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The Closer Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 2007 - 2007
Episode 1
Homewrecker
Mon, Jun 18, 200760 mins
A teenage boy in a locked house is the only survivor of a family slaughtered in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood. Making the investigation more difficult, Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson has to deal with across-the-board budget cuts. She is torn between transferring one of her own team members or forcing Lt. Provenza to retire early.
Episode 2
Grave Doubts
Mon, Jun 25, 200760 mins
When a gang member is found dead in a construction site with Lt. Provenza's business card on him, Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson and her team find themselves dealing with a delicate case. Central to the investigation is Father Jack, an activist priest who is very protective of his gang member flock. Priority Homicide also has to deal with a one-time gang member who has rehabilitated himself and defends Father Jack as the man who had a very positive influence in his life. Meanwhile, Brenda has to deal with her own father issues.
Episode 3
Saving Face
Mon, Jul 2, 200760 mins
The funeral of a former police colleague of Flynn and Provenza takes an unexpected turn when the casket is dropped, revealing not only their friend's body but that of a nude blonde woman about whom Flynn and Provenza might know more than they realize. As Brenda investigates, she must also tangle with an irate bride who believes that Brenda ruined her wedding.
Episode 4
Ruby
Mon, Jul 9, 200760 mins
Deputy Chief Johnson and her team are quick to act when a 8-year-old girl goes missing on her way home from school. Using photo images from red light cameras, they are soon able to identify a blue van that was apparently cruising the neighborhood around the time the girl disappeared. The owner is a registered sex offender and is soon under arrest; but, despite her best efforts, Brenda can't get him to confess. After she leaves the room, Det. Sgt. Gabriel takes matters into his own hands and beats information out of the man. Although they manage to locate the victim, Brenda is now faced with the possibility of having any evidence thrown out of court because of Gabriel's actions, and it is left to her to either find other evidence or obtain a confession that will lead to a conviction.
Episode 5
The Round File
Mon, Jul 16, 200760 mins
On what Brenda hoped would be a quiet Sunday, she and Fritz go house hunting, but Brenda heads into work when a man enters the station claiming to have murdered half a dozen people. He gives the police the name of his latest victim but refuses to identify himself. A preliminary examination indicates that seven people (residents of a retirement home) are in fact all dead but with death certificates listing natural causes. The man claiming to be the murderer finally identifies himself as Donald Baxter, a retired journalist who is convinced the nursing home is killing off his friends. As for the house hunting, Fritz and Brenda make an offer but the owner has a hidden reason for putting it on the market in the first place.
Episode 6
Dumb Luck
Mon, Jul 23, 200760 mins
Brenda finds herself trying to solve the murder of a personal trainer found dead in a parking lot. Since the man had been having an affair with one of his clients, police naturally look to the woman's husband as the likely perpetrator; however, things aren't going well. Brenda is feverish but avoids going to a doctor, most of the squad has to undergo weapons of mass destruction training (leaving only Lt. Provenza free to help out), and the only eye witness to the murder has obsessive-compulsive disorder. A simple mix-up with dates seems to resolve to the crime.
Episode 7
Four to Eight
Mon, Jul 30, 200760 mins
Still feeling unwell, Brenda finally gives in and visits a gynecologist to see why she is constantly feverish and moody. In the meantime, there's a delicate case to handle when two young Latino gang members are gunned down. The gang suspects their rivals, and police do everything they can to stop a racial gang war before it explodes. Within this emotionally charged environment, a father desperately tries to keep his teenage son - a promising young baseball player with the chance of a college athletic scholarship - from losing control and joining the Latino gang in order to avenge the duo deaths of his cousin and friend.
