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Season guide

Waking the Dead: Season 3

8 episodes Premiered Sep 14, 2003
Previously on Waking the Dead

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 Waking the Dead 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.
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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (4): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

Multistorey (1)

Sep 14, 2003

A man accused of opening fire on a crowd from a multi storey car park, and killing a policeman, is claiming his innocence. Boyd's colleagues question his loyalties when he seems un

S3·E2 Core

Multistorey (2)

Sep 15, 2003

Boyd struggles with his past while continuing the investigation on a mass murderer who was also guilty of killing his close friend. Are the Gunman's claims of innocence true? As th

S3·E3 Core

Walking on Water (1)

Sep 21, 2003

When a convicted killer is cleared at appeal for the murder of his adoptive father ten years previously, Boyd is not convinced that the man is innocent. But the only way to find ou

S3·E4 Core

Walking on Water (2)

Sep 22, 2003

Following the murder of Mark Lovell's cousin, the team establish that Mark has a watertight alibi, and the search for the real murderer narrows down to the remaining family members

S3·E5 Mytharc

Breaking Glass (1)

Sep 27, 2003

A recovered memory therapist alerts the CCS to a care home regime of sexual abuse of young boys and a suspected murder. Her client who revealed all this in a therapy session goes m

S3·E6 Core

Breaking Glass (2)

Sep 28, 2003

ln their attempts to prevent another murder, the team desperately tries to establish the identity of the care home paedophile who is also being hunted down by two of his victims..

S3·E7 Mytharc

Final Cut (1)

Oct 5, 2003

A mummified body sends the Cold Case Squad back to the sixties and to a Notting Hill house which had been featured in a film as the location for a murderous fight between gangsters

S3·E8 Mytharc

Final Cut (2)

Oct 6, 2003

The gangster responsible for the bodies behind the walls in the Notting Hill house is still active and the unearthing of past events provokes more murders and an international turf

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