NYPD Blue (season 3)
| NYPD Blue (season 3) | |
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Season 3 U.S. DVD Cover
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| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | October 24, 1995 – May 21, 1996 |
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The 3rd season of NYPD Blue premiered on ABC on October 24, 1995, and concluded on May 21, 1996.
Greg and James bust up a robbery when one of the men on scene shows them a badge, then gunshots ring out and James is wounded. Greg gets him to the hospital and he has surgery. The squad investigates and Andy and Bobby manhandle a suspect until he gives up his contact, who turns out to be the guy with the badge. The DA doesn't want to prosecute because the badge-holder is a guard at Rikers who is providing information on crooked corrections officers. Andy gets a tip that the guard is full of it and planning to skip town, and leaks the detail through Bobby's reporter ex-girlfriend so the deal falls through and the guard will get the book thrown at him. James initially has no feeling in his leg, but later regains some in a sensitive area that shows he's on the mend. With the go-ahead from her AA sponsor, Diane decides the time's ripe to renew dating Bobby. And Sylvia surprises Andy with the news that—she's late.
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Sylvia is indeed pregnant, and swears Andy to secrecy, but he manages to blab the news to the entire squad and annoys his wife. A young woman is stabbed to death on her first-floor apartment. Her father seems convinced that his mentally unstable son did the killing, but Bobby zeroes in on a rude, supercilious young man who was acting strangely in the vicinity of the murder site. He and Diane are able to use some fast footwork to get access to his trunk of bloody knives, and Bobby then manipulates him into talking about how he stalks women with big breasts and then murders them. Andy is busy on a case with Greg where a priceless Torah has been stolen from a synagogue. Andy goes undercover as a rabbi and busts the thief.
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Bobby reluctantly meets with his old "friend" Ray DiSalvo, who wants out of his admittedly unfair long stay at Rikers and has hard facts about an old robbery case that left two retired cops dead. Bobby runs with the case only to see that IAB is already there, but has to face two hard truths: IAB's Sgt. Martens is a non-idiot who knows what the hell he's doing, and Ray sold him out earlier. Bobby tells Ray that after he gets his deal, he never wants to see him or speak to him again. Lt. Fancy takes center stage when a shooting at a bodega leaves a Latino punk dead, and he learns the punk beat up a good citizen's kid before a shootout. Fancy and Andy work together seamlessly to make sure the citizen won't face jail time. Greg handles a dispute between a young actor and the abusive, egocentric star who's been giving him hell on the set of a play, and manages to get both parties to live and let live.
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A neighborhood basketball game with controversial origins (it's in memory of a young man who died while in NYPD custody and the chief organizer is an outspoken community activist) ends in disaster when gunshots erupt and two men are dead. Andy and Fancy immediately don't see eye to eye on the case, and when Andy runs into the activist things get very ugly. The activist makes a racial remark which Andy throws back at him, unwittingly in front of a reporter. The activist gets Fancy angry enough to toss Andy off the case but not to kick him out of the 15th, so Bobby (who was disgusted by Andy's comments) and Diane take on the investigation with help from James and Greg. They find out a notorious drug dealer was behind the shootings in retaliation for men leaving the drug trade without his permission. Fancy tells Andy that he won't transfer him out because he believes his white bosses will send him another bigot to replace Sipowicz (as a message to Fancy) and doesn't want to take the chance that the replacement won't be able to do the job that Andy can. Andy finds out the reporter was shot and gets confirming information about the earlier killings before the reporter dies. Sylvia, who has seen Andy making an offensive hand gesture regarding African-Americans, sternly tells him he had better NEVER talk or act like that in front of their son.
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