
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.

Brenda and her squad are deputized by the FBI to help investigate a murder involving drug trafficking at gay dance parties.

A former gang member is murdered; evidence indicates that the victim may not have been the intended target; the case leads Brenda back to Father Jack and the Crenshaw Community Center.

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.