NYPD Blue: Season 3

1995 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.8

What Season 3 of NYPD Blue

The season opens at the 15th Precinct in Manhattan, where Andy Sipowicz remains the team's veteran detective, but his alcoholism shadows every shift. He drinks both on the job and off duty, and his behavior has his colleagues wondering how much longer he can keep his badge. His personal life offers no relief: his divorce from Laura drags on reluctantly, and he begins a relationship with Janice Licalsi, a uniformed officer whose father, also a cop, is on the payroll of mob boss Angelo Marino. Meanwhile, the squad faces a string of robberies, shootings and complicated cases that leave Simone, Medavoy, Martinez, Russell and Lesniak working with their nerves on edge.

22episodes

Oct 24, 1995aired

May 21, 1996latest episode

16.8 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 E.R.
Oct 24, 1995 · 46 min
Martinez is shot when he and Medavoy walk in on a bar robbery. One of the robbers gets protection from the DA for information, which upsets James' colleagues. Sylvia breaks some news to Sipowicz, while Simone and Russell try for a reconcilliation.
Directing: Mark Tinker · Writing: David Mills
3x02 Torah! Torah! Torah!
Oct 31, 1995 · 46 min
An ill man is accused of killing his sister, but Simone suspects otherwise. Meanwhile, Medavoy and Sipowicz go under cover to recover a stolen Jewish icon. Sipowicz struggles to keep a secret.
Directing: Donna Deitch · Writing: Theresa Rebeck · Starring: Sam Rockwell
3x03 One Big Happy Family
Nov 7, 1995 · 46 min
Simone and Sipowicz get a break in a rape case when a man fitting the assailants description is seen in the station. Russell has to resolve her families domestic problems. Meanwhile, Martinez, on his first day back, gets some disappointing news from Lesniak.
Directing: Michael M. Robin · Writing: Gardner Stern · Starring: George DiCenzo, Jon Polito, Cress Williams, David Harris
3x04 Heavin' Can Wait
Nov 14, 1995 · 46 min
A baby and a small child are shot and killed in a robbery. Sipowicz's bad mood hinders the investigation and causes a rift with Simone.
Directed by: Elodie Keene · Written by: Leonard Gardner · Starring: Jasmine Guy, Raymond Cruz, David Harris
3x05 Dirty Laundry
Nov 21, 1995 · 45 min
Ronnie Drucker, a detective under investigation, is reassigned to the 15th squad and compromises Simone. A young girl, confused by drugs, is the only witness to a shooting in a laundromat.
Directing: Mark Tinker · Writing: David Milch, Nicholas Wootton · Starring: Larry Joshua
3x06 Curt Russell
Nov 28, 1995 · 46 min
Simone and Sipowicz investigate the murder of an Indian woman, found strangled in her locked car. Medavoy and Martinez arrest a man acting strangely and find he's involved in a credit card scam. Lesniak and Russell team up to trap a gun dealer. Simone gets over-protective and makes Russell angry.
Directing: Jim Charleston · Writing: Leonard Gardner · Starring: Camille Saviola
3x07 Aging Bull
Dec 12, 1995 · 46 min
An ex-boxer, an old friend of Simone's, refuses to admit he's getting forgetful. The FBI take over a kidnap case, but Simone and Sipowicz find an informant and work the case on their own.
Directing: Davis Guggenheim · Writing: David Mills
3x08 Cold Heaters
Dec 19, 1995 · 46 min
Simone's old pal Ray turns informant, from jail, in order to get a reduced sentence, but things don't go to plan. A father takes deadly revenge to protect his bullied son. Medavoy has to placate 2 actors who come to blows on stage.
Directing: Adam Nimoy · Writing: Theresa Rebeck · Starring: Anthony Stewart Head, V.P. Oliver, William Youmans, Ed Wasser
3x09 Sorry, Wong Suspect
Jan 9, 1996 · 46 min
A young girl is found stabbed, in Chinatown. Suspicion falls on the ex-boyfriend. Simone & Sipowicz Investigate. Martinez & Lezniak have to investigate a robbery, together, despite the bad feeling between them. Medavoy moves into the bunk-room.
Directing: Michael M. Robin · Writing: Gardner Stern
3x10 The Backboard Jungle
Jan 16, 1996 · 45 min
A basketball game, held in the memory of a young boy, erupts into violence. 2 dead, 7 wounded. Andy has a race relation's problem with the organizer of the event that was witnessed by a reporter. Fancy and Sipowicz's relationship is on shaky ground as details of this event come to light and Andy is removed from the case.
Directing: Mark Tinker · Writing: David Mills
3x11 Burnin' Love
Jan 30, 1996 · 46 min
