Police Story: 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 Police Story 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
Officer Needs Help
Sep 9, 1975 · 60 min
Sgt. Billy Humm starts feeling the pressure after he's involved in a few too many on-duty shootings, even though they were judged "good."
The Cutting Edge
Sep 16, 1975 · 60 min
Ed Peebles has 30 years on the force, and after his longtime partner retires he loses his direction, both on the job and in his personal life.
A Community of Victims
Sep 23, 1975 · 60 min
A drug addict unintentionally acquires a gun during an apartment burglary.
The Losing Game
Sep 30, 1975 · 60 min
Margaret Case moves from Juvenile to Narcotics, but her undercover work puts stress on her marriage to another cop.
The Cut Man Caper
Oct 28, 1975 · 113 min
On the trail of loan-company robbers, Tillis is forced to rely upon shifty informer Freddy. But the ""snitch"" is playing both ends down the middle and he's also stolen the expensi
Face for a Shadow
Nov 7, 1975 · 60 min
Officers John Kowalski and Dick Elmore investigate a fatal hit-and-run accident that appears to be intentional.
The Test of Brotherhood
Nov 14, 1975 · 60 min
Veteran officer JR Peters is paired in a patrol car with his younger brother Clay, a rookie, along with their sibling rivalry.
Empty Weapon
Nov 21, 1975 · 60 min
On his first day out of the academy, Officer David Singer fails to fire his weapon when a juvenile delinquent he is pursuing pulls a gun on him, with tragic consequences later.
Little Boy Lost
Nov 28, 1975 · 60 min
Detective Brennar fatally sends a 4y.o boy away from the neighborhood. On the home-front, this detective is experiencing a broader sending away of loved-ones only to reap inner con
Vice: Twenty-Four Hours
Dec 5, 1975 · 60 min
Pairs of vice detectives spend a day trying to bust a violent pimp, a bookie, and a man who wants to hire a hit man to kill his wife.
Breaking Point
Dec 12, 1975 · 60 min
Vince Della Maggiori has to investigate when a patrolman shoots a man in his hotel room, and the stories he is given don't add up.
Company Man
Dec 19, 1975 · 60 min
Married Det. Dave Hansen, under pressure from Internal Affairs, must decide whether to continue working for "the company" (LAPD), or stop seeing his school-teacher girlfriend.
Spanish Class
Jan 2, 1976 · 60 min
Young officer Taylor transfers from the Valley into the Hispanic district for "the action" and the pay bump, and is schooled in the art of patrolling a multilingual beat by veteran
Odyssey of Death (1)
Jan 9, 1976 · 60 min
Detectives Stoddard and Bagney look for a man involved in an armed grocery store robbery after he shoots and maims Officer Phillips, a personal friend of Stoddard.
Odyssey of Death (2)
Jan 16, 1976 · 60 min
Detectives close in on the multi-generational hill-country family responsible for a series of armed robberies, rapes, and murders.
The Other Side of the Fence
Jan 23, 1976 · 60 min
Detectives Benson and Fisk set up a sting to catch a pair of murderous jewel thieves.
Fifty Cents, First Half Hour -- One Dollar and Seventy-Five Cents All Day
Jan 30, 1976 · 60 min
While trying to box in an armed bandit who specializes in stealing cars and robbing attendants at parking lots, Detectives Hacker and Barnes are assigned a homicide case.
Firebird
Feb 6, 1976 · 60 min
A daredevil officer is severely burned in a helicopter crash during a SWAT team training exercise, and he fights his injuries and police brass to return to his old life.
The Long Ball
Feb 13, 1976 · 60 min
Everyone around Sgt. Pickett knows he drinks too much. But he doesn't admit it to himself, until the department suspends him and his wife leaves.
Eamon Kinsella Royce
Feb 20, 1976 · 60 min
Detective Eamon Kinsella Royce juggles his police responsibilities and his second job . . . as an insurance investigator.
Officer Dooly
Mar 5, 1976 · 60 min
Despite his best intentions, Dooly is a poor guy who can't seem to do anything right, at least not in his commanding officer's eyes.
Open City
Mar 12, 1976 · 60 min
Vice Detectives Daley and Gentry are on a camping trip when they hear a woman scream in the distance, and a few minutes later, gunshots. Thus begins their investigation into Mob in