Taxi Brooklyn
TAXI: BROOKLYN is an action-comedy police procedural centered on the fractious, closely bonded partnership between a streetwise Marseilles-born New York City taxi driver and an intensely driven NYPD detective for whom this immigrant cabbie becomes chauffeur, insider on the streets, and unofficial partner.
- Metascore51
- 2014-2014
- 1 season
- NBC
- Action & Adventure, Comedy, Suspense, Drama
TAXI: BROOKLYN is an action-comedy police procedural centered on the fractious, closely bonded partnership between a streetwise Marseilles-born New York City taxi driver and an intensely driven NYPD detective for whom this immigrant cabbie becomes chauffeur, insider on the streets, and unofficial partner.
Season 1 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 2014
Episode 1
Pilot
Wed, Jun 25, 2014
Hardass Detective Caitlyn "Cat" Sullivan, a woman hell-bent on finding her father's killer, is demoted to foot patrol for reckless driving, disobeying orders, and personality conflicts. Cat arrests Marseille born taxi driver Leo Romba, a highly skilled driver with a past. Accused of being a wheelman in a bank robbery, Leo begs Cat to make a deal: in exchange for proving his innocence, he will provide her with his driving skills and taxi. The unlikely partnership grows into friendship as they investigate a series of robberies, and Leo becomes Cat's confidant in her personal investigation of her father's murder.
Episode 2
Brooklyn Heights
Wed, Jul 2, 2014
Sasha Lowenthal, a famous handbag designer, asks Cat to work on the disappearance of her son Ian, an infamous socialite hell-raiser. When Cat and Leo find Ian murdered, their investigation reveals a world of high society ripe with family secrets. An internal betrayal leads to Leo's arrest by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers.
Episode 3
Cherchez les Femmes
Wed, Jul 9, 2014 46 mins
Cat helps Leo with is immigration "problem" and becomes his sponsor. Josef Wiesel, a holocaust survivor and friend of Leo's, is beaten to death. As Cat and Leo investigate, they uncover the truth about Josef's heartbreaking past, and discover that a mafia family with ties to Cat is involved in the murder.
Episode 4
Precious Cargo
Wed, Jul 16, 2014
Cat and Leo investigate the murder of a respected foster mother. Not much of a kid person, Cat's surprised by the relationship she develops with one of the foster children. Missing his own son, Nico, still in France, the case hits close to home for Leo. Cat asks Captain Baker to open an investigation into the mafia family, which she believes is being run by her childhood friend, Annabella Capella.
Episode 5
Ambush
Wed, Jul 23, 2014
During a prison transfer, the truck is ambushed. Most of the prisoners escape and a few of them die including the driver. Cat soon realizes that the only witness to her father's murder was one of the few girls who had escaped the ambush. Cat and Leo then finds a way to find her and the other inmates. Cat sets her mum up on a date with her boss. Cat allows her ex-husband Gregg take credit for the ambush arrest if he helps her find Ellie Wilson and the undercover agent who had previously helped her.
Episode 6
Love Hurts
Wed, Jul 30, 2014
Cat's buried emotions are brought to the forefront when Amanda Pearson , the wife of the Park Slope Stalker, is found murdered. The stalker case made Cat famous, and almost got her killed. When Baker asks her to take the lead, she hesitantly agrees, as long as Leo stays by her side. What they uncover is another stalker out to kill Cat.
Episode 7
Black Widow
Wed, Aug 6, 2014 47 mins
Three men are found dead under mysterious circumstances, but similarities in their physique and taste in watches seems to point to one murderer, a Black Widow. "She mates and then she kills." Leo fits the profile of the victims and agrees to go undercover as bait to catch the killer, putting his life in danger.
Episode 8
Deadline Brooklyn
Wed, Aug 13, 2014 42 mins
Walking the streets of Brooklyn, Cat and Leo discover a dead man in a dumpster, or at least they thought he was dead. The man was exposed to some sort of weaponized toxin and his rambling words are Apocalyptic. The NYPD goes into high terror alert as they rush to control the possibility of mass exposure. Leo's convinced it's a Zombie outbreak, but Caitlyn uncovers a terrorist plot.
Episode 9
Double Identity
Wed, Aug 20, 2014
Caitlyn's mother, Frankie, lends a hand in an investigation of a shot maid who turns out to be a missing Venezuelan cop.
Episode 10
The Longest Night
Wed, Aug 27, 2014
A blackout puts half of Brooklyn in the dark. Cat arrests Styx, a member of the "Jungle K's" gang. Trying to escape, Styx kills two cops in the precinct. Everyone becomes a suspect when Cat discovers it was a planned hit and someone in the precinct gave Styx a gun. It's an intense and explosive showdown when Styx's gang shows up demanding his release and gunfire rains down on the precinct.
Episode 11
Frenchmen Can't Jump
Wed, Sep 3, 2014
Organised crime takes an unexpected interest in amateur basketball and a motorcycle courier's death reveals drug-running links.
Episode 12
Revenge
Wed, Sep 10, 2014 41 mins
Leo's looking forward to a visit from his ex-wife and son, but they're kidnapped by a French gangster with a grudge against the cab driver.
