List of Third Watch Episodes - Season 5: 2003–2004

Season 5: 2003–2004

Series #	Season #	Title	Director	Writer(s)	Original airdate	Production code
89	1	"The Truth and Other Lies"	Nelson McCormick	Edward Allen Bernero	September 29, 2003 (2003-09-29)	176751
Lt Johnson's burns are very bad, and he is transferred to another hospital by helicopter, with Doc and Mrs Johnson at his side. Kim finds out that Aaron is dead. Faith goes to surgery for her wounds. Bosco tells Swersky what happened, and then talks to the FBI.
90	2	"My Opening Farewell"	Félix Enríquez Alcalá	Scott Williams	October 6, 2003 (2003-10-06)	176752
Kim discovers that her former lover was a drug user. A new paramedic starts, who Doc blames for Alex's death. Bosco tries to get Faith out of trouble for shooting Cruz. Taylor's funeral is held.
91	3	"Lockdown"	Peter Ellis	Janine Sherman Barrois	October 13, 2003 (2003-10-13)	176753
Yokas clashes with her mother-in-law over her recovery; Maritza is back on the job, but unhappy that she's back in the bag and handing out parking tickets; Ty and Sully discover a truck carrying sick illegal aliens and end up scouring the city to track down one of them who escapes after it's determined that the aliens have a highly contagious and potentially fatal disease.
92	4	"In Lieu of Johnson"	Charles Haid	Charles Murray	October 20, 2003 (2003-10-20)	176754
Jimmy struggles as Acting Lieutenant. Bosco and Monroe deal with a rapper causing problems. Ty is thinking about law school again. Faith is not making any progress with her recovery.
93	5	"Goodbye To All That"	Vincent Misiano	John Ridley	October 31, 2003 (2003-10-31)	176755
Bosco, Ty and Sully attend a rally where a judge's car is bombed. Cruz wants out of uniform and plans a sting operation. Sully is chosen for protection detail. Faith is back in hospital.
94	6	"Surrender"	Nelson McCormick	Scott Williams	November 7, 2003 (2003-11-07)	176756
Judge Halsted's housekeeper is injured in the blast. Munroe orders a rape kit for Cruz. The case of Letty's killer comes to court.
95	7	"Payback"	Tim Matheson	Janine Sherman Barrois	November 14, 2003 (2003-11-14)	176758
Sully shoots the denotator out of the hand of Frank Morgan, the bomber and Davis kills one his partner; Doc goes ballistic when he comes upon the scene of an accident involving his old rig and a city bus, and physically assaults Eugene; Public Morals raids Dr. Chow's office, and Maritza is forced to reveal her rape to keep Thomas Warner from being released on a D.A.T.; Ty gets Frank Morgan to flip on Gary Barnes, and Barbara promises Morgan that she will make sure he gets the death penalty for killing her housekeeper and driver; Kim and Carlos refuse to back up Eugene after he files a complaint against Doc, prompting Eugene to quit; a distraught Faith, still plagued by flashbacks of the shooting, asks Fred if they can get out of the city for a family vacation; Warner confesses to raping Maritza while Bosco is transporting him to the Tombs; Carlos is horrified when Doc admits that he accosted Eugene at his house because he "killed Taylor"; Bosco turns Warner over to Maritza, who gets her payback when Warner gets a very painful taste of his own medicine at the Tombs; Barbara rolls up to Sully's favorite diner on her motorcycle and joins him for coffee; Bosco softens his attitude toward Maritza.
96	8	"Fury"	Peter Ellis	Siobhan Byrne O'Connor	November 21, 2003 (2003-11-21)	176757
Doc is demoted back to the streets and continues his downward spiral, presenting Kim with no end of problems as he lies about his demotion, resists her orders as the supervising paramedic, and deliberately runs down a perp with the bus; Barnes is shanked at Riker's for doing a flip on Buford; Carlos is devastated when Kylie is diagnosed with aplastic anemia and he's not a match for a bone marrow donation; Sully tries to deflect Ty's teasing about his relationship with Barbara by getting him to focus on their LSAT prep; after a horrific gunfight, Maritza finally captures Lettie's killer and decides to spare him so that he can suffer for the rest of his life in prison.
