woman is accidentally exposed to atomic radiation. With only a week to live, she and
The Fog
Sep 27, 1956 · 60 min
A strange, poisonous fog envelops a small town. In the struggle against death in the mysterious fog, several people re-evaluate their lives and those of others close to them.
Island in the City
Oct 4, 1956 · 60 min
A Puerto Rican detective in the big city tries to keep a youngster from getting into trouble, but is suspended from the force for alleged brutality to the boy.
Journey Into Fear
Oct 11, 1956 · 60 min
A munitions expert goes on an arms smuggling mission to Istanbul and becomes a target for Nazi agents.
The Midas Touch
Oct 18, 1956 · 60 min
The owner of a mine comes to a small South American town to investigate the cave-in, which caused his brother's death. But the townspeople refuse to co-operate.
Night of the Heat Wave
Oct 25, 1956 · 60 min
After serving a six-year sentence for jewel robbery, a man is released from prison. He and his wife are threatened by characters from the underworld who believe the ex-convict know
Flight to Tomorrow
Nov 8, 1956 · 60 min
A co-owner of a small charter service plans to fake a plane crash in order to steal a casino's cash.
Night Shriek
Nov 15, 1956 · 60 min
The young bride of a Jamaica plantation owner is frightened by her husband's violent outbursts of rage. She begins to believe the rumors that he was responsible for the death of hi
The Chinese Game
Nov 22, 1956 · 60 min
A newspaper columnist buys an unusual Chinese game at a curio shop. As he plays this game, he sees himself murdering his wife for another woman.
The Secret Thread
Nov 29, 1956 · 60 min
On a visit to his childhood home, a man discovers a cache of stolen goods in the attic. He is injured by falling crates, and, unable to leave, finds himself at the mercy of the lea
Savage Portrait
Dec 6, 1956 · 60 min
After the loss of his patron and the failure of his one-man show, an artist decides that the only way he can acquire money is to steal it.
Strange Hostage
Dec 20, 1956 · 60 min
The kidnapping of a retired doctor whom the criminals mistakenly believe to be wealthy is witnessed by a young boy whose story no one believes.
Ten Minutes to Curfew
Dec 27, 1956 · 60 min
A paroled convict and a hoodlum are both in love with the same girl. The hoodlum tries to provoke the ex-convict into a violation of his parole.
Carnival at Midnight
Jan 3, 1957 · 60 min
The elderly owner of a carnival is infatuated with the bareback rider he discovered. She rejects his love and his jealousy drives him to plot murder.
The Gold Dress
Jan 17, 1957 · 60 min
Richard leaves Louella, from a prominent family, to marry Jean. Louella vows vengeance even if it's from the grave.
Circle of Destruction
Jan 24, 1957 · 60 min
A ruthless convict breaks out of prison and intimidates his family into helping him stay free.
The Trouble at Number 5
Jan 31, 1957 · 60 min
A middle-aged woman takes a job as a wealthy old lady's housekeeper and, in an attempt to gain the security she longs for, plots to dispose of her employer.
The Stalker
Feb 7, 1957 · 60 min
A businessman who testifies against a gangster learns that the criminal is now out of jail.
Stain of Honor
Feb 14, 1957 · 60 min
The son of a former governor who was assassinated is himself running for the same office when the son of the killer, who was shot while trying to escape, arrives in town under an a
The Long Count
Feb 21, 1957 · 60 min
After a cocky American boxer on a European tour is defeated by a French fighter, he is befriended by a beautiful cafe owner who tries to rouse him from the depression that threaten
And Don't Ever Come Back
Feb 28, 1957 · 60 min
A man wrongly accused of murder is released from prison only after the guilty man confesses to the crime on his deathbed. A newspaper reporter seeks to learn if the townspeople wil
Night of a Rebel
Mar 7, 1957 · 60 min
A young boy is ashamed of his father's bootlegging activities. When the parents of his girlfriend refuse to let her see him, he decides to run away to the big city to become a succ
Let It Be Me
Mar 21, 1957 · 60 min
Corruption in the recording industry plays out just as the music plays in.
