Tammy Klein

Jax deals with collateral damage as external pressure continue to stack up against SAMCRO.

Jax takes matters into his own hands as things go sideways.

This season on SOUTHLAND, Lydia has difficulty adjusting to her mother's return home from Europe with a new boyfriend in tow. The relationship forces Lydia to consider her own life and the fact that remains a single woman. Meanwhile, Ben continues to come into his own as a cop, but he feels increasing pressure to intervene in John's addiction. And Sammy and his wife face a major life change that could have devastating consequences for their marriage. In the third season premiere, Detective Lydia Adams endures a stressful adjustment period with her new partner, Josie Ochoa, as they investigate the disappearance of an illegal immigrant. Detective Russell Clarke, Lydia's former partner, adjusts to a new desk job on the force. Meanwhile, Detectives Sammy Bryant and Nate Moretta look for the killer of two gangbangers; and Officer Ben Sherman catches the eye of an attractive woman during a traffic stop, while his partner, John Cooper, struggles with increasing pain.

Lydia and Josie are assigned to assist Sammy and Nate with a series of gang murders. John discovers he can't stand the "new and improved" Dewey, fresh from rehab, when he's forced to ride with him in order to evaluate whether Dewey is competent to return to duty. Ben must then ride with Chickie, who drives him nuts with her very personal questions about his private life and his new relationship with the "cop groupie" he's been seeing.

When crime scene photos from the case of the celebrity suspected of murdering his estranged wife show up on the internet, all of the first responders are suspended, including Lydia and Josie. Further investigation proves the photos were the unauthorized pictures taken by Lydia using her phone, and she's shocked when she learns who was responsible for the leak. Meanwhile, Sammy fails to pick the right guy from the line-up for Nate's murderer, and Dewey and Chickie are involved in a high-speed chase that ends in disaster.