Naked City: 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 Naked City 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
Take Off Your Hat When a Funeral Passes
Sep 27, 1961
After a military style armored car robbery has left six people dead, including two NYPD cops, the gang's leader is identified. Lt. Parker insists that a reluctant Det. Flint seek l
Dead on the Field of Honor
Oct 4, 1961
A 35 year old man, raised by his cultured Southern grandmother to be a "man of honor", has not had fortune shine upon him. He becomes unbalanced and begins to use a dueling pistol
The Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street
Oct 11, 1961
After a car wreck between a truck and a hearse, a "corpse" gets up and walks away. The casket used was really a "submarine" - a means to smuggle an illegal immigrant into the U.S.
The Fingers of Henri Tourelle
Oct 18, 1961
A business owner is killed by gunshot in his office. The person who fired the shot couldn't have left the premises before the police arrived to investigate, but the responsible gun
A Wednesday Night Story
Nov 1, 1961
An unhappy couple involve their Swedish nanny in their marital discord.
The Tragic Success of Alfred Tiloff
Nov 8, 1961
Kidnappers target a millionaire to pay the ransom for their victim, a young girl from a poor family. The criminals are a husband who's failed at everything he's tried and a still-a
Which Is Joseph Creeley?
Nov 15, 1961
A man sentenced to die for the coldblooded murder of another man, is given an operation to remove a tumor from his brain. When the tumor is removed, he becomes a docile individual
Show Me the Way to Go Home
Nov 22, 1961
A young man with emotional problems becomes violent when his mother wants him to be mentally evaluated at Bellevue. After assaulting her boyfriend, the NYPD attempts to find him -
The Hot Minerva
Nov 29, 1961
The 65th Precinct's detectives take a crash course in the art underworld to recover an ancient statue of the goddess Athena. Who'd steal the hot Minerva, when they can never displa
Requiem for a Sunday Afternoon
Dec 6, 1961
Shoemaker Anthony Scarzi, the much older husband of Josephine Ametto Scarzi, his wife of two years, struggles with her unfaithfulness and her desire to annul their marriage.
Ooftus Goofus
Dec 13, 1961
George Bick is a 40 year old who never grew up. Fed up with his anonymous life and his henpecking wife, he decides to make the world notice him. He becomes the prankster known as "
Bridge Party
Dec 27, 1961
A determined and utterly logical retiree wants an agreement to raise a drawbridge honored by a railroad - no matter what. When the railroad makes a series of trumped up charges aga
The Face of the Enemy
Jan 3, 1962
Highly-decorated veteran, Cornelius 'Neil' Daggett, has deteriorated from hero to alcoholic bum since the end of the war, having alienated his wife and family. He desperately wants
Portrait of a Painter
Jan 10, 1962
A mentally-disturbed young painter confesses to murdering his wife, who was found on the floor of his studio. But the detectives seek to establish, with the help of the painter's p
The Night the Saints Lost Their Halos
Jan 17, 1962
A middle-aged neighborhood doctor faces a moral dilemma after a young man, Joey, who is like a son to her, and his friend Phillip break into a fire-damaged haberdashery, and Philli
The Contract
Jan 24, 1962
Both the fiancé and the guardian of a beautiful dead young woman claim to have murdered her, and it's up to the detectives to discover who's telling the truth.
One of the Most Important Men in the Whole World
Jan 31, 1962
A widowed gangster is being challenged for custody of his son by his sister in-law. To show the court that he is a positive influence the gangster needs to convince his son's teach
A Case Study of Two Savages
Feb 7, 1962
Two newlyweds from Arkansas, honeymoon in New York City. Their happy time is interrupted by the husband's continual penchant for murder and robbery as a means of getting what he wa
Let Me Die Before I Wake
Feb 14, 1962
A psychologically-troubled moving company owner discovers some troubling truths about his family after a young girl is injured by a hit-and-run truck driver who was really targetin
To Walk Like a Lion
Feb 28, 1962
An embezzler who stole to finance his mother's medical care runs into trouble while trying to end his scheme and return the leftover money.
Today the Man Who Kills Ants Is Coming
Mar 7, 1962
A mentally-stressed police officer suffers a debilitating breakdown over his family's poor financial condition, catalyzed by missing button on his uniform.
A Run for the Money
Mar 14, 1962
A middle aged hired killer, who committed his first murder for pay at age 14,is hunted both by organized crime which has put out a contract on his life and the police. Needing a ba
The One Marked Hot Gives Cold
Mar 21, 1962
A man steals records from the orphanage where he grew up, hoping to find his father. At the same time, the age of his young female companion gets him in trouble with the police.
Without Stick or Sword
Mar 28, 1962
A Burmese Buddhist sailor (William Shatner) seeks revenge upon a ship's captain (Martin Balsam) who refused to pick up the sailor's younger brothers at sea, leaving them to perish.
Lament for a Dead Indian
Apr 11, 1962
A man recently released from prison comes to NYC to get his friend to join him in running a farm. He is warned that his "partner" is bad news by Flint and Arcaro. The friend is not
The Sweetly Smiling Face of Truth
Apr 25, 1962
A Broadway agent dies in an actress' apartment and the detectives must discern who among those present is telling the truth: the actress, the married actor with whom she is having
...And If Any Are Frozen, Warm Them...
May 9, 1962
Detective Flint strives to stop his aging Romanian friend from using his big wedding party as cover for a bank robbery.
Strike a Statue
May 16, 1962
A renowned sculptor "immortalizing a moment in time" of a reviled European dictator is warned to stop working on the project. The men warning him, formerly supporters of the dictat
The Multiplicity of Herbert Konish
May 23, 1962
Mild-mannered Herbert Konish is living multiple simultaneous and separate lives, stumping the detectives who are trying to figure out exactly who he is and what crimes he may have
The King of Venus Will Take Care of You
May 20, 1962
A man wanted by the police for robbery and murder is trapped in a tenement neighborhood.He crosses from building to building via rooftops and eventually hides in a water tank enclo
The Rydecker Case
Jun 6, 1962
Adam and an inexperienced D.A. attempt to prosecute the well-connected fiancé of a wealthy New York scion. Adam wonders just who is on trial and gets an education in Justice.
Memory of a Red Trolley Car
Jun 13, 1962
A chemistry professor develops mental confusion symptoms after being exposed to a dangerous chemical spill, and the detectives race against the clock to find him before his conditi
Goodbye Mama, Hello Auntie Maud
Jun 20, 1962
Chauffeur snuffs his employer with roses, by forcing them in her face as the allergic dowager lies ill. Her agoraphobic daughter is ecstatic that now she'll never have to leave the