X-COM (Main Series)/Season 3

## Episodes

### Episode 01 : Blast From The Past (Part 1)

In the aftermath of the enemy having overrun X-COM headquarters, a broken-down John Bradford has been living in the fringes for the two years and given up on fighting back against the alien occupation while just trying to do what he can to survive. However, when a squad made of a few souls from X-COM come with news of an map that can lead them to a Human sanctuary, Bradford is spurred on by the thoughts of his beloved X-COM and falls in with them with this journey first taking them through a diner that holds some interesting encounters.

### Episode 02 : Blast From The Past (Part 2)

Having picked up another recruit despite the risks, Bradford and his squad continue progressing forward to the supposed hidden sanctuary and decide to cut through a graveyard where they face something difficult in the form of Sectoids using their psionics to create Zombies from freshly deceased civilians. Later, the squad keep moving through the edge of town where they encounter a group being rounded up by ADVENT and decide to step in to help that causes Bradford's squad to find themselves with new allies calling themselves The Warriors.

### Episode 03 : Blast From The Past (Part 3)

Temporarily parting ways with The Warriors and moving on from the bar, Bradford's squad continues on until they find themselves at a freight yard, the supposed location of the Human sanctuary, but learn the aliens had already discovered the sanctuary for themselves which leaves the squad to avenge those who were taken and, in turn, give them their lost motivation. Later, the squad learn that The Warriors have decided to attack an ADVENT checkpoint within a former police station and head to the landmark to try and help avoid a massacre.

### Episode 04 : Blast From The Past (Part 4)

Having picked up the last surviving member of The Warriors and needing a rest after their recent big fights, Bradford leads a squad to a farm away from any major landmarks where they discover a horrible reality to the previous invasion. Later, Bradford's squad continue forward in their journey but, as they are crossing a dam, they discover the aliens are transporting a large and special bomb through the area which forces them into this very tough fight where they have to risk using this bomb against the aliens to escape as reinforcements come.

### Episode 05 : It Came From The Sea (Part 1)

Having managed to regroup despite the lost gear, Bradford's squad started helping people out in the fringes where they could until they heard of ADVENT business going down within an abandoned fishing village and so decided to investigate where they start picking up transmissions coming from a DJ and first see a new strange threat. Later, Bradford's squad decide to warn the nearest settlement of the new threat but find that the settlement has already been attacked and are forced to try and help them as they continue to listen to this DJ.

### Episode 06 : It Came From The Sea (Part 2)

Having pieced together that this new pirate DJ has built his own radio network through these jerry-rigged relays of stolen alien technology, Bradford's squad has started theorizing that his transmissions are causing these Chryssalids to come which leaves them with a plan of destroying the equipment he has installed as Bradford's squad starts at a coastal town. Later, Bradford's squad learn that the hideout of the DJ and his bodyguards has been found by ADVENT and decide to rescue them as it is their only means of finding these other transmitters.

### Episode 07 : It Came From The Sea (Part 3)

Having rescued the DJ and escaped on his boat, Bradford's squad soon discover that the DJ has run off to get his old record collect from one of his old hideouts that he set up equipment up at which forces them to get through a Chryssalid overrun area in order to rescue him again. Later, as they are returning to the DJ's boat, the DJ himself reveals that his computer is scheduled for another transmission which they realize will ultimately call more Chryssalids down on them and the squad is given a limited amount of time to stop that transmission.

### Episode 08 : It Came From The Sea (Part 4)

When the DJ finally comes clean and reveals that the source of all the transmissions he has been making comes from an early ADVENT chip transmitter, Bradford's squad realize if they were to plant X4 charges and destroy the transmitter, they can undo everything the DJ has done but end up having to go into a Chryssalid nest in order to do so which leads to a repeat of Newfoundland and costs them the life of another friend. Later, Bradford's team come to hear rumors of this new hope for the resistance and they decide to find out what it is.

### Episode 09 : Resurrection (Part 1)

Fifteen years after X-COM's fall, former X-COM soldier Holly Thomas has formed her own squad and, on one fateful day, the squad hears a faint SOS signal which causes them to go on a detour from a intended raid and, in turn, end up at an old X-COM data facility where they are recruited into a classified mission to escort this analyst back to his resistance cell. However, their small journey soon becomes complicated after they run in to a woman from a new city whom proves to be troublesome as she is determinedly searching for some answers.

### Episode 10 : Resurrection (Part 2)

Having arrived to the Elpis, Holly Thomas's squad find themselves becoming apart of this bigger resistance against the aliens in the form of a resurrected X-COM led by Dr. Shen whom has a big plan for X-COM's future if they hope to win this war. However, first the crew of the Elpis must take a trip, in which Amar is left with things to personally handle and think over while he grows much closer to their stowaway. Meanwhile, the squad learns more about X-COM and they also worry about Amar as Holly gets left with some of her own thoughts to wrestle.

