An undercover cop makes a mistake; a domestic quarrel leads to a horrible discovery; a fireman discovers a cache of cocaine in an apartment; a psycho goes on a rampage in a cathedral; a detective infiltrates a drug gang.

Watching the Detectives

Backup Crackup

An undercover detective gets too close to a drug dealer; a homeless person is burned alive; a cab driver is gunned down; a Marine is kidnapped by a drug cartel; family drug ring.

Dealing in Deception

A mother is killed in a road rage attack; an elderly woman is found dead at the foot of a stairway; bloodbath at a family home; savage rape case; stabbing death.

Road Rage

A detective's accent becomes a liability; teenage killer; family hostage crisis; a respectable professor is bludgeoned to death; vicious rip-off gang.

Southern Discomfort

A detective blasts his way out of a crack house; murdered transvestite; new fingerprint technology; a shocking discovery is made during the investigation of a man's disappearance; two brothers are murdered for their rent controlled loft.

Crack Down

A nimble cat burglar; a mugger who targets old ladies; a church organist with a secret crack addiction; a gang leader who executes members who want out; a man is found burned in an SUV.

Spiderman

A department store robbery is suspected to be an inside job; car crash survivors flee from their hospital beds; missing man; a man's family's lack of interest makes solving his murder difficult; evidence in a strangling case points to the boyfriend.

Trouble in Store

Murdered drug dealer; fatal bodega gang robbery; murdered woman found in a crate at a bus stop; a witness says a man who looks like Santa Claus dumped a body from a car; murdered businessman.

Cut to the Chase

A gunman takes an elderly couple hostage; a girl's skeletal remains are found; a crazed woman tries to kill her lover's baby; a man rapes a ballet dancer; going under cover as a drug buyer.

The Terminator

A hostage situation; a deli store robbery that involves a double murder; a carjacking; deadly lovers' triangle; two drunken strip club patrons turn violent.

Hostage Takeout

A shootout in housing projects; the search for a pregnant girl's killer; a baby kidnapping from a hospital; a case of high-school bullying leads to a stabbing; a moneylender's murder.

Shots With a Chaser

New York City detectives talk candidly about their most interesting cases.

S1 E8 | Southern Discomfort