The New Detectives: 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 New Detectives 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
Fatal Compulsion
Dec 2, 1997 · 53 min
Forensic psychologists delve into the minds of serial killers, explaining why, most often, they can be a friendly neighbor or a tenacious co-worker – the ones who hide their darkne
Bodies of Evidence
Dec 9, 1997 · 53 min
It is difficult to convict a murderer if the body can’t be found, but forensic science is finding ways to do it. A speck of blood, a piece of a fingernail or a strand of hair may n
Shreds of Evidence
Dec 16, 1997 · 53 min
Observing how the smallest bits of forensic evidence, such as carpet fiber or an eyelash, can seal a case. Included: how strands of hair indicted a killer.
Seeds of Destruction
Dec 30, 1997 · 53 min
Plants help provide oxygen and nutrients for existence. In criminal investigations, a simple seedpod can provide the missing link by placing a suspect at a crime scene. Dirt left o
Lethal Dosage
Jan 6, 1998 · 53 min
While drugs can cure disease and ease pain, they can also be agents of murder. Toxicologists can examine blood and tissue to uncover cases where death is not as natural as it may s
Tools of Death
Jan 13, 1998 · 53 min
A tool used to commit a crime can often be the same tool used to solve it. The pattern a machine leaves on an item, the unusual way a tool crimps a wire and even something as innoc
Out of the Grave
Jan 20, 1998 · 53 min
Advancement in science and technology are encouraging people to revisit the past in hopes of answering questions that have remained unanswered. Techniques from the 20th century are
Infallible Witness
Jan 27, 1998 · 53 min
Investigators are always on the cutting edge of new forensic techniques that can help them solve cases more accurately. Advanced techniques allow crime solving to take on a new dim
From the Ashes
Feb 3, 1998 · 53 min
Insurance torchings, mob burnouts and arson murders: these crimes are designed to take all clues with them. But a case can be built from ashes. Arson investigators do everything fr
Living in Terror
Feb 10, 1998 · 53 min
Because of new technologies, terrorism is a growing international threat. With the expertise of bomb squads, chemists and tool mark experts, bombs are deactivated and criminals are