
It portrays the detective work of a homicide department in Baltimore; Detective John Munch, Lt. Al Giardello and Detective Meldrick Lewis deal with murder cases.

Kellerman confronts accusations of bribery; the medical examiner helps Munch with a case; Pembleton gains confidence when he helps crack a cold case.

One Saturday night provides the squad with a deadly bar fight, a brutal rape/murder and a carjacking.

Detectives suspect a judge's spoiled son (Elijah Wood) in the murder of a fellow student at an exclusive prep school.

Bayliss and Pembleton disagree on suspects in the murder of a divorced woman and her children; Lewis and Munch link another drug-related case to Luther Mahoney.