As Major Crimes enters its third season, Captain Sharon Raydor continues to lead her elite team of investigators in pursuit of L.A.'s most dangerous criminal offenders and make tough, provocative deals to ensure these perpetrators do the hard time they deserve. Plus, her unpredictable, estranged husband Jack reappears, and her pending adoption of Rusty brings up difficult issues. The squad continues to dive into captivating cases which run the gamut from the revenge killing of a serial rapist brutally slain in his own apartment and a drive-by shooting that could be the first shot in a city-wide gang war, to the pet dog "murdered" to prevent it from inheriting a 20 million dollar fortune and the re-emergence of the brilliantly twisted killer Phillip Stroh.