A girl's body is found, burned, in an abandoned basement. Information from the husband of the girl's best friend points to a Russian, who had tried to date her, but had been refused. Simone puts together a scenario, involving the husband and 2 of his associates. Medavoy gets some overtime, on bodyguard duty and gets lucky in the card school.
Directed by: Perry Lang · Written by: Leonard Gardner · Starring: Dan Lauria, Sasha Jenson, Tony Burton, Jeris Poindexter
3x12 These Old Bones
Feb 6, 1996 · 46 min
A bruised and battered wife tells Sipowicz that her husband claimed to have killed somebody 8 years previously. Sipowicz follows a trail, leading back to 2 previous relationships. Russell is told that her father has been shot and killed. Her brother claims to have done it, but Simone thinks he's not telling the whole truth.
Directed by: Donna Deitch · Written by: Theresa Rebeck
3x13 A Tushful of Dollars
Feb 13, 1996 · 45 min
Russell gets a lawyer for her mother. Simone and Sipowicz investigate the shooting of a known mobster's son. Suspicion falls on his younger brother, but the father interferes with the search. Medavoy and Russell get a call to where a woman has been shot, while in bed. Her son tells Russell that he got a message, from his step-father, confessing to the shooting. His rich step-father's lawyer makes difficulties.
Directed by: Elodie Keene · Written by: Nicholas Wootton · Starring: David Harris, James Sloyan
3x14 The Nutty Confessor
Feb 20, 1996 · 45 min
Martinez and Lezniak's relationship takes a step forward. Simone and Sipowicz are called to a bloody murder scene with satanistic overtones. A doctor is mugged and shot on a visit to his secretary's apartment. Russell and Medavoy feel the wrath of his wife's anger.
Directing: Mark Tinker · Writing: Gardner Stern · Starring: Bill Cobbs
3x15 Head Case
Feb 27, 1996 · 46 min
A University Professor is found decapitated. His mother gives Simone and Sipowicz a hard time. Lezniak gets jealous when Martinez meets a porn star. Andy's son turns up, out of the blue.
Directing: Randall Zisk · Writing: David Mills · Starring: Dan Castellaneta, Anne Haney, Michael DeLuise, Vanessa del Rio
3x16 Girl Talk
Mar 19, 1996 · 46 min
After a young girl is strangled and thrown from a roof, Simone and Sipowicz find a similar case in another district. The investigating officer comes to the 15th, to share information and immediately gets in Andy's bad books. Russell and Martinez disagree over the claims of rape made by a woman, against a married schoolteacher. Sipowicz and Andy Junior go 'on the street'.
Directing: Perry Lang · Writing: Theresa Rebeck
3x17 Hollie and the Blowfish
Mar 26, 1996 · 46 min
Medavoy and Martinez investigate the murder of a voodoo priest. Russell gets assigned to help a drug enforcement team, working in the Precinct. Simone spots an old acquaintance, Hollie, who used to give him good information.
Directed by: Davis Guggenheim · Written by: David Simon · Starring: Danny Trejo
3x18 We Was Robbed
Apr 2, 1996 · 46 min
A dead man is found, dumped in an alley. His name has possible mob connections. Donna gives Russell information about a possible hi-jack. A surveillance op goes wrong, when Simone and Sipowicz assist the FBI.
Directing: Mark Tinker · Writing: Leonard Gardner
3x19 Auntie Maimed
Apr 30, 1996 · 46 min
A woman is found, murdered, in her apartment. Neighbours fingers point at the junkie nephew. Simone and Sipowicz investigate. Medavoy and Martinez search for a biker, seen in a bar, where the bouncer is beaten to death. Sylvia nears the end of her pregnancy.
Directing: Michael W. Watkins · Writing: Nicholas Wootton · Starring: Andrew W. Walker, Dennis Burkley
3x20 A Death in the Family
May 7, 1996 · 46 min
After a shooting at a bar, Simone and Sipowicz are sent to the hospital and find that they know one of the victims. The whole squad is involved in the hunt for the killers.
Directing: Mark Tinker · Writing: Michael Daly
3x21 Closing Time
May 14, 1996 · 46 min
The hunt for AJ's killers continues.
Directing: David Rosenbloom · Writing: David Mills
3x22 He's Not Guilty, He's My Brother Season Finale
May 21, 1996 · 46 min
Simone and Sipowicz go to a shooting at a paint shop. A suspect is located in hospital, with a bullet wound. The other detectives go to a shooting in an alley, where the victim has bullet holes, but no sign og blood.
Directed by: Michael M. Robin · Written by: Robert Glaudini · Starring: Sierra Pecheur, Tobin Bell