New York Undercover: 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 New York Undercover 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
A Time of Faith (1)
Aug 29, 1996 · 44 min
Harlem churches are targets of bombings. Eddie tries to help Nina recover from her shot wound. Williams has issues with new comer Det. McNamara. G's friendship with a white person
A Time of Faith (2)
Sep 5, 1996 · 44 min
Williams discover that Rev. Harris may be part of the bombings. Nina moves in with Eddie.
Tough Love
Sep 12, 1996 · 44 min
Williams befriends a woman whose boyfriend is a leader of a gang that robs apartments. Eddie asks Nina not to go back to work.
Blue Boy
Sep 19, 1996 · 44 min
A recently released child molester is a suspect of a rape of an eleven year old girl. G is in trouble at school.
Rules of Engagement
Sep 26, 1996 · 44 min
Nina and McNamara work together on a case where two robbers are murdered. Nina freezes in battle and decides to turn in her gun. G hangs out with young thieves.
Kill the Noise
Oct 31, 1996 · 44 min
A war happens between east coast and west coast rappers when a california rapper is shot.
Smack Is Back
Nov 7, 1996 · 44 min
Torres's father dies of a drug over dose and Torres believes that it was suicide. Williams tries to get custody of G.
Don't Blink
Nov 14, 1996 · 44 min
Nina's new undercover case questions her future as a cop.
Without Mercy
Nov 21, 1996 · 44 min
Toress goes undercover at an AIDS clinic to solve a murder case of a bisexual man. Cooper and Captain O'Bryne start to become closer.
Going Platinum
Dec 5, 1996 · 44 min
Williams goes undercover as a security guard. McNamara's discovers more of his father's case. Captain O'Bryne confesses his love for Cooper.
Brown Like Me
Dec 19, 1996 · 44 min
Torres and Nina become involved with two feuding Latino gangs.
The Reaper
Jan 9, 1997 · 44 min
Lt. Cooper is taken hostage in her office by a man threatening to blow up the precinct if his son is not reprieved from a death-row sentence. Nina learns that the daughter she gav
Fade Out
Jan 16, 1997 · 44 min
A thirteen-year-old boy has a videotape of a murder. Torres and Williams try to protect him; The boy's mother turns out to be Williams's old high-school girlfriend, whom he betray
The Solomon Papers
Jan 30, 1997 · 44 min
Feds may be part of a drug case and McNamara might lose it all to prove it. Cooper and her husband tell their kids about their separation.
School's Out
Feb 6, 1997 · 44 min
Nina's daughter (whom she gave up for adoption) has been kidnapped and held for ransom.
Outrage
Feb 13, 1997 · 44 min
The detectives have to prove that a Gulf War veteran has stolen missles. Williams meets with G's french teacher about G's crush on her.
The Promised Land
Feb 20, 1997 · 44 min
Williams discover evidence relating to Martin Luther King Jr's murder.
Descell
Mar 13, 1997 · 44 min
Nina and McNamara go undercover to find out who tried to kill an executive. Williams and Natasha get close.
Hubris
Mar 27, 1997 · 44 min
A female bounty hunter uses Williams to help find a fugitive in protective custody. Nina and McNamara suspect a wife a recently deceased cop. Natasha visits the precinct.
The Unthinkable
Apr 17, 1997 · 44 min
The detectives suspect a mother of being involved in a carjacking involving her two children. Nina deals with her custody battle for Melissa.
Vendetta
Apr 24, 1997 · 44 min
McNamara goes undercover involving a Chinese Mafia that has a link with his father's death. Torres asks his sister for money to buy an engagement ring for Nina.
Is It a Crime?
May 1, 1997 · 43 min
Williams investigate a case where a girl feel down and elevator shaft in her building. Torres goes shopping for Nina's engagement ring.
No Place Like Hell
May 8, 1997 · 44 min
Willias go undercover at a prison to find evidence that will catch a drug lord. William's new friend in prison becomes involved in a murder. Torres purposes to Nina.
The Last Hurrah
May 15, 1997 · 44 min
The detectives go after a bank robbery ring. Torres and Nina get married.