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| Season 3 | |
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| No. of episodes | 10 |
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| Original network | Apple TV+ |
| Original release | June 10 – August 12, 2022 |
The third season of the science fiction drama television series For All Mankind premiered on Apple TV+ on June 10, 2022, in the U.S. and concluded on August 12, 2022.
Episodes
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 21 | 1 | "Polaris" | Sarah Boyd | Matt Wolpert & Ben Nedivi | June 10, 2022 | |
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It is now 1992. Karen and Ed have divorced, and Karen is launching an orbital space hotel, Polaris, with Sam Cleveland. Ed and Danielle are attending Danny's wedding on Polaris with their new spouses. Meanwhile, Ellen (now a senator) is running for the presidency as the Republican nominee against Bill Clinton and the space race continues, this time to Mars. Molly, now completely blind, is in charge of the astronaut program and must choose between Ed or Danielle to lead the Mars expedition. Margo is head of NASA and she and Sergei secretly help each other with their respective space programs. Unbeknownst to Margo however, Sergei is under orders from his Soviet superiors to extract information. Aleida is working on new rocket engines for the Mars mission, and is notified by Margo that she will go to the Moon to oversee its development. Space junk from a failed North Korean rocket damages a thruster on Polaris, causing its spin to accelerate and eventually tear the hotel apart. Ed is injured in the ensuing evacuation attempt, and Sam is killed, but Danny manages to save Polaris after performing a space walk to shut off the damaged thruster. | ||||||
| 22 | 2 | "Game Changer" | Sarah Boyd | David Weddle & Bradley Thompson | June 17, 2022 | |
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Karen sells Polaris to Dev Ayesa, the founder of Helios Aerospace, which wants to use it in their own commercial Mars mission. At NASA, Molly offers their first crewed Mars mission to Ed, with Danielle as backup commander. As Karen packs her things at Polaris, Danny Stevens comes to see her and admits that he still loves her. Ellen announces Governor Jim Bragg, an anti-science evangelical governor as her presidential running mate. Molly's choice of Ed enrages Margo, who fires Molly on the spot and appoints Danielle instead. Ed angers Danielle by implying she only got the job because of her race and gender. Karen goes to Helios to convince Dev that Ed should lead their mission. Dev agrees and also offers Karen a job, which she accepts. Dev blindsides NASA by announcing live on TV that Helios will repurpose Polaris as Phoenix to be the first to reach Mars with Ed as its mission commander. | ||||||
| 23 | 3 | "All In" | Wendey Stanzler | Nichole Beattie | June 24, 2022 | |
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Kelly returns from Antarctica and asks Danielle for the biologist's position on NASA's crew, and she agrees. Karen offers Aleida a job at Helios, but she declines and becomes NASA's flight director. Bill Strausser joins Helios as flight director. Danny goes drinking and is arrested, causing Danielle to remove him from the mission, but Ed calls and gives him a position on Phoenix before Danny is forced to admit his troubles to his wife Amber. Sergei gets closer to Margo, but is forced to ask her for NASA's nuclear engine design as the Soviet design does not work. She refuses, but KGB agents blackmail her and threaten to kill Sergei. Two years later, Ellen is President of the United States and all three missions have left for Mars – Phoenix from Earth orbit, Sojourner 1 from Jamestown, and the Soviet Mars-94 from Baikonur. | ||||||
| 24 | 4 | "Happy Valley" | Wendey Stanzler | Joe Menosky | July 1, 2022 | |
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In deep space, all three spacecraft are headed toward Mars, with Phoenix far ahead. Sojourner 1 overtakes them by deploying solar sails. On Earth, Dev is furious and insists first place is the only thing that matters, pressuring his staff to find a way for Phoenix to make it to Mars first. Ellen visits NASA. During her visit, the Soviets perform a dangerous burn to reclaim the lead that causes their nuclear engines to go into meltdown. Ed insists on helping but is overruled by Dev, who locks the crew out of the ship's controls, forcing NASA to mount a rescue. During the rendezvous, a Mars-94 fuel tank bursts, propelling it toward Sojourner. Two astronauts and one cosmonaut are killed as Sojourner attempts to pull away. | ||||||
| 25 | 5 | "Seven Minutes of Terror" | Andrew Stanton | Sabrina Almeida | July 8, 2022 | |
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The Sojourner and Mars-94 crews bury their dead comrades in space. Sergei has been tortured in a KGB prison, but Margo gets him to Houston in return for giving the Soviets some of Sojourner's mission resources. Phoenix removes Helios's flight control lock, angering Dev. Karen resigns from Helios in disgust at their refusal to aid Mars-94. Aleida discovers the Soviet engines are copies of the American engines. Danny learns the password to let him listen to the video messages that Karen and Ed are sending each other. Phoenix arrives at Mars followed by Sojourner. Kelly and cosmonaut Alexei Poletov kiss. Phoenix attempts to land one of its skiffs but Ed aborts the landing due to poor visibility. Danielle successfully lands Sojourner on Mars. Danielle and the Soviet commander, Kuznetsov, wrestle each other to be first on Mars and appear to fall on the Mars surface together simultaneously. | ||||||