### Episode 11 : Resurrection (Part 3)

When the Elpis finally reaches its destination, three weeks after they departed, Holly leads her squad ashore onto a tiny island within Antarctica where they meet Dr. Vahlen to get collected data from her but also come to learn other things. However, just as the squad are enjoying her hospitality for the day, ADVENT follow this mysterious signal to the island and attack their combined resistance cells which leaves the individual groups having to make different means of escape as a big discovery is made in relation to Lena and this tension rises.

### Episode 12 : Resurrection (Part 4)

Having barely survived a assault on "Wunderland" island, the squad are left trying to survive themselves as that fate of the other members of their resistance are left unknown to them. However, when an accidental, but extremely helpful, discovery leads the squad to their hope of getting off the island and leaves them taking a risk to continue the dreams of those who have died although, as it turns out, their six days long trip on a rickety craft proves to be more worth it than they predicted when they reunite with the Elpis and continue their mission.

### Episode 13 : Resurrection (Part 5)

Having found himself having to adjust to his new position over the previous few days, Amar is chosen to aid in leading a expedition to the western ghats to find the ship through meeting with a resistance cell supposedly in the area, led by another former X-COM soldier from the invasion. However, as the deal is being made and matters are attended too, a restless Lily gets captured and forces the two Resistance Cells to work together in infiltrating their nearest new city to rescue her while a drift once again comes to form between Amar and Lena.

### Episode 14 : Resurrection (Part 6)

With the remains of both groups having escaped from ADVENT forces, the squad continues on their journey to find the shot down craft for three days until they finally arrive at the destination where they find their prayers have been answered. Having arrived to the ship, the resistance cell starts their effort to covert it into their future mobile base of operations over the next month while the crew that is remaining on board the Elpis starts the mission of look for supplies and recruits as Amar himself gets left conflicted on his personal situation with Lena.

### Episode 15 : Resurrection (Part 7)

With the older Dr. Shen having given them their mission to recover a very important and top secret asset for their resistance, Amar and Lily lead a team on a three weeks long trip into the coast of Brittany with the goal of getting the Avenger a Skyranger to go with it. However, this important mission of theirs takes them deep into a contagion zone where the team has their first direct encounter with the so-called contagion and see how it leaves this effect on the nature around it while leaving their team in a dangerous position due to being isolated.

### Episode 16 : Resurrection (Part 8)

With their Skyranger project having been completed, Amar and Lily's team must now turn their attention to infiltrating one of the new cities in order to steal a central processor for usage in restoring power to the Avenger. To do it, Amar and Lena are sent into New Singapore where they must work together for a total of the four days to acquire what they need but the two find this to become complicated when their emotions and some distrust gets in the way but their extraction from there comes at a cost which forces Amar to make an hard call.

### Episode 17 : Resurrection (Part 9)

Now that the team has returned to the Avenger so that progress can continue, Amar and Lena finally have the discussion they need and come to make a big decision on where the two of them stand together. However, as things are looking up and further progress is made, an attack is launched on the resistance cell from within the Avenger itself when an artificial intelligence takes control of the Avenger's systems and leaves the squads fighting against the rather surprising and old threat that they find themselves against with everything they have.

### Episode 18 : Resurrection (Part 10)

In the aftermath of the artificial intelligence's assault against them, the resistance cell is left devastated by their losses they've had and another they will soon have but the surprising arrival of some old friends sparks a bit of hope among them as they are also given their chance to recruit themselves this scientist. Meanwhile, Amar comes to awaken from his small, two weeks, long coma and has to deal with his own loss as he learns what had happened before he and his remaining friends are sent to be the required squad on the Elpis a week later.

### Episode 19 : Avenger Assemble (Part 1)

Three days after the burial of Raymond Shen, the Avenger has already become something of a hub for the early resistance movement but it is still far from flight-ready which has left Lily to become the new "facilitator" to keep the ship in top condition with her first mission being to use her experimental 3D replication system to replicate an EMP cannon from this crashed raven. Later, two weeks since her last mission, Lily learns of the location in which she can find a rotor assembly to scan for her 3D replication system and use on their Avenger.

### Episode 20 : Avenger Assemble (Part 2)

Sixty-Seven days since since her first mission, a small incident on the Avenger causes the command chair to get lost which forces Lily to, while hiding the whole thing from Bradford, to lead the squad to acquire this replacement that has been fortunately found before Bradford returns. However, on a following field excursion, Lily is captured by ADVENT forces in aim of hunting for the still-grounded Avenger which leaves Bradford to rescue her before its too late as, during her time in capacity, she learns of other prisoners that could be saved.

