Episode Detail: The Beat Goes On (Pilot) - The Beat
Debut: The personal and professional travails of two young New York cops (Derek Cecil, Mark Ruffalo) are followed as they deal with life in Manhattan's Lower East Side. In the opener, they respond to a public-lewdness complaint and a suicide; and struggle through their respective relationship problems. Also: two white officers come under scrutiny when a black suspect dies during an interrogation. Elizabeth Waclawek: Poppy Montgomery. Beatrice Felsen: Heather Burns.