Episode 8
Manhunt
Mon, Aug 6, 200760 mins
Brenda and her team deal with the grisly case of a serial killer who seems to have re-appeared after an absence of many years. The cases all have the same type of victim and the same results. Attractive young women - all divorced and recently re-married - are kidnapped and tortured with a cattle prod, among other things, and then dumped nude on the beach along the Pacific Coast Highway. There would always be three victims, found several days apart, with a Roman numeral branded on the heel of their foot. Three victims were found in 1998 and again in 1999 but nothing since. As the police look into the backgrounds of one of the victims, they find exactly where they were tortured and the reason why no one could hear their screams. In her personal life, Brenda is devastated by the results of her medical tests and the doctor's diagnosis.
Episode 9
Blindsided
Mon, Aug 13, 200760 mins
A reporter dies while Brenda helps him profile the LAPD, but Pope bars her from participating in the case until the department psychiatrist clears her for duty. At home, she and Fritz await her parents for a visit.
Episode 10
Culture Shock
Mon, Aug 20, 200760 mins
With her parents still visiting, Brenda investigates the murder of a Chinatown-based tour operator found fatally bludgeoned on one of her tour buses. Her phone messages reveal that she may have been having an affair; it also appears that the tour company was running too much money through its books, leading police to believe that she may have been involved in prostitution. While Brenda works, fiancé Fritz gets stuck playing tour guide for her parents. Brenda has another doctor's appointment, at which she gets some good news but also learns that she'll have to give up a certain dietary crutch.
Episode 11
Lovers Leap
Mon, Aug 27, 200760 mins
Having just undergone surgery, Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson leads the investigation into the death of a female DHS agent. The woman was well-known to the LAPD and was frequently in Los Angeles auditing the installation of police telecommunications equipment funded by Homeland Security. Her car is found off the road in a ravine but the autopsy suggests that she probably survived the crash, with a fatal blow to the head with a wooden stick being the murder weapon. She also had pepper spray residue on her face. Brenda and her team are soon in conflict with DHS investigators who are trying to recover the dead woman's cellphone and laptop computer. The biggest shock however is that she was also having an affair with someone - who turns out to be Chief Pope.
Episode 12
Til Death Do Us Part: Part I
Mon, Sep 3, 200760 mins
Brenda and Priority Homicide investigate the death of Oliver Henry, a prominent divorce lawyer found at the bottom of his swimming pool. His wife Valerie, who was also his law partner and the only beneficiary of his $10 million life insurance policy, is an obvious suspect. There are many others, usually the ex-spouses of his clients, including one, Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer, who may have been particularly vexed with him. Brenda finds herself in unfamiliar territory when she is unable to get a confession from him and has to testify at his murder trial. Meanwhile, Fritz and Brenda are in the process combining their finances, but Brenda's attempt to get cheaper car insurance for them reveals something from Fritz's past.
Episode 13
Til Death Do Us Part: Part II
Mon, Sep 10, 200760 mins
When an alibi, previously thought fictitious, turns up to derail Prosecutor Garnett's efforts in the Shafer trial, Brenda discovers a second house that provides the motive.
Episode 14
Next of Kin: Part 1
Mon, Dec 3, 200760 mins
Brenda tracks a robbery-homicide suspect back to Atlanta, Georgia, where her parents resent being led to believe she's returned home to visit them for Christmas.
Episode 15
Next of Kin: Part 2
Mon, Dec 3, 200760 mins
Brenda, her parents, Fritz and Lts. Provenza and Flynn set off on their cross-country trek to return their prisoner, Wesley Reed, to Los Angeles. Brenda's parents are the only ones who are allowed to drive the RV and they hit several bumps in the road along the way. Wesley tries to escape through the RV's bathroom window, damaging the toilet, so they face a long ride with no facilities. Wesley takes a different tone over time thanks to the kindness of Brenda's parents but Brenda makes what later proves to be a fatal error when she tells him that his younger brother was killed the same day Wesley fled. Wesley tells her that the group he was involved with was planning another armored car robbery and, finally back in LA, agrees to wear a wire. Unfortunately, the take down doesn't quite go as planned.