Reno's finest start out the third season in the pokey where they spend their time getting kitten tattoos and trying to clear their name.

All the ex-deputies continue on their new jobs, but they all keep getting threatening messages from Mike Powers that they don't pay much attention too. All of them meet up later and learn that Mike Powers got them all together to kill them.

Now that all the Reno deputies have their jobs back for somehow cuffing Mike Powers, they begin to test new recruits to have a spot in the Sheriffs department. All the deputies have a different favorite recruit, but the new addition to the force is definitely a unique one.

The host of the children's show, Reading Ron, brings his own camera crew into the Reno Sheriffs Department to learn about the day of an officer. Reading Ron goes cruising and out on missions, and he begins to learn that Reno is not a very kids friendly place. Weigel, Dangle and Jones get trapped in a SARS outbreak. They have to be contained and have only a two days to live.

The Reno Sherriffs Department have their hands full with a criminal who is in fact the fastest criminal driver in Reno. Kimball and Weigel give psycho Mike Powers a visit.

Dangle and Kimball go to escort the leader of Reno's sister city on an official visit. Junior and Wiegel represent the Department at the high school's career day. Garcia and Jones fall over themselves helping two young women stranded on the highway.

Jones becomes the voice over for a carpet company which earns him a lot of money which makes him consider quiting his job at the Reno Sheriffs Department. Weigel and Dangle go to a crime scene to try and solve what happened. Junior and Garcia find themselves in a competitive paint ball gun match.

The department assigns Williams and Garcia to guard Liberace's piano and Williams begins to think that if you wish for something by the piano, it will come true. Clemmy is dating a 74 year old man who is very rich. He proposes to her, but he dies before she can tell him yes. Clemmy later decides to have Junior, Jones and Weigel help her put on a fake wedding so she can be a widow and get all of his money.

It's Garcia's birthday and the Reno Sheriffs Department want to celebrate it with him, but Garica says he already has plans. The deputies later discover that Garcia is with a woman and they think that he could have a secret girlfriend.

While Dangle spends time with a beautiful young man who might be his son, the other deputies enjoy the new Sheriff's Department Humvee.

The Reno Sherriffs Department prepares for the arrival of the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. They have to let citizens of Reno know that they are coming to film and they also have to do security for the actors. Garica and Jones have their hands full with 'The Water Heater Lady'. They find her running around in the middle of the street with a row of carts.

After a drug sting gone wrong, Dangle and Junior have to make it back to the station on foot. Naked.

Wiegel has good news and bad news: her boyfriend has finally proposed, but his appeals have also finally run out. He's going to be executed for multiple murders.