The BEST episodes of Suspects season 3

Every episode of Suspects season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Suspects season 3!

Set in London, each episode is a self-contained story, starting with a news report, then following the team of three detectives as they investigate the circumstances the crime. The cases themselves are hard-hitting with contemporary themes, such as the search for a soldier with PTSD, a murder that has been made to look like an assisted suicide and the gang rape of a young teenager.

Last Updated: 11/8/2024Network: Channel 5Status: Ended
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7.59
73 votes

#1 - The Artist

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/2015

DI Martha Bellamy welcomes back DS Jack Weston after a period of enforced leave following the paedophile investigation, warning him this is his final chance. Jack and DC Charlie Steele investigate when a popular art teacher is found with life-threatening head injuries at a sixth-form college, with suspicions falling on handyman Ben Peel and head Rory O'Hanlon.

Directors: Craig Pickles
Writer: Claire Fryer
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7.59
68 votes

#2 - Connections

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/21/2015

After teenager Mandy Granger goes missing the body of a young girl is found dumped on waste ground though Mandy's mother Natalie claims it is not her daughter. The police discover that Mandy made the 999 call and CCTV reveals her violent father Andrew fighting with Jez, her boyfriend, who is a trans-sexual previously called Julie and Andrew is arrested. Then Oliver, who dated Jez when she was Julie, is in the frame, having sent her abusive texts. A drunken party which got out of hand eventually holds the key to who killed Jez and what happened to Mandy.

Directors: John Hardwick
Writer: Claire Fryer
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7.26
65 votes

#3 - Victim

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/2015

The detectives investigate when a young woman is fished out of the Thames in the middle of the night, badly burnt and barely alive, with the only witnesses at the scene being a few homeless people who saw a man with a white van dumping the body in the river. Charlie runs the victim's distinctive necklace through the database and links it to Sian Jenkins, who was registered as missing in 2012, and events take a further turn when DNA taken from under her fingernails is matched to a girl who disappeared when she was eight almost a decade previously.

Directors: John Hardwick
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7.11
65 votes

#4 - Safe from Harm

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/2015

Teenager Asif Khan is seriously injured after a petrol bomb is thrown into the family home. His father Jamal accuses shady businessman Gregor Forrester of intimidating him into a property deal and using disgraced former policeman David Eboda, a former mentor to Jack, as his heavy. When Forrester's son Zach goes missing it seems that Jamal is out for revenge though he has an alibi, which is more than Forrester has for the night of the arson attack. A secret love triangle and an attempt to give the illusion of a kidnapping are revealed before the case is closed.

Directors: Craig Pickles
Writer: Claire Fryer
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