
Brenda Johnson, an Atlanta police detective, moves to Los Angeles and heads up a squad that handles sensitive, high-profile homicides. Although she clashes with some colleagues, her skills as a CIA-trained interrogator prove invaluable in obtaining confessions.

A popular online "hook-up king" is shot to death; a police impersonator causes the case to go awry; Pope does a rotation as a member of Brenda's squad to get a firsthand look at how the team works.

A shootout leaves two patrol officers and an 18-year-old boy dead; the Force Investigation Division becomes involved with the case.

The squad investigates the murder of a man who was the lead suspect in the murder of two girls; the lead detective for the old case comes out of retirement to help the squad.

Brenda reopens a murder investigation when the man who confessed gets the details of the crime wrong during his allocution; Brenda's mother arrives with her niece.