Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson moves from Atlanta to Los Angeles to work on a special homicide squad. Although her fellow detectives initially balk at Brenda and her difficult personality, she soon wins over the others with her unique ability to get confessions out of people.
A movie star's supermodel wife is found dead. Whoever killed her poisoned her hair conditioner. Brenda is stressed from her inability to find her way around LA, a victory over her boss, and the possibility of a new romance.
Brenda investigates the murder of a Russian call girl with ties to the mob and a little black book full of high profile clients. Meanwhile, she leaves a message for for Fritz after their dinner together, even though she is unsure whether their dinner was friendly or if there was more to it.
Brenda investigates a series of sniper-style murders.
Brenda investigates the murder of a psychiatrist who was helping a drug company to develop a medicine to combat teen drug addicition. Meanwhile, members of the police force look into a mistake from Brenda's past, then release it to the media.
Brenda searches for a brutal rapist/ murderer of a US Congresswoman's daughter, but almost becomes a victim herself.
A judge's death interrupts the steamy date of Brenda and Fritz.
Brenda's authority is undermined during a hate-crime investigation. Brenda and Fritz's relationship hits a bump in the road.
Brenda investigates the rape and murder of the daughter of a Mexican housekeeper. Her investigation exposes some ugly prejudices and leads her to see the ugly side of the seemingly kind family who employed the woman and her daughter.
A butler who is on trial for murdering the beautiful young widow of his late employer is found dead. Although ostensibly a suicide, Brenda is informed by the DA that the Butler was going to cut a deal.
When an Iranian businessman with possible terrorist ties is murdered, the LAPD and FBI get into jurisdictional dispute. The FBI assigns Fritz as a liason to the LAPD, testing his relationship with Brenda.
A man convicted of setting a woman on fire is freed when it is discovered that the woman he was thought to have killed only died recently. Brenda and her team must find out who the victim really is, and if the recently freed convict or someone else killed her.
An anonymous complaint is filed against Brenda, leading her to a possible dismissal while she is in the middle of a murder case for a high profile movie producer.