| 26 | 6 | "New Eden" | Andrew Stanton | Stephanie Shannon | July 15, 2022 | |
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The Soviets and Americans are uneasily sharing the American Happy Valley base. The Helios team has also landed and they have their own base. After the rough landing left Sojourner 1 unable to fly again, all three crews will be returning to Earth on the Phoenix. Danny hurts himself during drilling and is given Vicodin, and then he begins stealing stronger pain meds. Margo asks the US military to help Sergei to defect. Karen rejoins the Helios team as chief operating officer. Tensions rise when American astronaut Will Tyler reveals in a broadcast that he is gay, causing Baranov to worry that he will catch HIV. Kelly and Alexei have sex at the American base. Ellen takes advantage of Will's story by issuing an executive order that no US military personnel can be forced to reveal their sexuality. Meanwhile the Soviets have discovered liquid water, and hire Helios to help them drill for it while keeping it secret from NASA. Sergei tips off Margo that they have found the water on Mars. A partner of Larry's is indiscreet to a reporter about their homosexual relationship. | ||||||
| 27 | 7 | "Bring It Down" | Dan Liu | Nichole Beattie | July 22, 2022 | |
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The Soviet team in Houston relocate to Helios, and Sergei is returned to the Soviet Union. Larry lies under oath about his affair with a congressional aide, and tells Ellen that Pam left her because of her career. On Helios Base the teams prepare to drill even though Kelly insists the core samples have not been fully checked for microbial life. Danny's drug problem is worsening and Ed removes him from the drilling mission. Aleida begins to suspect Margo leaked the engine designs to the Soviets. Jimmy and Sunny steal a NASA access card, which Sunny and her friends later use to steal the statue of Gordo and Tracy. Ellen later visits Pam. Danny turns off communications with the drilling team, which results in injuries to Ed, Isabel, and the collapse of the cliff above Helios Base. | ||||||
| 28 | 8 | "The Sands of Ares" | Dan Liu | Joe Menosky & Eric Phillips | July 29, 2022 | |
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Alexei and Louisa Mueller escape on foot to Happy Valley. Ellen tells Pam she is the love of her life. Nick Corrado and Isabel Castillo have both been killed. Ed and Danny are trapped in the airlock of a buried Hab 1, and Ed is given uncomfortable news about Shane. Happy Valley's Rover 1 finds Hab 1's beacon. NASA, Helios and the Soviets in Houston work to develop a plan to reach Hab 1. Dev comes up with an idea to use explosives in a lava tube to clear out the debris around Hab 1. Jimmy confronts Karen about Danny. Tyler and Baranov set the charges, and Ed and Danny are rescued. Alexei has a subdural hematoma, and dies despite getting a blood transfusion from Kelly. During the transfusion, Mayakovsky realizes Kelly is pregnant. | ||||||
| 29 | 9 | "Coming Home" | Craig Zisk | David Weddle & Bradley Thompson | August 5, 2022 | |
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It is 5 months later, and the survivors at Happy Valley are repairing the MSAM and making the fuel to return to Phoenix. The MSAM's docking electronics is broken, Danielle and Kuznetsov drive 89 km away to salvage a compatible board from a Democratic People's Republic of Korea probe. Aleida and Bill agree that Margo is likely responsible for giving the Soviets the NASA engine design; Bill goes to the FBI to Aleida's disgust. Amidst mounting financial troubles, the Helios board decides to replace Dev as CEO with Karen and sell Phoenix to NASA. To forestall the political crisis created by Larry and her potential impeachment, Ellen reveals she is lesbian in a press conference. Kelly collapses from pre-eclampsia. Danielle and Kuznetsov discover an armed North Korean astronaut at the probe site who threatens them. | ||||||
| 30 | 10 | "Stranger in a Strange Land" | Craig Zisk | Matt Wolpert & Ben Nedivi | August 12, 2022 | |
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In a flashback, the North Korean capsule crash lands on Mars in 1995, killing one crew member and leaving Lee Jung-Gil as the first man on Mars, stranded and low on supplies. He is eventually discovered by Danielle and Kuznetsov, who take him to Happy Valley. Vice President Bragg confronts Ellen, demanding her resignation to avoid impeachment, which Ellen refuses. Meanwhile, Margo faces scrutiny from the FBI. Kelly's pre-eclampsia necessitates an urgent return to Earth, involving a perilous spacewalk. The narrative also follows Sergei and his family defecting to the USA, and a tragic bombing at the Johnson Space Center by Jimmy's radical friends, resulting in numerous deaths including Karen and Molly. Ed miraculously survives a crash landing in the MSAM, and Kelly safely gives birth. Following a confession from Danny about his role in a drilling accident, he is exiled to live in the abandoned North Korean capsule. The story arc concludes with Ellen reuniting with Pam, Molly being honored for her bravery with the Space Center renamed after her, Sergei adapting to life in suburban America, and a future glimpse of Margo residing in the Soviet Union. | ||||||
Cast
[edit]Main cast
[edit]The third season features ten actors receiving opening credits billing. Michael Dorman and Sarah Jones departed the show, while Edi Gathegi joined the cast. Sonya Walger was only credited with the main cast in the first two episodes before departing the show, though she returned as a guest star in the tenth episode.
