Monsters: 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 Monsters 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
Stressed Environment
Sep 30, 1990
Dr. Elizabeth Porter, who spent twelve years raising rats in an unhealthy environment in hopes of evolving their intelligence, faces the terrifying results of her experiment.
Murray's Monster
Oct 7, 1990
Psychiatrist Murray Van Pelt attempts to use a man who can turn into an unstoppable monster whenever his repressed anger is let loose through hypnosis to get rid of his annoying wi
Bug House
Oct 14, 1990
Ellen and May's father died some time ago, and May has started living in the family's broken-down, bug-infested cabin. While visiting, Ellen discovers that her sister has a handsom
Cellmates
Oct 21, 1990
A spoiled American ends up in a South American jail for killing a kid with his car. He counts on his rich father's lawyer to get him out but a weird old political prisoner tells hi
Outpost
Oct 28, 1990
A space mining corporation representative visits the company facility on an uninhabited planet run by a mutant slave to see why his output is behind schedule.
The Hole
Nov 4, 1990
During the Vietnam War, American soldiers Kenner and Torres, and a South Vietnamese lieutenant blast their way into an underground base and series of tunnels operated by the Viet C
Small Blessing
Nov 11, 1990
Two normal, loving human parents try to keep their cute, cannibalistic, mutant infant son from devouring the neighbors. Meanwhile, a wannabe serial killer stalks the area.
Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites
Nov 18, 1990
Young conspiracy theorist Kevin tries to convince his cool skeptic friend Tommy that an old-timey local barbershop is run by vampires in disguise.
The Young and the Headless
Nov 25, 1990
Jealous wheelchair-bound Edward takes his wife Victoria's long-lost alpha male ex, Hunk, who suddenly came back for her, out of the picture for good. Being scientists, the two use
The Waiting Game
Dec 9, 1990
Four survivors of a nuclear blowout hide in their shelters, only connected by a walkie-talkie. While unbeknownst to them, the corpses of the dead are reanimated by something older
Sin-Sop
Dec 9, 1990
A nice, young, southern faith healer uses the miraculous cleansing ability of the corpse of the most evil man in the world to run a small, popular, sin-extraction business. A femal
A New Woman
Dec 16, 1990
A greedy wife tries to get her dying rich husband to give her the control over his buildings for the poor that she plans to sell. The husband's strange doctor tries to scare her st
Malcolm
Dec 23, 1990
Unhappy wife Lorna asks her depressed, workaholic husband Malcolm to play his clarinet for her like he did in their youth. The music causes severe pain in his abdomen and he's take
Household Gods
Dec 30, 1990
Deborah is a married career woman who just had her first baby. Instead of taking care of her child and home, she hires a nanny to take care of things while she works from home. Eve
The Space-Eaters
Jan 6, 1991
Two old gentlemanly friends play a game of chess, when a sinister telepathic alien invader shaped like a giant tentacled eyeball arrives to eat their brains.
The Waiting Room
Jan 13, 1991
Ben suggests to his newlywed son John and daughter-in-law Kate to spend their wedding night in the same hotel room where he spent his honeymoon. When a mysterious woman kidnaps Joh
Leavings
Jan 21, 1991
Beat cops Mancini and Pankhurst tell their boss about the strange occurrences they've recently witnessed such as normal people being turned into surgically reassembled freaks. The
Desirable Alien
Jan 27, 1991
To pass the US citizenship test, secretive Greek lothario Hercules Valvalotus must take a physical, which he desperately wants to avoid, so he tries to seduce the female immigratio
A Face for Radio
Feb 3, 1991
Sleazy late night radio host Roy Bright brings in an alluring guest who claims aliens gave her the solution to evil in the world — a monster that eats bad people who agree to it. H
Werewolf of Hollywood
Feb 10, 1991
An ambitious screenwriter plans to use the information that a top producer in the Hollywood studio he's working for might be a werewolf to finally advance his career.
Talk Nice to Me
Feb 17, 1991
A ladies' man is being harassed over the phone by a mysterious lonely female stalker with a seductive voice.
Hostile Takeover
Feb 24, 1991
A greedy Wall Street banker tries to apply Reagan's voodoo economics literally — by selling his soul to the Devil through a voodoo priestess to become rich and powerful.
The Maker
Apr 18, 1991
In an abandoned hotel, Mack meets a drunk named Freddy who can create anything he wants out of thin air, even food and money, but it all ends up having some critical flaw to it. If
The Moving Finger
Apr 26, 1991
When a mysterious, impossibly long finger inexplicably and creepily pokes up out of the drain of his bathroom sink, family man Howard Mitla is pushed to the brink of madness in his