Boomtown

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.