- Joel Kinnaman as Edward Baldwin
- Shantel VanSanten as Karen Baldwin
- Jodi Balfour as Ellen Wilson
- Sonya Walger as Molly Cobb
- Krys Marshall as Danielle Poole
- Edi Gathegi as Dev Ayesa
- Cynthy Wu as Kelly Baldwin
- Casey W. Johnson as Danny Stevens
- Coral Peña as Aleida Rosales
- Wrenn Schmidt as Margo Madison
Recurring cast
[edit]- Piotr Adamczyk as Sergei Nikulov
- Noah Harpster as Bill Strausser
- Arturo Del Puerto as Octavio Rosales
- David Chandler as Jimmy Stevens
- Teya Patt as Emma Jorgens
- Sean Patrick Thomas as Corey Johnson
- Justice as Isaiah Johnson
- Jorge Diaz as Victor Diaz
- Madeline Bertani as Amber Stevens
- Sahana Srinivasan as Nuri Prabakar
- Lev Gorn as Grigory Kuznetsov
- Vera Cherny as Lenara Catiche
- Patricia Mizen as Janice Haan
- Hailey Winslow as Karla Dunn
- Ken Rudulph as Edward Kline
- John Hartmann as Administrator Richard Truly
- Tiago Martinez as Javier Diaz
- Nate Corddry as Larry Wilson
- Randy Oglesby as Governor / Vice President Jim Bragg
- Jessica Tuck as Christine Francis
- Cheyenne Perez as Heather
- Larry Sullivan as Ryan Bauer
- Allison Dunbar as Jenna Leigh
- Alexander Sokovikov as Rolan Baranov
- Robert Bailey Jr. as Will Tyler
- Taylor Dearden as Sunny Hall
- Daniel David Stewart as Nick Corrado
- Stewart Skelton as Dick Gephardt
- Pawel Szajda as Alexei Poletov
- Larry Clarke as Bill McGann
- Amol Shah as Adarsh Sethi
- Anne Beyer as Louisa Mueller
- Nick Boraine as Lars Hagstrom
- Mandy Levin as Sandy Bostik
- Ayinde Howell as Benjamin Harmon
- Zac Titus as Charles Bernitz
- William Cowart as Harold "Hal" Goodman
- Goran Ivanovski as Dr. Dimitri Mayakovsky
- Ilza Ponko as Isabel Castillo
- Blair Hickey as Richard Hilliard
- Meghan Leathers as Pam Horton
Guest cast
[edit]- Jeff Hephner as Sam Cleveland
- Ashley Jones as Yvonne
- Derek Webster as Commander Rich LaPorte
- Andres Londono as Joaquin Asencio
- Fran de Leon as General Jeanette Masters
- Brooke Burgstahler as Chelsea
- Thomas Crawford as Pastor Dirkson
- Mariel Taren as Controller Whitney
- John Ruby as Controller John
- Sean Muramatsu as Controller Steven
- Milo Cragnotti as Scotty Wilson
- Ian Bamberg as Byron
- David Chan as Rin
- Jarod Bainbridge as Dean Lyman
- Erika Fong as Renee
- Umberto Celisano as Hans
- Manny Cartier as Ira
- Jonny Coyne as Peter Strauss
- Samantha Boscarino as Jenna
- Tony Curran as Clarke Halladay
- Heidi Sulzman as Sylvie Kaplan
- Debbie Pollack as Zizzo Glover
- Alexander Neher as Davey Kowalski
- Michael Charles Vaccaro as Jack Gould
- Alexander Jo as Cal
- Jessica Galinas as Anne Baranov
- Leo Marz as Peter Baranov
- Christopher as Jonathan
- Diane Dehn as Jean Williamson
- Wade Harlan as Sergeant Jamie O'Neal
- Bonnie Bailey-Reed as Mary Meineke
- Lenny Jacobson as Wayne Cobb
- John Marshall Jones as Nelson Bradford
- John Forest as Jeremy Zielke
- Michael McMillian as Elliott Lewis
- Joseph Beck as Karl Rove
- Patrick Labyorteaux as Congressman Willie Baron
- Scott Michael Campbell as Alex Rossi
- Andrew Brian Carter as Cliff Berger
- Delaney Claire Evans as Avery Stevens
- Parker Reese Evans as Avery Stevens
- Casey Feigh as John Blystone
- Chris Gann as William Piltz
- Vlad Pavlov as Pavel Zaitzev
- C. S. Lee as Lee Jung-Gil
- Michelle C. Bonilla as Victoria Rodriguez
- Kristin Carey as Arlene
- Aleisha Force as Melanie Stanton
- Scott Rosendall as Steven
- Zedrick Restauro as Andrew
- Chet Dixon as Geoffrey Keller
- Cole Stratton as Warren
- Leah Zhang as Gwen
- Aliysa Shareef as Sophie
- Eric Satterberg as James
- Jason Andre Smith as Ted
- Jason Her as Park Chol