In season 3 episode 3, there is a dead swan shown multiple times throughout the episode. You don't see it die, but you figure out how it died. Angie carries and keeps it with her at work so you see it quite a bit. They talk about how swans mate for life and the female swan seems sad :( it does look fake to me, and everyone is respectful of it.
We see flashbacks of Angie and Will as teenagers in a car, driving to an abortion clinic. Will mentions how Angie was r*ped by their foster father at night.
The mutilating itself isn’t shown, but several people are found dead with their mouths and eyes sewn shut. There’s no blood and it’s not as nasty/upsetting as it could be, but definitely still took me by surprise
A character’s finger is shot off. Nothing too close up or overly graphic, but still gross and disturbing to me. Another character was shot in the leg/foot area with a nail gun but no details of that are shown or discussed
A protagonist mistakenly shoots a child due to a bullet ricocheting. The episode is focused on the aftermath in terms of everyone unsuccessfully trying to get the kid to a hospital in time and the emotional devastation resulting from his death. The trauma from the child's death carries on in subsequent episodes.
In E12 It is revealed that Will's mother died in childbirth. There is an image of her corpse that Will looks at when he looks through the case folder. E13 shows a flashback of Amanda and Evelyn finding his mother's dead body. Her corpse is visible but not focused on.
Several Black women are victims of micro-aggressions and racism, including being harassed and nearly shot, while visiting a racist town and a Black family is killed and their murder is covered up
A minor character (who has been previously established as a racist and bigot) makes a comment about lizard people swaying the election, which is a conspiracy theory rooted in anti-semitic beliefs
done maliciously by a protagonist; misgenders a nonbinary character who uses they/them, and when they correct him he says "you can cancel me from jail." this is never addressed and treated like a joke and we are meant to sympathize with the character. i can personally usually handle misgendering but this one was very uncomfortable.
A character is being choked by someone in the backseat of his car, and when the character fights off their assailant, his head falls forward and hits the car horn briefly
A smallish amount of blood is shown during a drive-by shooting and on the pants of a character afterward. Later on (about 31-32 mins), a man is stabbed in the side of the neck and there’s quite a bit of blood. No gore