
Brenda Johnson, an Atlanta police detective, moves to Los Angeles and heads up a squad that handles sensitive, high-profile homicides. Although she clashes with some colleagues, her skills as a CIA-trained interrogator prove invaluable in obtaining confessions.
An unexpected visit from Brenda's fussy mother stalls Fritz's plans to move in; Brenda probes the possible murder of a juror in the trial of an Armenian mob boss.
Brenda probes a possible gang-related shooting of three youngsters that hits too close to home for Cmdr. Taylor.
While investigating a suspicious suicide, the squad wades into a nasty child-custody dispute; Pope applies for the police chief job.
Provenza discovers a dead body in the condo of a flight attendant, whom he picked up while extraditing a prisoner; Brenda reveals her career intentions to Pope.