Each episode of this series, set in present day Los Angeles, examines one crime from many different viewpoints - uniformed cops, detectives, witnesses, the media, the fire department and rescue squad, even the criminals themselves.
In the pilot, the drive-by killing of a young girl and another's critical wounding preoccupies the cops, whose probe leads to a black teen and his white, uptown buddy.
The murder of a reckless Romeo prompts an intensive search for the suspected killer: an enraged spouse now apparently out to slay his adulterous wife.
To get to a wily defense lawyer (Gregg Henry) suspected of murdering an ex-girlfriend, the cops put the squeeze on the attorney's conflicted, rattled brother and his family.
Patricia Wettig plays a radical turned homemaker, whose arrest for the 1976 murder of a cop opens department wounds and triggers recriminations.
On Halloween, costumed thieves take Teresa hostage in her paramedic vehicle, where the gang's leader orders her to tend to his brother, who was critically wounded in a heist.
Russian mobsters challenge Fearless, whose protection of a very scared preteen girl, an eyewitness to murder, subconsciously recalls his allegiance to a slain Gulf War buddy.
A hostage crisis imperils Off. Hechler, held by vicious thugs in a robbery gone awry at a store run by a former TV crime-fighting hero who inspired Hechler.
An auto-insurance scam takes a deadly turn in a grisly accident, which entangles a semi driver on speed, a guilt-ridden conspirator and a sleazy con man who meets a grim fate.
A top-priority murder case entangles McNorris with a powerful, sleazy movie mogul, whose teenage son is the chief suspect in a female classmate's slaying.
The search for an abducted teenage girl is tied to a psychotic eyewitness: a figure from Andrea's past found living like a wild animal in mountainous terrain surrounding L.A.
A skid-row slaying embroils the law enforcers with a hapless alcoholic and a smarmy documentary filmmaker, who shrewdly defies interrogators.
Violence erupts in a nasty drug case, reopening old wounds involving an unresolved conflict between Off. Hechler and prosecutor McNorris.
A series of home-invasion killings lead to a stakeout of a potential victim: a well-to-do, terminally ill cancer patient and his family.
With only hours to live, a murderer on death row has a deal for McNorris: commutation to a prison term in exchange for the cop the killer's followers have abducted.
To ferret out a turncoat cop responsible for the murders of two officers, Joel conducts heated interrogations at the station house that arouse resentments and hostility.
A killing linked to a sexual molestation stirs up painful memories for Fearless, who sets out on a personal quest for justice that also ends in violence.
A booze binge takes an emotional toll on deputy DA David McNorris, whose blackout leads him to believe he's involved in a hit-and-run killing that he investigates on his own.
Stevens investigates an infant's disappearance, which coincides with the reopening of a probe into his own baby's mysterious death a year earlier.
Joel and Fearless enlist Ray and Tom in an covert op to track down the thieves who killed Wisnicki and Chandler when the detectives assigned to the case fail to go after John Donadoni, the man behind the murders.
David comes out of rehab and lands in the middle of the case against Sabrina and Donadoni, although not in the position he'd like at first; Ray and Katherine get bloodied on the witness stand at the preliminary hearing by Sabrina's attorney; David's struggle to stay sober is sorely tested when his father comes for a visit bearing extremely troubling news; when the diamonds stolen by Sabrina and Rachel can't be found, the task force puts their heads together with David to recover the gems, find the key to getting Sabrina to do a full flip on Donadoni, and put Donadoni behind bars.
Called to the police academy to investigate a murder, Joel and Fearless discover that the recruit who discovered the body is none other than Teresa; Ray and Tom work with Katherine to stop a ring of thieves posing as police officers.
Bank robbers attempting to flee the scene end up at a local shopping mall and take several hostages, including Teresa, whose ""shoot, don't shoot"" lessons at the academy come in handily at a critical moment.
When the body of a college student is found in a house under renovation, David joins forces with Katherine, Joel, and Fearless to determine which of the victim's frat brothers is responsible for his demise and burial in the wall of their former frat house twenty years earlier.
Wracked with guilt for not following his instincts on a domestic disturbance call when the woman involved is reported missing and presumed dead several hours later, Tom works with Katherine to uncover the whereabouts of the woman and the person who murdered the chief suspect in her disappearance.
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