High Tide: 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 High Tide 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
Starting Over
Sep 22, 1996
The men have sold the shop and moved to Ventura where they reluctantly take a bounty hunting job. The bailbondsman gives them a tip about a guest house available and some not so
Deep Blue C-notes
Sep 29, 1996
Joey's yacht-sitting job leads him to piles of money and an angry mobster seeking it. Boat=""Magic Carpet""
The Booster Club
Oct 6, 1996
While investigating the thefts of valuable cars, Mick and Joey join a VIP valet parking company.
Killshot
Oct 13, 1996
A demanding father drives his daughter, a beach volleyball star, away into the arms of her neer-do-well boyfriend who uses her to extort money with the help of her father's bur
Goodbye, Mr. Chip
Oct 20, 1996
Mick is framed for a computer chip theft and massacre when he visits a friend in the industrial security business. There is more on the disk given him than company benefit plans. A
University Blues (1)
Oct 27, 1996
While Joey is attending a computer class, he meets an attractive coed and asks for a date. Before the day comes, she is attacked by an intruder. Since Joey is considered a suspec
University Blues (2)
Nov 4, 1996
The Police Chief orders Lt. Cavanaugh to work with Mick and Joey to find the killer. They agree on three then four suspects and with the aid of other police officers, investiga
Sun, Surf and Homicide
Nov 11, 1996
The Barrett's friend, Jay Cassidy, is beside himself when he thinks his new girlfriend is cheating on him and when she is murdered, he becomes the chief suspect.
Someone to Watch Over Me
Nov 18, 1996
Previous episode indicated that it would be about an assignment to bodyguard a woman and a warning not to.
Mission Improbable
Nov 25, 1996
Mick is approached by two federal security agents who want him to identify a hitman who will be in town to kill Ren Chow Wang.
Dr. Feelgood
Dec 9, 1996
A girl is rushed to the hospital and dies of a drug overdose. Her father hires Mick and Joey to investigate the doctor who supplied the drugs.
Two Barretts and a Baby
Jan 20, 1997
A young woman's mother-in-law, assisted by her husband, will stop at nothing to gain custody of their grandson.
The Old Flame
Jan 27, 1997
The brothers are hired to watch over the activities at a benefit auction of rare wine after two catburglars set off the alarm the previous night. Mick meets an old flame and is att
Open House
Feb 3, 1997
Posing as real estate agents, the brothers investigate violence at expensive homes immediately following the open house run by the real estate company with the sales contract.
Little Black Book
Feb 10, 1997
A madam is assaulted and her 'little black book' stolen, but there was more--a video. She hires the brothers to find the book and then she is murdered. When a second woman trie
A Rock and a Hard Place
Feb 17, 1997
The plane transporting a convict crashes in the wilderness where Mick and Joey are rock-climbing with two women.
Big Stakeout at Oxnard
Feb 24, 1997
While on a stakeout to pick up one of Jay's jumpers, Mick and Joey stumble across bigger game when a criminal involves the jumper in his plan. Stan is supposed to help Mick, bu
Girl On the Run
Mar 3, 1997
Mick and Joey reluctantly agree to transport a witness to trial for Jay Cassidy. Rhonda Fogel is a computer hacker who helps launder $500 million dollars for drug smugglers. B
Desperate Friday
Apr 21, 1997
Joey gets caught up in a botched bank robbery, in which he and the others in the bank are taken hostage. Mick and Ortega must get them out before it is too late.
Dead Men Don't Snore
Apr 28, 1997
Jay calls them because the daughter of a missing man wants them to look for him. She finds him and he fakes his death to avoid having to testify or be killed by the defendant.
Ghost Story
May 4, 1997
An old girlfriend, recently bereaved, is a newlywed who thinks she is seeing a ghost at her new residence which is an old Victorian house in the Napa Valley where her husband o
A Stitch in Time
May 11, 1997
Jay learns that a skip may be having a face change at a health spa and arranges an undercover plan--he is to be a wealthy man with a young wife, Meg, who wants him rejuvenated;