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Sanctuary's third season centers on Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant but reclusive scientist dedicated to protecting abnormals. She leads a team including Will Zimmerman, a former FBI agent seeking purpose, and Kate Freelander, a resourceful former smuggler. Their mission is to safeguard these extraordinary creatures from a world that fears them, often clashing with shadowy organizations and the very nature of the abnormals themselves. This season, they uncover a hidden city built by Magnus's father and delve into the mysteries of Hollow Earth.
The core conflict escalates as the team confronts dangerous abnormals and powerful adversaries. They face mutated creatures in Colombia, and Kate temporarily gains superpowers after an abnormal attaches to her. A significant turning point occurs when Magnus is attacked by Adam Worth, a man she believed dead for a century, who manipulates time and pulls her into a subspace rift. This leads to the revelation of the Sanctuary network's origins and the revelation that both Magnus and Adam are dying from dimensional travel. The season culminates with Magnus and her team venturing into Hollow Earth, only to be captured and sentenced to execution.
The season ends on a cliffhanger. After a daring escape from Hollow Earth and a confrontation where Adam Worth is seemingly killed, Magnus returns to a chaotic Sanctuary. The team faces memory loss and bizarre behavior due to a pathogen. As they try to recover, Will discovers a murder, and Adam Worth reappears, intending to alter time. In the final moments, Magnus steps through Worth's time portal, leaving her fate uncertain.
Season 3 of Sanctuary covers episodes 1-20. Here's everything that happened:
Season 3, Episode 1: Kali (3) - As tidal waves threaten Mumbai, Magnus seeks to save Big Bertha from Wexford. Will undergoes induced cardiac arrest to contact Kali in the afterlife, pleading for her to stop the destruction. Will's plea is successful, and Kali prevents further devastation. Will revives with no memory of the encounter.
Season 3, Episode 2: Firewall - Will struggles with amnesia after his near-death experience. Two mysterious abnormals try to extract his memories. Magnus discovers a city built from her father's gifts. The team realizes that animal senses are not working. The episode concludes with the revelation of a hidden city, setting up a season-long quest.
Season 3, Episode 3: Bank Job - The Sanctuary team's routine mission to retrieve an abnormal egg goes awry when it hatches prematurely. To contain the escaped abnormal, Kate stages a bank robbery. Magnus identifies the host, a bank worker, and removes the creature. Another party seeking the abnormal is apprehended, and the team escapes with Henry.
Season 3, Episode 4: Trail of Blood - The team answers Tesla's SOS in Colombia, discovering a secret Cabal lab and mutated centipede-like creatures. Bigfoot investigates the death of Father Jensen, leading him to suspect a police officer. Tesla sacrifices himself to save the team, but survives. The episode concludes with Tesla likely stealing a larvae.
Season 3, Episode 5: Hero II: Broken Arrow - While transporting abnormals, Will and Kate are hijacked. An abnormal attaches itself to Kate, granting her superpowers. Kate gains a lack of inhibition while being pursued by a wealthy tech developer. The episode concludes with Kate learning to control her new abilities.
Season 3, Episode 6: Animus - Henry and Will investigate a werewolf sighting in England, leading them to a psychiatric institute housing lycans. Henry reveals his shapeshifting ability to Erika, showing lycanthropy can be controlled. Meanwhile, Magnus and Tesla discover tunnels accessed through calderas. Henry helps the lycans embrace their true nature.
Season 3, Episode 7: Breach - Magnus follows an anonymous call to an abandoned building and becomes trapped. She is attacked by Adam Worth, whom she thought she killed a century ago. Adam manipulates time within the building, seeking information about "keystones". Magnus and Adam fall through a subspace rift, escaping the time-altered building.
Season 3, Episode 8: For King & Country - The episode reveals the origins of the Five and the Sanctuary network, showing how they were employed by the British government to capture Adam Worth. In the past, the Five hunt Adam to stop a deadly toxin release. Magnus and Adam are dying due to dimensional travel. The episode concludes with Magnus retrieving Druitt from Cambodia to question him about Adam.
