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8 Episodes 2001 - 2001
Episode 1
Thu, Mar 1, 200145 mins
While investigating the murder of a young stripper in a fancy Park Avenue apartment penthouse, two NYPD detectives, the brooding and cynical Mike Mooney, and his ambitious young partner Vincent Trout, are approached by FBI Agent Jimmy Flynn who brings them in on a "special team" of an FBI undercover operation targeting a strip club owned by the Russian mob. Flynn and his supervisor of the operation, Agent Will Preechter, "deputize" Mooney and Trout to let them in on their special project in order to keep their superior, Lt. Swenson, and the rest of the NYPD out. While Trout is eager and hopeful to work alongside the "feds", Mooney is not. Meanwhile, Sarah Day is a young recently arrived FBI tech agent brought to the team who is tentatively scheduled to replace veteran Agent Teddy Olsen who is unhappy with the methods used by the other agents, and whom suspects some of them to be compromised. Elsewhere, Terry Maddock is an old friend of Agent Flynn and owner of a Hell's Kitchen bar that is being wired for surveillance purposes by the FBI and who is Flynn's personal CI (Criminal Informant). Maddock discovers that the murdered woman had a romantic connection with Chris Scott, a young neighborhood tough whom Maddock is trying to reform. Maddock informs Flynn about Scott's connection to the murdered stripper, whom worked at the Paradise club owned by Russian mobsters Mitya and Vlad whom may know more then they let on of the murder. Mooney and Trout suspect that the owner of the penthouse, Howard Klein, whom also had a connection to the murdered stripper, is hiding something.
Episode 2
Thu, Mar 8, 200140 mins
The FBI Task Force teams up with the 11th Precient for a raid on a warehouse to bust an illegal immigration green card distribution ring that is operated by some Italian mobsters. Maddock sets Scott up to arrange to get arrested at the warehouse as his ploy to further 'educate' Scott to get him to redeem his ways. Mooney continues to distrust the FBI with their work, while Trout is forced to shoot and kill one of the Italian mobsters who draws a gun on himself. Brigid McNamara, a policewoman who briefly dated Trout, comforts him over the incident. Meanwhile, Flynn suspects Maddock of covering up his involvement with Vlad and Mitya, while Sarah Day begins to suspect Flynn of overstepping his authority.
Episode 3
Wed, Mar 14, 200142 mins
Bob Cooper, a brash FBI investigator, arrives in New York to overview the Task Force's investigation and soon flirts with Sarah who is attending an evening fund raiser as part of Preecher and Olsen's investigation of a certain Lawrence Stark, a prominent CEO whom may have a connection with the Russian mafia. Meanwhile, Mooney continues dealing with Howard Klein whom is brought to the 11th Precient on a trumped-up drug procession charge by a not-so-ethical vice cop to further question him on his connections to the Russians. Elsewhere, Maddock is hired to assassinate Klein as part of the Russians attempt to cover their tracks, but Maddock is beginning to have second thoughts about his double agent status. Sarah confronts Flynn about his illegal surveillance on Maddock after reviewing an inventory of FBI surveillance and forces Flynn to take down the hidden cameras at Maddock's bar. Elsewhere, Mooney deals with his sister Lois, whom is suffering from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which concerns him further over her continuing deterioration.
Episode 4
Wed, Mar 21, 200143 mins
When Chris Scott and Italian mobster Corelli are released from jail following the warehouse raid, Vlad orders Maddock to kill both of them to prevent them from cooperating with the authorities. Mitya, Vlad's right-hand man, is revealed to be another one of Flynn's confidential informants whom is cooperating with the FBI in exchange for permanent residency in the US. Mooney and Trout stake out the Paradise club and prevent Corelli from nearly getting killed, but later Corelli is found dead in the alleyway behind Vlad's club. Meanwhile, as his sister Lois' health is getting worse, Mooney decides to take the rest of the day off to take her to visit the New York Planeteriam to cheer her up. Elsewhere, Trout also takes the evening off for a romantic get together with Bridget McNamara.
