EPISODE

1. Pilot

A politically ambitious LAPD captain comes up against a streetwise detective who isn't above bending the rules in his effort to fight crime as he enriches himself and his men.

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THIS ENTRY’S STORY

Plot summary and ending

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Complete story — includes the ending

Eighteen months into the "Farmington Project", Detective Vic Mackey and his Strike Team prepare to take down a major drug dealer who has never before been caught with product. Meanwhile, following a homicide, Detectives Claudette Wyms and "Dutch" Wagenbach discover that a child is missing, sold to a pedophile by her drug-addicted father. Claudette and Wagenbach interrogate the pedophile and, after he refuses to share anything, they get Mackey to brutally interrogate him and get the address of where the girl is. Captain David Aceveda installs Detective Terry Crowley as a new member of the Strike Team in order to have an inside man to root out their corruption. After Mackeys interrogation of the pedophile, Claudette, Wagenbach, and Aceveda rescue the young girl. The episode ends with Mackey taking the opportunity to kill Crowley during a high-risk drug raid.

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