Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.

• Kyra Sedgwick
• J.K. Simmons
• Corey Reynolds
• Robert Gossett
• G.W. Bailey
• Tony Denison
• Michael Paul Chan
• Phillip P. Keene