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Saving Grace Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2007 - 2007
Episode 1
Pilot
Mon, Jul 23, 200760 mins
Grace Hanadarko is an alcoholic, chain-smoking, self-hating Oklahoma City police detective on a self-destructive downward spiral. Grace is carrying on an affair with her married detective partner Ham, and occasionally looks after her 12-year-old nephew Clay, whose mother was killed in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Grace also happens to be an atheist, having renounced God following the 1995 bombing, but gets along with most of her co-workers including forensic specialist Rhetta, a deeply religious family woman, but is estranged from the rest of her family including her reverend older brother. But one night, Grace experiences a spiritual awakening upon encountering an enigmatic angel named Earl, who saves her life in a horrific car crash for a chance to redeem her sinful lifestyle. Grace and her team center on the mysterious disappearance of a 10-year-old girl who may have been a serial kidnapper's latest victim, while Grace also learns that a death-row prison inmate, named Leon Cooley, also has a spiritual connection to Earl.
Episode 2
Bring It On, Earl
Mon, Jul 30, 200760 mins
While hunting deer, Grace and her married beau, Ham, get called into work on their day off. A wealthy oilman, named Beau Grady, was murdered with a tire iron. Grace unravels a love triangle between Beau, his business partner, and his wife... a triangle that reflects Grace's relationships with Ham and Butch. For a pair of shoes, an informant named Pup supplies the police with a man who may be helpful in solving the crime. Unfortunately, he turns out to be Lieutenant Yukon's brother, and the results are disastrous. Meanwhile, Rhetta starts an Earl file in the office, based on angel evidence Grace brings in. Earl attempts to get Grace closer to God by any means necessary... even wrestling her in Athens to prove a point.
Episode 3
Bless Me, Father, for I Have Sinned
Mon, Aug 6, 200749 mins
Grace attempts to bond more with her 11-year-old nephew Clay, and gives him some tips for an upcoming kissing party. A motel manager is murdered, and the motel housekeeper suspected seeks protection in a church, claiming it was self defense. Captain Perry, a old friend of Grace's from her days in Oklahoma City's vice squad, arrives to take the place of the late Lieutenant Yukon in Major Crimes. Grace gets some helpful hints from Pippa-the-prostitute and a moral nut case who videotapes hookers and johns. Meanwhile, Earl sets up a multitude of religious shrines in Grace's house hoping she'll pick out a path that suits her best. Rhetta confides in Grace's brother about her visions of Earl, and shows him the cow with the Jesus face markings on it's side. Perry gives Butch a hard time regarding his University of Texas belt and memorabilia. Also, Grace continues her sordid affair with Ham who decides to break it off and move back home to his wife.
Episode 4
Keep Your Damn Wings Off My Nephew
Mon, Aug 13, 200745 mins
A 17-year-old devout Christian fundamentalist comes under attack just days before he's scheduled to testify in a murder trial. In order to ensure his safety, Grace allows him to move in with her. But Grace can only handle so much preaching, so she ropes the guys into helping her watch over him. Meanwhile, Grace gets angry when Earl uses the death row inmate, Leon Cooley, and her nephew, Clay, to get her attention.
Episode 5
Would You Want Me to Tell You?
Mon, Aug 20, 200742 mins
With Grace and Ham trying out new relationship and sex techniques, their games are interrupted when Grace's favorite Aunt Cathy comes to town and in the process of 24 hours, she has a run in with Earl at a local bar, clashes with Betty, goes out drinking and smoking with Grace and Rhetta, and reveals some shocking news. Meanwhile, the arrogant and pig-headed cattle tycoon Alvin Green's world begins to crumble after his lucky bull statue is stolen. He insists that the Major Crimes unit take the case, but Grace refuses to look into it knowing how ungrateful the snobbish Green is. Grace's father has a fire station named after him, and the family family comes together for the dedication ceremony. Also, police pathologist Henry's cat dies, and Grace comforts him the only way she knows how.
Episode 6
And You Wonder Why I Lie
Mon, Aug 27, 200745 mins
The death of an alleged call girl in a flight attendant's uniform leads Grace and the guys to investigate a notorious Oklahoma crime family, as well as a missing reporter who may have been the victim herself. Grace is finally confronted by Ham's wife about the affair, but lies about having an affair with him. Meanwhile, a financially-strapped Rhetta gets excited about making a quick $2,000 by testifying as an expert witness, but Grace's past meddling threatens it. Also, Grace and Rhetta hatch a secret plan for Rhetta to meet Earl.
Episode 7
Yeehaw, Geepaw
Mon, Sep 3, 200748 mins
A burned body buried face down with an owl feather send the team searching for the killer of a veteran, and Grace's grandfather shows signs of dementia.
Episode 8
Everything's Got a Shelf Life
Mon, Sep 10, 200748 mins
Following a police shootout with a drug dealer's gang that leaves a policeman dead and Grace seriously wounded, she has a near-death experience, and becomes determined to help the team track down the gang responsible. Meanwhile, Leon becomes more conflicted and angry when his ex-wife wants to re-marry and her fiancée wants to legally adopt their teenage son.
Episode 9
A Language of Angels
Mon, Sep 17, 200749 mins
Grace takes a personal interest in a latest crime scene of a brutal murder where the M.O. of the killer fits with her long hidden past 11 years earlier in which she survived an attack by apparently the same individual after having a one-night stand with a local thug. As Grace continues to slide towards self-destruction and debauchery, Ham becomes angry and jealous after finding her literally tied up on her bed after another 'john' of hers leaves her. Meanwhile, Rhetta continues to try to figure out the 'heavenly items' given to Grace by Earl and also meets Leon for the first time on death row where she begins to think that Earl is sending Grace a coded message through his gifts to her.
Episode 10
It's Better When I Can See You
Mon, Dec 3, 200749 mins
Earl might lose his two charges when Leon announces his intention to convert to Islam, and Grace is trapped in a building damaged by a tornado with more on the way while investigating a bus company involved in the deaths of three children.
Episode 11
This Is Way Too Normal for You
Mon, Dec 10, 200746 mins
When a mentally disabled man is shot to death because he was brandishing a wooden gun at a robbery, Grace has to bond with his friend to track down who put the fake gun in the victim's hand.
Episode 12
Is There a Scarlet Letter on My Breast?
Mon, Dec 17, 200744 mins
A hotshot Los Angeles defense attorney comes to town determined to free his client, and his tactics begin to fracture the team as he exposes deep secrets of each of the members.
Episode 13
Taco, Tulips, Duck and Spices
Tue, Dec 18, 200750 mins
Grace's family is in town, but her priorities shift when her sister Paige looks to be involved in a murder, and Earl's trinkets are deciphered with life changing results.