The Fall - Season 3 (2016)

Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson has arrested Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) - but will he survive the gunshot wounds? Will he ever face justice? Spector is rushed to Belfast General Hospital where Dr Joe O'Donnell, Nurse Kiera Sheridan and the staff engage in the blood-soaked fight to keep him alive.

Gibson and Burns are hauled over the coals by the Police Ombudsman and the Policing Executive for their conduct and handling of the case. When Spector's name is released to the press as the arrested suspect in the Belfast Strangler case, his wife and family are forced to deal with the consequences. Katie enraged at the media treatment of him, decides to take matters into her own hands. All the while Nurse Kiera Sheridan and the medical team continue to fight to keep Spector alive. But even if he survives will he ever be fit enough to stand trial? And do Gibson and her...

Stella is shocked by Spector's journal illustrating his crimes though aware it can be used as evidence against him, since he is claiming to have no recollection of any events during the past six years. Healy tries to use this to prevent his standing trial at the preliminary hearing but the district judge commits him to crown court, ordering his detention at a secure psychiatric hospital under the supervision of Dr Larson. Meanwhile Tom Anderson tells Stella that David Alvarez, who was in the same care home as Spector, was imprisoned for murder in London in 2002.