97	9	"A Ticket Grows in Brooklyn"	Gloria Muzio	Angela Amato Velez	December 5, 2003 (2003-12-05)	176759
As Carlos desperately searches for a bone marrow match for Kylie, he digs deeper into his own past and discovers that he wasn't abandoned by his parents, but was found clinging to his dead father's hand after a car accident; after a local station picks up the story, Carlos gets a call from a woman claiming to be his mother; Bosco and Monroe find themselves going after a small-time mobster putting the squeeze on an honest family-run linen company after the son of the linen company owner dies in a suspicious fire.
98	10	"The Spirit"	Skipp Sudduth	Edward Allen Bernero	December 12, 2003 (2003-12-12)	176760
Bosco arrests a pedophile posing as a toy store Santa, and the grateful store owner returns the favor by helping Bosco and Sasha come to the aid of a man whose house is robbed of all his children's Christmas presents; after Sully and Ty save a young homeless girl from a fire, she rekindles Sully's Christmas spirit; Carlos receives the ultimate Christmas present when his brother arrives at the firehouse bearing the gift of being a perfect bone marrow match for Kylie, as well as the news of Carlos's real name and family history; Kim and Jimmy spend a romantic Christmas Eve together; Sasha's search for the perfect gift for her nephew gives Swersky the opportunity to play Santa.
99	11	"A Call For Help"	Edward Allen Bernero	Edward Allen Bernero	January 9, 2004 (2004-01-09)	176761
Bosco and Monroe investigate a suspicious man who they find bleeding in an alleyway as they respond to an anonymous caller's claim that someone is shouting for help in the area. They become more and more skeptical when his story continues to change and they find a blood trail. When it is determined that the amount of blood would have been more than enough blood loss to kill a person, Bosco suspects that the man murdered someone and was bleeding because the victim tried to fight back.
100	12	"Black and Blue"	Jesus Salvador Trevino	Brooke Kennedy	January 16, 2004 (2004-01-16)	176762
When Sasha discusses taking the sergeant's exam with Maritza, Maritza reveals that she received her promotion meritoriously, not from passing the test; the police are on high alert after two women are assaulted and robbed by men posing as police officers. Later on at the hospital one of the victim dies from their wounds. Kim and Jimmy decide to keep their blossoming romance quiet until Kim is pulled over by the impostors and narrowly escapes with her life with the help of Bosco, Maritza, Sully and Sasha.
101	13	"Sleeping Dogs Lie"	Félix Enríquez Alcalá	Janine Sherman Barrois	February 6, 2004 (2004-02-06)	176763
Jimmy proposes. A new Captain arrives at the fire house. Cruz extracts a murder confession from a man who Munro saw elsewhere at the time of the crime.
102	14	"Blessed and Bewildered"	Ernest R. Dickerson	Scott Williams	February 13, 2004 (2004-02-13)	176764
Steeper orders the paramedics out of the house. Bosco finds out Allie Nardo has visited Rose Boscorelli. Doc invites Christian along in the bus.
103	15	"No More, Forever"	John E. Gallagher	John Ridley	February 20, 2004 (2004-02-20)	176765
Steeper continues his by-the-books command style and goes head-to-head with Kim when Doc doesn't report for duty on time; Sasha can't find her off-duty weapon the morning after Doc's party; Faith returns to duty at the front desk despite Fred's wanting her to remain on disability, and discovers that Bosco has lied to her about Swersky's not allowing them to be partners; a panicky Nardo kidnaps Rose and then Bosco in a futile attempt to prove that he wasn't a rat, and makes a shocking choice when he realizes that his days as a mobster have come to an end; to the horror of the squads, Doc takes extreme measures to prevent Steeper from closing the house, and forces Carlos and Kim to risk their lives to do the right thing; Sully returns a favor by reaching out and saving his friend's life in Doc's hour of greatest need.
104	16	"Family Ties: Part I"	Brooke Kennedy	Siobhan Byrne O'Connor	February 27, 2004 (2004-02-27)	176766
The investigation into Doc's actions starts. Rose invites Bosco to dinner, unbeknown to him with his brother. Fred is upset that Faith is partnering with Bosco again. A dead body is found, near signs that a drug war is starting. Cruz is miffed at being left out of a raid.