### Episode 21 : Avenger Assemble (Part 3)

Now aware of a special team of ADVENT soldiers that are solely taking prisoners from the various resistance cells, the resurgent X-COM start working to save the other prisoners by starting with Ana Ramirez, leader of the resistance group that is called "Children Of The Earth" who is being transported through the slums by this ADVENT prison train. Later, X-COM learn that another resistance group leader has been captured after the rest had been killed in a raid on an ADVENT convoy which leaves them heading into a New City to rescue him.

### Episode 22 : Avenger Assemble (Part 4)

When X-COM receives a signal from Jane Kelly, one of their members who has been training recruits, they learn that ADVENT are attempting to capture her after her camp was discovered when some of her most recent recruits tried to sabotage a gene therapy clinic and make a move to extract her to safety. Later, a scientist working for ADVENT makes contact with X-COM and requests to be extracted to safety after he removed that chip from the back of his head which leaves the X-COM squad with a limited amount of time to try and aid him.

### Episode 23 : Avenger Assemble (Part 5)

One hundred days since her first mission, Lily hears a report from a small resistance group that they have managed to shoot down this small scout UFO which gives Lily her bold but risky opportunity to hack the UFO's AI system and use it to bring the main computer of the Avenger back online. Later, one hundred and forty-one days since her first mission, Lily picks up intel of a black market trader that has a hold of a communications module that X-COM is in need of and so heads to acquire it from her just as ADVENT locates her black market.

### Episode 24 : Avenger Assemble (Part 6)

A day after being rescued by Lily, the black market trader Masha reveals to her the site of a scout craft UFO being constructed which gives Lily the chance to lead a mission to the site in order to recover some useful code from the UFO's data core for the AI that she and Tygan have managed to bring online. Three days later, Lily's look into the recovered data reveals the location of this landed ADVENT supply ship which offers X-COM the big chance to acquire an power stablization unit for The Avenger and, in turn, finally bring the ship to full power.

### Episode 25 : The Lazarus Project

When members of Ana's "Children Of The Earth" resistance group report sighting of a siege cannon being moved by ADVENT forces, X-COM sends in a squad to plant X4 charges on it and destroy it as it would otherwise prove too risky to be left functional. Later, Tygan and Lily work together to learn the hidden location of an stronghold where remnants of X-COM headquarters are rumored to be being kept in stasis tubes which leaves Bradford to lead a squad there to learn what they are and they come to reunite with old friends of theirs.

### Episode 26 : Factions (Part 1)

Since the aliens came to Earth, a resistance faction known as the Reapers have adapted to a new way of surviving under the rule of the Elders as they believe they are the only appropriate and true resistance against their alien overseers remaining but come to discover a sign of X-COM still existing and work to make contact despite wariness among their hunting detachment. Meanwhile, the Elders themselves have started to enact their latest plan to deal with the still growing resistance in the form of "The Chosen" whom will hunt them down.

### Episode 27 : Factions (Part 2)

Having established contact with X-COM, the Reapers are given the offer to work with X-COM and a Skirmisher on their next mission that has the objective of securing this classified tech being transported by ADVENT that would be very useful towards X-COM's progress which is ultimately an offer that is reluctantly taken. However, the Elders are finally able to unleash the second Chosen one and the Hunter has already been able to set up a trap for the three resistance groups for the upcoming mission which will force them to work together to survive.

### Episode 28 : Escalation (Part 1)

Twenty years have passed since the aliens occupied Earth and the resistance against them is still growing which has left the Elders to give their Chosen free-roam in dealing with each different resistance faction individually but this may prove troublesome for their Elders as these encounters cause each resistance faction to start moving in a same direction. Meanwhile, X-COM has continued to engage in their covert operations and fought where they could but William's PERG team come to detect some psionic energy that proves interesting.

### Episode 29 : Escalation (Part 2)

In the aftermath of the Chosen attacking the different resistance factions, the survivors are left to pick up the pieces and decide on their next course of action while some start to make their own moves to track the Elders's Chosen down which puts them going in the same direction that X-COM is planning to assault a, still building, large alien facility within Yule Creek. With their plans aligning, the four factions end up working together to defeat ADVENT's forces as the PERG team continue to investigate the psionics that they witnessed previously.

### Episode 30 : Escalation (Part 3)

A week after the base assault, some of the resistance factions are learning to work together as they guard the site while X-COM finally finds itself with the huge opportunity of locating their old commander, due to their allies in the form of the Skirmishers, which leaves these three resistance factions once again working together to infiltrate an ADVENT facility known as omega station for required data. However, their mission becomes complicated when that mysterious psionic group aren't the only ones to return but all three Chosen also arrive.