NYPD Blue
Season 3
22 listed hours · 1993–2005 · ABC
From the desk
How this season is filed
Butts, badges, and Sipowicz — Bochco and Milch teaching broadcast how to be adult out loud. Dennis Franz's alcoholic detective is the decade's great network antihero badge: bigoted, broken, still the moral furnace. Twelve seasons of language fights, cast shakeups, and precinct grit that primed living rooms for flawed cops before cable took the patent.
TV Flash files Season 3 of NYPD Blue (1993–2005) on ABC as a mid listed season (3; 3 of 12) — 22 listed hours, 1995-10-24–1996-05-21 from “E.R.” (S03E01) to “He's Not Guilty, He's My Brother” (S03E22). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
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S03E01 E.R.
Martinez is shot while on a call with Medavoy, and medical and investigative complications arise.
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S03E02 Torah! Torah! Torah!
The detectives investigate stabbing deaths; Medavoy and Sipowicz go undercover as rabbis to snag Torah thieves; Costas has big news for Sipowicz.
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S03E03 One Big Happy Family
A serial-rape suspect is snagged, but he goes free before a positive ID can be made; Russell intervenes after her father beats her mother; and Lesniak divulges personal information to Medavoy.
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S03E04 Heavin' Can Wait
Sipowicz has a bad attitude as he and Simone investigate the grim slayings of two children.
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S03E05 Dirty Laundry
A strange story unfolds after a killing at a coin laundry; Simone and a detective under investigation are partnered on a case involving sexual misconduct.
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S03E06 Curt Russell
Sipowicz and Simone investigate the murder of a matron from India; Russell resents Simone's intrusion in her case involving an undercover sting.
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S03E07 Aging Bull
The FBI takes over the investigation of a businessman's abduction; Simone reaches out to an ex-boxer who's showing early signs of Alzheimer's disease.
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S03E08 Cold Heaters
A shooting involves a black family man; Simone's imprisoned friend gives him info on an unsolved murder.
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S03E09 Sorry, Wong Suspect
A Chinese gangster may be connected to the death of his former girlfriend; Martinez and Lesniak investigate the robbery of a handicapped woman; Medavoy's wife confronts Donna.
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S03E10 The Backboard Jungle
Fancy takes the heat after Sipowicz uses racist language while investigating a gang-related shooting in the projects.
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S03E11 Burnin' Love
Simone and Sipowicz seek the killer of a woman who was burned to death; Medavoy protects a numbers racketeer who's been targeted for a hit.
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S03E12 These Old Bones
Russell's father is killed, and her brother claims responsibility; Sipowicz and Medavoy dig into a murder case requiring the unearthing of the deceased's remains.
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S03E13 A Tushful of Dollars
A hood's own brother is a victim in his killing spree; Russell finds a no-nonsense lawyer to defend her mother, while working a case involving a man who shot his wife.
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S03E14 The Nutty Confessor
A gruesome slaying appears to be the work of a psychopath; an MD is wounded outside his mistress's apartment; Lesniak is ready for passion with Martinez.
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S03E15 Head Case
Simone and Sipowicz investigate a decapitation; Martinez pursues a former porn star's complaint about phone harassment; Andy Jr. makes a surprise appearance.
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S03E16 Girl Talk
A female detective whom Sipowicz resents helps investigate a string of child killings; Russell and Martinez have differing views on a date-rape case.
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S03E17 Hollie and the Blowfish
Simone introduces Sipowicz to a reliable informant, who supports a drug habit by ripping off other crooks; Russell joins a task force investigating a gang-related homicide.
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S03E18 We Was Robbed
Simone and Sipowicz make like burglars when wiseguys stumble in on them while they're planting a bug in a mob hangout.
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S03E19 Auntie Maimed
A junkie is questioned about his aunt's murder; Sipowicz awaits a call from Costas, whose labor pains have begun; a beating death at a strip club is investigated.
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S03E20 A Death in the Family
A homicide changes the course of one detective's life; Donna tells Lt. Fancy she's moving on to take a job in California.
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S03E21 Closing Time
In the aftermath of his son's murder, Sipowicz is possessed by personal demons, while others take action when there's a break in the case.
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S03E22 He's Not Guilty, He's My Brother
Brothers are implicated in a homicide; Sipowicz takes steps toward recovery; John Irvin invites the detectives to a goodbye party.
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