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Travelers: Season 3

10 episodes Premiered Dec 14, 2018 Updated Oct 16, 2026

In season three, special agent Grant MacLaren and the Travelers are pushed to the limit as they deal with loyalty, trust, death, and the ever-growing power of the Director. With their existence now leaked to the world, the team must continue to work under the watchful eye of the FBI. Each team member will face their own personal breaking point, all while trying to stop the Faction and hunt down the elusive rogue agen

Previously on Travelers

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Surviving humans from hundreds of years in the future discover how to send consciousness back through time.
  • ⚡ Consciousness is sent directly into people of the twenty-first century, whose lives the travelers assume.
  • ⚡ Travelers work secretly as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.
  • ⚡ The series was created by Brad Wright and stars Eric McCormack, MacKenzie Porter, Nesta Cooper, Jared Abrahamson, Reilly Dolman, and Patrick Gilmore.
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Season overview

In season three, special agent Grant MacLaren and the Travelers are pushed to the limit as they deal with loyalty, trust, death, and the ever-growing power of the Director. With their existence now leaked to the world, the team must continue to work under the watchful eye of the FBI. Each team member will face their own personal breaking point, all while trying to stop the Faction and hunt down the elusive rogue agent Traveler 001. The series stars Eric McCormack, Mackenzie Porter, Jared Abrahamson, Nesta Cooper, Reilly Dolman, and Patrick Gilmore. Created by Brad Wright, the show follows individuals from hundreds of years in the future who discover the means of sending consciousness back through time directly into people in the twenty-first century. These travelers assume the lives of seemingly random people while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future and attempt to change the path of humanity.

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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S3·E1 Mytharc

Ilsa

Dec 14, 2018 · 46 min

MacLaren, his team and their loved ones regroup at a safe house protected by the FBI, but doubts and betrayals may sabotage the rest of their mission.

S3·E2 Core

Yates

Dec 14, 2018 · 48 min

MacLaren and Yates adjust to their new partnership while protecting a TV show host whose inflammatory rhetoric about Travelers has led to tragedy.

S3·E3 Core

Protocol 3

Dec 14, 2018 · 48 min

Certain that his team erased his memory of the previous day, MacLaren retraces his steps in the case of a disturbed youth with a horrific future.

S3·E4 Core

Perrow

Dec 14, 2018 · 46 min

The team learns that Traveler 001 is still alive when the Faction tries to capture him. Doubts about their loved ones worsen for Kat, Jess and David.

S3·E5 Core

Naomi

Dec 14, 2018 · 44 min

The team attempts to extract a rogue A.I. from a child messenger, but the program expands too rapidly. A new Traveler adjusts to his host.

S3·E6 Core

Philip

Dec 14, 2018 · 43 min

The Faction kidnaps Philip and a group of other historians, forcing MacLaren and the team to extract their location from a critically injured Hall.

S3·E7 Core

Trevor

Dec 14, 2018 · 49 min

Suffering from a fatal brain disorder, Trevor makes the choice to allow himself to be overwritten as the team races to invent an experimental cure.

S3·E8 Core

Archive

Dec 14, 2018 · 43 min

MacLaren urges Yates to help him when a Traveler with a mission vital to humanity's survival arrives in the body of a just-captured serial killer.

S3·E9 Mytharc

David

Dec 14, 2018 · 47 min

The Faction sets off nuclear blasts that destroy all of the Travelers' archives, except the one in which a wounded David just happens to be trapped.

S3·E10 Mytharc

Protocol Omega

Dec 14, 2018 · 50 min

Shattered by recent losses and a sweeping new protocol, the Travelers face a bleak future with only one long-shot chance to succeed in their mission.

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