Episode 5
Thu, Mar 29, 200142 mins
Mooney and Trout pay a visit to Lawrence Stark to question him further about the murder of stripper Vickie Tompkins and his connection to the Russian-owned Paradise club, but he evades all of their questions. Meanwhile, Maddock has Scott arrange a interrogation at the bar of various local hoodlums to find out which one of them robbed a nearby bodega that Maddock frequents. After Mooney and Trout hear testimony from NYPD forensic expert Wally Sullivan over the recent murders of Corelli, and the bouncer from the Paradise club, Flynn begins to suspect that Maddock is responsible for the murders as a means of taking the law into his own hands, and has the bar re-bugged. Elsewhere, Mooney struggles with his emotions as Lois is on her deathbed.
Episode 6
Thu, Apr 5, 200142 mins
Preechter asks Mooney and Trout to come back to the Task Force to further investigate Lawrence Stark whom the FBI suspects of laundering money for the Russian mafia. Deirdre Stiles, an attractive US Attorney, arrives to question Flynn and his role in the Task Force's handling of Terry Maddock whom the Bureau suspects of going rouge. Flynn confronts Maddock at a horse racetrack to get him to admit his role in the recent murders, and when Maddock refuses to do so, FBI agents take Maddock into custody. Meanwhile, Sarah Day meets once again with Bob Cooper to update him on the Task Force's investigation and to finally rebuff him of his flirtation with her. Mooney and Trout question Howard Klein where they rightfully suspect him of being hired as a red herring to throw them off their murder investigation of Vickie Tompkins. Also, Mooney has a meeting of minds with Deidre Stiles over an electric blender. Elsewhere, Preechter approaches socialite Joan Kellogg to ask for her help to bring down Lawrence Stark due to her friendship with Stark's fiancee.
Episode 7
Thu, Apr 12, 200138 mins
Mooney begins wooing US Attorney Deirdre Stiles both personally and professionally. Howard Klein suffers a medical emergency at the Task Force office prompting Mooney and Trout to take him to the hospital for observation where Klein privately tells Mooney that Stark paid him to put his name on the ownership of apartment that Vickie Tompkins was murdered in, but he still does not know if Stark personally committed the murder. Meanwhile, Sarah Day is tasked to plant surveillance cameras in Joan Kellogg's apartment at Preechter's request to get Joan to talk to Stark's fiancee, Kate Ryder, to get on any information on Stark's money laundering or the Vickie Tompkins murder. Flynn finally introduces Mitya to Mooney and Trout as his new Confidential Informant. Elsewhere, Maddock is released from custody and continues to play both Flynn and Scott by demanding a plea deal from Flynn and Attorney Stiles as he plots to set Scott up for a potential murder attempt on Lawrence Stark.
Episode 8
Thu, Apr 19, 200138 mins
When Joan Kellogg is admitted to the hospital from a suspected mugging, Mooney and Trout investigate a tip from a street snitch to a local punk who claims he was hired at the behest of Dicky Duplato. Preetcher feels guilty for putting Joan Kellogg in the situation she is in while Sarah Day puts in a request for a transfer to a smaller task force. Meanwhile, Howard Klein tells the agents about a woman that Lawrence Stark assaulted and disfigured two years earlier. The woman, Doreen Sellers, is brought in where she confirms that Stark assaulted her. Also, Maddock teams up with Scott to abduct Lawrence Stark where they take him to the apartment that Vickie Tompkins was murdered where Maddock finally admits to Stark killing Vickie Tompkins and Maddock helping Stark cover up the crime, leading to Scott killing Stark in cold blood and leads to both of them getting arrested. Maddock tells the agents and police that Stark indeed murdered Vickie Tompkins and, in exchange for a lesser prison sentence, offers information on corrupt FBI agents in Washington DC that are in Stark's pocket. Also, Mooney continues to hesitate to ask Attorney Stiles out on a date, but becomes uncertain after learning that she had a romantic history with Flynn.