Hunter — Season 3
22 Episodes · Premiered September 27, 1986 · Ended July 18, 1987
Episodes
After killing a fleeing suspect, Hunter becomes the target of an ambitious TV news reporter's campaign against police brutality.
Detectives Hunter and McCall must work individually to investigate the killing of a police officer after they are separated as partners by their new precinct leader.
McCall falls in love with an architect who is suspected of slaying a beautiful interior decorator.
Hunter and McCall attempt to break a cocaine syndicate apparently being run by one of Hunter's most trusted ex-partners.
The brother of the diplomat who raped McCall comes to Los Angeles to exact revenge against Hunter for killing his brother.
A beautiful San Francisco police detective aids Hunter and McCall in solving a series of puzzling murders apparently connected to the estate of a deceased millionaire.
After a teenage girl dies from a drug overdose during a party and the boys who drugged her are released on a technicality, the girl's sister is considered a suspect when the boys start getting killed.
Hunter and McCall try to protect their informant, Sporty James, from his own greed after he blackmails a ruthless cocaine dealer who's responsible for a murder.
A wealthy woman's gardener is killed when he attempts to save her from a kidnapping, putting Hunter's and McCall's suspicions on high alert when her husband quickly pays the ransom and attempts to avoid an investigation after her safe return.
Dee Dee poses as a rock singer to help solve a drug related murder.
Facing off against a gang of Neo-Nazis responsible for a deadly robbery, Hunter and McCall get help from an unlikely ally in their attempt to escape the violent terrorists.
Hunter travels to Sydney, Australia in an attempt to find clues regarding both the murder of an elderly woman and the disappearance of an old flame three years ago.
Hunter goes on an enforced vacation and falls for a beautiful model staying at his hotel, unaware that she was actually sent to kill him.
McCall opposes the parole of an inmate who shot and killed her husband five years before. Against her judgement, he is released and she begins to tail him hoping to gather more evidence against him for a different crime that he possibly committed, but the plan backfires when she is set up similar to that of her late husband.
McCall goes undercover as a fashion model to bust a ring of thieves hitting lonely business men in their hotels. When Sporty James shows up and inadvertantly blows McCalls cover, Hunter attempts to get there in time to keep them from getting killed.
Hunter and McCall pose as husband and wife to investigate the murder of a young girl whose death exposes a Soviet plot to relocate secret agents in the United States.
A fan who was convicted of attacking a pianist is released from prison and is once again a threat to the pianist.Β Note: The pianist in this episode is played by real life stalking victim Theresa Saldana, and the story is similar to her own.
McCall wants to adopt a baby girl whose mother was shot and left brain dead in a case of mistaken identity.
McCall fears that Hunter's temper will outweigh his judgement when his former girlfriend is murdered and Hunter thinks he knows the identity of the killer.
Hunter and McCall are investigating a prostitution ring when McCall is shot and seriously wounded, and her informant friend is killed. The trail soon leads to a pimp named Big Jack Hemmings, who Hunter suspects ordered the hit on McCall. While McCall fights to survive as surgeons prepare to take the bullet out, Hunter confronts Hemmings.
After Hunter leaves Hemmings' mansion, he's arrested by the Beverly Hills police, who are trying to pin a murder charge on Hunter for political reasons. The D.A. decides not to charge Hunter yet, and Hunter soon discovers who the real killer is. It's now a race against time, as Hunter tries to stop the killer from fleeing the country while the Beverly Hills police try to pin the crime on Hunter.
Hunter is kidnapped and presumed dead after he travels to visit a sick family friend. McCall must control her frustration when she is paired up with a fashion conscious female partner.