Robbery Homicide Division Episode Guide: The First Season
A Life of Its Own
Mini-Mall
2028 (a.k.a. Internet Sex)
Free and Clear
Alton Davis Redux
In/Famous
City of Strivers (a.k.a. Defense Lawyer)
Wild Ride (a.k.a. Zero Disrespect)
Life is Dust
Had
To Be Announced
A Life of Its Own
Cole investigates two seemingly unrelated crimes, a drive-by shooting outside a Koreatown nightclub and the massacre of a family in Van Nuys, becoming convinced that the crimes are related and that the same cop may be involved in both.
Original Airdate: September 27, 2002
Mini-Mall
After an officer is shot and killed and another is injured in a hail of bullets at a mini-mall, an Asian suspect is misidentified as the shooter. Cole and his crew are lead to two hispanic men, including a parolee who will do anything not to go back.
Original Airdate: October 4, 2002
2028 (a.k.a. Internet Sex)
The six-week-old murder of a Jane Doe, mistaken by a fetishist rapist as a Mullholland housewife, leads investigators onto a trail of pornographic websites, prostitution, and ultimately to the killer himself.
Original Airdate: October 11, 2002
Free and Clear
Three bodies are found in their watery grave after Robbery Homicide receives a tip from a failed bank robber. A young man named Aras is investigated as the man next to the robber's jail cell who spoke on the telephone about the murders. Investigators are lead to Aras place of employment, a chop shop/motor vehicle repair with Russian mafia connections.
Alton Davis Redux
Vice cop Alton Davis, "Mr. Thin Blue Line," is back and shows himself more than ever as one of the criminal rather than civil persuasion. After a recording artist, Sweet, is abducted from her birthday party, Cole and his team investigate the bodyguarding outfit that failed to protect her. Could it be the securities company headed by Alton Davis? Robbery Homicide discovers that Davis and a record producer have been working together to blackmail a former partner through the rape and kidnapping of his girlfriend, Sweet. A final showdown reveals Davis for who he really is.
In/Famous
Trisha Sandifer seems to have everything anyone could want: talent, beauty, money, and fame. But when the corpse of the actress's former agent, Artie Zoglin, is found floating in the mansion swimming pool, Cole finds himself gravitating toward Sandifer's world of "everything," one which also includes loneliness, romantic longings, secrets, and motives for murder.
City of Strivers
Two men impart information as if witnesses to a boggling warehouse robbery in order to obtain a reward. But when one of the witnesses ends up murdered, Cole suspects the assailant's lawyer of being involved in the crime. Beyond the normal scope of Attorney-client privlege.
Wild Ride
When a white supremacist is paroled from jail, the ex-wife who put him away fears for her life. She consults Cole and Robbery Homicide Division for protection, while the parolee and his crew rob a gun store and a bank. Cole and his team must try to stop him from shipping out his batch of newly cooked crystal meth, and also his next robbery.
Life is Dust
And so it is. Cole gets "in too deep" with Vietnamese gunrunners who have stolen arms. The stakes get higher and higher, and we're not just talking submachine guns and rocket launchers, as Cole becomes romantically involved with the ringleader's wife.
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