Season 3 - Episode Guide

Susan's return distracts Spenser, who's protecting an informant from the mob.

Spenser and Hawk come to blows over the protection of a young murder witness. 

Forced into medical retirement, Quirk requires round-the-clock protection from a vengeful ex-convict.

Spenser helps an old friend, an alcoholic priest who tries to help homeless teenagers, when he gets involved over his head.

Spenser becomes obsessed with an apparently suicidal woman after a chance encounter on the street.

Susan fights her professor's sexual harassment, but when the threat turns violent, she welcomes help from Spenser and Hawk.

Spenser and Susan interrupt their Thanksgiving trip to Plymouth when an old Army buddy is arrested for murder. 

A romantic weekend for Spenser and Susan turns into Shakespearean tragedy when two lovers seek protection from a dangerously overprotective father.

A sniper takes some shots at Spenser and Susan, and a young boy ends up dead in the crossfire.

Spenser and Hawk square off when each pursues a corrupt judge's stolen diary.

Susan and an injured Hawk are trapped inside a post office when a disgruntled postal worker takes hostages.

When his ex-partner is mugged with several thousand dollars on him, Spenser reluctantly investigates his mentor's possible ties to the mob. 

After Belson's niece dies of a drug overdose, Spenser and Hawk must keep him from going on a killing spree.

Sammy Backlin calls Spenser for protection when he's being hunted by a 'vicious horde of bloodthirsty assassins'.

In trying to help his former boxing trainer, Spenser must enter the ring for a battle with a man he once sent to prison. 

Spenser protects a theater owner from gangsters, but begins to suspect she's not as innocent as she appears.

Spenser tracks down dynamite missing from a construction site, while Susan hopes to avoid an explosion of emotion by keeping a secret. 

Spenser protects a child artist after the child witnesses a mob execution while painting in the forest.

Hawk is blinded in an explosion and depends on Susan for protection, while Spenser stays one step behind a radical political group. 

Spenser and a tenacious lawyer defend a black Naval officer accused of killing his white captain's daughter.

When someone claims to have been the subject of a missing-child search, Spenser reopens the case that cost him his badge.