King

- Season 1

(2011)

It's been more than a year since detective Jessica King was demoted to answering phones in emergency response, due to a "personality difference" between her and her former boss. Now a new chief has taken over the police force, and he puts her back as supervising detective when the supervising investigator of a high-profile case has a breakdown on live television. Impressed by her service record, the chief puts his complete faith in her, but will her new team, and the former head detective, feel the same way?

The brothers Max and Lucio Baratta, notoriously murderous drug dealers, can only be tried if a crucial witness provides evidence. The team tries to manipulate him, promising a deal so he can be reunited with his woman Melony. He wears a wire, but due to technical problems that doesn't provide proof that he's hired for another murder, and the next attempt is compromised by Melony's infidelity and Baratta mistrust.

The redoubted, elusive Riverside Raper left a victim alive and able to testify. The team is charge is take off the case, which goes to King's. A transferred member is unwillingly pressed into 'liason' which she dreads as 'spying'. When a suspect is compellingly linked to several cold cases and confesses, he insist the latest one isn't his work, yet only King feels compelled to go after the presumed copycat.

Retired PD colleague Eleni Demaris is in coma after one of a serious of violent, ill-considered robberies. Her spoiled-rotten, unruly brat daughter Dawn is supposed to stay with Jessica, but she shamelessly keeps dumping her on 'babysitting' lover Derek. The investigation is her squad's once a victim dies, and leads to junkies and the homeless.

King breaks every rile in the book, exhausting the captain's patience, to vindictively persecute repeat minor sex offender Seymour Keagan, whom she always failed to ail for serious sexual crimes, partially because his slovenly wife provides fake alibis. The same, offspring-devoted Cora seems unwilling to turn on him even when confronted with his latest foxy younger date. With her mother Eleni Demaris finally recovering, Dawn again makes an impossible pest of herself, exhausting Danny by escaping to engage in 'social' drug abuse and thus shattering even Jessica's ...

Chief Garci reunites Derek Spears, facing another divorce, and King, who feels punished for the Keegan case, as a favor to police board member Dr. Robert Taaffe, to examine the murder on his university's campus of brilliant bio-medical researcher Ahmad Khan. Jeffrey Denmers, the young security guard who found him in the bunny experiment room, was involved in an anti-Muslim incident. However the team finds alternative motives in both the research team and Khan's Iranian family, who arranged a bride while he actually had a gay, adulterous lover.

Danny Sless wrestles with his loyalty to his gang violence squad partner Jim Lowell, who wants his support when an amateur video shows he physically abused an informer, and the truth. He's so furious about King's utterly non-supportive attitude, even nagging on over his alleged gambling problem, that he moves out indefinitely. Meanwhile King's team takes over their fatal shooting investigation, looking for a missing witness trough his kid brother, and finds both a different target and alternative motives.

Civil rights blogger Trevor Winter is beaten with a baseball bat in his (trashed) home by a masked man who may well belong to the Neonazi Northern Front, whose local chapter he recently confronted. Their leader Robert Carlson turns out to be an undercover federal detective. Widower Trevor's boy Connor and daughter Scout are placed in their surprisingly well-prepared, estranged maternal grandfather's custody. Danny's upcoming legal procedure keeps causing trouble, as does King's yet undisclosed pregnancy and infidelity with divorced colleague Spears, with only ...