Battle Creek
Two detectives with different views on the world team up and using cynicism, guile and deception, they clean up the streets of Battle Creek.
- Metascore73
- 2015-2015
- 1 season
- CBS
- Comedy, Suspense, Drama
- TV-14
Two detectives with different views on the world team up and using cynicism, guile and deception, they clean up the streets of Battle Creek.
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2015
Episode 1
The Battle Creek Way
Sun, Mar 1, 2015 42 mins
Detective Russ Agnew is tired of the Battle Creek Police Department being treated badly. Either budget cuts (the view of the "Brass") or unwise spending (the view of Agnew) force BCPD to operate in the Dark Ages without any of modern equipment and technology they need. Enter Milt Chamberlain, a tall, dark and seemingly idealistic FBI agent, born in Monaco and better politically connected than the late J. Edgar Hoover. Their styles are totally different but they share a single goal: to solve cases. Their very first crime scene together has BCPD crew donning "fancy" shoe covers and gloves, which are "high tech" to the BCPD team. Murder, witness protection & good, old fashioned detective work will solve the case if Agnew can keep his envy of Chamberlain in check and Chamberlain is not as trusting & naive as he appears to be.
Episode 2
Syruptitious
Sun, Mar 8, 2015 44 mins
A naked corpse in the woods is identified as Eddie Jacocks. Autopsy shows however that he drowned in a dark substance, actually maple syrup. The finger is pointed at the Midwest's syrup cartel, but judge Walters refuse a warrant to search the leader's premises. Russ gets bitten by a dog while trying to intrude and abuses a henchmen during interrogation, leading to his suspension. Milt hires his as 'consultant' to help set up an elaborate trap by creating a competitor, but their team actually stumbles upon another line of thought leading to two incompatible confessions. Meanwhile Fontanelle White, on migraine sick leave, finds his medicinal marijuana supplier sold him inefficient junk, but even with Milt's help it's hard to legally punish him.
Episode 3
Man's Best Friend
Sun, Mar 15, 2015 44 mins
When BCPD's police dog, Cookie, sniffs out a stash of heroin in a young girl's backpack, Russ and Milt have competing theories as to where it came from and why she had it. Also, Jacocks travels to Detroit for a training seminar, with the ulterior motive of finding out why Milt was sent to Battle Creek.
Episode 4
Heirlooms
Sun, Mar 22, 2015 43 mins
Pitting the FBI and BCPD police dogs in a wager, Milt and cheater Russ find the only near-witness of ripe prostitute's murder. Its young Max, her son and weekly visitor. The team looks into blackmail or witness theories, but also finds the other weekly visitor and his family tie in. Milt's former boss sets Russ straight about their near-traumatic parting over his wife's adultery.
Episode 5
Old Flames
Sun, Mar 29, 2015 44 mins
The BCFD rules a fire in police chief Guziewicz's home arson. Milt and Russ verify various theories, such as arrested fiend revenge, contractor fraud and her unruly, long-estranged adoptive ex-con junkie son's squatter gang. Meanwhile a colleague's bachelor party arouses questions with non-invited social pariah Russ.
Episode 6
Cereal Killer
Sun, Apr 5, 2015 42 mins
At Battle Creek's annual public breakfast festival, bullets wound mayor Hardy and the mascot of the local football team. They were shot by cellphone-triggered automatic rifle. Milt and Russ can't even be sure whether the intended target was the drug-abusive party-animal mayor or the gay student, but another attempt is made to assassinate the shameless politician.
Episode 7
Mama's Boy
Sun, Apr 12, 2015 43 mins
Investigating the murder of a counterfeit scammer requires local expertise only to be found in prison, by deal with the person Russ trusts least: his mother Constance. Milt and the commander are OK with risking letting her out of jail for the duration, to face contact life, and she manages to charm and/or scam everyone in the precinct. As Russ feared, she shamelessly follows her own agenda to contact accomplices, notably her lover, in pursuit of secret loot and an escape attempt. The web of lies is spun by mutual cheaters and victims, tying up several recent and older crimes, while Russ wonders about her true/lack of maternal feelings for him.
Episode 8
Old Wounds
Sun, Apr 26, 2015 44 mins
Milt reminds chief Guziewicz he's out of her command as FBI agent, so he can examine the claim she dismissed by her adopted son Danny that the man convicted for his biological parents' murder years ago may be innocent. Indeed, Milt and Russ find her predecessor, now Councilman Pritchett, went for an easy conviction and come up with alternative suspects. Yet all of them, including Danny, are in for more unpleasant surprises after DNA analysis.
Episode 9
Gingerbread Man
Sun, May 3, 2015 41 mins
Fontenelle has an amazingly gifted brain when it comes to face spotting. Font is so good, he recognized Guziewicz's cousin's female cousin from the opposite side of Joe Louis Arena at a Kiss concert while she was wearing Starchild makeup. When Font says he saw an FBI "most wanted" fugitive from a 4 second glance through 2 traveling vehicles, Russ and Guziewicz believe him. The most recent FBI records show the fugitive committed suicide 6 months earlier in front of a policeman; there is also a DNA match and these seem to contradict Font. But everyone is so positive Font is correct, Milt takes another look. In the ensuing chase, the main hope of the crew is that their genius brain is very well insulated.
Episode 10
Stockholm
Sun, May 10, 2015 43 mins
FBI-wanted bank-robber Mitchell Ford escaped five days before his scheduled release after a twenty years prison term. He intrudes Milt's car and abducts Russ, who speculates it must be about the loot, never recovered. However of his cahoots, Mitch's younger brother was fatally wounded, the clever third one has an alibi. It's not about Mitch's ex either, but strangely enough the key requires a tuxedo.
Episode 11
The Hand-Off
Sun, May 17, 2015 44 mins
Russ and Funkhauser, while on their way to a community outreach event, respond to a shooting in a local park and Russ delivers the victim to the hospital along with the victim's wife. Milt is unable to get any cohesive info about the shooting, so he calls in a unethical favor behind the FBI's back that backfires and, as a result, gets suspended for a week; Russ reluctantly takes him on as a consultant and they learn that the victim, a radiologist, and his wife, a pediatrician, were on the verge of ending their short term separation when the shooting happened and that the shooter, Bennet Kowalski, has a personal connection to the victim. Meanwhile, Holly, in the aftermath of her cruise vacation, begins to wonder why her boyfriend consistently refuses sex with her and Jacocks, after her advice to Holly backfires, somehow believes that she's not really in love with him.
Episode 12
Homecoming
Sun, May 17, 2015 43 mins
Popular high school football coach Richard Zuransky was murdered. Suspects include his deputy, who is now promoted, everybody possibly involved in skimming of donations to the team account, the quarterback he benched when scouts were attending, his domineering father, and the father of a a former quarterback who went downhill till he apparently threw himself in front of a train.
Episode 13
Sympathy for the Devil
Sun, May 24, 2015 44 mins
Milt survives a car bombing and enlists Russ to track down his would-be assassin, leading to startling revelations about why Milt is the way he is and what brought him to Battle Creek.