105	17	"Family Ties: Part II"	Nelson McCormick	Edward Allen Bernero	March 5, 2004 (2004-03-05)	176767
Questions are asked about why Cruz and Dade were watching Bosco's brother. Autopsy reveals that Dade was poisoned by Teflon on the bullets. Bosco searches for Mikey. Mikey says he was the driver, but not the shooter.
106	18	"Purgatory"	Mike Vejar	Charles Murray	April 9, 2004 (2004-04-09)	176768
Distraught over losing an appeal to her suspension, Sasha gets into a car accident that claims the life of a young child; Sully and Ty take the L.S.A.T.; tensions flare between the cops and the firefighters when Maritza goes after J.D., the newbie firefighter, who turns out to be an ex-cop who ratted out Maritza's former partner for stealing drug money; Faith and Fred are still at odds over her return to work; Walsh is promoted to lieutenant; Ty watches over a devastated Sasha, who's racked with guilt over the car accident, Doc's shooting spree, and the events surrounding the deaths of Tanzi and Nardo; J.D. gives Faith and Bosco important evidence he discovered as he put out the fire resulting from Sasha's car accident, which leads the cops to uncovering the basis for the accident and exonerating Sasha.
107	19	"Spanking the Monkey"	Félix Enríquez Alcalá	Charles Murray, Victor De Jesus	April 16, 2004 (2004-04-16)	176769
Wary of Lester Martin, the high-priced lawyer his father has found for Mikey and the deal he's attempting to broker, Bosco warns his brother to stay away from Maritza, but Mikey decides to disregard his brother's advice and makes a deal to become her informant; for good measure, Bosco threatens to kill Maritza if anything happens to Mikey; Sully teases Ty about his budding relationship with Sasha; Faith and Bosco strike a deal with Laura, who also has no love lost for Maritza, to protect Mikey by helping her nab the drug dealers before Maritza gets to them; J.D. offers Kim a ride home, but stops off first at a rave that both Anti-Crime and Narcotics have staked out, thanks to information Mikey gave them; when some bad ecstasy begins to take a rapid toll, the paramedics call for backup, which prompts Maritza and her detail to storm the building; after an arsonist lobs a Molotov cocktail into the crowded building, Faith and Bosco give chase and capture him, while the firefighters rescue the ravers who are trapped in the fire; recuperating in the hospital after J.D. rescues her from the burning building, Kim realizes that he is intimately involved with running the rave, and threatens to report him, but he resigns first; Faith threatens to report Maritza to I.A.B. after the sergeant assaults Faith's handcuffed prisoner and breaks his nose; Lester reappears in the station house, this time representing the arsonist, who's also eager to work out a deal by giving up the head of the ecstasy ring; Faith picks out a photo of Joey Mann, who drove the arsonist to the rave, and Laura identifies him as the son of Donald Mann, the head of the ecstasy ring; Maritza spooks Joey as she's about to arrest him, and they head off in a high speed pursuit which narrowly avoids a group of children and leads to Joey's death; Laura warns Faith and Bosco that Donald will be after them to avenge his son's death.
108	20	"In Plain View"	Tim Matheson	Angela Amato Velez	April 23, 2004 (2004-04-23)	176770
Tensions still run high in the Yokas household; Lester preps Bosco for Mikey's hearing, and then pulls a switch when he cross-examines him on the stand, leading to Mikey's getting RORd; Sully realizes what a toll the job has taken on him by his reaction to the deaths of three people in a robbery at the restaurant where he eats breakfast every day; Faith and Bosco answer a call which leads them to Lester's house, where they find his daughter not breathing; Sully tracks down and arrests the restaurant murderer; after Dr. Hickman tells Faith and Bosco that Lester's wife and daughter have been severely beaten, Lester is arrested; Sully gets his LSAT results; Ty and Sasha get closer.
109	21	"Higher Calling"	Gloria Muzio	Scott Williams	April 30, 2004 (2004-04-30)	176771
Sully and Ty discover a headless body in the trash. A new medic joins the team. Faith sits vigil with Rebecca, and tries to understand how a mother could allow this to happen to a child. Mikey is located.
110	22	"Monsters"	Edward Allen Bernero	Edward Allen Bernero	May 7, 2004 (2004-05-07)	176772
Faith pleads for her marriage. Bosco prepares for his brother's funeral. Donald Mann plots revenge including killing all the police who were at his son's death.