Strange Sanctuary
Mar 28, 1957 · 60 min
In the old southwest, a pair of bank robbers must ride out after killing a man. They intend on eventually getting far away, but one seeks to reunite with his daughter in a nearby c
Don't Touch Me
Apr 4, 1957 · 60 min
A successful woman designer returns to her small home town in an attempt to ward off an emotional breakdown. She is still tormented by the memory of a murder she witnessed as a chi
Mad Bomber
Apr 18, 1957 · 60 min
Months after the arrest of New York's notorious mad bomber, new bomb threats terrorize the city. A detective begins a slow, painstaking effort to solve the case.
Avalanche at Devil's Pass
Apr 25, 1957 · 60 min
Among the passengers on a train trapped by an avalanche are a possessive woman, the irresponsible playboy she's been following, a man hunting for a drug addict, and a conductor awa
Strange Deaths at Burnleigh
May 2, 1957 · 60 min
At the turn of the century, Scotland Yard receives letters accusing a village doctor of killing some of his patients. The detective sent to investigate is opposed by the townspeopl
Bait for the Tiger
May 16, 1957 · 60 min
Two swindlers in Italy hire a hungry novelist to find a woman who will pose as a missing countess entitled to an inheritance. Their plans go haywire when one conspirator is driven
The Hand of Evil
May 23, 1957 · 60 min
Poison pen letters threaten the career of a brilliant young college instructor whose pregnant wife has just inherited half a million dollars.
The Disappearance of Amanda Hale
May 30, 1957 · 60 min
An actress is plagued with dread before opening night when her leading man suddenly falls ill, a man follows her on her way to the theater, and she narrowly escapes injury from a f
Mr. Runyon of Broadway
Jun 6, 1957 · 60 min
New York sportswriter Damon Runyon becomes interested in a young boxer and backs him in an upcoming bout, which gamblers try to make him throw by involving his wife in a rigged cra
The Man Who Stole the Bible
Jun 13, 1957 · 60 min
At carnival time in Havana an American salesman rescues an attractive woman from revelers, spends some time with her, and finds his hotel room ransacked when he returns.
A Taste for Crime
Jun 20, 1957 · 60 min
To prove his connection between body chemistry and the criminal mind, a wealthy society doctor secretly joins forces with a hunted fugitive.
The Trial of Captain Wirtz
Jun 27, 1957 · 60 min
During the Civil War, thousands of captured Union soldiers were confined in the Andersonville stockade in Georgia. Conditions there were so bad that over 12,000 prisoners died and
False Witness
Jul 4, 1957 · 60 min
A man dies in an unfortunate accident at an remote hunting lodge. A passing bum who saw the accident threatens to testify that the death was no accident-- unless the widow and her
Payment for Judas
Jul 11, 1957 · 60 min
When one of the ranchers resisting an unscrupulous railroad agent's efforts to buy them out breaks ranks and decides to sell, the other ranchers turn against him, his wife scorns h
Walk a Tightrope
Jul 18, 1957 · 60 min
A man arrested for a murder that was committed for no apparent reason claims he was hired by the victim's wife.
The High Jungle
Jul 25, 1957 · 60 min
A steel tycoon finds that his company is threatened by a younger man who is trying to gain control through the proxy votes of the shareholders. The older man approaches his late pa
The Giant Killer
Aug 1, 1957 · 60 min
A short man who's sensitive about his height picks a fight on the job over the issue. Then his wife gives him a pair of shoes designed to make him look taller.
Trail of Terror
Aug 8, 1957 · 60 min
Murdered doctor had been researching a rare disease.
Murder is a Witch
Aug 15, 1957 · 60 min
After meeting a woman who tells him she desperately needs money for an operation for her mother, a young man agrees to go along with a friend planning a robbery.
The Stranger Within
Aug 22, 1957 · 60 min
A young man is visiting the sister of a friend who was killed in South America when the woman claims she's being poisoned by her doctor stepfather and begs the young man to help he
Deadly Climate
Aug 29, 1957 · 60 min
A woman vacationing off the New England coast reports that she witnessed a murder while walking in the woods. But no one in the small island town believes her except a reporter who