Terriers
Ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Hank Dolworth partners with his best friend, former criminal Britt Pollack, in an unlicensed private investigation business.
- Metascore75
- 2010-2010
- 1 season
- 20th Century Fox Television
- Comedy, Suspense, Drama
- TV-MA
Ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Hank Dolworth partners with his best friend, former criminal Britt Pollack, in an unlicensed private investigation business.
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2010
Episode 1
Pilot
Wed, Sep 8, 2010 52 mins
Sunny-natured Britt Pollack arranges a barter deal on laundry, restaurant and his girl friend, all paid for by kidnapping Randy Oaks's bulldog for his ex. His partner, now as unlicensed private investigator, ex-police detective Hank Dolworth, however drags Britt away for a far more serious case. Initially it's just tracking lush old friend Mickie Gosney's daughter Eleanor. In no time the case escalates into a murder, blackmail and huge real estate fraud centered around tycoon Robert Lindus.
Episode 2
Dog and Pony
Wed, Sep 15, 2010 44 mins
The corrupt project developer's lawyers manage to discredit the charges, so the boys won't be paid, probably for long, and police detective Mark Gustafson takes the correct suspicion of evidence planting seriously. Desperate for a cash down-payment on his end his ex's home, Hank illegally snoops in police files and drags Britt along in search of a San Diego horse track robbery. It involves fugitive giant Mongo, whom they trap by pretending to extort his loyal girlfriend, and his half-brother, the track accountant. Meanwhile Britt's vet lover's asylum-adopted dachshund proves a joy-killer, even in bed, but he finds an alternative.
Episode 3
Change Partners
Wed, Sep 22, 2010 45 mins
In order to secure a loan, Hank must prove that the bank manager's wife is cheating on him. But what he discovers is much kinkier than infidelity.
Episode 4
Fustercluck
Wed, Sep 29, 2010 43 mins
Exposed adulterous fraudster Robert Lindus hires the boys trough his surprisingly loyal wife Josephine to help him make bail, despite his assets being frozen, by 'stealing' cash he hid in a secret office safe, with a mysterious key. Britt would refuse, but Hank accepts, for a fat fee and hoping to find out about his lush ex-colleague's murder. Meanwhile hank's sister is discovered camping on his attic and failing to take her psycho-medication. Detective Mark Gustafson smells a rat after Lindus' bail release.
Episode 5
Manifest Destiny
Wed, Oct 6, 2010 43 mins
Robert Lindus having died in an accident while they prevented him from fleeing with family, Hank and Britt stage a fatal car crash, but the car radio switches on and the mystery soil poison cover up them believes he's alive. They are tailed by a tan-suited detective, who turns out to be top lawyer Ben Zeitlin's detective and troubleshooter Burke. Only after a way out which also saves detective Mark Gustafson's career skin, they learn that the soil report was doctored in order to stop, not save the Montague development project.
Episode 6
Ring-A-Ding-Ding
Wed, Oct 13, 2010 43 mins
Dale Komack and his wife Elizabeth 'Beth', who has terminal cancer, hire the Terriers to track down her heirloom sapphire engagement ring. Dale confides in them it's not missing but needs to be retrieved from whoever his mistress sold it to. Once they find it, Beth has her own confessions and requests. Meanwhile, architect Jason Adler gets officially engaged to Hank's ex Gretchen, which inspires Britt to propose formally to Maggie, but she cheats on him with hunky veterinary school professor Gavin after a karaoke night Britt encouraged her to partake in.
Episode 7
Missing Persons
Wed, Oct 20, 2010 42 mins
Hank insists to take the case of a student who can't even remember his identity and fears to have committed some horror. Britt, who can't make head or tail of Maggie's aloof attitude, protests once more to be the 'partner' whose vote doesn't count, yet agrees to help the boy. His peril recalls to Hank his sister Katie's, which is demonstrated again when she befriends an imaginary, 'neglected' neighbor girl. The duo works out their client is student Adam Fisher, whose crush went out of hand due to malaria medication's psychotic side effects, but he now is in actual trouble, even suicidal.
Episode 8
Agua Caliente
Wed, Oct 27, 2010 41 mins
Serving a subpoena in Ocean beach's country club seems child's play. Yet there Britt gets abducted to Tejuana, as turns out by the Prado family's Mexican drug gang. Britt's ex partner in crime Eurico promised to steal back $0,000 in cocaine from a Mexican precinct. To motivate him further, they threaten to capture Katie unless the drugs are delivered by evening. Hank gets Gustafsson to help mount an unofficial rescue. Katie's infidelity with adulterous professor Owen further complicates matters.
Episode 9
Pimp Daddy
Wed, Nov 3, 2010 43 mins
Physiotherapist Ryan allows shoulder-incapacitated Hank, or actually partner Britt, to pay for extra therapy in kind. That means helping aunt Ryan's adolescent cousin Cody Grice, whose hard-earned $200 to 'get rid of virginity' were stolen by hooker Mikaela. Britt gets the cash back, without an embarrassing circumstance, by posing as harsh pimp for the hooker, who soon after hires him to look into a late colleague's antecedents. Meanwhile Hank and his lawyer dig into the past of his ex's groom Jason Adler, who changed his name which was tainted when his family was tried inconsequentially for daycare child abuse.
Episode 10
Asunder
Wed, Nov 10, 2010 41 mins
Britt takes his fiancée Katie to Jason and Gretchen's wedding, but his aversion from wasteful frill and her willful silence about her pregnancy escalate into a fight, infidelity confession and break-up. Bringing fresh clothes to Britt after someone spilled wine over him provides baned Hank an excuse to slip in. Seeing there mob lawyer Ben Zeitlin and his goon, he can't resist spying on them, then appointing himself protector of the imprudent Internet 'reporter' who threatens to expose a major real estate scam, only to be blackmailed with her mother's safety.
Episode 11
Sins of the Past
Wed, Nov 17, 2010 43 mins
Reporter Laura Ross, whose bacon he semi-accidentally saved, thanks Hank by bringing a crucial clue in the case that cost him his badge years ago but also meant meeting Britt. Construction heir Billy Whitman was then the prime suspect in a serial rape case and Hank was caught setting him up with fake 'evidence'. The case is reopened as a previous series in a county nearby is linked Britt bitterly moves out from Katie's place with bulldog Winston. Then he tails the handsome fellow student he wrongly presumes she cheated him with and ends up in jail for beating him in hospital.
Episode 12
Quid Pro Quo
Wed, Nov 24, 2010 42 mins
Hank follows a lead from grateful Laura tying lawyer Ben Zeitlin, Gertchen's husband architect Jason Adler and local councilman Sam Albrecht to presumably secretly linked real estate plans. City archive plans and Jason's expertise help realizing it's all about clearing enough space for a new airport for San Diego, which would finish off the whole neighborhood. While Gavin tells Katie that Brit beat him up, the ex-lover strikes a deal with Zeitlin to seduce the law firm employee he suspects of leaking, notably to Laura.
Episode 13
Hail Mary
Wed, Dec 1, 2010 46 mins
The boys consider fleeing the States: Britt faces up to two years for Gavin's assault and Jason's self-confessed killer, allophone illegals, swear that Hank hired them. Gustafson arranges Hank's escape, so they can try proving his innocence by solving the San Diego airport plot. Eleanor tells them where her murdered father Mike Gosney hid crucial blackmail material.
