- Season three of Falling Skies opens seven months after the 2nd Mass arrived in Charleston. In the interim, Tom has been elected to political office, but he has his hands full as the resistance continues to battle the alien invaders.
- The 2nd Mass invades a camp of prisoners to release teenagers, including Diego. They are reinforced by a Volm warrior named Cochise and possessing powerful weapons to confront the Mechs and the Skitters, They have also an alien machine to release harness from the prisoners. Tom Mason was elected president of the New United States in Charleston, and administrates the town with the support of Manchester, Marina Peralta, General Bressler, Captain Weaver, General Porter and their ally Conchise and they suspect there is an infiltrated mole. Hall has paralyzed legs and is having nightmares with Karen. Manchester assigns Anthony to look for the spy and gives him a list with 50 possible suspects and wants Anthony to narrow it down. The Red Eye advises Tom and Weaver that the Volm's spaceships are coming to fight the Espheni and the previous Overlord was replaced by Karen. Anne is ready to deliver her baby, but something tragic happens with Manchester and a secret is disclosed.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Harnessed children work in a mine as skitters and mechs supervise. Weaver, his daughter Jeanne, and Matt peer from the edges of the mine as they try to rescue her harnessed boyfriend Diego.
Matt sneaks in and plants alien charges around the mine.
They detonate the charges. Ben and another teen rappel down the cliff to take on the skitters as Pope and his band bust in firing, with Maggie and Hal in Jeeps. It's a full on assault of the aliens. The 2nd Mass loads the harnessed kids into vans, liberating them.
They think they've won but suddenly two giant Mega Mechs rise up from behind the boulders, where they appeared to be waiting. The rebels run for cover, but are sitting ducks. A fresh wave of skitters runs out of the mine and attacks Ben.
From above, Red Eye the rebel skitter and his cohorts race down to aid the human rebels.
Tom rides in on horseback with a new Volm alien at his side and they help end the fighting. The members of the 2nd Mass head home.
Back at base, Tom is greeted by Bressler, who calls him president. Marina Perlata (Gloria Reuben), one of Tom's aides, beseeches him not to go out fighting anymore, but he won't hear it.
Seven months have passed.
Hal is helped out of the Jeep's firing tower and into his wheelchair.
Jeanne brings Diego to Anne Glass, who is super pregnant, to remove his harness. She has a fancy new Volm contraption she uses to remove it easily and painlessly. She's the only one the Volm have taught how to use it.
Tom reports to a debriefing attended by Weaver, Bressler, his sons and Cochise, their new alien ally. They think the ambush means they have a mole. Cochise politely weighs in, saying they're unnerving the Espheni.
Tom wants to appoint Arthur Manchester to head an investigation into the mole.
At night asleep, in a bed he shares with Maggie, Hal dreams he is walking through a forest to meet Karen, his old girlfriend turned alien collaborator. They kiss passionately until he wakes up with a start. He tells Maggie he doesn't remember what the dream was about.
Ben tells his dad that Red Eye wants a meeting tonight outside of town; the rebel aliens don't want to come into town because of the anti-skitter talk.
In physical therapy, Maggie shares her concerns about what Karen might have done to Hal. Lourdes assures her they checked him out thoroughly after his alien encounter and found nothing wrong, even though his legs don't seem to work.
Manchester tries to recruit Anthony (Mpho Koaho) to help with his investigation into the mole because he used to be a police officer. Manchester has a list of 50 possible suspects and needs help to narrow it down.
Red Eye meets with Weaver and Tom and tells them they've heard word of another major attack on Charleston. He says the new alien Volm are targeting the Espheni, who have a new even more dangerous overlord: Karen.
Back at the base, Manchester tells Tom he's narrowed the list of suspects down to a dozen. He's about to inform Tom when Anne goes into labor.
Jeanne explains to Diego that she'd been looking for him.
The Volm have given the humans new weapons, technology and strategies to defeat the Espheni, whom they've been following from planet to planet trying to fight.
In a saloon in Popetown on the edge of Charleston, which looks like something from the Wild West, Pope shushes anti-alien talk, lording over the place that bears his name.
An unseen person pays Manchester a visit. He's not surprised to see them, asking if it's that time already, but then sees the gun. "So it's you?" Manchester says. Whoever it is shoots him in the chest.
Later, looking into Manchester's murder, Anthony looks at the blast that killed Manchester and thinks it's from modified Volm technology. Tom asks Anthony to pick up the investigation into the mole.
Tom rushes to Anne's side as she gives birth. It's a girl.
Tom opens the Citizen's Forum by welcoming his new daughter Alexis. He gives a rally-the-troops speech. Pope watches, annoyed, and says he has a plan.
At night, Hal is with Karen in the forest again. She talks about her "transformation" to become one of the Espheni. She planted a probe in Hal's brain, so they'll be connected. She kisses him again. She says he woke up paralyzed from the neck down seven months ago because he was fighting the probe. She strips and climbs on top of him, her alien spine glowing.
Weaver and Tom share a toast to the future. Weaver admits he doesn't trust the Volm, but Tom thinks Cochise and the Volm are the reason they're winning against the Espheni.
Anne wakes up in the middle of the night to see her newborn sitting up in her bassinet smiling at her.
Hal wakes up in the morning and can't find his boots, which he left by his bed and are now in the back of his closet covered in mud.
Tom and Cochise take Weaver down to a secret underground tunnel that only they know about. There are towers around town that prevent the Volm ships from entering the atmosphere. Tom shows Weaver a giant weapon the size of a building that's being constructed underground.
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