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Drama following six diverse NYPD rookies as they patrol the gritty streets of upper Manhattan. The new trainees include Jennifer "White House" Perry, a former college volleyball star and Marine MP in Iraq with a take-charge attitude; Ray "Lazarus" Harper, the oldest rookie and a former police news reporter with better sources than most seasoned cops; Tonya Sanchez, who comes from a family with a criminal history; Ahmad Kahn, an Afghani native who fought his way to freedom; Kenny McClaren, a fourth-generation police officer with great instincts but qualms about joining the force; and Jayson "Jackpot" Toney, a young basketball legend who squandered his opportunity in the NBA. Their demanding Field Training Officer, Daniel "Yoda" Dean, is a case-hardened, unsentimental veteran of the force who emphasizes basics and holds each cop accountable for their actions. Rounding out the team is Sergeant Terry Howard, a no-nonsense plainclothes officer from the Gang Intel Unit, who trains the rookies on how to keep the gangbangers at bay. With unique backgrounds, personalities and reasons for being on the force, the new cops will make their share of rookie mistakes while they figure out how to relate to their boss, each other and the people they swore to protect.

Season 1 Episode Guide

13 Episodes 2012

Episode 1

Pilot

Sun, Apr 15, 2012 43 mins

Manhattan's NYPD precinct 2-2 'welcomes' its share of recruits from another class of police academy, albeit in far from warmly, from arrival as seniors guard their locker privileges jealously. After a depressing speech, field training officer Daniel "Yoda" Dean, their grumpy mentor, splits them into three pairs, each confronted with challenges and, despite different attitudes backgrounds, all earning scoldings for lessons learned the hard way.

Episode 2

Firebomb

Sun, Apr 22, 2012 42 mins

During the rookies' first midnight duty, Lazarus and Tonya try to stop rival gangs from moving in after a drug dealer's house is firebombed.

Episode 3

Thugs and Lovers

Sun, Apr 29, 2012 42 mins

Rest home manager Geoff Arnhauldt, the hero client who gets injured stopping a bank robbery, behaves suspiciously, getting wounded and accused of murder plot by a violent street thug. Legacy recruit Kenny McLaren meets bitterly with his impossible to please workaholic father, deputy inspector Dennis McClaren, who was sent to audit the precinct but falsely accuses Kenny of an illicit affair. Ray 'Lazarus' Harper arrests a robber but must confide into Yoda he let him escape, frozen while drunk, in a bar.

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Episode 4

Lost and Found

Sun, May 6, 2012 44 mins

Kenny and Lazarus try to find a suspect before he detonates a bomb at a public rally. (Samantha Mathis guest stars)

Episode 5

Self Cleaning Oven

Sat, Jul 7, 2012 43 mins

The annual police raid in a brothel not only allows rookies to practice undercover posing but also yields a sophisticate racket whereby respectable men are seduced, robbed and dumped naked there, which Kenny McLaren solves thanks to a gay victim and a European language clue. Ray worries duly over mentor Yoda's Obvious personal angle concerning just released Harlem hardcore mobster Fred Wheeler, who seems to go after long standing old school rival and front laundries baron Otis Clark, or might forge a diabolic alliance, but the key proves reformed crack whore Cissey. Ahmad's patrol deals with the surreal ramifications of a small fry toilet paper thief who takes a shark loan to spend his uncollected lottery winnings.

Episode 6

Crossing the Rubicon

Sat, Jul 7, 2012 44 mins

While Yoda and four recruits are in or near the Ratskeller restaurant-bar, its' robbed by a brutal bunch, but he chooses to keep his head down, so the rookies follow his example. Ahmad's return from the toilet triggers a shooting, during which his partner Apple gets shot, for which he somehow feels guilty, while seniors insist he couldn't know and probably prevented worse. Kenney and Lazarus brilliantly track down the wounded robber he got away, and start the search for the missing gun, which a punk sold to naive neighbor Peter Ramos, whose school-bullied teen son Ricky is missing with it. Phone calls indicate the waitress wasn't a real hostage but an escape plan.

Episode 7

Block Party

Sat, Jul 14, 2012 42 mins

Kenny disregards and later discloses Joda's suggestion to mistrust Ahmad's judgment in a rape case due to possible Afghan Muslim and cultural bias, as Ahmad sympathizes most with the girl victim. They do a brilliant job identifying the suspect who hides in block party and working out how it ties in with counterfeit watches trade and why she fails' to pick him from a line-up. While Ray's duo controls tempers due to a Harlem traffic jam caused by a left behind car, clues of other crimes keep popping up.

Episode 8

Schooled

Sat, Jul 14, 2012 42 mins

Kenny forces Ahmad to lean illegally hard on the whole street gang associated with fine college student Eric Buford, who robbed retired writer Arthur Anson, who refuses to file a complaint and for complex reasons changes his attitude and Kenny's mind, even after an involved loan shark is shot. Ray is reluctant to tackle urchin vandalism with stolen inedible apples, until he's targeted. Former jock star Jayson refuses to volunteer for a NYON big brother program, yet gets dragged into coaching seemingly well-behaved Christopher Millsap, who wants to present him to his single mother, the key to the rascal's criminal side.

Episode 9

Playing God

Sat, Jul 21, 2012 42 mins

Semi-heroes Kenny and Khan look forward to serving in a minor fraud operation under legendary detective Collins but find him a brutal bully who needlessly abuses a helpless petty thief whom he blackmails trough his ex-con brother. Nick Reynolds and his pregnant wife are trapped in their crash-smashed car which is about to ignite. Lazarus enjoys lazily house-sitting a crime site.

Episode 10

Jumpers

Sat, Jul 28, 2012 42 mins

White House and Jackpot try to talk a jumper down from the ledge of a building.

Episode 11

Ransom

Sat, Aug 4, 2012 41 mins

Ahmad and Kenny accidentally hear shooting by Sameer Al-Harani, who reports his daughter missing after shooting two 'intruders', but unlike the detective in charge take neighbors' surprising theories seriously. Ray is part of the guards posted to find the intruders in the prep school attended by his daughter at stepfather's expense, but cleverly looks into the abuse of a schoolboy, allegedly by public school kids in a shaggy shop. A dodgy pills dealer beaten up by a furious client in police jail escapes from hospital.

Episode 12

Samaritans

Sat, Aug 4, 2012 43 mins

Ray becomes the hero of the day after rushing into a burning building and rescuing people, but the shy young Scott Exley, who caught the kid he had to throw down, runs, as turns out being AWAL from his army unit, and fellow veteran 'White House' wants to arrest him. Kenny and his precipitous partner fear becoming the precinct's laughing stock, getting trapped with an illegally kept alligator in the owner's vile-stinking room. Ahmad and Tonya have trouble while acting as 'clients' during a drug bust, where ray's brat daughter is a real one.

Episode 13

Turf War

Sat, Aug 11, 2012 42 mins

Ahmad tends to sympathize with petty immigrants merchants -alike his kin- while patrolling a busy street full of counterfeit and illegal vendors, unlike Kenny, who is duly pissed off when even he gets robbed by a pickpocket, determined to find and catch him, as turns out with accomplices. Ray considers rejoining the press to help people about to be evicted by a dodgy landlord. But Miguel Cuevas leads a lockout, during which his own young sons get locked out. Jackpot tries to warn new basketball talent against the slick wheeler dealer who exploited him.

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