‘Alert: Missing Persons Unit’ Adds Malcolm-Jamal Warner — Nikki Is Taken in Trailer (VIDEO)

Meredith Jacobs March 3, 2025, 2:50 pm

The good news: The Missing Persons Unit will get to continue to solve cases on the Fox drama. Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 2 certainly called that into question as it progressed, with Nikki (Dania Ramirez) and her team contending with a dirty boss in Inspector Braun (Gil Bellows).

Alert: Missing Persons Unit was renewed for its third season just ahead of the finale of its second. But it wasn’t part of Fox’s fall schedule or midseason lineup. So when will it be back? Who will return? Read on for everything we know so far.

When is the Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 3 premiere date?

Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 3 will premiere on Tuesday, March 25, at 9/8c (after The Cleaning Lady‘s fourth season). Its run will air uninterrupted.

Where did Alert Season 2 leave off?

Nikki, Jason (Scott Caan), Mike (Ryan Broussard), and Kemi (Adeola Role) were able to take down Braun and rescue Wayne (Alisha-Marie Ahamed), whom he’d kidnapped. That then allowed Nikki and Mike to have their wedding, albeit with a smaller guest list that just included friends and family — and Taye Diggs appearing as himself as Kemi’s date!

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Who’s returning for Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 3?

All the Season 2 regulars — Ramirez, Caan, Broussard, Role, and Ahamed — will be back. Diana Bang will continue to guest as forensic scientist Helen Gale.

Who’s joining the cast for Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 3?

Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Megalyn Echikunwoke have joined in recurring roles.

Warner plays Chief Inspector Bill Houston, who steps into an interim role with oversight of the MPU. A former Army Captain, Houston believes in structure and rules and, in the past, had issues with Jason’s cowboy tactics. He begins to come around to the idea that some rules need to be broken once he sees the results the team gets with their unorthodox approach. He will become the father figure MPU didn’t know they needed.

Echikunwoke plays Lt. Gabrielle Bennett, who started her career in Philly PD as Jason’s trainee. His departure under clouded circumstances was followed by her fast rise. Not a coincidence. Bennett is tough, ambitious, and has a cutting sense of humor. She supports getting things done by any means necessary, just so long as nothing comes back to bite her.

What will happen in Alert Season 3?

The drama will continue to follow Nikki as she leads the MPU in finding missing people. There will likely be some fallout from Braun’s actions as well.

As Season 3 begins, Fox teases, “MPU is tasked with cases ranging from a missing female collegiate rowing team who disappeared while on the water, a missing street artist due to donate his rare bone marrow to save his dying brother and Nikki’s ongoing and dangerous association with Irish mob boss Charlie McGannon (guest star Ian Tracey). But the most harrowing case to date is when MPU must band together in a race to find one of their own. Now more than ever, together, the team must work to find the missing or abducted and help reunite them with their loved ones before it’s too late.”

Is there an Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 3 trailer?

Yes! You can watch it above. It offers a look at Warner as Chief Inspector Houston as well as MPU’s race to find out of their own: Nikki! It promises that the “first two episodes will leave you stunned.”