About this season
An American television news magazine and hidden camera show. Actors act out scenes of conflict or illegal activity in public settings while hidden cameras videotape the scene, and the focus is on whether or not bystanders intervene, and how. Variations are also usually included, such as changing the genders, the races or the clothing of the actors performing the scene, to see if bystanders react differently. Quiñones appears at the end to interview the bystanders about their reactions. As the experiment goes on, psychology professors, teachers, or club members watch and discuss the video with Quiñones, explaining and making inferences on the bystanders' reactions.
Episodes (8)
1. Season 3, Episode 1
Aired 7 May 2010 • 60 min
At a bar, a stranger attempts to take an intoxicated, young girl, home with him. A thief is caught stealing a bike. A cashier attempts to steal a customer's winning lottery ticket. A store clerk begins to racially profile a group of African-American teenage customers.
2. Season 3, Episode 2
Aired 14 May 2010 • 60 min
At a diner, a man yells at a woman with bruises on her arm. A mother stops her vehicle, and tells her kids in the backseat to get out of the car and walk home. A restaurant manager harasses a woman breastfeeding in public.
3. Season 3, Episode 3
Aired 19 May 2010 • 60 min
A pair of airline pilots drink at a bar before a flight. A customer criticizes a store bagger with Down syndrome. A waiter questions the relationship of a lesbian couple eating at a restaurant with two kids. At a wedding, the bride-to-be begins to give out strict orders, annoying the bridesmaids and the guests.
4. Season 3, Episode 4
Aired 21 May 2010 • 60 min
A drunk person asks nearby strangers to blow into their car's ignition interlock device to drive home drunk. An angry coach yells at a young soccer player. At a pharmacy, an elderly woman is told her expensive medication is no longer covered by her insurance.
5. Aug 10, 2010
Aired 10 August 2010 • 60 min
A woman tries to drive drunk with her children in the car; teens verbally abuse an overweight woman; a bride's choice of wedding gown dismays friends and family; whether to tell a friend a spouse is cheating.
6. Aug 13, 2010
Aired 13 August 2010 • 60 min
Latinos experience prejudice from a cashier when they try to place a deli order in broken English; people witness an abusive situation between an employer and an employee; people's reactions when they see an aggressive man hit on a woman at a bar.
7. Aug 20, 2010
Aired 20 August 2010 • 60 min
Hidden cameras capture people's reactions to a baby left alone in a hot car, a lost child, a gay couple publicly displaying affection and a homeless man collapsed on a street.
8. Aug 24, 2010
Aired 24 August 2010 • 60 min
Bystanders witness a cashier giving a blind customer incorrect change; testing how far people will go to obey someone they think is an authority figure; two well-dressed women steal items at an open house.