Video: Lindsay Mendez Stars in ELSBETH Season 3 Clip with Sondheim Reference

Ahead of the Season 3 premiere of Elsbeth, CBS has released a sneak peek clip from the first episode, which features Tony Award winner Lindsay Mendez as the new character Officer Grace Hackett.

In the clip, Elsbeth (Carrie Preston) and her colleagues discover the headphones of Scotty Bristol (Stephen Colbert), and find that he had been recently listening to the original cast recording of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along. Elsbeth and Grace geek out over the musical, in a cheeky reference to Mendez's recent role as Mary in the recent Broadway revival. Check out the sneak peek now.

The CBS detective series will return for its third season on October 12, 2025. The first "sneak peek" episode will air that Sunday, with the second episode following only four days later on Thursday, October 16. The following episodes will continue to premiere during the 10:00 ET timeslot on Thursdays.

Confirmed guest stars for the new season include Amy Sedaris, David Cross, Andy Richter, Julia Fox, and Sarah Steele, along with Broadway's Annaleigh Ashford and William Jackson Harper. 

The series features an impressive roster of Broadway talent, with stars like Jane Krakowski, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, André De Shields, Laura Benanti, Matthew Broderick, Vanessa Williams, and more. The Season 2 finale featured many returning guest stars and a big, star-studded rendition of Chicago's Cell Block Tango. Take a look at our exclusive conversation about the episode with writer and showrunner Jonathan Tolins. and check out our guide to all the Broadway actors in the series here.

Elsbeth stars Emmy Award winner Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni, the astute but unconventional consent decree attorney utilizing her unique point of view by working with the NYPD to catch New York’s most well-heeled murderers. Season 2 of the critically acclaimed series brought new cases and challenges when mistakes of the past come back to haunt Elsbeth, her boss Captain Wagner (Wendell Pierce) and Detective Kaya Blanke (Carra Patterson). 

Elsbeth is based on the character featured in The Good Wife and The Good Fight. Robert King, Michelle King, Jonathan Tolins, Liz Glotzer, Erica Shelton Kodish, Bryan Goluboff and Gail Barringer serve as executive producers. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.