Season 3, Episode 9: Vigilante - While searching for Hollow Earth, the Sanctuary team investigates a vigilante targeting abnormals. Will takes charge, releasing Adam Worth to help locate an access point. Bigfoot kills the vigilante priest to protect Magnus. Agent Corrigan arrives, finding Bigfoot wounded. Magnus and Druitt follow a lead to Tibet.
Season 3, Episode 10: Hollow Men - Magnus and her team venture into Hollow Earth seeking her father and a cure, only to find themselves trapped by an advanced, yet unwelcoming civilization. Back at the Sanctuary, Tesla, Druitt, and a suspicious Adam Worth work together to find another way into the city. The team is captured, and Ranna sentences them to execution. The episode concludes with the team hanging, seemingly electrocuted, as the screen fades to black, leaving their fate unknown.
Season 3, Episode 11: Pax Romana - Magnus and team face execution in Praxis for trespassing, but Ranna revives Magnus to help with a seismic crisis. Worth, seeking power, steals a device, while Druitt is imprisoned. Magnus saves Ranna and the abnormal, earning partial trust. Adam Worth is seemingly killed by Druitt. The team and Ranna part ways amicably.
Season 3, Episode 12: Hangover - Magnus returns to a chaotic Sanctuary after a conference, finding Henry with amnesia. The team, including Will and Kate, suffer memory loss and bizarre behavior due to an airborne pathogen from a newly processed Mollox. They piece together the events, discovering Henry shot Will with a stunner. The team neutralizes the Mollox and Dr. Lee, the UN inspector, agrees to cover up the incident.
Season 3, Episode 13: One Night - Will and Abby's first date turns disastrous when they are kidnapped by a gang whose leader needs medical help. Will attempts to save the leader, but accidentally kills him. Abby helps Will, and Kate's team arrests the gang. Magnus disapproves of Will using her name for restaurant reservations.
Season 3, Episode 14: Metamorphosis - Will begins transforming into a scaly creature after exposure to a Hollow Earth spore, literally climbing the walls. Magnus seeks help from Hollow Earth. The team races to find a cure as Will's condition worsens, eventually having to hunt him down when he escapes. Will is cured, but retains a trace of his transformation.
Season 3, Episode 15: Wingman - Will and Henry's double date with Abby and Erika is ruined when Magnus sends them to deliver an abnormal. The abnormal escapes, forcing them to track it through the sewers. Meanwhile, Henry and Erika realize their relationship won't work due to their conflicting lives. Will and Abby end the night with a romantic encounter, while Magnus comforts a heartbroken Henry with Alfredo's.
Season 3, Episode 16: Awakening - Magnus and Tesla investigate a Praxian stronghold and awaken the vampire queen, Afina. Tesla is revamped into a vampire. Afina plans to use Magnus as a blood source to repopulate the world. Magnus tricks Afina with a hologram, and they escape. Afina is not explicitly killed, leaving her potential return open. Kate deals with her past as a smuggler.
Season 3, Episode 17: Normandy - Magnus, Watson, and Griffin are in Normandy on the eve of D-Day, working with the French Resistance to destroy a Nazi weather machine. Watson is captured and interrogated by Druitt, who reveals he's working against the Nazis. They discover the Nazis are using a fire elemental. Captain Zimmerman is killed, but the team stops the weather machine, allowing D-Day to proceed.
Season 3, Episode 18: Carentan - Magnus and Will investigate disappearances in Carentan, France, entering a time dilation field where time moves much faster. They find an aged Ravi and face the moral dilemma of collapsing the field, which would erase those born within it. Magnus succeeds, but Ravi sacrifices himself. The team wonders what caused the field.
Season 3, Episode 19: Out of the Blue - Magnus and Will find themselves in an alternate reality as suburban neighbors with unsettling dreams. They realize their lives are not real and were created by a creature's hallucinogenic venom. They escape this false reality by driving off a cliff. The episode concludes with Kate, Henry, and Bigfoot enlisting Virgil St. Pierre's help to cure them.
Season 3, Episode 20: Into the Black - Magnus faces a jurisdictional battle with the UN over handling abnormals emerging from Hollow Earth. Will discovers Fallon's murder, leading to conflict with Thelo. Adam Worth returns, seeking to alter time to save his daughter. In a cliffhanger, Magnus steps through Worth's time portal.
