The FBI Files: 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 The FBI Files 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
Driven to Kill
Sep 12, 2000 · 60 min
A 14-year-old girl ran away from her mother's home and disappeared without a trace. A farmer later discovered the young girl's remains in an Illinois barn.
Deadly Obsession
Sep 19, 2000 · 60 min
A woman vanishes, and police suspect that her powerful ex-lover, a married man, was responsible. When investigators can't find the woman's body or the murder weapon, the FBI's only
First and Kennedy Street Crew
Oct 17, 2000 · 60 min
Street gangs in Washington D.C. enforced their territories with lethal violence. Authorities vowed to bring the entire gang to justice while the gang leader had fled to Africa.
Terror In Disguise
Nov 21, 2000 · 60 min
Masked bandits pulled off a daring mid-day bank robbery. With no evidence leaving behind, the FBI forced their own luck.
Deadly Trail
Nov 28, 2000 · 60 min
A serial killer dupes FBI agents while eluding a nationwide manhunt.
The Predator
Dec 4, 2000 · 60 min
A stranger snatched an eight-year-old girl as she played in her Tucson, Arizona neighborhood. Within hours, a drifter who was out on parole for abducting and molesting children, bu
Dishonored
Jan 9, 2001 · 60 min
Marine Captain Shirley Russell disappeared. FBI agents found her husband, himself a former Marine, was acting strangely. The FBI's intense investigation revealed a violent past.
Millionaire Murder
Jan 16, 2001 · 60 min
New Jersey millionaire Frank Black flew to Florida to close a major business deal and never came home. FBI Agents learned of a mystery woman in Florida who was meet Black. Eventual
Deadly Business
Feb 20, 2001 · 60 min
FBI agents began investigating New York gas station mogul Gurmeet Dhinsa for gas pump rigging. They learned that he enforced his mob-like operation with brutal violence.
Temple of Fear
Mar 6, 2001 · 60 min
The decapitation of a young African-American male led the Miami-Dade PD and the FBI along a trail of murder. Investigators quickly discovered that the victim was a dissident member
Silent Strike
Apr 3, 2001 · 60 min
Glendale, Arizona mall, local authorities and the FBI scrambled to recover its cargo of nearly a million dollars.
Deadly Stranger
Apr 24, 2001 · 60 min
Police and FBI agents track a serial killer in a cross-country manhunt.
Backstage Murder
May 1, 2001 · 60 min
A television producer was gunned down in his New York office. Four years later and a continent away, a man told Los Angeles police he had been hired to murder two exotic dancers. I
Under Fire
May 8, 2001 · 60 min
A armored car robbery near New York City left one guard dead and another critically wounded. The FBI suspected a large group of domestic terrorists with a history of violent crime.
Manhunt
Jul 17, 2001 · 60 min
A California man was found dismembered. The murder suspect was found six months later when he was caught robbing an Arizona bank and sentenced to life. When he escaped from prison,
Hunter's Target
Aug 14, 2001 · 60 min
David Wilkey was shot to death on a hunting ground in rural Virginia. When this seemed to be an accident, investigators suspected foul play. Two years later, a man contacted North
No Remorse
Aug 21, 2001 · 60 min
On a summer night in 1990, the body of a suspected drug courier was discovered burning in a Minnesota alley. The FBI worked with local police to uncover a crime ring run by a drug
The C-11 Squad
Sep 18, 2001 · 60 min
In the season 3 finale, Drug gangs terrorized Harlem, New York neighborhoods. After a 10-year-old boy became a victim, the FBI formed a task force called C-11, designed to dismantl